eweek.com - 3/24/2009
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It never made sense that you could make a botnet out of Linux desktop users, but the people who built psyb0t knew its users don't pay attention to it. - They're calling it the first botnet designed for broadband equipment and routers, and that it is. But it's the first of something else: ...
education.zdnet.com - 3/24/2009
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education.zdnet.com —
Last week, I followed a conversation on an
OpenSuse Education newsletter to which I subscribe. I didn’t...
have time to join in, but it did get me thinking about open source in education more broadly. Regular readers will know that my school ...
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Is Linux only for the poor?
zdnetasia.com - 3/19/2009
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zdnetasia.com —
Linux is losing ground on the netbook front,
but there lies opportunity for it in smaller, dedicated...
Internet-enabled appliances, said an Ovum analyst. Laurent Lachal, open source research director at the U.K.-based analyst firm, said in a research ...
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Linux losing netbook ground :
News : Software
openinventionnetwork.com - 3/23/2009
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openinventionnetwork.com —
Press Releases Durham, NC (March 23, 2009) Open
Invention Network (OIN), the company formed to enable and...
protect Linux, today extended the Linux ecosystem with the signing of TomTom as a licensee. By becoming a licensee, TomTom has joined the growing ...
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The Coming Linux Malware Scourge (And How To Stop It)
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... , Mar 24, 2009 10:42 AM [image] There's an oft-repeated homily that goes something like this: "The only reason Linux hasn't become a malware target is because it's not that popular." I'm learning there's more truth to that than we realize. Especially if open source developers in general use "open source" in the abstract as a security measure ... and it's not. Consider the newly-emergent psyb0t botnet , which ...
5Words for March 24th, 2009
Technologizer —
... News, hot off the grill:
In defense of Facebook’s redesign.
Dell’s working on smaller devices.
Google Street View: Kill it!
A cloud-based game console.
Skype: biggest long-distance carrier.
A botnet that attacks Linux.
Warner’s made-to-order DVDs.
iPhone keyboard, no jailbreaking required.
Peek’s new not-a-phone.
Voice-driven Eee PCs soon?
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