Open Source IDS Wars; Is Linux really harder to use?

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	Open Source IDS Wars: You Were There Over the last couple of weeks I have been following all of the Snort-Suricata, Roesch-Jonkmann back and forth. If you are not familiar with the particulars of this latest incident you can read about them in Ellen Messmer's article and my fellow open source subnet blogger, Ben Whaley's column. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Forrester: IT Platform to Optimize and Consolidate In this report, Forrester investigates the reasons why you should consider WAN optimization solutions as the best way to gain better IT performance, cost savings, and greater flexibility for your business. And it's also a smart network improvement investment over the long-term. Get the facts about WAN optimization in this study. Read now! In this Issue Is Linux Really Harder to Use? Microblogging As A Collaboration Tool; Just A Feature Sorry Charlie, All Web Apps Can Be Insecure, Not Just Open Source Ones Open source book publishing gets a boost Community Open Source vs Commercial Open Source in the Cloud: Will CentOS beat RHEL? Why OpenStack matters to the rest of us How to check your open source project for signs of life Even SAP is using more open source What's in a License? Rapid 7 Expects Big Payoff by Sponsoring Open Source w3af Dell has not abandoned Ubuntu Firefox Falls Further Behind in Browser Wars New Linux kernel borrows Google packet speeding tech Novell upgrades Mono Tools for Visual Studio On Strengths of Linux, Android Will Win Mobile Contest Warning: Five Things to Know Before Switching to Linux WHITE PAPER: Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Your Solaris Alternative With the improved price, performance, and reliability of industry standard x86_64 servers, buying SPARC hardware has become less compelling. Red Hat® Enterprise Linux has emerged as the OS of choice with its open, industry-standard architecture. Read More Now Is Linux Really Harder to Use? Not surprisingly, the misperception that Linux is harder to use than other operating systems is also one that competing vendors routinely use to scare potential new users away from Linux. Read More Microblogging As A Collaboration Tool; Just A Feature StatusNet announced today that it had secured an "A" round of funding led by FirstMark Capital. This brings the total investment in the open source microblogging company to about $2.3m. That is a decent amount of money for a Web 2.0/Social Networking company in today's market. But is StatusNet a classic case of a company built around a feature? After thinking about it a bit today, I think it is. Read... Read More Sorry Charlie, All Web Apps Can Be Insecure, Not Just Open Source Ones At the recent Black Hat security show in Las Vegas, SaaS vulnerability management company Qualys announced a new open source security tool called Blind Elephant. The tool is open source and is used to fingerprint specific versions of web apps and plug ins. Read More Open source book publishing gets a boost The idea of using open-source functionality in the book publishing field has, slowly but surely, gained more momentum lately. I've written before about how open-sourced textbooks could considerably ease college costs and of some attempts to jump-start efforts in this regard. Read More Community Open Source vs Commercial Open Source in the Cloud: Will CentOS beat RHEL? There has been a lot of debate about the role open source will play in the cloud. Many of the debates are focused on open standards. Another big issue is licensing and pricing of open source in the cloud. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP Guide: Best Vmware backup method for you Although data protection processes developed for physical environments can be used for virtual environments, backup processes specifically designed for virtualized environments are more flexible and scalable. This whitepaper presents information to assist in making a considered choice of data protection method for your VMware environment. Read Now. Why OpenStack matters to the rest of us RackSpace's well-coordinated public announcement of OpenStack last week was a refreshing, if not surprising, bit of news. Since the open source movement gained momentum, there has regularly been a viable free alternative in most important software sectors. The industry was just begging for an honest-to-goodness open source presence in the IaaS space, and OpenStack seems prepared to deliver. Read More How to check your open source project for signs of life I am a firm believer in the power and value of open source, just as I'm a believer in understanding the nature of the community, how to discover and choose the code that's right for your application needs, and how to minimize risk and get the most benefit for your organization. Read More Even SAP is using more open source Yesterday SAP took another step into the open source world by signing on to use the Black Duck Suite. The suite is a collection of tools that helps a company find open source projects. It also confirms that developers are using the code securely, in compliance with its license and not violating the company's internal policies (i.e. not exposing code they don't want to release as open source). Read... Read More What's in a License? Most people never take the time to read an End User Licensing Agreement (EULA) when installing or updating their software. For example, here is a link to the Microsoft Vista EULA that you probably skipped right over and a great article on how the EULA prevents people from using their purchased Windows operating system the way they wish. Read More Rapid 7 Expects Big Payoff by Sponsoring Open Source w3af For the second time in a little over a year vulnerability management firm Rapid 7 has made a significant investment in open source security tools. This time they have announced a sponsorship of the w3af (web application attack and audit framework). An open source project that is a leader in the web application vulnerability testing space. Read More WEBCAST: Dell Companies spend 30% more on software licenses than needed. Poor visibility into remote assets, an inability to ensure the security of PCs, and failing to deliver satisfactory service to end users on a consistent and cost-effective basis are a few of the challenges that IT executives face as they struggle to manage software across their organizations. Learn more now! Dell has not abandoned Ubuntu Know this: Ubuntu is still for sale on Dell's website. In fact, a new desktop is available via Dell's Ubuntu sales site, loaded with Ubuntu 10.04. Read More Firefox Falls Further Behind in Browser Wars Linux user, how many different Internet browsers do you have on your system? You have Konqueror if you use KDE, Iceweasel or Epiphany if you use GNOME, and optionally, you might have Firefox, Chrome or Opera. You might have all of those. Read More New Linux kernel borrows Google packet speeding tech Linus Torvalds releases version 2.6.35 of the Linux kernel Read More Novell upgrades Mono Tools for Visual Studio Module allows developers to build .Net apps for non-Windows platforms, including Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X Read More On Strengths of Linux, Android Will Win Mobile Contest Mirror, mirror, on the wall, which mobile operating system is fairest of all? That's a common question, given the many contenders in the mobile arena--and the well-publicized glitches that have recently come up. Read More Warning: Five Things to Know Before Switching to Linux A happy customer might tell someone. An unhappy customer tells everyone. Converting to Linux before taking a dose of reality might make you a very unhappy customer. Let's be perfectly honest. Linux isn't for everyone-yet. However, Ubuntu, Mandriva, and a few other distributions come close but for now, Linux is a little more difficult to use than Windows. Read More
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