"Pratt also insists that the security of Linux is perfectly adequate for enterprise use. "Linux is absolutely a secure operating system to the extent that it does not suffer any more or less than any other mature enterprise operating system. The 2.6 kernel is a key step forward in terms of boosting security and reliability," he said."
A lot of times linux is more secure than the enterprise Unix's that are out there. I have linux on my sunblade 100 admin station is it more secure than our production boxes. Everytime I bring up that our boxes should be running a firewall no matter if they are intranet or extranet I get weird looks - and these are supposedly seasoned admins of major brand named Unixes.
I run tripwire, snort, and have a firewall on my sunblade and I would put it anywhere - extranet, intranet, although I know it won't serve 1000's of people.
These so-called Unix seasoned admins still insist on using nfs to share admin scripts, patches etc. What a joke - I am trying to get them in the 20th century but it takes a lot of convincing.
And anybody that says linux is not ready for the enterprise, desktop, or anything else has rocks in their heads.
who was the genius that came up with that idea of buying windoze based atm's -
I came across one in a bank a while back and it had the old blue screen of death.
ya the embedded kernel must be better than the desktop one.
I call fud - this guy is just throwing stuff out there with no facts -
he probably wouldn't even know how to look through the kernel for patent violations.
the knowledge of technology and being able to handle people. I don't think a business person should be put near a datacenter or have someone technical under them.
I have had three business bosses and they were really bad. I have had five technical bosses and they were all better than the business oriented ones.
Also - they need to recognize when their employees are doing things for their own self service more than they are for the company. I work in a big company and the money that gets spent just for self promotion is rediculous - people buy crap just so they can say the have so big of budget.
stop that crap and actually start serving the good of the company and your fellow emplyees.
keep it up microsoft - linux doesn't have to do a thing to compete - you will take yourself down.
god how I miss all those keys I have to keep track of - I guess that is what enterprise software means - you need a staff of people to keep track of license keys.
you can take you activation codes/keys and shove them up billy and steve's ass. don't need them never will -
when will these corporations wake up and smell the coffee - the money you are paying for these stupid licenses could be used to save people's jobs.
he must need his stock in microsoft to go up.
I recently touched a windows xp box with third party drivers from a periphal a friend bought and I ended up reinstalling the god dam operating system for her. what a joke - I told her to get a mac or I will install ubuntu for her but I am not going to touch her windows piece of shit again.
third party drivers for windows just plain suck
why do I need a driver disk for a god dam keyboard or a mouse.
anyway I am done - but this article is crazy - microsoft is not going near Linux - and if they did no one who buys linux now would never buy it from microsoft - especially kludged up with third party drivers.
aren't software patents great - amazing how it can hold an industry hostage.
if anybody had sense they would tell them to fuck off and write their own gpl softare. then they would go out of business.
unless of course the patent covers 2+2=4 then you can't write anything else because you will get sued for patent infringement.
how can the patent office look at this and still give out software patents. maybe I am wrong but I guess I will never know since the documents are sealed.
finally a judge that works for the people and has some common sense.
I think the industry is flattering itself if it thinks there is even a tv show worth copying.
tv just sucks - I don't even watch anymore - I get my news from local stations or the internet - I think I am going to go home and cancel my cable - don't even watch it anymore.
these folks are nothing but greedy bastards and all they want is for to watch a show once and pay for it every time we want to watch it again. they don't want us to record anything.
okay - it was wrong for this information to get out - you have to respect companies privacy in these matters. But apple should take care of this inside their doors - not by trying to go against the constitution in the name of intellectual property.
just had to jump in here - I thank redhat for everything they have done and given to open source community.
But when they got rid of their retail product for 29.00 or 39.00 bucks it made me sad. Also why can't I go to book store anymore and buy suse - is there something going on legal wise with sco and the lawsuit. like something behind the seens that can't be talked about. I don't know - but when daryl and company talked about going to the bookstore and buy a os they quit showing up at the book store and that was right around the time redhat changed their business model. maybe I am just paranoid but who knows.
as far as me and my clients I switched to debian - and now I have been testing ubuntu and I highly recommend that along with knoppix/mepis distros.
I am favoring ubuntu because I have not ran across a piece of hardware that it has not detected yet. Which is great - so I think I am leaning towards ubuntu/debian. I like their philosophy of one version - no professional version etc - is their installer pretty? no - but I only have to do it once. that is my one pet peeve with redhat is that when will they have an in place upgrade available like sun's live upgrade or debian's apt-get. One they support and not just on their fedora product.
anyway I am done rambling - I think I will stick with debian/ubuntu - I can put it on my sun blade. my daughter's imac, my amd64, and my intel 32 blades, and my laptop. they are all just apt-getting it.
my favorite part of microsoft's group description
"There are many redundant ways of interacting with Windows and Office applications today. We intend to devise elegant solutions to reduce visual clutter and interaction complexity without causing problems for users of legacy features. In this way, we will invent methods for simplifying the user experience given the on screen objects and devices available. Simplifying the UX allows us to map novel gestures and interaction techniques to better information visualization of information."
uh - blackbox
can't stop LOL -
this was nothing but a pr stunt by microsoft and maybe sun - don't know yet - but would like to think it wasn't sun.
I hardly remember any talk about Intellectual Property (IP) before this lawsuit - that is when microsoft's, and the yankee groups started throwing the term around and press caught wind of it and started to spread the fear.
This is just how microsoft will die when their day comes - they will be sueing people left and right and won't go down without a fight. But i will probably never live to see that day - they just have too much money.
The next two years, will be the last chance to get Linux on the consumer desktop.
no fanboy - linux will still be around in two, five, or twelve years because it is open source.
it doesn't need a profit to survive. I don't care what paradigm shift, innovation microsoft supposedly comes up with and patents - linux will always be a good open standard solid computing environment.
If corporations were smart they would shift now.
I work in a very big corporation and I have debian on my sunblade at my desk and I do everything I need to do on it with linux.
I am sure the secretary across the hall would be able to also except it isn't the "desktop standard" -
one last thing is the wonderful intranet pages that were written with only internet explorer.
I am tired - i am not even going start on that
I didn't read the article because it is from Gartner and to me they just don't hold any credibility with me. Gartner will say whatever you want them to say if the price is right.
But why is it that when microsoft comes out with a new and improved browser (of course it is going to be new and improved) it will be the end of all the other browsers.
I don't care how good their browser is I still will not use any of Microsoft's crap if it was the last os in the world - Puried
I was just going by what was in the article - what you are questioning you could do with every article on/. since she was dead I would say she was somehow constitutionally incapable of using her computer.
for your second point that is just it how can she be responsible for someone else using her computer - just because she bought it does not say she can keep control of it. maybe someone was sneaking into her apartment when she went to physical therapy to use it. the problem is that they are accusing her when she was dead. this is the whole problem with what the RIAA is doing. they are just throwing lawsutis against the wall hoping some of it will stick and when it doesn't they should be able to pay the consequence whether it is civil or not. As for me I think the crap they put out is just plain junk and I refuse to buy any of it. I don't even have a dvd player in the house - I would much rather read a book than watch their crappy movies or listen to the junk music that is out there. the RIAA needs to start producing a lot more quality stuff than worry about who is stealing what.
there are also artists who don't need the RIAA to make music and some are pretty darn good. so if I have one them on my computer and they sue me they should be held responsible for something (like my time and resources) whether civil or not.
all we have to do is let Billy and Steve speak.
they usually get themselves in trouble.
uh Bill did you get the memo about open standards - uh that is the basis of interoperability not closed/proprietary/crappy standards like yours.
I'm sure their IPTV product coming up with SBC will interoperate with any os I want to buy or download.
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"Pratt also insists that the security of Linux is perfectly adequate for enterprise use. "Linux is absolutely a secure operating system to the extent that it does not suffer any more or less than any other mature enterprise operating system. The 2.6 kernel is a key step forward in terms of boosting security and reliability," he said."
A lot of times linux is more secure than the enterprise Unix's that are out there. I have linux on my sunblade 100 admin station is it more secure than our production boxes. Everytime I bring up that our boxes should be running a firewall no matter if they are intranet or extranet I get weird looks - and these are supposedly seasoned admins of major brand named Unixes.
I run tripwire, snort, and have a firewall on my sunblade and I would put it anywhere - extranet, intranet, although I know it won't serve 1000's of people.
These so-called Unix seasoned admins still insist on using nfs to share admin scripts, patches etc.
What a joke - I am trying to get them in the 20th century but it takes a lot of convincing.
And anybody that says linux is not ready for the enterprise, desktop, or anything else has rocks in their heads.
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okay I just patented this and anybody that uses this or any form of this has to pay me
1 billion dollars - uaaaaaaaaagh!!
why - micrososft has a nice little investment in apple - they don't care about them - they will make money if they succeed.
microsoft can take .net and shove it back down their throats it is about as innovative as a fucking stone - sorry if I offended any stones.
who was the genius that came up with that idea of buying windoze based atm's - I came across one in a bank a while back and it had the old blue screen of death. ya the embedded kernel must be better than the desktop one.
apple is okay - I use it for my daughter's computer to run educational stuff - but I sometimes wonder if steve jobs is just as psycho as bill gates.
who is this sco?
I call fud - this guy is just throwing stuff out there with no facts - he probably wouldn't even know how to look through the kernel for patent violations.
the knowledge of technology and being able to handle people. I don't think a business person should be put near a datacenter or have someone technical under them. I have had three business bosses and they were really bad. I have had five technical bosses and they were all better than the business oriented ones. Also - they need to recognize when their employees are doing things for their own self service more than they are for the company. I work in a big company and the money that gets spent just for self promotion is rediculous - people buy crap just so they can say the have so big of budget. stop that crap and actually start serving the good of the company and your fellow emplyees.
keep it up microsoft - linux doesn't have to do a thing to compete - you will take yourself down. god how I miss all those keys I have to keep track of - I guess that is what enterprise software means - you need a staff of people to keep track of license keys. you can take you activation codes/keys and shove them up billy and steve's ass. don't need them never will - when will these corporations wake up and smell the coffee - the money you are paying for these stupid licenses could be used to save people's jobs.
he must need his stock in microsoft to go up. I recently touched a windows xp box with third party drivers from a periphal a friend bought and I ended up reinstalling the god dam operating system for her. what a joke - I told her to get a mac or I will install ubuntu for her but I am not going to touch her windows piece of shit again. third party drivers for windows just plain suck why do I need a driver disk for a god dam keyboard or a mouse. anyway I am done - but this article is crazy - microsoft is not going near Linux - and if they did no one who buys linux now would never buy it from microsoft - especially kludged up with third party drivers.
aren't software patents great - amazing how it can hold an industry hostage. if anybody had sense they would tell them to fuck off and write their own gpl softare. then they would go out of business. unless of course the patent covers 2+2=4 then you can't write anything else because you will get sued for patent infringement. how can the patent office look at this and still give out software patents. maybe I am wrong but I guess I will never know since the documents are sealed.
finally a judge that works for the people and has some common sense. I think the industry is flattering itself if it thinks there is even a tv show worth copying. tv just sucks - I don't even watch anymore - I get my news from local stations or the internet - I think I am going to go home and cancel my cable - don't even watch it anymore. these folks are nothing but greedy bastards and all they want is for to watch a show once and pay for it every time we want to watch it again. they don't want us to record anything.
this is the beginning of the end of this wonderful company.
they are all lies - they are probably being funded by microsoft just to create incompatibilities.
okay - it was wrong for this information to get out - you have to respect companies privacy in these matters. But apple should take care of this inside their doors - not by trying to go against the constitution in the name of intellectual property.
a government that does not give in to corporate interests. Now if the U.S. could follow suit.
just had to jump in here - I thank redhat for everything they have done and given to open source community. But when they got rid of their retail product for 29.00 or 39.00 bucks it made me sad. Also why can't I go to book store anymore and buy suse - is there something going on legal wise with sco and the lawsuit. like something behind the seens that can't be talked about. I don't know - but when daryl and company talked about going to the bookstore and buy a os they quit showing up at the book store and that was right around the time redhat changed their business model. maybe I am just paranoid but who knows. as far as me and my clients I switched to debian - and now I have been testing ubuntu and I highly recommend that along with knoppix/mepis distros. I am favoring ubuntu because I have not ran across a piece of hardware that it has not detected yet. Which is great - so I think I am leaning towards ubuntu/debian. I like their philosophy of one version - no professional version etc - is their installer pretty? no - but I only have to do it once. that is my one pet peeve with redhat is that when will they have an in place upgrade available like sun's live upgrade or debian's apt-get. One they support and not just on their fedora product. anyway I am done rambling - I think I will stick with debian/ubuntu - I can put it on my sun blade. my daughter's imac, my amd64, and my intel 32 blades, and my laptop. they are all just apt-getting it.
sure it is and sco has evidence.
my favorite part of microsoft's group description "There are many redundant ways of interacting with Windows and Office applications today. We intend to devise elegant solutions to reduce visual clutter and interaction complexity without causing problems for users of legacy features. In this way, we will invent methods for simplifying the user experience given the on screen objects and devices available. Simplifying the UX allows us to map novel gestures and interaction techniques to better information visualization of information." uh - blackbox
can't stop LOL - this was nothing but a pr stunt by microsoft and maybe sun - don't know yet - but would like to think it wasn't sun. I hardly remember any talk about Intellectual Property (IP) before this lawsuit - that is when microsoft's, and the yankee groups started throwing the term around and press caught wind of it and started to spread the fear. This is just how microsoft will die when their day comes - they will be sueing people left and right and won't go down without a fight. But i will probably never live to see that day - they just have too much money.
The next two years, will be the last chance to get Linux on the consumer desktop. no fanboy - linux will still be around in two, five, or twelve years because it is open source. it doesn't need a profit to survive. I don't care what paradigm shift, innovation microsoft supposedly comes up with and patents - linux will always be a good open standard solid computing environment. If corporations were smart they would shift now. I work in a very big corporation and I have debian on my sunblade at my desk and I do everything I need to do on it with linux. I am sure the secretary across the hall would be able to also except it isn't the "desktop standard" - one last thing is the wonderful intranet pages that were written with only internet explorer. I am tired - i am not even going start on that
I didn't read the article because it is from Gartner and to me they just don't hold any credibility with me. Gartner will say whatever you want them to say if the price is right. But why is it that when microsoft comes out with a new and improved browser (of course it is going to be new and improved) it will be the end of all the other browsers. I don't care how good their browser is I still will not use any of Microsoft's crap if it was the last os in the world - Puried
I was just going by what was in the article - what you are questioning you could do with every article on /. since she was dead I would say she was somehow constitutionally incapable of using her computer.
for your second point that is just it how can she be responsible for someone else using her computer - just because she bought it does not say she can keep control of it. maybe someone was sneaking into her apartment when she went to physical therapy to use it. the problem is that they are accusing her when she was dead. this is the whole problem with what the RIAA is doing. they are just throwing lawsutis against the wall hoping some of it will stick and when it doesn't they should be able to pay the consequence whether it is civil or not. As for me I think the crap they put out is just plain junk and I refuse to buy any of it. I don't even have a dvd player in the house - I would much rather read a book than watch their crappy movies or listen to the junk music that is out there. the RIAA needs to start producing a lot more quality stuff than worry about who is stealing what.
there are also artists who don't need the RIAA to make music and some are pretty darn good. so if I have one them on my computer and they sue me they should be held responsible for something (like my time and resources) whether civil or not.
all we have to do is let Billy and Steve speak. they usually get themselves in trouble. uh Bill did you get the memo about open standards - uh that is the basis of interoperability not closed/proprietary/crappy standards like yours. I'm sure their IPTV product coming up with SBC will interoperate with any os I want to buy or download.