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Today, May 17, 2016, SUSE, a pioneer in open source software and the maker of the SUSE Linux operating system, has had the great pleasure of announcing the availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching.

Endian supports Small and Medium Businesses  As a medium-sized company itself, Endian enthusiastically supports SMB and understands their everyday challenge in growing their businesses. It’s not uncommon for SMB to compromise or completely ignore the importance of network security. Many are faced with a wide variety of other “pressing” issues: fulfilling multiple roles within the company, limited financial resources, competing … Read More

The new cloud platform update integrates management capabilities and benefits from partner offerings including one from Dell. Red Hat released today OpenStack Platform 8, providing users of its commercially supported cloud technology with new features and integrated cloud management capabilities.

According to sources at Canonical, Ubuntu Linux’s parent company, and Microsoft, you’ll soon be able to run Ubuntu on Windows 10.

We are pleased to announce the beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The SWITCH Foundation, a Swiss IT provider in the education market, needed to reduce IT costs and increase innovation. The Red Hat Developer program is excited to announce that it is launching the latest version of the Red Hat Developers site and expanding the program.

VNCtalk provides Zimbra users with a simple, open and affordable way to conduct online meetings, eLearning events, desktop sharing and webinars from their web browsers, desktops and mobile devices. Synacor is rapidly enhancing and extending the Zimbra platform—accelerating the delivery of new and innovative features for Zimbra users through deeper partnerships with its global network of Zimbra integrators and developers.

Microsoft has released a Debian Linux switch OS. Repeat, a Debian Linux switch operating system Open source toolkit for wrangling networks Put down your coffee gently. Microsoft has today released a homegrown open-source operating system, based on Debian GNU/Linux, that runs on network switches. Full story here

It took longer than expected but Microsoft’s first technical preview of its Azure Stack hybrid-cloud with Ubuntu Linux is almost ready for release. Full article at the click below… http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-buys-into-ubuntu-linux-on-azure-hybrid-cloud/?tag=nl.e589&s_cid=e589&ttag=e589&ftag=TREc64629f

After testing the waters for years, Microsoft has launched its first service, Azure Cloud Switch, that’s based on Linux. Full story at the click below… http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-the-linux-company/?tag=nl.e589&s_cid=e589&ttag=e589&ftag=TREc64629f

Microsoft is making available a private preview of SQL Server for Linux, and plans to make the product generally available by mid-2017. Full article at the click below… http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-is-porting-sql-server-to-linux/?tag=nl.e589&s_cid=e589&ttag=e589&ftag=TREc64629f

We are delighted to announce the launch today of SUSE® OpenStack Cloud 6, SUSE’s enterprise-focused OpenStack distribution for building Infrastructure-as-a-Service private clouds.

This article will show you what SUSE Linux Enterprise can do for you to achieve this. SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching (or just Live Patching) helps you to avoid these downtimes. To make this happen you need the SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching subscription.

For years, open source desktops struggled to equal Windows and OS X, but today that is no more true than the belief that Linux requires ordinary users to use of the command line extensively. The truth is, some time between 2005-2008, the open source desktop caught up to its proprietary counterparts.

When the Linux “Keyrings” vulnerability landed yesterday, headlines said it would affect “millions” of devices, partly because it was thought to be widely present in Android as well. El Reg wondered at this, because it’s not part of the recommended Android kernel configuration, so we’re going to be a little bit smug: however many ‘droids are vulnerable, it’s not likely … Read More

Avery serious security problem has been found in the Linux kernel. This bug affects millions of Android or Linux applications to escalate privileges. Before we dive into the details, let’s cover some background required to understand the bug.