Novell released SUS Linux Enterprise 10 Service Pack 2 (SP2). The service pack offers to contain enhancements in virtualization, management, hardware enablement and interoperability.
Red Hat released the second update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. As with earlier minor releases, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 comes with a broad set of bug fixes, updated hardware support capabilities, quality improvements, and a set of new software features that have been backported from upstream open source projects to the Enterprise Linux 5 code base.
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Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability which could allow elevation of privilege from authenticated user to LocalSystem. Affecting Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 and all supported versions and editions of Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008.
Canonical is getting ready to release Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition. You can download it for free on Thursday, April 24.
MySQL users are upset about plans Sun Microsystems disclosed this week to keep some strategically planned features — and the source code — closed. So, only paying customers will get access to the new database features.
Novell has finally announced development plans for the next generation of its enterprise Linux platform, Suse Linux Enterprise 11. Sun is already bragging, calling it the “best-engineered. And the most interoperable platform for mission-critical computing.”
Here’s an interesting question making its way around the World Wide Web: If you didn’t have to worry about the administrative tasks with SQL Server, would you consider using SQL Server as a service?
Good news for developers this week. Zend Technologies has announced its Zend Core product will run on the Windows Server 2008 platform. Providing parity between Windows Server and Linux in running PHP. All Zend products will run on the Windows Server 2008 platform by the end of the year.
There’s an interesting discussion on hacking going on over at LinuxForums. A poster from Fullerton, California who uses Suse Linux says he’s been the target of hackers hired. By a worldwide multi-million dollar company after a Wikipedia slip exposed his IP address, among other things.