 Linux & Open Source News Alert
LinuxWorld's Linux and Open Source News Alert, 10/31/07 LinuxWorld.com Feature Story Asustek's low-cost laptop coming to U.S., Europe October 30, 2007
Asustek Computer's Linux-based Eee PC laptop will soon be on sale in North America and Europe, and the company plans to offer a version running Windows XP by the end of the year. The Eee PC is a low-cost laptop designed primarily for children and emerging markets such as India. It weighs less than a kilogram, has a 7-inch LCD screen and can connect to the Internet wirelessly. The first version went on sale earlier this month in Asia, including in Hong Kong and Taiwan, where it's priced at about NT$11,100 (US$340). On Nov. 1 the Eee PC will go on sale at stores in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Vancouver and Toronto, and also through e-commerce Web sites in North America, Asustek officials said Tuesday. It will then be rolled out gradually in Europe, starting in Germany on Nov. 9. Major Chinese cities, including Beijing and Shanghai, will follow in mid-November. (Read more) | Did you know that 90% of IT managers are not prepared for a DNS Attack Dont be one of them...Check your DNS health today. Run a DNSreport and look like a hero. Make your life easier and make your company more secure. 56 critical tests against your domain in 8 seconds. Dont live without it. Visit today to learn more! | | More Linux news Kernel space: should security modules be dynamically loadable? October 30, 2007
Security modules watch the rest of the Linux system for intruders, but if they're dynamically loadable, qui custodiet ipsos custodes? (Read more) Windows XP will double the price of Asustek's Eee PC October 30, 2007
Adding Windows XP to Asustek Computer's Eee PC will double the price of the low-cost laptop compared to existing versions running Linux. (Read more) Van Wyk aims to transform Red Hat for future growth October 30, 2007
Having established itself as the leading enterprise Linux vendor, Red Hat is in a pivotal phase of reinventing itself as a broader open-source software provider and a long-term technology leader a la Microsoft and Oracle. It's a tall order, and among other things it will take a business plan that lets the company move smoothly through this make-or-break stage. (Read more) NZ government wins open source award October 30, 2007
The New Zealand State Services Commission's (SSC) championing of open-source software in government helped its ICT (Information and Communications Technology) branch pick up an award in the government category of the inaugural New Zealand Open Source Awards, held in Wellington this month. (Read more) Software guru is hot on Linux, busting bureaucracy October 29, 2007
Grady Booch is chief scientist at IBM's Rational Software unit and an IBM fellow who also holds the title "free radical." His software development approach and the Unified Modeling Language, which he helped create, have been used to build the software that runs pacemakers, avionics in certain large airliners, antilock brake systems, and financial trading systems in the U.S., Europe and Asia. (Read more) Red Hat: Open Source mature, disruptive and innovative October 26, 2007
Open source is disruptive, it develops rapidly, is adopted quickly, and it efficiently meets market needs while enabling new market capabilities. These were some of the statements made at an open source symposium held in Western Australia (WA) earlier this month. (Read more) 50 greatest networking arguments: VMware vs. Xen vs. Microsoft October 26, 2007
VMware is clearly the top player in virtualization, but competitors such as Citrix and Microsoft want a piece of this hot market, too. (Read more) 50 greatest networking arguments: Open source vs. proprietary software October 26, 2007
Open source software makes inroads vs. proprietary software despite warnings of Microsoft, others. (Read more) 50 greatest networking arguments: Novell NetWare vs. Microsoft networking October 26, 2007
Novell had the early lead in the network operating system market, but a persistent Microsoft kept hammering away until NetWare become a just a memory in many companies. (Read more) SCO has a buyer, pending bankruptcy approval October 25, 2007
Embattled SCO Group is offering the bankruptcy court a deal it could be hard to refuse. (Read more) Post-install tips for Ubuntu 7.10 October 25, 2007
I don't know about where you live, but where I live, it feels like October. Halloween orange has sprouted everywhere from the grocery store to the doctor's office, the weather has acquired a distinctive chill, and, of course, we have a new release of Ubuntu Linux. Version 7.10 hit the Net just last week, right on time. (Ubuntu releases tend to come each October and April.) (Read more) Asian governments driving demand for open source October 25, 2007
Asian governments are pivotal to Red Hat's goal of earning 60 percent of its revenue from outside the United States by the end of 2009, said Matthew Szulik, the company's chairman, CEO and president, in a conference call on Thursday. (Read more) LinuxWorld Community Corporate open source advice October 28, 2007
Some surprising moves, such as the much-maligned mission statement, can help corporate open source projects work, said Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian Fitzpatrick. (Read more) | 
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