Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Along with this weeks arrival of the MyDoom worm came its threat of distributed denial-of-service attacks against Unix vendor The SCO Group of Lindon, Utah. The company said on Tuesday that it had been hit with DDoS attack and offered a reward for the arrest and conviction of the worms author. Concerned over the reports […]

So far, today, Ive received 62 copies of the MyDoom worm, aka Novarg.A, aka MiMail.R, aka a big pain in the rump. As worms go, this one isnt that bad except there are so darn many of them that theyre slowing down my Internet connection. But I run a small tight security ship and not […]

The SCO Group Inc. isnt taking the upcoming distributed denial-of-service attacks from the MyDoom worm lying down. The company on Tuesday offered a reward of as much as $250,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the individual or individuals responsible for creating MyDoom. The fast-moving Windows worm known as MyDoom began spreading […]

Without ceremony, fanfare or even an announcement, UnitedLinux, an industry consortium of The SCO Group Inc. (formerly Caldera International Inc.); Conectiva S.A; SuSE Linux (now a division of Novell Inc.); and Turbolinux Inc., which created a single enterprise Linux distribution, has come to an end. The death announcement came in passing during a Novell press […]

NEW YORK—Business Linux desktop announcements are continuing to come fast and furious at LinuxWorld here, the latest coming from Xandros Inc. with its unveiling of the Xandros Business Desktop Operating System. The distribution is a 2.4-based system thats built on top of Xandrosconsumer Linux desktop. Its main selling point is that it includes many enterprise […]

NEW YORK—Like a contented beehive, New Yorks Javits Center is abuzz with happy LinuxWorld goers. SCO may be suing Novell and trying to lobby Congress in the cold (25 degrees in NYC) outside world, but such mere nuisances arent dampening the mood of the exhibitors inside. The first thing youll notice as you enter the […]

Novell Inc. is getting most of the attention at LinuxWorld, but Sun Microsystems Inc. has also had interesting announcements. But what I find the most interesting is that Im beginning to believe, though cyber cynic I am, that Sun really gets that its future lies at least as much in Linux and x86 platforms as […]

NEW YORK—Novell Inc.s Linux coming out party at LinuxWorld here was rained on by The SCO Group Inc.s copyright lawsuit, but CEO Jack Messman didnt let that stop him in the opening keynote speech from making Novells moment in the sun bright. Ignoring SCOs lawsuit, Messman, wearing a SuSE pin, declared, “2004 will be the […]

NEW YORK— Novell Inc. is continuing its charge into Linux, no matter what The SCO Group Inc. may try to do in court. Referring to the SCO suit in a Wednesday press conference here, Jack Messman, Novell chief executive officer said that SCOs recent legal actions show that SCO is floundering and that Novell will […]

The SCO Group Inc. pushed its continuing legal battles over Unix into overdrive on Tuesday with a copyright and business-practices lawsuit against Novell Inc. According to the Lindon, Utah-based SCO, Novell made a bad-faith effort to interfere with SCOs rights to Unix. In a statement, SCO made a series of allegations, many of which counter […]

As the Linux community gathers for this weeks LinuxWorld tradeshow in New York, it looks that everyone who is anyone in Linux is doing desktops. To help the push, Open Source Development Labs on Tuesday announced the launch of a new Desktop Linux Working Group initiative focused on greater use of Linux on enterprise desktops. […]

Were all Linux users. Do you use TiVo to record the latest episode of The West Wing? Youre a Linux user. Did you Google for a word today? Youre a Linux user. Have you bought a book on Amazon? Yes? Then you, too, are a Linux user. Linux is everywhere. You can see it at […]