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Linux in Canada
Flxstr writes "Lots of Linux articles in Canada's national newspaper today, starting with Calgary switching from SUN Unix to Red Hat Linux. Another article discusses whether Linux will become a target for viruses as its popularity grows. This article mentions how Linux costs less, so more firms are becoming interested. Finally, an article discusses how pushes by major vendors such as IBM, HP, and others is speeding acceptance of Linux over other alternatives. Altogether, some good articles for any CIO's desk."
We have more than one, you know.
Agreed, but that'll be on an @home basis. Companies will not allow this kind of behaviour, as the first thing any admin learns on Unix in general is to swallow the peice of paper the root password came on.
Long live the sudo in this respect, it simply eradicates the need for a more complex (and thoroughly unuseable in Windows case) privilege system. Maybe users will be able to install packages for personal use, but only using urpmi, pointed at a regulated rpm database,m legislated by the admin.
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The main reason why the Globe and Mail, ran these articles is because the Real World LInux show (www.realworldlinux.com) starts next week.
The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is offering discounted LPIC exam certifications at the event, BUT here's the CATCH.
They're offering the exams at the same time the Keynote Speaches are being delivered...I guess the braniacs at LPI figured that tech's are a bunch of 'properller-heads' and won't understand the business of Linux...
I think I'm just gonna get an RHCT and screw the LPIC.
... but in the print: a full page infomercial from M$ consisting entirely of:
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a) Anecdotes about random Canadian companies that still prefer Microsoft products.
b) a big TCO diagram pulled from an IDC study "conducted for Microsoft."
Clever Microsoft, focussing on their core business market:
CIOs with no critical thinking skills
"Another article discusses whether Linux will become a target for viruses as its popularity grows."
Yes, it will and distros like Lindows that run the default user as root had better get their act together. Poor judgement calls like that could make Linux the next security joke right behind Microsoft.
I just installed Mandrake 10.0 and noticed that it offers an open source anti-virus product called "CLAM." According to the docs this product will automatically update its virus definition files. So assuming that these files are kept current we may be way ahead of the curve on this.
The race isn't always to the swift... but that's the way to bet!
Kernel compiling??? yet another myth... I've been running Linux now on the desktop since 1999 and have yet to compile a kernel... there is no requirement at all for the vast majority of users to do this at all... The modular kernel supplied with your distro should fill all your needs... if not then you are one of a very small minority.
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Hold on, now.
The article says Canada is replacing Sun Microsystem with Linux, not Microsoft.
So the 'financially backed' commercial Unix vendor is being eviscerated, not Microsoft.
Why nobody has mentioned this is beyond me.
The LSM required for SELInux has been a patch to the 2.4 kernel, but it is now been folded into the 2.6 kernel, that means it is easier for distributions to carry it.
SELinux will be standard in Fedora Core 2.
As for tools - check out Tresys, they make tools for configuring SELinux policies. Likewise, the NSA provides a variety of userland tools set up to work with SElinux. If more people would start coding the the system it can only help. So, all you open source developers - get busy working on SELinux support.
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I might point out that the telephone was invented in Canada!
I wrote an article on my website about this very topic almost 3 weeks ago, but it is not as quite in-depth as the Globe article and is from a different angle.
at least it doesn't echo *s :)
We've always been at war with Eurasia.
Mount Royal College is already running Linux, and switching over to RedHat over the summer break...
The chains are broken
Loki is free
Ragnarok is at hand...