Big data and virtualisation are driving growth for Linux in enterprise, according to the latest survey from the Linux Foundation. ‘Linux Adoption and Trends 2012: A Survey of Enterprise and End Users’ from the Linux Foundation and the Yeoman Group, revealed that the two emerging trends are driving the growth of the technology. The survey [...]

The Department for Work and Pensions – one of Whitehall’s biggest spending departments – will run trials of open-source software next year. “It is the department’s intention to trial within the next 12 months, a pilot of up to 1,000 desktops to test proof of concept for open source,” a DWP spokeswoman told The Guardian [...]

Google Chrome has overtaken Mozilla’s Firefox as the second most popular internet browser, just as a crucial deal between the two companies is due for renewal. In the three years since its launch Chrome’s market share has grown to 26.76% giving it the edge over Firefox’s current 25.49% share. The tech media have since been [...]

Canonical has released the first alpha build of Ubuntu 12.04, calling it ‘Precise Pangolin’. The release, based around the Linux Kernel 3.2, will be a long term support (LTS) release and is available for x86 and 64bit platforms. The code also includes version 9 of both Firefox and Thunderbird from Mozilla. Kate Stewart, Ubuntu release [...]

There has been plenty of talk about the government reducing costs by following an open source strategy recently but TechEye has discovered that in practice the proprietary software companies are still appearing as top choice for IT procurement. MP Tom Watson is having a major challenge persuading a large scale shift to open source, despite [...]

The Linux Foundation infrastructure which includes LinuxFoundation.org, Linux.com and subdomains are still offline following a security breach discovered on the 8th September. This follows, and is believed to be related to, the hack on a number of servers in the Kernel.org infrastructure back in August. This site was also strategically taken offline “in the interest [...]

You don’t expect to hear about Microsoft dedicating an entire section of their company to Open Source projects, and the revelation that they do came as a big surprise to many members of our Linux team. The Open Solutions Group (OSG) is an organization at Microsoft responsible for making sure solutions are brought to market [...]

The most prominent and for the hosting business, most important updates that are going to come out for Redhat Enterprise Linux are those introducing control groups in RHEL6. These have been around in a supported capacity since Fedora 8 but really wont be seen in full until the new Redhat build gets started. So, what [...]

Most web developers know that they should sanitize their web input. However recent figures from the UK Security Breach Investigations Report 2010 indicate that 40 per cent of all website attacks are due to SQL injections. SQL injection attacks allow perpetrators to leak data, usually by making a web application perform a query it wasn’t [...]

I’ve been really excited about the potential of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL6/CentOS6) and the beta has not let me down. Most of the more prominent features are laid out at the Redhat website but one of the things it neglects to mention is how much more access control it comes with.