Jason Brooks

One of the best things about free and open-source software is the flexibility it grants users for working around vendors or project leaders whove lost touch with the needs of their stakeholders. These users are free to take the code, branch out on their own and perhaps overtake their parent projects. Soon, the Free Software […]

Between the foundational free software components and licenses that the Free Software Foundation has made possible–chief of which are, respectively, the GNU Compiler Collection and the GPL–the FSF has laid much of technological and legal groundwork that underlies free and open-source software as we know it today. One of the features of free software licensing […]

Dell’s customer feedback-driven initiative for preloading Linux on some of the machines it sells is moving forward with a full head of steam. It’s been only a handful of months since the OEM began fielding Web-borne requests to add the open-source operating system to its preloaded platform mix, and Dell is already a few weeks […]

As my colleague Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols is reporting, Intuit is opting to get a bit cozier with Linux. It’s an eye-catching announcement, considering that lukewarm Linux support from Windows-centric application vendors like Intuit remains one of the biggest strikes against the open-source operating system as a mainstream desktop platform. Curbing my enthusiasm somewhat is the […]

I’ve been burned more than once by lighter-than-laptop computing devices that have failed to fulfill their promise. Still, I can’t help but be excited about Palm’s Foleo mobile companion. The 2.5-pound device, which Palm announced recently and plans to begin shipping later this summer, will sport the display and keyboard of a typical notebook computer […]

Dells customer feedback-driven initiative for preloading Linux on some of the machines it sells is moving forward with a full head of steam. Its been only a handful of months since the OEM began fielding Web-borne requests to add the open-source operating system to its preloaded platform mix, and Dell is already a few weeks […]

After devoting the bulk of its efforts over the past couple years to realizing the advanced server technology goals of Red Hats Enterprise Linux product, the community-powered Fedora Project has turned its attention toward catching up with the distribution and packaging advances of its Linux rivals. eWEEK Labs tested the fruit of these efforts—Fedora 7—and […]

Ive been burned more than once by lighter-than-laptop computing devices that have failed to fulfill their promise. Still, I cant help but be excited about Palms Foleo mobile companion. The 2.5-pound device, which Palm announced recently and plans to begin shipping later this summer, will sport the display and keyboard of a typical notebook computer […]

eWEEK Labs has come to rely on VMwares excellent line of desktop virtualization tools to work the magic of running diverse operating systems and software configurations in the product evaluations that we conduct. Therefore, its with pleasure that we report that the latest incarnation of VMwares Workstation—Version 6—continues to make more seamless the connection between […]

The Internet has been abuzz lately with talk of a potential pairing between Google and Salesforce.com–a line of speculation that I find particularly intriguing. For one thing, with the amount of ink that’s been spilled over Google-DoubleClick and Microsoft-aQuantive, and what it all means for the future of advertising, it’s refreshing for once to ponder […]

The other night, I was watching an episode of Nova on PBS about the present and future of solar power and the major changes in the way we generate and distribute energy that future solar advances will trigger. Predictably enough, the whole thing got me thinking about free and proprietary software and the friction we’re […]

The Internet has been abuzz lately with talk of a potential pairing between Google and Salesforce.com—a line of speculation that I find particularly intriguing. For one thing, with the amount of ink thats been spilled over Google-DoubleClick and Microsoft-aQuantive, and what it all means for the future of advertising, its refreshing for once to ponder […]