Linux servers are treasured for their high level of security and wide application coverage. The platform delivers outstanding productivity on a variety of computers, including AMD and Intel-based hardware. Where did Linux get its start, and how did it reach the esteemed status of a major server platform?
The enterprise server OS market is dominated by Microsoft Windows, Unix, and Linux. Although Unix still has a sizable share of the market, that share is declining rapidly. In contrast, Windows is performing quite well and holding steady, while the smaller Linux share is consistently growing in popularity.
Novell released SUS Linux Enterprise 10 Service Pack 2 (SP2). The service pack offers to contain enhancements in virtualization, management, hardware enablement and interoperability.
Ubuntu and Red Hat are the most used Linux distributions among the 35,000 members of content-management vendor Alfresco’s community. The company found in its second survey of trends in enterprise open-source software usage.
This just in from Information Week magazine: Jim Laurent at Sun Microsystems composed a chart comparing Solaris 10 to Linux for his boss, Bill Vass, the chief operating officer of Sun’s federal business unit.
No software is bulletproof. Hackers, especially those motivated by money, can often find a way in the back door if they try hard enough.
Mark Shuttleworth, the founder, and CEO of Ubuntu thinks the open source community needs a federated. Decentralized system for tracking patches and bugs. In other words, he wants the open source world to collaborate on Linux security.