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Backporting of security fixes |
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Wednesday, 18 April 2007 |
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The term 'backporting' describes when we take a fix for a security issue out of the most recent version of a product, and apply that fix to an older version. Backporting is common practice amongst software vendors such as Red Hat and is essential to ensuring that we can deploy automated updates on systems. However, backporting has not been given much attention and will be a new concept to people more familiar with proprietary software. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 19 April 2007 )
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MTI Announces 147-GB Disk Drives |
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Written by Linux
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Tuesday, 08 August 2006 |
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MTI Technology Corp. recently announced that its Vivant 400 Series enterprise storage solution is now available with 146.8-GB disk drives. According to the company, the new 146.8-GB drives allow users to expand storage to 25.8 terabytes of data. The Vivant 400 can accommodate 16 disk drives per 3U enclosure and 11 enclosures per cabinet or rack for a total of 176 drives. The 146.8-GB drives have a rotational speed of 10,000 revolutions per minute and yield an average seek time of only 4.7 milliseconds.
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Linux security strong as ever |
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Written by Linux
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Tuesday, 08 August 2006 |
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Linux security is as strong as ever, despite recent statistics that say otherwise.
Perhaps in response to the excessive publicity given to the strong security associated with Linux and open source software, it's no surprise that a number of commentators are making a high-profile argument that Linux, just like every other platform, does indeed have security issues. Members of the open source community have always known that Linux is not immune from security threats, so there is no argument there. What is in question is the final conclusion that these commentators are drawing, which is that Linux is less secure than Microsoft Windows.
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