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Is Debian Dying?
For a while, Debian was the community Linux darling. In its heyday, Debian was known for its strong moral point of view and its outstanding code. Numerous important distributions, such as Linspire, Knoppix, and today’s most popular distribution, Ubuntu, have sprung from it. Things have changed. Today, Debian is a troubled distribution. In order to…
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Novell, Intel Deliver Xen-Enabled Linux for Dual-Core Xeons
Like most Linux programs, Xen, the virtualization software, can run on almost any hardware. But, just like any program, it performs better when it’s been optimized for a specific platform. That’s exactly what Novell and Intel are doing with SUSE enterprise Linux, Xen, and dual-core Xeon chip sets. The two companies are hoping that their…
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Itanium Consortium Looks to Ease SPARC/Solaris Migration
The consortium of vendors working to increase the reach of Intel’s Itanium architecture is kicking off a program aimed at enticing software vendors to migrate their SPARC/Solaris applications over to Itanium. The ISV Platform Expansion Program, introduced Sept. 25 by the year-old Itanium Solutions Alliance, will take advantage of Transitive’s QuickTransit technology, which enables applications…
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Security: The Final ISP Frontier
The role of ISPs in security is one of the great neglected topics in our industry, and one of my favorite subjects back to the time before I started focusing on security. Back, I believe, in 1999, I wrote an article predicting (because it made perfect sense) that the future of security for consumers was…
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Apple Releases Aperture Update
Apple has released the latest of its Aperture imaging software. The Cupertino, Calif., computer maker announced Aperture 1.5 at the 2006 Photokina trade show in Cologne, Germany, on Sept. 25. Aperture, which competes with Adobe System’s Lightroom software, will now offer photographers an open library system that allows images to be stored either in the…
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Study: Apple’s Exposure to Net Threats Rises
As part of its current ad campaign, Apple suggests that Macs aren’t vulnerable to the same Internet security problems PCs are. But according to a new study by security vendor Symantec, the number of vulnerabilities identified in Apple’s Safari browser in the first half of 2006 doubled over the prior six months—and it increased its…
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