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Today Microsoft and Red Hat announced a visualization interoperability deal. Red Hat is the most popular open source brand on the server and a leading Linux distro; Microsoft needs no introduction. The two companies will cooperate based on an open set of standards, and stay away from restrictive patents--the detail that is said to have torpedoed Novell with the open-source community.

Wikipedia will be using the Ubuntu Linux distribution to power its sizable server infrastructure, report numerous sources. The popular online knowledge repository will try to create a homogeneous server environment in an attempt to reduce complexity and costs. The Linux flavor of choice is the Hardy Heron 8.04 long-term support version.

EasyCGI used to be something of a rarity among web hosting providers, offering Windows Server hosting exclusively. This changed last month, when the company started offering Linux Virtual Private Server (VPS) plans. We contacted Mr. Ted Beckwith, Vice President of EasyCGI, to ask him a few questions about the company's decision to expand into Linux territory.

A programmer's error has caused a serious security flaw in the popular Debian Linux distribution. All SSL and SSH cryptographic keys, generated on a Debian platform since September 2006, are to be considered potentially compromised. Experts say they will need to recreated from scratch after a fix to the OpenSSL package is applied. The official security advisory, containing link to a detector for known weak keys, is available here.