Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Who needs Vista, when Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, has just released the latest version of its popular Linux distribution: Ubuntu Version 7.04? Despite concerns that this release might be delayed by last-minute fine tuning of ATI graphic card drivers and the network manager panel applet, Ubuntu 7.04 made its release date. “In the […]

What operating system do the heads of Fortune 500 companies run on their personal laptops? In the case of Michael S. Dell, president and CEO of Dell, its Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn. Yes, the head of Dell, with a market-capitalization of just south of $56 billion, isnt just saying that Dell will be selling Linux-equipped […]

For Linux business users, the most important Linux release of 2007 so far is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. But for most other Linux fans, the upcoming release of Ubuntu Version 7.04 on April 19 demands more attention. This new v7.04 release encompasses five versions: Ubuntu Server, Ubuntu Desktop, Edubuntu, Kubuntu and Xubuntu. Along with […]

Although Microsoft may claim otherwise, Vista, from both from a technical and business point of view, is proving to be a failure. Why not turn it over to people who have shown time after time that they can deliver the goods? Lets look at the facts, shall we? Microsoft claimed that more than 20 million […]

One of the goals of the GNU General Public License version 3 was be more compatible with other open-source licenses. There is some concern, however, that this goal has not been achieved in relation to the Apache License 2. As Allison Randal, president of The Perl Foundation, pointed out in a recent article on OReilly […]

A recent story on the “Boycott Novell” Web site reported that “Novells Linux is losing features which supposedly infringe on Microsoft software patents.” That, according to Novell Director of Public Relations Bruce Lowery, is not at all the case. The story got its start as a bug report on an openSUSE mailing list. This report […]

Now that Debian 4.0, Etch, has finally arrived, what do people make of it? Out in the blogosphere, some users like it. Over at Jeds Sandbox, this Gentoo Linux user finds that “Debian is stable, period.” Other users are also excited about a new and stable Debian. Still others, however, have found that Debian isnt […]

Over in San Francisco, my comrades in testing arms, the eWEEK Labs team, have placed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on the testing bench. They found that while RHEL is a good distribution in some ways, its far from a “ready, set, go” virtualization platform. While I havent done as much work with this distribution […]

At long last, the Debian project team released Debian GNU/Linux Version 4.0—code-named Etch—on April 8. The release follows “21 months of constant development,” according to the team. This anxiously awaited update will benefit not only users of “Debian GNU/Linux,” but also those of a rich assortment of Debian-derived distributions that utilize the projects Linux kernel […]

A few months late, Debian 4.0, aka Etch, has been released, but how many people actually will be running it? Thats not a trite question. It wasnt that long ago that a new release of Debian would have the Linux world excited and downloading it. Now… well, Debian Etch isnt exactly being greeted with yawns—but, […]