We look at Microsoft security boundaries and protection goals and their interpretation of the different security areas of Windows operating systems and components.

Windows Defender Application Control protects systems against threats that traditional virus scanners and signature-based mechanisms cannot detect by restricting applications in the user context and reducing the code allowed in the system kernel.

The Linux world has different implementations for integrating multiple network cards: kernel old-timer ifenslave and the younger libteam.

If the Linux server crashes, not only do you need to restore operations, you also need to analyze the problem. A kernel crash dump at the time of the crash can be a big help.

Fedora 16 comes with some desktop improvements, but for admins, the real story is about virtualization.