Virtualization on Home and Office C... Nov 16, 2009
Run Linux or Other Operating Systems Without Switching From Windows. Many people would like to try an alternative operating system, like one of the Linux distributions, FreeBSD, or even other versions of Windows before giving up their current installations ... Users wishing to try Linux should select one of the other choices. (Suite101.com)
4 Why You'll Buy a Netbook On Black Friday Nov 15, 2009
Why You'll Buy a Netbook On Black Friday Datamation. November 15, 2009 Hot topics. (Datamation)
Open-source tools could make it easier to build a hybrid cloud Nov 15, 2009
Wolski said the development team took care to make the platform extremely compatible with current Linux server-based environments. "It will run as an overlay. You download it from the Web. You stand it up on your machine, and it will work," he said. (FCW.com)
Qualcomm demos Adobe Flash 10 on ARM-based netbook Nov 14, 2009
Jacobs also emphasized Qualcomm's general support for Windows Mobile, Symbian, Linux and Android. "One of the things that some of our competitors have been saying is that you couldn't get the full Internet experience on ARM, because we didn't have Flash video . That's wrong because we have flash," Jacobs said. (EETimes)
Google to be your phone company? Nov 14, 2009
He was later sued by Microsoft for his startup Lindows, which made Linux installations for cheap PCs. And his current music venture, MP3tunes. (CNN)
Novell Sets OpenSUSE 11.2 Free Nov 14, 2009
New Linux release updates core apps, and changes the way Novell works with its community ... 2 Linux release is now available, providing the community Linux distribution with an updated key application as well as a new approach to the community itself ... 2 release comes in the middle of a busy Linux distribution season, following and ahead of. (SmallBusinessComputing)
The next level in handheld games Nov 13, 2009
Page last updated at 16:27 GMT, Friday, 6 November 2009. By Ian Hardy Reporter, BBC Click. (BBC News -- Technology)
Managing your nerd Nov 13, 2009
It's when you meet another nerd who thinks you have everything in common because of some slight overlapping area of interest, (you could be a professional windows software developer, they might make websites for a living and be "into Linux"), and they go on and on and on about it, not pausing to breathe let alone show any interest in what you have to say. If you find yourself at any moment talking more than the other person you are not listening enough. (Harper's Magazine)
Firefox turns five Nov 13, 2009
Then, he was a young programmer whose work with Linux gave him open-source inclinations. He'd been advocating an open-source release of the engine within Netscape Communicator that ran Web-based JavaScript programs, but was surprised in 1998 when Netscape announced the entire software package would become open-source software. (CNN -- International)
Nokia's Mini-Tablet Smartphone N900 Ships Nov 12, 2009
Nokia's mini-tablet smartphone device, the N900, running on open source Linux Maemo 5 software, ships today and will be on sale by the end of the month. The N900 will sell for about $650 at the Nokia pre-order Web site, and is priced at 500 euros, or about $740, without subsidies, which have yet to be disclosed for the U.S.. (SmallBusinessComputing)
3 Using XP After Upgrading to Windows 7 Nov 12, 2009
1, XP, or Windows 7, or even another platform like Ubuntu Linux. You allocate how much memory (RAM) you want to give a virtual machine. (Datamation)
New IPhone Malware Steals Data From Jailbroken Phones Nov 12, 2009
Mac security vendor Intego calls the code "iPhone/Privacy.A." It is a malicious tool hackers install on Windows, Mac, Unix or Linux systems, and even on iPhones, using those devices to scan for "jailbroken" iPhones, some of which are vulnerable to the malware. If it finds a vulnerable iPhone within its range, the malware copies e-mail, contacts, SMS (Short Message Service) messages, calendar entries, photos, music, videos and any data recorded by an iPhone application, according to an from... (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Novell Brings Mono to Microsoft's Visual Studio Nov 12, 2009
Now Novell is turning the tables and bringing Linux to ... NET application on Linux ... NET application into Linux software appliances. (SmallBusinessComputing)
HP, IBM and 3PAR Unveil New Data Storage Wares Nov 11, 2009
3PAR Autonomic Groups and Scheduler are bundled products that are offered at no additional charge as part of the latest version of the InForm Operating System, while Host Explorer is host-based software running on Windows, Linux and Solaris 10 hosts, also available at no additional charge. Follow Enterprise Storage Forum on. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Computer for the elderly launched Nov 11, 2009
Page last updated at 08:08 GMT, Wednesday, 11 November 2009. Please turn on JavaScript. (BBC News -- Technology)
Tech Chat Thoughts / Thank You Leslie! Nov 11, 2009
I am starting to think its time to look at a linux lmce setup, or some kind of media center. The key feature being that it is real, and I can actually have it for christmas. (Multichannel News)
MS will allow free access to Outlook Nov 11, 2009
The move will make it possible for programmers and users to access Microsoft Outlook files through any rival platform, including Linux, without having to buy separate licences for the same. Until now, enterprises and users needed to have licensing rights for Microsofts software before they could dig into their corporate databases. (India Times)
Preview: Freescale VP to call for open connected-device standards Nov 11, 2009
Such efforts toward standardization may seem paradoxical in the context of open platforms such as those round the ARM ecosystem, as well as Linux, Chrome and Android, all of which depend on openness to allow innovation. However, as Su points out, even these ecosystems have interfaces that are controlled, though that control is nowhere near the levels of handsets and PCs, where "control was in the hands of a few top players." That, she said, is why there is such a strong pull for open approaches... (EETimes)
Nokia CEO says starts deliveries of top-model N900 Nov 11, 2009
The N900 model is Nokia's first phone running Linux Maemo operating system, which analysts see as a key for Nokia to gain back ground in the coming years. Nokia has kept its overall market share stable, close to 40 percent, but it has lost share among more expensive models to the likes of Apple and RIM.. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Cavium to buy MontaVista Software for $50M Nov 11, 2009
In addition, Cavium Networks will continue the MontaVista business model and support embedded Linux on multiple architectures from multiple processor vendors. MontaVista will maintain its own engineering, sales and product management staff. (San Jose Business Journal, CA)
Nokia Launches Critical N900 Phone Nov 11, 2009
A variant of the open-source Linux operating system, Maemo 5 lets users run several programs at once, browsing the Internet wirelessly and displaying graphics and video as fast as a PC. "A computer platform allows us to drive the convergence of mobile and Internet much more radically," says , a Nokia vice-president who works on mobile mapping applications from offices in Berlin. As Nokia tries to recapture smartphone share from Apple, the N900 seems to be a way for the Finns to test features and... (BusinessWeek)
Let's Kill the OS Upgrade Disc Nov 11, 2009
Went to Mac laptops and Linux servers. And every upgrade has been much easier, especially with Linux. (CBS News)
Hardware Central's CPU Price Watch for November 10, 2009 Nov 11, 2009
Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. Search. (HardwareCentral)
Intel debuts portable text-to-speech reader Nov 11, 2009
It uses an Atom processor and 4 Gbyte Intel flash drive as well as Intel's Moblin mobile Linux operating system. The 4 Gbyte card can hold 600 processed page or 500,000 raw text pages. (EETimes)
Red Hat Virtualization Manager for Windows Only? Nov 10, 2009
Red Hat execs explain why Linux vendor's Linux virtualization management solution runs only on Microsoft's rival OS. ... As a major Linux vendor, one might expect that Red Hat's new (RHEV) for Servers solution would be able to run on Linux servers ... That's no typo: A Linux vendor is requiring its users to run one of its key new products on the rival, closed source Windows operating system. (SmallBusinessComputing)
Creating virtual appliances with Novell SUSE Studio Nov 10, 2009
Enterprise Linux Tips ... The standalone Linux appliance concept is not a new one ... You can stand up a content management system, corporate Wiki and blog engine or even test a different Linux distribution without the need for any additional hardware. (Search Enterprise Linux)
Microsoft raises cloud computing concerns Nov 9, 2009
Will the developers of various Linux cores also follow suit. What will happen in developing countries if/when cloud computing becomes the norm and OS, apps and storage are only available to users with fast internet connections. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Review of Microsoft's Hyper-V Virtu... Nov 9, 2009
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5. 2 and later. (Suite101.com)
Windows Virtualization With VMware ... Nov 8, 2009
VMware ESX supports many operating systems including many Linux distributions, most versions of Microsoft Windows from Windows 3. 1 to Windows 7, Apple Mac OS X, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Novell Netware, and Sun Microsystem's Solaris ... Microsoft Hyper-V supports Novell's SuSE Linux 10 SP1 and SP2, which is a very competitive enterprise Linux solution, as well as the popular Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5. (Suite101.com)
Mozilla fixes Firefox crash bug Nov 8, 2009
can be downloaded for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux from the Mozilla site; current Firefox users can call up the browser's update tool or wait for automatic update notifications to appear. Original story. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)
Parents: Be Web aware Nov 7, 2009
- Consider partitioning your computer into separate accounts -- most operating systems (including Windows XP, Mac OS X, and Linux) give you the option of creating a different user account for each user. - Know your children's online friends and supervise their chat areas. (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
Motorola Droid Launch Guide Nov 7, 2009
Android, initially developed by Google and then later by the Open Handset Alliance, is a mobile operating system that runs on the Linux kernal and is geared to maximize performance for advanced web services, email, social network and entertainment. To gear up for launch, Motorola opted for the risky decision of directly targeting the Apple iPhone during ad campaigns, including a number of TV spots that debuted on October 17th, 2009 that pointed out the features supposedly lacking on the iPhone. (IGN Gear)
Analyst Says nVidia's Looking to Enter x86 Market Nov 6, 2009
In retrospect, the company may have gotten more attention because it had employed Linux creator Linus Torvalds than for its impact on the market ... Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. (HardwareCentral)
Apache readies Tomcat Java servlet container upgrade Nov 6, 2009
Also, use of open source initially was obscured because CIOs "never saw a purchase order for Apache or a purchase order for Linux," Behlendorf said. "They had no idea that it was being used," he said. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Hardening Linux with Bastille UNIX Nov 6, 2009
Enterprise Linux Tips ... Even with the I've talked about in the past, Linux is a solid operating system (OS) that stands up well to security tests ... Over time, configuration tweaks, third-party software and human intervention tend to change the security posture of once-secure Linux systems. (Search Enterprise Linux)
How to detect software tampering Nov 6, 2009
Surreptitious Software, authors Christian Collberg and Jasvir Nasvir reveals how to tamperproof your software and make sure it executes as intended. " In a DRM scenario, Ia could be, "P is able to print out the private key," and Id could be, "The protected media cannot be played unless a valid user key has been entered / private keys remain private. (Search Security, MA)
Designer debuts OMAP boards for Android Nov 6, 2009
In part, that's because companies see it and its related app store as the best shot at a neutral and broadly supported mobile Linux applications environment, said Herbert. Moto is aware of the many mobile Linux contenders such as Limo, Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo, but, "there's not nearly as much interest in them," he said ... Thus most of Moto's non Android designs use embedded Linux and custom user interface frameworks. (EETimes)
Tech Products We Should Have Had By Now Nov 6, 2009
Those of us with fond memories of the Psion Series 5 and HP Jornada 720 had our hopes raised at June's Computex, where half of Taiwan seemed to be buzzing about smaller, less expensive alternatives to today's already compact $300 to $400 netbook PCs -- mini machines with ARM or Nvidia Tegra instead of Intel's Atom processors, built around Linux or Moblin or Android instead of Windows XP, promising eight or ten instead of four or five hours of battery life, and destined to sell for $200 or less... (HardwareCentral)
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Gets Managed Nov 5, 2009
Standalone hypervisor and management solution released as Linux vendor takes on Microsoft and VMware ... Today, the Linux vendor is making good on that talk with the release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers, which includes a standalone hypervisor (RHEF-H) as well as a management platform (RHEV-M) ... "With these additions to the virtualization product family, Red Hat has dramatically lowered the bar for IT to deploy and manage virtualized environments based on the RHEL Red Hat... (SmallBusinessComputing)
Microsoft-backed open source group outlines project guidelines Nov 5, 2009
Now vice president of strategy at cloud infrastructure startup Sonoa Systems, Ramji recently left his position as senior director of platform strategy at Microsoft, where he was in charge of worldwide Linux and open source strategy. This story, "," was originally published at. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Letter to The President: # 4 Nov 5, 2009
What was new was the collaboration between The Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT (AITI-KACE), The Accra Linux User Group, organizers of the celebration, and the Association of Ghana Industries, (AGI) to hold a press conference to inform the general public about event, which occasion was also used by the AITI-KACE to launch this year's Innovation Week The efforts of the indefatigable Dorothy Gordon, Director of AITI-KACE and her team deserve the highest commendation ... Still on... (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Meet the evil new copyright treaty Nov 5, 2009
(Like Linux, for instance. If the law is as broad as it seems- I really hope the people who review this realize just how bad it is, and what the impact will be. (Harper's Magazine)
Cisco computer game lets you play CEO Nov 5, 2009
On the myPlanNet site the company says it has no plans right now to offer a Linux or other version of the game. Original story. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)
Symantec Backs Up Linux Nov 5, 2009
Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) is adding Linux support to its Backup Exec System Recovery solution for small businesses ... BESR 2010 adds support for Windows 7, Microsoft Exchange 2010 and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows Server 2008 R2, and it will also support Linux operating systems for the first time, starting with Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) and Novell (NASDAQ: NOVL) SUSE. The Linux version will be available next month ... BESR comes in server, desktop and virtual editions and is available in 11... (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Comments 177 Nov 4, 2009
Better the broken Windows than life with the Mac monks. Better the broken Windows than life with the Mac monks. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Lenovo: Win7 beats Linux in netbooks Nov 4, 2009
Improvements in Windows 7 will make it less likely notebook makers will adopt Linux-based operating systems, said a technology executive at Lenovo ... "Our S9 and S10 model netbooks had Linux loads, but they didn't do well so we stopped selling them," said Locker, referring to the systems launched in October 2008 mainly targeting the education market ... The fact Apple's iTunes is not supported on Linux clients irked many Lenovo users. (EETimes)
Better the broken Windows than life with the Mac monks Nov 4, 2009
Using Windows is like living in a communist bloc nation circa 1981. I admit it: I'm a bigot. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
MIPS debuts new cores, instruction set Nov 3, 2009
They include RTOS and Linux operating system providers such as ExpressLogic, Mentor Graphics, Micrium and Montavista as well as tool providers such as CodeSourcery, Carbon Design and Imperas ... The 14Kc has a full memory management unit with translation look-aside buffer needed to support virtual memory and thus run full operating systems such as Linux and Android. (EETimes)
IM for newbies Nov 2, 2009
It is also compatible with Linux and Mac OS X. There is no need to register for an account with Pidgin, as you only need to enter your respective account details ... The Mac and Linux versions are still in development unfortunately. (iAfrica.com)
Mozilla unveils first Firefox 3.6 beta Nov 2, 2009
Others can for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in 46 different language editions from Mozilla's site. Original story. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)
How to Debug The Path Nov 2, 2009
Mac or Linux users might have to modify these directions slightly, but at least these will put you on the right track. If you get an error message you have not copied the target listed above. (Suite101.com)
Tech Job Openings: PHP, MySQL, Linux Nov 1, 2009
Also up, RSS (ranked 76), Adobe Flex (ranked 59), Linux (ranked 58) skills up 19, 30 and 18 percent respectively. On the downside, both XML and search engine marketing dropped 17 percent. (eSecurityPlanet)
2 Dual-Booting Linux And Windows: Easier Said than Done Nov 1, 2009
Dual-Booting Linux And Windows: Easier Said than Done Datamation ... Dual-Booting Linux And Windows: Easier Said than Done ... Dual-booting with Windows and desktop Linux is a snap to do. (Datamation)
Tech Job Openings: PHP, MySQL, Linux Nov 1, 2009
Also up, RSS (ranked 76), Adobe Flex (ranked 59), Linux (ranked 58) skills up 19, 30 and 18 percent respectively. On the downside, both XML and search engine marketing dropped 17 percent. (CIO Information Network)
How to Setup Virtual Web Hosting Nov 1, 2009
Apache is a Free Web Server that runs on the Linux Operating System ... The following step by step guide assumes the Linux and are already installed and running correctly. (Suite101.com)
Tech Job Openings: PHP, MySQL, Linux Nov 1, 2009
Also up, RSS (ranked 76), Adobe Flex (ranked 59), Linux (ranked 58) skills up 19, 30 and 18 percent respectively. On the downside, both XML and search engine marketing dropped 17 percent. (Datamation)
Making peace with victims of Vista Nov 1, 2009
Vista has since matured into a stable operating system but it failed the initial "just works" test and many Windows users opted to stay with the tried and true Windows XP or look further afield to alternatives such as Linux or Apple's Mac OS X 10 ... a lightweight variant of Linux designed to do little more than run Google's new Chrome browser. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Dual-Booting Linux And Windows: Easier Said than Done Oct 31, 2009
Dual-booting with Windows and desktop Linux is a snap to do. This statement is at best a half-truth as it really depends on the skill set of the person trying to install Linux along side Windows ... Figuring that it must be the end user's sole responsibility to "get it right," people are often seen in the various users forums complaining how Linux deleted their Windows install. (Datamation)
3 7 Reasons Why Microsoft Should Make PCs Oct 31, 2009
Both aggressively hawk Linux and other non-Microsoft products to customers. So why should Microsoft unilaterally avoid competing with them. (Datamation)
Canonical Matures Linux-based Netbook OS Oct 31, 2009
Canonical on Thursday updated its Linux distribution for netbooks, simplifying the interface and adding new programs that the company says will make it easier for users to access and use Web content ... The Netbook Remix OS differs from standard Ubuntu Linux distributions for desktops and servers, which have powerful interfaces that gives users more flexibility in using the OS. ... The OS is an upgrade from Canonical's first netbook OS version, Ubuntu Linux 9. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Google Chrome: The Fast Browser With Slow Adoption Oct 31, 2009
For starters, it doesn't exist for Mac OS and Linux users, two camps full of technology enthusiasts and early adopters. The Mac OS and Linux versions are delayed ... Rakowski takes exception to the idea that Chrome lacks appeal, saying it has about 30 million active users, even though it doesn't yet fully play in the Mac OS, Linux and enterprise IT segments. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Security Content Automation Protocol backgrounder Oct 31, 2009
Supported platforms: Although FDCC is geared toward Microsoft Windows XP and Vista, SCAP has enabled standardization across a number of platforms, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Sun Microsystems Solaris, HP-UX and IBM AIX. More details on platform support are available at. Validated tools: Twenty-one vendors offer SCAP products that the National Institute of Standards and Technology has validated. (FCW.com)
Intel Wants Servers to Have Open FCoE Inside Oct 31, 2009
Two years ago, Robert Love, a senior software engineer at Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), unveiled a new open source project called to the Linux community (see ). The goal of the Open-FCoE project: to encourage and support the development of a native Fibre Channel over Ethernet () code for Linux, so organizations can leverage their Ethernet networks to connect existing servers to without having to be locked into a particular vendor's technology ... Open-FCoE Added to Linux Kernel. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
`Bill Gates of Belgium' Fights SAP From Farmhouse as Free Software Spreads Oct 30, 2009
Free programs such as Linux first in software that runs personal computers. Linux has gradually gained enough acceptance that government agencies and even some corporations are willing to try such programs for some of their most important tasks: applications that run billing, payroll and purchasing ... Like the Linux open-source operating system, created in Helsinki, Pinckaers seven-year-old Tiny may build influence from a headquarters far from Silicon Valley. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Macs a growing target for malware: Sophos Oct 30, 2009
Any operating system be it OS X, Windows or Linux can fall prey to this kind of attack, because the only filter is the stupidity of the end user. Re: the article linked by Mike. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
