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Keeping an Eye on the Penguin

  • Mistah SCO -- he dead
    The little company that posed a big legal challenge to Linux early on now seems to have been handed its final comeuppance, in a court document ominously described as a "final judgment."

  • Worst security blooper ever?
    T-Mobile has issued an over-the-air fix for a laughable Android security bug that caused anything typed into its G1 phone to be interpreted by a root shell process. Prior to the fix, hackers briefly enjoyed root shell access, leading to such fun as Debian SD-card installations.

  • Novell offers RHEL, CentOS support
    Novell has launched a "competitive replacement" program aimed at luring Red Hat and CentOS users to its SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) product. Through the program, Novell will support customers' RHEL or CentOS servers for up to two years, while the customer migrates to SLES.

  • Windows 7 no threat to netbook Linux
    I've been nonplussed the last few weeks as ordinarily sane compu-journalists opine that Windows 7 will somehow kill Linux on netbooks. This weekend, I had a chance to actually see XP running on an EEE 900, and I can tell you, Linux has nothing to fear from Redmond.

  • Microsoft breaks HotMail for Linux users?
    [Updated 8:30] -- A Linux-Watch reader today reported difficulties using Microsoft's Hotmail service with Firefox browsers running on Linux operating systems. We confirmed that creating a new Hotmail account was not possible, due to an error message suggesting a "browser upgrade."


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