Backers to spend millions of dollars in equipment and funding for the non-profit lab (OSDL) for enterprise Linux development.

As Corel prepares to take the wraps off its "new corporate growth strategy" Tuesday, industry watchers aren't predicting any immediate upheavals for the struggling Canadian software company.

"There's a mostly technical question of why the project took so long, and I could write a great many all-but-incomprehensible pages on that subject...but I won't. Instead, I'll try to focus on a less technical project-management question of why nobody realized it would take so long. My point is not that it could have been done more quickly, but that we (collectively) should have known it would not."

Reiserfs will soon become the first journaled file system to be bundled as part of the standard Linux kernel tree. What is a journaled file system, how does Reiserfs fit into that category, and why should you care that it's about to become part of the Linux core?

Stateful firewalls represent a major technological jump in the intelligence of a firewall and are present in all serious Enterprise firewalling products. Among many enhancements, this "statefulness" allows Netfilter to block/detect many stealth scans that were previously undetected on Linux firewalls.

"I got together all of my resources in one place, sat down with the README and CHANGES docs that come with the kernel, and decided to document, step by step, the process I went through. This was done on a *fresh* install of Redhat 7 on an AMD 700MHz, with a Voodoo 3 3000 PCI, and 128MB RAM."

"Of course, the security teams for any given vendor can only do so much. We can find, identify, fix, and make updated packages for vulnerabilities, but it is up to you, the end user, to apply them."

With industry heavyweights putting some muscle behind Linux on mainframes, those touting a Unix server-based future could face a storm on the horizon.

The DNS works on a question-answer model. If a client needs information from the DNS it sends a question to a DNS server and the server returns an answer. Until recently it was only possible for a server to examine a question and determine whether or not to answer it based on the IP address the question originated from.

Call me hopelessly optimistic if you like, but I'm one of those people who sees problems as nothing more than opportunities in really bad packaging. And few such opportunities are as clear as the one presented by the Ramen Worm.