Get the facts you need to make the choice between Windows and Linux. Just click on the whitepaper of your choice to download: RadioShack Saves Millions of Dollars by Choosing Windows Over Linux After an extensive evaluation in which RadioShack compared Windows® and Linux, the company selected Microsoft® Windows Server System™ and Windows XP Embedded. The company's move to Windows will reduce the number of servers in its stores by 50 percent and save millions of dollars in hardware, software, system management, and support costs. Read more >> Rayovac Chooses Windows Over Linux for Lower Cost of Ownership, Less Risk Read how Rayovac chose Microsoft Windows Server 2003 over Red Hat Linux to run its SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO) solution, not only saving Rayovac just under $1 million but also minimizing risk and ensuring reliability by utilizing existing processes, skill sets, and technology partners. Read the case study >> Theater Chain Selects Windows XP Embedded Over Linux, Significantly Reduces TCO Two years after deploying Linux to thousands of point-of-service devices, the company found that it lacked vendor support and remote management tools. Regal selected Microsoft Windows XP Embedded because it offered a lower TCO and will allow it to support terminals remotely using its existing IT skill set, improve security, and reduce the risk of intellectual property infringement claims. Read more >> Independent Study Shows that Windows Servers Recover Faster from Security Attacks than Linux Servers Based on the survey data of 550 IT managers and executives, the study found that "corporate enterprises rate Windows security nearly on par with comparable Linux networks." The 2005 survey reveals that users found "a 100 percent improvement in Microsoft's security in the past 12 months." Read more >> Today's Most-Read Story Linux.com: Openbox: A Lightweight Window Manager Editor's Picks Novell: The Application People Most Want Ported to Linux Is... "The results are starting to come in for the Linux App Request Survey we first posted at the beginning of January..." (Jan 26, 2006) Linux Today Features Tectonic: Open Source Must Die Die Die "What I can't understand is a new movement from the less-formal sector--bloggers in particular--who suddenly have it in for our community..." (Jan 28, 2006) Small Features No small feature. More News Linux Planet *Blue Security's Do Not Intrude Registry *Using VNC Tunneling over SSH *Big Vendors Leap To More Linux In Retail Stores *Scali Manage 5 Offers to Tame Linux Cluster Proliferation *How Relevant is the Homeland Security Grant? Linux Jobs Click here for the latest Linux jobs LinuxPR Alcatel Selects MySQL Cluster for its Multi-Access Data Server Platform (Dec 5th) OSV Launches Open Source Software Catalog for Education Sector (Dec 5th) MEPISLite 3.3.2-1 rc1 Is More Debian Standard (Dec 5th) TimeSys Introduces LinuxLink Subscriptions for Freescale's ColdFire MCF547x and MCF548x Processor Families (Dec 2nd) ASTARO SECURITY GATEWAY FIREWALL IN EVALUATION FOR COMMON CRITERIA CERTIFICATION (Dec 2nd) Apache Today •Apache Derby Out of the Gate, Full Project •Opening Day for OpenSolaris Source Code •New Debian Delayed No More •Covalent Unites Apache Versions in Latest ERS Release •IBM Expands Paid Open Source Strategy PHPBuilder.com New Articles •Ajax in Action: Chapter 1: A New Design for the Web •In Case You Missed It...The Week of November 28th, 2005 •In Case You Missed It...The Week of November 21st, 2005 •Creating Your Own Photo Gallery •In Case You Missed It...The Week of November 14th, 2005 •Creating an Online Survey - Part 2 •In Case You Missed It...The Week of November 7th, 2005 •Reading RSS feeds in PHP: Part 2 •In Case You Missed It...The Week of October 31st, 2005 •In Case You Missed It...The Zend Conference 2005 Edition Content settings.

informIT: Comparing Open Source Licenses: GPL vs. BSDL
(Feb 4, 2006, 07:00 UTC) (92 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
"Each has advantages, but the distinctions are sometimes quite subtle..."

Digital Copyright Canada: Earning Money in Open Source
(Feb 4, 2006, 05:00 UTC) (229 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
"Dru Lavigne posted on her BLOG about a recent cartoon that had the caption 'We've decided to make all our products open source, and replace everyone's salary with tip jars...'"

InfoWorld: Mandating Incompetence?
(Feb 4, 2006, 03:00 UTC) (432 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
"Sounds great, right? Use the taxpayers' money for open software that no vendor controls, keeping the government out of the greedy paws of self-serving capitalists..."

ServerWatch: Enterprise Unix Roundup: Sun's Dual-License Dance
(Feb 4, 2006, 01:00 UTC) (286 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
"We apologize to those who have had their fill of GPL3 news. We promised ourselves after last week's admonishment that we would steer clear of it for a least a few weeks..."

Editor's Note: A Matter of SCALE
(Feb 3, 2006, 23:30 UTC) (425 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Preparing to venture forth to some West Coast events, your editor gets the low-down on the Southern California Linux Expo.

INQ7.net: Ubuntu Founder Asks Gov't to Support Open Source Advocacy
(Feb 3, 2006, 22:00 UTC) (601 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
"The founder of the new Linux operating flavor called Ubuntu is urging governments to advocate open source technology, not just in a corporate setting but more on the average consumer level..."

CNET News: Torvalds Says DRM Isn't Necessarily Bad
(Feb 3, 2006, 21:15 UTC) (880 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
"Provisions against digital rights management in a draft update to the General Public License could undermine computer security, Linus Torvalds said..." Of course, he was saying this back in 2003...

SearchOpenSource: 2006: Time to Plan Your Company's Escape from Microsoft
(Feb 3, 2006, 20:30 UTC) (975 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
"This is the year to plan your company's great escape. The window of opportunity to fly from Microsoft's proprietary cage is open wider than ever before..."

CNET News: Rumor: JBoss Could Get a New Boss
(Feb 3, 2006, 19:00 UTC) (618 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
"One extremely speculative piece wondered aloud whether Oracle might be the acquirer..."

SECURITY: internetnews.com: New Firefox Kills Bugs
(Feb 3, 2006, 17:30 UTC) (1674 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
"When you dig down into the actual security issues, though, there is only one that Mozilla, publicly at least, has labeled 'critical...'"

ZDNet UK: $100 Laptop: Great for the World, Great for Linux
(Feb 3, 2006, 16:45 UTC) (1071 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
"Mike Evans from Red Hat discusses his company's involvement in the One Laptop per Child project, which aims to develop and distribute a $100 PC to millions around the world..."

ZDNet Australia: Renewed Linux Trademark Bid in the Works
(Feb 3, 2006, 16:00 UTC) (488 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
"The United States-based body responsible for protecting the 'Linux' name appears to be making a renewed push to register it as a trademark in Australia..."

Linux-Watch: Debian Founder Takes Over LSB Leadership
(Feb 3, 2006, 15:15 UTC) (735 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
"The Free Standards Group, the non-profit group behind the Linux Standard Base, has announced that Debian Linux founder Ian Murdock will be its new CTO (chief technology officer) and will chair the LSB workgroup..."

CNET News: VMware to Make Server Product Free
(Feb 3, 2006, 14:30 UTC) (1916 reads) (3 talkbacks) (feedback)
"VMware, an EMC subsidiary whose software lets multiple operating systems run on the same computer, is expected to announce next week that it will begin giving away one of its key products for free..."

Linus Torvalds: Linux 2.6.16-rc2
(Feb 3, 2006, 13:45 UTC) (1548 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
...[I]t's much bigger than I would have wished for, but I guess that's what I get for going away for Linux.Conf.Au and letting two weeks pass rather than the normal one-week schedule between -rc's..."

SearchOpenSource: Challenges Remain for Open Source Systems Management
(Feb 3, 2006, 13:00 UTC) (702 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
"When Qlusters Inc. opened the code of its systems management platform to SourceForge.net on Monday, buzz started building around the fact that the move was a new avenue for open source software..."

eWeek: Linux Powers Military Ground Vehicle
(Feb 3, 2006, 11:30 UTC) (734 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
"iRobot used embedded Linux to build an autonomous UGV (unmanned ground vehicle) aimed at military scouting, guarding, and hauling applications..."

Linux.com: Openbox: A Lightweight Window Manager
(Feb 3, 2006, 10:00 UTC) (1949 reads) (3 talkbacks) (feedback)
"My quest for a standards-compliant, fast, lightweight, and extensible window manager led me to Openbox..."

Mad Penguin: Doing the Impossible: Versora Progression Desktop
(Feb 3, 2006, 08:30 UTC) (1146 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
"Migration from Windows to Linux has always been one of those tasks that we've all been able to perform from one extent to another, but it hasn't been simple has it...?"

Enterprise Networking Planet: Fill Linux to the Brim with Xen
(Feb 3, 2006, 07:00 UTC) (1439 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
"But, as is the way of humanity, the pendulum has swung, the circle has turned, the karma has paid off and good old-fashioned client-server computing is teh hawt again..."

Linux.com: Disk Usage Analysis and Cleanup Tools
(Feb 3, 2006, 05:30 UTC) (1609 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
"Most of us use our hard disks like closets, stuffing in files and then forgetting about them..."

SECURITY: Advisories, February 2, 2006
(Feb 3, 2006, 04:45 UTC) (695 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Today's security advisories: mydns (Debian GNU/Linux); mozilla and firefox (Fedora Core); php, libast, poppler, kdegraphics, xpdf, and OpenOffice.org (Mandriva Linux); and mozilla and firefox (Red Hat Linux).

Technetra: Why is a Government IT Procurement Policy Needed? How Can Open Source Help?
(Feb 3, 2006, 04:00 UTC) (595 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
"Governments should utilize Information Technology (IT) procurement policy to help achieve transparency, competition, measurement and efficiency in the purchasing process..."

Linux.org: The Two Faces of Bill Gates
(Feb 3, 2006, 02:30 UTC) (2692 reads) (7 talkbacks) (feedback)
"In the public consciousness, Bill Gates has, for the past few years, been playing two roles..."

eWeek: Will OpenSolaris and Linux Soon Be Trading Code?
(Feb 3, 2006, 01:00 UTC) (1513 reads) (7 talkbacks) (feedback)
"The GPL 3 may yet change into something that Linus Torvalds can bless, and if that happens, Linux and Solaris may trade code after all..."

LXer: Firefox Extensions Say it All
(Feb 3, 2006, 00:15 UTC) (2566 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
"If you have any doubts about the source of innovation in information technology, you should look at the Mozilla web site..."

ZDNet: Who's Killing the Software Industry the Fastest?
(Feb 2, 2006, 23:30 UTC) (2735 reads) (4 talkbacks) (feedback)
"Which is killing the software industry (as we know it) faster--open source or SOA...?"

Linux-Watch: To GPL 3 or Not to GPL 3, That is the Linux Question
(Feb 2, 2006, 22:00 UTC) (1603 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
"Richard M. Stallman, primary author of the GPL and founder of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) isn't interested in fighting with Torvalds over the matter..."

LinuxPlanet: Blue Security's Do Not Intrude Registry
(Feb 2, 2006, 20:30 UTC) (993 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Most people set up some type of filter to weed out the bad email from the good. That approach, has its limitations. One company is trying a new, open source-based approach that creates a user-enforced 'Do Not Spam' list..."

Techworld: Tomorrow's Forecast: Blue Skies and Open Source
(Feb 2, 2006, 19:45 UTC) (798 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
"With increasing attention on the possibilities of open source, CIOs have many questions regarding its capabilities, viability and cost to the organisation..."

CNET News: 'LAMP' Start-Up Warms to Free DB2
(Feb 2, 2006, 19:00 UTC) (1187 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
"Start-up ActiveGrid has released an update to its toolset for building business applications with open-source software, adding support for IBM's newly introduced free DB2 database..."

DesktopLinux: Photoshop Tops "Most Wanted" Linux App List
(Feb 2, 2006, 18:15 UTC) (2919 reads) (6 talkbacks) (feedback)
"Novell has been polling the public for the last month to find out what Windows-only applications, if ported to Linux, would increase the likelihood that people would switch to Linux..."

ConsortiumInfo: Mitt Calls the ODF Coin Toss Right
(Feb 2, 2006, 17:30 UTC) (1694 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
"It's no secret that Mitt Romney wants to be president..."

WhatPC?: OpenOffice Kicks Off Developer Drive
(Feb 2, 2006, 16:45 UTC) (1472 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
"The OpenOffice.org project has launched a developer documentation contest in an effort to boost interest in the suite..."

PC World: Novell Shows Off Linux Desktop 10
(Feb 2, 2006, 16:00 UTC) (3014 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
"A demonstration of the next release of Novell's Linux for desktops drew cheers and applause Wednesday, although the final version of the software is not expected for some months..."

NewsForge: ReactOS Suspends Development for Source Code Review
(Feb 2, 2006, 15:15 UTC) (1788 reads) (5 talkbacks) (feedback)
"The ReactOS team has suspended development to do a code review amid concerns that stolen code from the world's most used OS found its way into the project..."

Mozilla.org: Firefox 1.5.0.1 Released
(Feb 2, 2006, 14:30 UTC) (2537 reads) (4 talkbacks) (feedback)
"Firefox 1.5.0.1 is a stability and security update that is part of our ongoing program to provide a safe Internet experience for our customers..."

CNET News: The Open-Source Programmer Who Means Business
(Feb 2, 2006, 13:45 UTC) (1460 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
"...ZDNet UK spoke to him about a wide range of topics, including the next version of the General Public License, software patents, the kernel development process and Linux on the desktop..."

NewsForge: Capturing Real-World Knowledge with Protégé OWL
(Feb 2, 2006, 13:00 UTC) (1158 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
"Take a well resourced, 10-year-old open source project with a global user community. Add support for World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Semantic Web standards and some hard-core computer science research, and what do you get...?"

OhmyNews: Penguins March for Free Software
(Feb 2, 2006, 11:30 UTC) (1235 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
A very introductory review of Linux, specifically Ubuntu.

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