If you want to configure Cisco VPN on Ubuntu 9.0.4 is very easy now.You don't need to install the Cisco VPN client - NetworkManager includes support for Cisco IPSec VPNs. NetworkManager attempts to keep an active network connection available at all times.

"The news is official now: Cisco today announced its intent to acquire privately held Jabber, Inc..." -- The road is still long for Cisco to embrace the Free Software Movement. Hope they'll release their products under the GPL License...

The Free Software Foundation and Cisco have now settled the litigation over the GPL and Cisco's subsidiary, Linksys.

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced that it has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Cisco. The FSF's complaint alleges that in the course of distributing various products under the Linksys brand Cisco has violated the licenses of many programs on which the FSF holds copyright, including GCC, binutils, and the GNU C Library.

Microsoft-Cisco tensions could lead Cisco further away from Windows

When Red Hat kicks off its big customer summit June 18 in Boston, the open source giant will bring along a rather large — and surprising — date: Cisco Systems Inc. Why does Cisco plan to hang out at one of the open source industry’s largest events? The VAR Guy has a few hunches.

When Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) and Juniper first said they were opening their router OSes, I thought that they'd be about as open as the iPhone. With Cisco's launch of IOS XE, I realize I was wrong: The iPhone is much more open.

Cisco has its own networking operating system, IOS, which has long been the mainstay of its routers and switches. But now Linux is powering a new generation of Cisco networking devices for small businesses.

Cisco has announced it has completed its acquisition of Norwegian video systems maker Tandberg and is launching a compulsory bid for the outstanding 8.9% shares it does not yet own.