Jason Brooks

Desktop Linux Showdown OpenSUSEs configuration tools are broken out into perhaps too many separate pieces. Desktop Linux Showdown – Control Center Search Theres a search box to help cut through the control panel maze, but it doesnt always deliver. To find font configuration tools, I should have been searching for appearance. Desktop Linux Showdown – […]

With Windows Vista turning fewer heads than XP SP3, and Apples Leopard exhibiting spotty security, companies and individuals would do well to ask themselves whether tis the season of desktop Linux. With the fall release of three of the most popular leading-edge Linux-based operating systems—OpenSUSE 10.3, Ubuntu 7.10 and Fedora 8—behind us, the case for […]

I’ve been covering Linux and open-source software closely since the dawn of this millennium, and over those seven or so years I’ve become a believer in the potency of the open-source development model. Consider SUSE Linux 6.4, which shipped about a month after Windows 2000 was launched. From that 2000 SUSE release to the recently-minted […]

At Oracles recent OpenWorld megashow in San Francisco, the enterprise software behemoth threw its hat into the server virtualization ring with the release of Oracle VM. If youre familiar with the heritage of Oracles Unbreakable Linux operating system, it should come as no surprise that Oracles hat has a distinctively red hue. As with Unbreakable […]

AppLogic 2 .1 Streamlines Grid Computing”> Server virtualization is growing at a breakneck pace, powered by the promise that the technology can eliminate some of the complexity of working with physical hardware and leave administrators free to focus on the workloads that drive their business. However, constructing the sort of virtual platform required to deliver […]

10 Things You Should Know About Virtualization With Citrixs recent XenSource acquisition, a new hypervisor on the way from Microsoft and Oracle now extending its sincere Red Hat flattery to the virtual world, the buzz around server virtualization is louder than ever. Here are 10 things to keep in min 10 Things You Should Know […]

Last week I attended a technical workshop on Windows Server 2008 at Microsoft’s Redmond campus, where I, alongside a gaggle of other tech journalists from all over the world, spent three days having my head stuffed with details about Microsoft’s forthcoming server revision and the tools that complement it. Microsoft has done a lot of […]

The OpenDocument Foundation has announced its plans to sever itself from participation in or further advocacy of its namesake office document format in favor of the World Wide Web Consortium’s XHTML (Extensible HTML)-based Compound Document Format. Although the OpenDocument Foundation is a fairly small organization, the group sports a certain cachet that stems from the […]

Apple’s newest Mac OS X revision has hit the streets, boasting an advertised 300 new features. Is the latest big cat out of Cupertino worthy of Mac users’ upgrade dollars, and should Windows and Linux users consider migrating? eWEEK Labs’ tests have just begun, but based on my first few hours with Leopard, the new […]

On Tuesday morning, while jotting down some column ideas, I took note of the top two items I wanted to see from Google’s Gmail service: 1. Enable IMAP access to mail; and 2. Make labels persist beyond Gmail’s Web UI. On Wednesday afternoon, I read Andrew’s blog post about how Google had delivered on the […]

For enterprises to become greener, both in terms of a reduced environmental footprint and in dollars diverted from electric company coffers, they must grow as cognizant of power consumption as they are of security permissions—a principle of least power to accompany that of least privilege. As with security design and implementation, going green isnt as […]

10 Things You Should Know About Open Source Check the Label Open source is frequently used as a generic marketing term, but the phrase has a very specific meaning. Generally speaking, i 10 Things You Should Know About Open Source – 2. Not Just for Coders Open-source contribution isnt just for coders. Using the software, […]