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In the forums: Zenworks/ConfigMgr comparison turns into a Linux discussion

I posted about a really great discussion in our forums a while ago. jjgleason, who is a Zenworks user, made a fair comparison between Zenworks and ConfigMgr. It was a really great post. User jvdm responded back with some concerns about the comparison due to the Linux aspect. jjgleason then shared another...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 11-14-2007
Filed under: Open Source, Systems Management
Virtual Machine Additions for Linux 2.0

Qualified distributions now include: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 (update 6) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (update 6) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Red Hat Linux 7.3 Red Hat Linux 9.0 SuSE Linux 9.2 SuSE Linux 9.3 SuSE Linux 10.0 Check out download...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 10-24-2007
Filed under: Open Source, Windows, Virtualization
MisterHouse - Open Source software to control your home

MisterHouse is an open source home automation program. It's fun, it's free, and it's entirely geeky. Written in Perl , it fires events based on time, web , socket, voice, and serial data. It currently runs on Windows 95/98/NT/2k/XP and on most Unix based platforms, including Linux and Mac...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 05-04-2007
Filed under: Open Source, Software
Altiris Adds Linux Patch Management

Salt Lake City, Utah-based Altiris said today that it has added new Linux patch and virtual server management capabilities to its Altiris Server Management Suite. The new Linux patch management support in its software includes new support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and VMware Virtual Server software...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 12-16-2006
Filed under: Open Source, Patch Management, Systems Management
Interesting results from those that uninstalled Firefox...

From: https://survey.mozilla.com/results Reason for uninstalling Total Plugin compatibility (Flash, Adobe Acrobat, Windows Media Player, etc.) 1123 Performance (load delays, memory usage) 1767 Hard to use/confusing (menus, display, etc.) 572 Missing features 986 Security 322 Some features didn't work...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 11-10-2006
Filed under: Internet, Open Source, Software, Windows
Firefox wanted speed and stability -- instead they got Adobe

Firefox users beware: Adobe has opened the source code of the ActionScript Virtual Machine, the high-performance ECMAScript implementation used in Adobe's ubiquitous Flash Player. Adobe has made the source code available under three prominent open source licenses, and contributed it to Mozilla for eventual...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 11-07-2006
Filed under: Internet, Open Source
This is a crazy way to look at a security vuln

PCWorld Australia has this article posted: Mozilla pledges to fix second minor Firefox 2.0 bug This is a vuln, after all — NOT a “minor” bug. And, read how the first paragraph is laid out: A second minor bug found in the Firefox 2.0 Web browser will be fixed, but users shouldn't encounter...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 11-03-2006
Filed under: Internet, Open Source, Security
First Firefox 2.0 Vuln reported

A newly discovered vulnerability, which the CTO of security services firm Secunia described this morning as affecting Internet Explorer 7.0, can also affect not only IE6 but Firefox versions 1.5 and 2.0, as observed by BetaNews in our own tests. Read more…

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 10-30-2006
Filed under: Internet, Open Source, Software
Press Release: SoftMaker Office 2006 for Linux and FreeBSD in public beta

SoftMaker Office 2006 for Linux and FreeBSD now in Public Beta Testing -------------------------------------------------------------------- Nuernberg, October 30, 2006 German software vendor SoftMaker has ported its popular SoftMaker Office suite to Linux and FreeBSD. SoftMaker Office 2006 includes updates...

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 10-30-2006
Filed under: Office, Open Source
Is Firefox 2.0 a dud?

Is Firefox 2.0 a dud? Are users better avoiding it and waiting until a future build? Are too many of the new features buggy and incomplete and is the browser overall more unstable that previous versions? What about Firefox on Vista? Read more…

Posted to Rod Trent at myITforum.com (Weblog) by rodtrent on 10-30-2006
Filed under: Internet, Open Source, Software

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