VMware leads a rapidly growing market with a proprietary product. That’s the basis of estimated value of at least 10 billion dollars. But is VMware ESX really proprietary?

Antonio Diaz Diaz, the developer behind GNU DDRescue, took the time to answer a few questions for Blue GNU regarding the GNU data recovery utility and how it compares to other projects.

Novell today announced the worldwide availability of Novell(R) ZENworks(R) Configuration Management, the latest addition to its systems management portfolio that helps companies reduce IT complexity while lowering costs.

A few days ago, amid great victory to Linux, we dared to argue that UNIX copyrights in Novell’s hands are a worrisome business.

On September 15, 2007, 1 month from today, there will be a very positive outreach to the masses by an organization that believes in the freedom of software.

System administrators need to secure their systems while avoiding locking them down so strictly that they become useless.

But the big news here is that the uncertainty over Linux is no more. Linux is now legally legitimate and free from the worrisome cloud of legal exposure that existed for the previous four years. Suddenly, using Linux isn't troublesome anymore, at least from a legal standpoint.

Knowing that there is nothing worse than a bunch of chavish Linux servers looking for a rumble, or goading Windows computers with calls of, "Come and have a go, if you're hard enough," Cannonical decided to pull the plug.