Running a small business on desktop Linux —  This paper surveys Linux's suitability for use by owners of very small businesses and the self-employed. It was written by Howard Fosdick, a self-employed database consultant who finds Linux fairly well-suited to his needs, and reckons it has saved him thousands of dollars in recent years. ...
|
Sun launches OpenSolaris — Sun Microsystems officially launched OpenSolaris (OS) today. Available pre-built as a combo live/install CD, the initial "2008.05" binary distribution download of the OS features a GNOME user interface, highly fault tolerant ZFS root filesystem, IPS package managment, and "DTrace" tuning tools. ...
|
Via tiptoes toward openness — Board and chipmaker Via is gearing up toward releasing Linux driver source code and product documentation for its popular x86-compatible chipsets and peripherals. The company has launched a website where Ubuntu 8.04 and SUSE 10 binary graphics drivers can be downloaded, with source code and documentation to follow, it says. ...
|
Linux certification comes to Italy — A non-profit organization devoted to Linux training and certification has established an affiliate organization in Italy. The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) says its new LPI-Italia partner will begin hosting exams on May 10, at the upcoming "Open Mind Free Software Meeting" on May 10th in San Giorgio a Cremano, Naples. ...
|
Installing Ubuntu Hardy Heron as a web hosting server —  HowTo Forge has published a tutorial about setting up a server based on the new Ubuntu 8.04 (aka "Hardy Heron") release from last week. The article describes a base install with Apache, Webalyzer, BIND, Proftpd, MySQL, Courier POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, and other packages aimed at web ...
|
Black Duck Buys Koders — A company providing software license compliance management tools has agreed to purchase a company providing online search tools aimed at helping developers find reusable open source software. Black Duck Software says its buy-out of Koders will bring improvements to the search technology in both companies' products. ...
|
Open source conference co-locates with Ubuntu show —  Registration is open for the tenth annual edition of OSCON (Open Source Convention), as well as for a co-located Ubuntu Live conference. Scheduled for Jul. 21-25 in Portland, Ore., O'Reilly's OSCON 2008 is expected to draw some 2,500 open source experts, visionaries, and hackers. ...
|
Ubuntu 8.04 ready to challenge Windows — Review -- Canonical has marshaled the best of what the open-source world has to offer in Ubuntu 8.04, a Linux-based operating system that's capable of mounting a serious challenge to Microsoft Windows on mainstream desktops and notebooks. During my tests ...
|
KDE Linux reaches 52 million Brazilian kids —  Brazil's Ministry of Education ("MEC") is installing Linux in labs used by 52 million schoolchildren, reports KDE developer Mauricio Piacentini. Piacentini's blog post describes MEC's "Linux Educacional 2.0" as "a very clean Debian-based distribution, with KDE 3.5, KDE-Edu, KDE-Games, and some tools developed by the project." ...
|
Free x86-based Linux router distro rev'd — Vyatta has started shipping a major upgrade to its free Linux distribution for x86-based routers, firewalls, and VPN servers. The big new change in Vyatta Community Edition 4 (VC4) is a move to the open source Quagga routing protocol implementation, for better scalability and a more Linux-like command-line user interface. ...
|
Two weeks with Fedora 9 — Review--Recently, I came across a blog post about how to install a LiveCD version of Red Hat's upcoming Fedora 9 release onto a USB stick, leaving space on the stick for data to persist between reboots. ...
|
Linux 2.6.25 -- the "motherlode" release — Linus Torvalds has annointed a blockbuster new kernel that required some 7.5 megabytes just for its changelog. The 2.6.25 release sets the stage for a war between ARM and x86 for the personal computing environment of the future, while also merging tons of improvements for real-time devices, desktops, and servers. ...
|
SitePen passes the open-source torch — Opinion--SAN FRANCISCO--When companies such as Adobe, AOL, Eye-Fi, JPMorgan Chase, Sun Telelogic and even Google want a certain something in their Web applications, they go to SitePen, a Web application development shop that does a little support, training and consulting as well. ...
|
Red Hat's challenge — Opinion--Five years ago, Red Hat sent a shock wave through the Linux community when it announced a new bleeding-edge development pace for its flagship distribution, Red Hat Linux. ...
|
Linux's death -- greatly exaggerated? — An opinion piece at LaptopMag suggests that Linux's "window of opportunity" on the desktop, and especially laptops, has closed. But has it, really? ...
|
Live from the Linux Foundation! It's sjvn! — Blog--Ever wonder what your favorite writer looked and sounded like? Well, me too. But, if you'd like to see Ziff Davis Enterprise Editor at Large Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, aka me, in action, hop on over to Linux.com, ...
|
IDC sees $49 billion Linux server business in 2011 — Austin, Texas--Once upon a time, you found Linux as a server in two places in the enterprise: on the edge, as a Web server, and in the branch office, as a file and print server. That was then. This is now. ...
|
Open source launches attack on software patents — Red Hat and ESP (End Software Patents), a Free Software Foundation project, are joining others in challenging the legal logic used for software patents. ...
|
VIA to open up its devices — Austin, Texas--VIA Technologies, although very popular with Linux ultramobile PC vendors, has never been very open about its own hardware. ...
|
Linux partisans gather at Foundation annual meeting — Austin, Texas—How do you herd cats? Well, as the famous EDS commercial shows, it isn't easy. In a sense, that's what the Linux Foundation, the nonprofit pro-Linux organization, will be doing this week at the invitation-only LF Collaboration Summit ...
|
Finding the right open-source savvy lawyer — Some days, like it or not, you need a lawyer. For most business purposes, picking the right law firm isn't usually that big of a deal. ...
|
Report claims open-source features catch up — Long considered the poor cousins of feature-rich, fee-based operating systems, open source in the server operating system market—notably, Linux—is now a virtual equal to commercial alternatives. ...
|
Another SCO buyout stumbles — Like the 11th chapter of a bad horror movie, the SCO zombie keeps stumbling forward moaning "Linux," instead of "Brains." This time, however, there may not be another movie left for SCO. SCO's most recent would-be buyer, Stephen Norris & Co. Capital Partners LP, no longer wants to buy SCO. ...
|
Sun and Canonical to bring Ubuntu 8.04 to x86 Servers — Sun was the first major company to give Ubuntu a shot at making the big server show in May 2006. Then, the deal was all about putting Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Long Term Support) on the UltraSPARC T1 processor on Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers. ...
|
VC money pours into open-source businesses — Opinion -- Don't ask me to explain it, but venture capital money is pouring into open-source businesses. ...
|
More News ...
|
Use of this site is governed by our Terms of
Service and Privacy Policy.
Except where otherwise specified, the contents of this site are copyright © 1999-2008
Ziff Davis Enterprise Holdings Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of Ziff Davis Enterprise is
prohibited. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.
news feed