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links for 2007-01-05
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2007-01-05
Review: openSUSE 10.2 Earns A Seat At The Head Of The Table - Software News by InformationWeek A very detailed look at openSUSE 10.2 from a long-time SUSE user, with a focus on server roles. (tags: linux suse review) Top four reasons Windows wins and Linux
links for 2007-01-04
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2007-01-04
Fedora Legacy shutting down The project that set out to extend bugfix availability for the Fedora releases that Red Hat discards is ending, and ending with it is more of Fedora's credibility as a worthwhile general purpose Linux OS. (tags: fedora linux redhat) BitTyrant Q: Won't
links for 2007-01-03
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2007-01-03
Security Reference Guide > Stealing Your Family Vacation: Memories of a Media Card A very interesting piece -- the formatted memory cards you sell or otherwise discard can contain recoverable media, and the authors of this story went and recovered some of it... (tags: security) Writing
MS Office Student and Teacher and Pirate Edition
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2007-01-02
Over at Microsoft Watch, our own Joe Wilcox has penned an interesting post about how popular Microsoft Office Student and Teacher Edition has become in comparison to Microsoft's more costly
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links for 2007-01-01
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2007-01-01
» What will happen in IT in 2007? | Paul Murphy | ZDNet.com "By the end of the year the OpenSolaris community will be widely recognised as larger and more active than the Linux community..." If this is to happen, it'll take a lot longer than one year.
links for 2006-12-29
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2006-12-29
The Ultimate Distro | Linux Journal This piece starts out rather promising, going into the first days of Linux distributions, but the history ends rather abruptly. (tags: linux)
links for 2006-12-27
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2006-12-27
The Open Source Desktop Myth > Microsoft Won. Get Over It. Forget about winning on the desktop, the author says. Open source developers should look toward new, less machine-bound, horizons. (tags: linux windows)
links for 2006-12-23
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2006-12-23
Research In Motion's Record Year "For its fiscal third quarter, Waterloo (Ont.)-based RIM reported sales of $835 million, up 49% from the same period a year ago, and profits of $176 million, or 93 cents a share. That beats the year-ago quarter by 46%." I guess NTP didn't
links for 2006-12-22
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2006-12-22
Pirates crack Vista Activation Server | APC Magazine (tags: windows vista licensing) Has the Desktop Linux Bubble Burst? - OSNews.com A rather melodramatic title -- my first thought was, "what bubble? -- the author asks where are the next-gen GNOME and KDE to go up against
links for 2006-12-20
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2006-12-20
Outlook 2007: Linux and Open Source YAYEOS (Yet Another Year End Outlook Story) (tags: linux redhat novell xen vmware virtualization oracle)
Notes on the Microsoft/Novell Webinar
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2006-12-19
I missed today's Microsoft and Novell joint webinar, but I cruised over to Novell's website to download the slide deck from the presentation. Perhaps not surprisingly, the slide deck was pretty short on content, but a couple of items caught my eye. For one thing, there's a slide early on
links for 2006-12-19
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2006-12-19
Debian/Ruby Extras - Position on RubyGems I've been messing around with Ruby, and also reviewing Ubuntu and OpenSUSE. The two projects are taking separate tacks regarding Ruby packaging. Debian, and therefore Ubuntu, sticks
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News Flash: If Your ISV Doesn't Support Your OS, Software Installation is Tricky
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2006-12-18
Ian Murdock, the founder (and second syllable) of the Linux operating system Debian, is sounding off about his displeasure with software installation on Linux.For
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Doing the Yahoo/IBM/HP/Microsoft/Cisco Shuffle
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2006-12-14
Let's see if we can sort this out. IBM and Yahoo are teaming up to undermine the one box that Google would like to sell to businesses. Microsoft and HP are teaming up to sell you pre-packaged "People Ready" apps in a box to counter IBM's Global Services. And Cisco,
Finding The Next Big Social Network
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2006-12-13
The Next Big Social Network
Here's what's wrong with the current spate of social networks. They are too easy for everyone to join, they make it too easy to know too much about you and they are being taken over by big corporate entities. I should also add that they
