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APT Gives Fedora Operations a Lift

One of the most convenient things about Red Hats Fedora Core 2 Linux distribution is how freely available it is. Fedora CD and DVD...

Fedora Widens Its Scope

Red Hat Inc.s Fedora Core 2 is a good general-purpose Linux distribution that ships with a broad selection of open-source software that can capably...

Online Extra: Asterisk: An Open-Source PBX Gateway

If you are interested in Voice over IP, are not intimidated by open-source software, and dont want to part with tens of thousands of...

BEAs Bosworth Brews Alchemy

At Borland Software Corp., Microsoft Corp., his startup Crossgain and now as chief architect at BEA Systems Inc., Adam Bosworth has shepherded more than...

Intel, IBM Make Workstation Push with Linux Laptop

Disclaimer: Intel, AMD, Dell, Microsoft and HP are all clients of mine. For years, true workstation users—folks tied at the hip to Unix—really didnt have...

Kattoon: June 7, 2004

Read this weeks Spencer column.

Sun, Microsoft Take Different Tacks on File Systems

Both Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. recently offered more information on file system technologies that will underlie their next-generation operating systems. To small...

Linux Still Needs Drivers

I think of myself as a Linux expert. I was a Unix administrator before Linux existed, and these days I run Linux on four...

Suns Long Road to Open-Source Solaris

Sun Microsystems Inc.s announcement on Wednesday that it will open-source the Solaris operating system is the latest push in an effort that began over...

Sun Working Out Open-Source Solaris Details

Sun Microsystems Inc. this week formally committed itself to releasing Solaris operating system code as open source, but no final decisions have been made...