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What's what in Linux 2.6.16 —
Mar. 23, 2006 —
If you wanted to sum up what's new in this latest release of Linux, you could say that it's a Linux for high-end enterprise users. However, this kernel is also the first one to support Toshiba, Sony, and IBM's CELL processor, which is best known as the chip ...
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Microsoft's anti-ODF battle continues —
Mar. 22, 2006 —
Microsoft is far from done trying to convince people that its Open XML is an "open" standard that's every bit as good as the OpenDocument Format. In its latest moves against ODF, Microsoft's Bill Gates speaking at the Microsoft Office System Developers Conference announced that the company had joined with ...
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Late Vista, timely Linux —
Mar. 22, 2006 —
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, Microsoft's recent admission that it won't be able to make its latest Vista deadline of ...
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Novell eats its own dog food —
Mar. 21, 2006 —
It's a little thing, but I've always found it annoying that when I go to Linux tradeshows and the like, I see many companies still running Windows and using Microsoft Office on their PCs. That's ...
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Linux-Watcher speaks —
Mar. 17, 2006 —
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
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Xen and the Art of Linux Management —
Mar. 14, 2006 —
If you listen to the CIOs and CTOs of enterprises, the word you'll hear the most these days is "virtualization." It's this year's hot tech word. Unlike such previous contenders as "Web services," "network computers," and "tablet," however, this one will have staying power. Businesses want to get the most ...
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SCO is such an open-source SCAMP —
Mar. 14, 2006 —
 Just because The SCO Group Inc. opposes Linux doesn't mean that it objects to all open source. In the company's latest release, the SCAMP Stack combines its SCO OpenServer Unix server with the Apache web server, MySQL database platform, and Perl/PHP ...
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A little help for your Linux network admin blues —
Mar. 08, 2006 —
OK, I'm a little funny. I get excited by network management tools. But, hey, if you'd spent as much time as I did in the stone tools and bear skins age of network administration, you'd like modern network management tools too. In particular, that's why I like QCD Microsystems's
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Is OpenOffice really ten years behind MS Office? —
Mar. 06, 2006 —
Microsoft executive Alan Yates has reportedly suggested that OpenOffice.org is about where MS-Office was 10 years ago. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols responds to Yates's comment in a column at DesktopLinux.com, noting that OO.o has all the features he needs and is fast, reliable, and "secure, unlike Office." "Oh, and did I ...
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Open Source is here to stay —
Mar. 06, 2006 —
My buddy Roblimo over at NewsForge hit the nail on the head in a recent column where he wrote, "While we're glad your client or employer chose an open source license, it's such a common decision these days that it's no longer newsworthy in and of itself." ...
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Why Windows Vista will suck —
Mar. 03, 2006 —
Responding to a recent article at ExtremeTech entitled Why Windows Vista Won't Suck, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, who's been using Vista for months, is pulling no punches: Microsoft's replacement for Windows XP will indeed "suck," he retorts, in a column at DesktopLinux.com. "While I write a lot about Linux, ...
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Getting to know Drupal —
Mar. 03, 2006 —
You may recall that I've been working on revamping one of my Web sites with the open-source Drupal content management system (CMS). I'm finally done with the implementation and the design work and I'm well on my way into deployment, so I wanted to let you ...
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Solaris is a better Linux than Linux?? —
Mar. 02, 2006 —
Really? Gosh, and all this time, I've been using Linux. I'll have to switch over Right Now. OK, so maybe Sun doesn't think that their latest anti-Linux Web campaign will do that, but I do find Sun's constant spinning on Linux to be tiring. Very, very tiring. It's ...
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