2005 February

Thinking of moving to Linspire, but want to have an opportunity to really take a look under the hood before making the purchase? Well, since Linspire does not offer any sort of trialware that I am aware of, you are pretty much stuck with screenshots. While they are a poor substitute for the freely available [...]

If you are looking to get all of your Podcasts in some kind of order, you are going to need a good iPodder type of software to do this. For Linux users, the best choice at this point is jPodder. While I have yet to try it myself. I am going to be looking into [...]

Much like a real life puppy, Puppy Linux is small and yet, happens to be quite full featured. DistroWatch is boasting all of its other great features other than its size. Speaking for myself, I like the mascot the best! He is so cute!

The life of Open Source projects are not all fun and games. Often times, there is a feeling that you are loosing something when you finally have to let go. Still, these projects get to go out into the world and help others. Who could ask for anything more?

The Open Source community is offering a branch of peace to those who would wish it to be banished from the face of the Earth. As nice of a thought as this may be, to me it seems a little naive. Then again, maybe I am wrong.

With the amazing shortage of articles showing how one would get their Gnomemeeting configured to ‘actually work’, this information is definitely very welcomed. From what I am reading here though, it appears that this program is a lot more than just a run of the mill video-conferencing client.

Fixed-line telephony operator KT Corp. will align with U.S. software maker Novell Inc. to market open-source solutions for corporate customers, the company said yesterday.

The evaluation in compliance with the security specifications Common Criteria Assurance Level 4+ (CC EAL4+) of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (SLES 9) on IBM eServer, as the first Linux system to be so evaluated, has been completed successfully. atsec, the company that undertook the evaluation, called attention to the fact that this was the [...]

Opinion: For years, Wine’s programmers have been working on making Windows applications run on Linux and other Unix platforms. Now, Microsoft set to use its Genuine Advantage program to make it look like Wine is busted. Will Redmond get away with this familiar FUD attack?

I was recently assigned the task of converting a system running Windows XP to dual-boot Windows and Linux. The user needed to run Windows most of the time, but occasionally needed to boot Linux to run special applications. The one overriding requirement was to change the existing Windows setup as little as possible. In this [...]

Sometimes speaking your mind pays off. As I reported a few weeks ago, Intuit was blocking users of Linux from accessing their Turbo Tax for the Web product. Many users (myself included) discovered that if we were to spoof IE 6 for Windows in our browsers we were able to file our tax information with [...]

Yes, I actually have heard that Red Hat sort of ‘got out of step’ with a number of desktop Linux lovers as a lot of their energy went into their server products. To be honest, I see no point in blaming anyone as this sort of thing can happen with any company. But as News.com [...]

Personally, I have never been a user of Crossover Office. The limited number of applications it supports just doesn’t justify the cost to me. As I first tried Win4Lin, I was blown away at how fast it was. Granted, I am running a gig of RAM. But still, this has been a life saver for [...]

Good thing this study was not ’slanted’ at all! Ya, apparently Linux servers are not as secure as Windows servers. OK, this would be fine until you look at the amazing amount of crap that can take down a ’secured’ Windows server in a hurry. Look, if this is really the case and Windows servers [...]

Right off the bat I would like to say something. If I buy a legal copy of Windows 98 and want to use Win4Lin or whatever to make sure I have access to Windows only programs within my Linux desktop, that is my business. As I read this article about Microsoft saying they that are [...]

Let’s face it. Sometimes putting out those old computers out to pasture just seems a little too permanent. One option is looking at ‘light weight’ Linux distros that you can run on these systems, thus breathing new life into a tired old computer. Finding the right windows manager for this environment can be a tough [...]

Yes, even our beloved Linux has it’s flaws. According to The Inquirer, the 2.6 kernel has four different flaws that certainly need some attention. While I have seen no evidence of a fix for some of the flaws, but the first and second have been fixed.

Win4Lin, Inc., a leading supplier of virtual operating systems on Linux, today announced the release of their Win4Lin Pro(TM) product which runs Windows 2000 and Windows XP applications on Linux. Win4Lin Pro becomes the flagship of the company’s Win4Lin product family, which also includes Win4Lin 9X(TM), Win4Lin Terminal Server(TM) and Win4Lin(TM) Home. Win4Lin, Inc. [...]

Productivity, security and stability are at the core of the latest version of Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux. I tested the Release Candidate model of RHEL 4 in our Green Bay, Wis., Real-World Labs® and our NWC Inc. business applications labs, and verified the soundness of some of its new features.

Most people think of web services, and more specifically SOAP, as being either Java- or .NET-centric. Although these two technologies are the most commonly used, they are by no means the only ones in existence. Language bindings exist for Python, PHP and a host of other languages, including C/C++ (from now on referred to as [...]