Linux News Desk

As Linux moves in everywhere within enterprise computing - in embedded solutions, on the desktop, in distributed applications, and on mainframes - the Linux Business Week News Desk brings you all the latest developments. Ricoh Introduces BrightQ Ricoh Corporation has announced the availability of BrightQ, a printing solution designed by Codehost Inc. to provide today's IT system administrators and printer support personnel with an easy-to-use, graphically rich X Window System and Unix Shell-Based printing environment. BrightQ was developed exclusively for the Unix and Linux operating systems, giving users the ability to access all available finishing features of the Ricoh Aficio and other supported Ricoh devices. Educational, government, banking, and financial institutions, as well as the corporate data center will benefit as the adoption of Linux into these vertical... (more)

Linux in the News - Thursday

SCO Offers $1/4M Reward, Alleging Virus To Be Part of the 'Linux War' "The SCO Group late Tuesday offered a $250,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of the writer of a fast-spreading mass-mailing virus that is programmed to launch a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against the SCO home page. The W32.Novarg.A@mm (MyDoom) virus, which has emerged as an unlikely weapon in the ongoing 'Linux War' between SCO and the open-source community, is set to launch the DDoS attack against SCO on Feb. 1 and has a trigger date to stop spreading on Feb. 12. As anti-virus exp... (more)

MediaLive Cancels Comdex, Has It Also Lost JavaOne?

Comdex Bites the Vegas Dust In a week already made memorable - for tradeshow enthusiasts and haters alike - by the "postponement" of this year's Comdex by its owners MediaLive International, there are rumbles in the Bay Area that another giant techfest may be their next event to be affected. The new rumor in the Valley is that Sun Microsystems (which owns JavaOne), may have decided that this year's conference will be the last one to be produced by MediaLive, making it two casualties in one week for the San Francisco-based company. JavaOne has been one of the four major events and r... (more)

MyDoom Comes From Russia With Hate, Moscow Times Confirms

LinuxWorld here brings you the article verbatim. The headline is in the original Moscow Times version: Rampant E-Mail Virus Traced to Russia Friday, Jan. 30, 2004 By Simon Ostrovsky Staff Writer "MyDoom, the fastest-proliferating computer virus ever, has been traced to Russia. Using location-sensing software, Kaspersky Labs has traced the first e-mails infected with MyDoom back to addresses with Russian Internet providers. "It's scary, but most serious viruses are written in Russia," said Denis Zenkov, spokesman for Kaspersky, the country's largest anti-virus software company. E... (more)

SCO Coughs Up the Code

The "amendment" is basically that SCO has now eliminated its breach-of-trade-secrets claim but leaves on the table the existing breach-of-contract plus adds a new copyright infringement claim - concerning IBM's allegedly having continued to distribute AIX after SCO "terminated" its licence. The "Second Amended Complaint" includes the lines of code SCO alleges were improperly included in Linux - a list of unix filenames with line numbers, and filenames and line numbers from the Linux 2.2 and 2.4 kernels. Now the Linux community will be able to respond, and in detail.  Groklaw's PDF... (more)