Jason Brooks

For organizations and individuals invested in the Solaris platform, Sun Microsystems Inc.s OpenSolaris project promises greater flexibility, faster innovation and closer attention to diverse needs through an eventual community of Solaris distributors akin to what Linux now enjoys. Thanks in large part to the collaboration-maximizing virtues of the open-source development model, Linux has grown from […]

Its been nearly four years since Microsoft Corp. released Windows XP, and itll be at least another year before the next-generation Windows client—the newly named Windows Vista—hits the streets. However, now that Vista has reached its initial beta release, we have a chance to see what Microsoft has been doing in all that time—and how […]

Earlier this month, I attended the OReilly Open Source Convention in Portland, where I discovered a great fast-food place called Burgerville and was absolutely dazzled by Damian Conway and his talk, “Fun with Dead Languages.” During the talk, he demonstrated (with running code) the syntactic benefits of developing in Latin. Beyond double cheeseburgers and dead […]

At about this time last year, I was expecting interesting times ahead for Debian. The long-awaited Sarge release of the popular, noncommercial Linux distribution was right around the corner, and Bruce Perens pending UserLinux project promised to brighten Debians enterprise prospects by bringing the distribution a new face and community. Sarge remained AWOL for much […]

RealBasic 2005, the latest in a line of rapid application development products from Real Software Inc., offers organizations the option of quickly developing applications that will run on Windows, Mac OS and Linux—a smart way to preserve platform flexibility going forward. Click here to read the full review of RealBasic 2005. 2 RealBasic 2005, the […]

Sporting an updated kernel, The SCO Group Inc.s OpenServer 6 offers significant scalability upgrades, along with new UnixWare application and driver compatibility. These improvements, along with a set of new and updated open-source software components, make OpenServer 6 a compelling upgrade for sites already running this venerable operating system. Click here to read the full […]

Last week, Microsoft Corp. uncloaked the first beta release of Windows Vista, the next-generation version of its Windows client better known, so far, as “Longhorn.” eWEEK Labs has been conducting early testing on a pre-Beta 1 version of Vista, Build 5098. Although a good deal of roughness remains to be smoothed, the release weve been […]

Earlier today, Microsoft uncloaked the first beta release of Windows Vista, the next-generation version of its Windows client previously known as Longhorn. eWEEK Labs has been conducting early testing on a pre-beta 1 version of Vista, build 5098, and although a good deal of roughness remains to be smoothed out, the Vista release were running […]

The symptoms and sources of spyware are legion, but all spyware infestations spring from the same root. Whether these unwanted, annoying, sometimes harmful applications make their way onto your organizations machines via a software vulnerability or by tagging along with apparently innocuous applications, the problem boils down to one of unauthorized software installation. Before spending […]

Around this time last year, I was expecting interesting times ahead for Debian. The long-awaited Sarge release of the popular, noncommercial Linux distribution was right around the corner, and Bruce Perens pending UserLinux project promised to brighten Debians enterprise prospects by bringing the distribution a new face and community. So its a year later, and […]

June saw new releases of two of the worlds most significant Linux distributions—Red Hat Inc.s Fedora Core and Software in the Public Interest Inc.s Debian—both of which are popular, freely available and capable of serving well in roles from the server room to the desktop. Fedora Core 4, which undergoes a version upgrade two to […]

June saw new releases of two of the worlds most significant Linux distributions—Red Hat Inc.s Fedora Core and Software in the Public Interest Inc.s Debian—both of which are popular, freely available and capable of serving well in roles from the server room to the desktop. Click here to read the full review of Debian 3.1.