linux products

The market for Linux products and services will grow from $2.4 billion in 2007 to $7.7 billion in 2012. Growth will slow down from 36% in 2008 to 17% in 2012.

Microsoft Corp., expanding on an alliance with Novell Inc., has agreed to buy as much as $100 million more for subscription certificates for Novell's Linux products, Novell said Wednesday.

A pair of vulnerabilities found in several VMware Linux products will require users to update these products to resecure their systems, security analysis firm iDefense announced today.

InformationWeek takes a look at the recent updates to both Red Hat and Novell Enterprise Linux products.

"Both Red Hat and Novell says the upgrades cover things like virtualization, management, hardware support, and security."

Flash and DRM can't be good for Linux. Support for Flash Player already blows. Adobe's wasting our time with free Linux products that don't even work well on Linux.

Who cares that Flash Player doesn't even render Adobe's site correctly on Linux?