Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

On Dec. 4, Red Hat announced the first public beta of Red Hat Enterprise Messaging, Real-time, Grid. The company claims that MRG will offer new capabilities for financial services and government agencies that need exceptional performance through reliable enterprise messaging, real-time capabilities and advanced grid and high-throughput computing technologies for deployment on RHEL (Red Hat […]

Microsoft released a release candidate of the long delayed Windows XP SP3 to Microsoft MSDN (Microsoft Software Development Network) and TechNet subscribers on Dec. 3. The release comes about a month after a beta release of SP3 was made available to about 15,000 users. With customers still showing no eagerness to move to Vista, interest […]

On the face of it, its hardly news worth noting. On Nov. 27, Eaton announced that its Personal Solution Pac for Linux and Network Shutdown Module v3 are the first UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) power management solutions to receive Ubuntus IHV (independent hardware vendor) Certification. This program is compatible with Ubuntu releases from 6.06 to […]

If you dont know the stock market, $5 a share may sound like the stock of a good, healthy company. Actually, its usually seen as the mark of a company in deep trouble. Sun Microsystems, which has been mired below $10 a share for years, finally decided to do something about it. Earlier this month, […]

When SCO filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, it was widely seen as a move to avoid the final steps in its case with Novell. On Nov. 27, however, the bankruptcy court lifted its stay on the Novell trial, and so the SCO/Novell court case is once again free to proceed. In his decision, “Granting Novells […]

Once upon a time, Firefox was known for being far less prone to security bugs than Internet Explorer. Things have changed. On Nov. 27, Mozilla released the newest, security-patched version of the popular Web browser, Firefox 2.0.0.10. The vast majority of Firefox users will have the latest and greatest automatically installed on their systems. This […]

Desktop Linuxes are improving so quickly that its hard even for someone like me, who tracks operating systems the way some people track their favorite NFL teams game match-ups, to keep tabs on whats what with the latest distributions. Thats even true for the major community Linux distributions: Fedora 8, OpenSUSE 10.3 and Ubuntu 7.10. […]

For the fifth year, CIO Insight polled IT executives on how well their major vendors deliver business value, reliability and quality. This years winner? The No. 1 vendor? None other than Linux distributor Red Hat. Perhaps even more impressive than Red Hat beating such name brand companies as Google and Hewlett-Packard was that Red Hat […]

The good news for everyone is that you can get a good, solid laptop for under a grand these days. The bad news for Vista users is that many of those laptops, even though theyre sold with Vista, have nothing like enough resources to run Vista decently. This year, from everything Ive seen, has lived […]

What do Linux users want from their desktop? The Linux Foundations survey has the answers. While the LFs third annual desktop Linux survey doesnt officially end until Nov. 30, the number of daily respondents has shrunk to a trickle and the Foundation is working on analyzing the results. This is an early look at the […]

The Software Freedom Law Center has filed two more GPL infringement lawsuits on behalf of an open-source software project. The second-ever GPL lawsuit alleges that Xterasys and High-Gan Antennas failed to honor “source-code transparency,” in violation of Busyboxs GPLv2 license. The suits are the second and third ever filed in the United States over the […]

KDE e.V, the nonprofit organization behind the popular KDE desktop environment, has announced the immediate availability of the first release candidate for its next major release: KDE 4.0. With this release candidate, the majority of KDE 4s components are almost ready for prime time. At the same time, with the final bits of Plasma, the […]