CBS reports that the state of Connecticut is refusing to sign Microsoft’s widely-discussed settlement, saying the settlement has too many “gaps and ambiguities”.

theHighlander writes “From CIOL: “Unix vs Windows, who’s the greater of them both? This debate has been going on for quite sometime now. We know that both Unix and Windows systems do not offer the same degree of scalability, performance, functionality, availability or reliability, even for similarly configured servers. So, comparing them would be a herculean task. There are advantages to both Unix and Windows-based servers. Here is a comparison of the two.””

ZDNet reports that “a divide within the storage industry over how to connect storage systems to the rest of the network is growing — and leaving customers with a growing sense of unease.”

Wired reports that “Apple has criticized a court’s plan to have Microsoft donate computers and software to schools” claiming it’s the only market left where Microsoft does not have a monopoly.

Anonymous Reader writes, “This article is the third in LinuxDevices.com’s series of reviews, by software developer Jerry Epplin, of Embedded Linux toolkits. In order to gain insight into the use of each toolkit from the developer’s perspective, Epplin builds Embedded Linux OS images for three different x86-based EBX form-factor single board computers using each toolkit. Each of the toolkits is then evaluated against a common set of criteria which include ease of use, overall toolkit architecture, methods of package management, diversity of platform support, and openness of the source code. In this installment, Epplin takes a close-up look at Red Hat’s recently announced Embedded Linux Developer Suite.”

“InfoSecurityMag talks with the creator of PGP and the motivations behind creating it. “Zimmerman says he was confident that the first release of PGP domestically would be safe from legal restrictions, albeit not noticed.””

Linux Weekly News: ” The webmail frontend IMP has a cross site scripting problem, allowing a remote attacker to send you an E-mail with a malformed URL that when clicked on will open your mail session to the attacker, allowing him to read and delete your E-mails.” Read more here.

Tom’s Hardware has put 13 motherboards to the ultimate test in their lab. The outcome? By and large, the VIA KT266A chipset knocks the stuffing out of the Nvidia nForce 420D. True bright spots were the candidates sent in by Soltek and Soyo.

News Factor: “Open source software seems to be spreading to all areas of computing. Yet this community code continues to lag behind proprietary, commercial software in most areas. How come?”

Slashdot: “[T]he night after the live action Tick debuted on Fox, we rounded up 10 questions and sent them off to Ben Edlund, The Tick‘s original creator. Here are his answers. You can download your official Tick poster (pdf format) .