Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Red Hats fourth-quarter earnings report, which ended Feb. 28, can be described in one word: Great. The Raleigh, N.C.-based company reported that its annual subscription revenue was up 53 percent from the prior year, while quarterly cash flow was up 64 percent from the prior year, with quarterly operating income up 165 percent year-over-year. The […]

OK, how many times must Internet Explorer be ripped open like a hot 16-year-old in a summer slasher movie before people finally get it: IE is not safe. Period. End of Statement. I dont care if you only run it around the Web on Sundays and to the nicest sites. If you run IE, youre […]

Microsoft is far from done trying to convince people that its OpenXML is an “open” standard thats every bit as good as the OpenDocument Format. In its latest moves against ODF, Microsofts Bill Gates, speaking at the Microsoft Office System Developers Conference, announced that the company has joined with 39 other organizations to form the […]

Just when I thought Microsoft could trip over its own feet any more this week, Im proven dead wrong. Now, not only did Microsoft blow its Vista deadline—two years plus and counting—again, now theyve blown the deadline for Office 2007 too! On the bright side, I guess it will really be Office 2007 now! Boy, […]

If you wanted to sum up whats new in this latest release of Linux, you could say that its a Linux for high-end enterprise users. However, this kernel is also the first one to support Toshiba, Sony, and IBMs CELL processor, which is best known as the chip that will power Sonys forthcoming PlayStation 3 […]

Why does Microsoft constantly fall on its face when it comes to operating system deadlines, while Linux continues to cruise along popping out one release after another? While Microsoft fans prefer to ignore that question, Microsofts recent admission that it wont be able to make its latest Vista deadline of the 2006 holiday season makes […]

Dell and Novell are combining their respective server management programs—OpenManage tool kits and ZENworks—into a comprehensive, integrated package. ZENworks 7 Linux Management – Dell Edition aims to enable system administrators running Novells SLES (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server) or Red Hats RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) on Dell PowerEdge servers to manage both their hardware and […]

Officially, the first Firefox 2.0 “Bon Echo” alpha isnt here yet. Unofficially, Firefox 2.0 code for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows is already available from the Mozilla Foundations ftp sites. Version 2.0 is intended to be an improved version of Firefox 1.5, rather than breaking new ground, according to Ben Goodger, Firefoxs lead engineer. […]

MEPIS LLC, a longtime Debian Linux distributor, is switching from Debian to Ubuntu as the basis for its SimplyMEPIS Linux distribution. It seems MEPIS founder Warren Woodford has decided that MEPIS will do better for its users by depending upon Ubuntu, rather than Debian, for its foundation. Ubuntu has a six-month stable release cycle that […]

In front of me, I have an interview from The Modding Den with Emre Sokulla, the leader of the SimpleKDE project. Sokulla said SimpleKDEs goal “is to create a KDE based (which can be the best base in my opinion), enterprise level, simple, easy to use, secure desktop environment. So we want to make something […]

March 16, 2006, has not been a good day for Mandriva or its user community. After being fired by Mandriva, Co-founder Gael Duval announced in an interview with NewsForge that he was going to sue his old firm for “abusive layoff.” In Duvals latest blog, Duval, a non-native English speaker, confirmed that “Im just going […]

After continued financial losses, Mandriva, the international, French-based Linux distributor has fired a number of employees including one of its founders, Gael Duval. While the company has yet to spell out who has been let go, news of the firing rapidly spread on the Mandriva Club forum, an official Mandriva Linux community site. Duval, who […]