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Wednesday, October 1, 2008 12:19:20 PM EST
Linux as a Hypervisor
"Virtualization" is the hot buzzword these days, but it's a term that covers a lot of ground and lots of different approaches. Linux kernel expert Andrea Arcangeli explains why the Linux kernel is a perfect candidate as the foundation for virtualization.
Monday, July 21, 2008 01:29:06 PM EST
Virtualizing the Embedded World: Vista Over Linux in a Cell Phone?
While you probably won't run Vista as a virtual machine on your cell phone, there are many viable use cases of virtualization for embedded applications. The most simplest, cheapest, feature rich is using Linux and KVM. KVM developer Dor Laor walks through the advantages of this embedded combination.
Monday, June 9, 2008 01:11:20 PM EST
Reflections on Open Source Commerce, Part 2
Linux on the desktop has yet to gain any real market presence. Despite the unrest over Microsoft Windows Vista, the companies that focus on Linux as a business have yet to deliver a go-to-market proposition that is compelling for the consumer, for the retailer, distributors, and original equipment manufacturers. Author John Terpstra continues his look at the challenges facing the desktop and server markets, with a close examination of current market dynamics.
Friday, May 16, 2008 09:39:23 AM EST
Reflections on Open Source Commerce, Part 1
It has been more than two years since the Yin and Yang article was published on LinuxPlanet. Now, open source expert and author John Terpstra revisits the state of the Linux desktop and server in today's market and highlights the challenges Linux faces to succeed.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 09:58:56 AM EST
Connecting With ISPhone
With open source and proprietary parts, an industry veteran has built a competitive product that offers advantages to even the smallest ISP.
Monday, May 12, 2008 10:12:23 AM EST
Benchmarking Linux With the Phoronix Test Suite
The Phoronix Test Suite is for testing hardware performance under Linux. It's still very young and incomplete, but it's worth getting acquainted with--it is based on the the scripts developed by the fine folks at Phoronix for hardware testing.
Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:29:29 AM EST
Force.com: Salesforce Moves into the Platform Business
One of the more interesting technologies I've been exposed to in the past year is the Force.com platform. Salesforce.com, well known for their Software as a Service CRM product, has taken the expertise they've garnered delivering a high-capacity application to a global market, and used it to offer the underlying infrastructure to application developers.
Monday, April 21, 2008 11:02:25 AM EST
Fie on Photoshop: Krita, the Real Photoshop Killer
Krita isn't really going to kill anything or anyone. What it will do is meet most of the needs of users who want a modern, sophisticated native paint and image-editing application for Linux. It was designed from the ground up for graphics professionals.
Thursday, February 7, 2008 01:10:34 PM EST
Building a New KDE
How do you produce a major update of a popular desktop for GNU/Linux? Following the January 11 release of KDE 4.0, Bruce Byfield sat down with KDE and discussed the new and improved elements of KDE, and what it took to get them there.
Thursday, January 31, 2008 02:45:30 PM EST
The Gobuntu Mission Examined
There's disagreement about whether Gobuntu lives up to its goal as the "strictest possible interpretation of the Free Software Foundation's 'Four Freedoms'."
Monday, November 12, 2007 12:10:26 PM EST
SourceForge: An Open Source Tale
SourceForge.net, through good times and bad, has established itself as the core outpost of open source development on the Web. A look inside one of the open source community's strongest assets.
Monday, October 22, 2007 02:09:06 PM EST
Desktop Stats: Linux Behind, But Moving Forward
The competition for market share between the leading desktop OSes, Windows, Mac and Linux, has seen no major revolution this year. But based on data from Net Applications, there have been subtle changes that suggest major shifts in the years ahead.
Friday, October 12, 2007 05:01:47 PM EST
Hardware Can Be Open, Too
With open source software becoming a household name, another open source movement that may one day see some fanfare is already taking shape. Open source hardware, which I once thought to be little more than a pipe dream left over from a bygone era, is proving to be a dream that it is very much alive and growing.
Thursday, September 20, 2007 02:52:49 PM EST
Linux Job Market Trends On the Move
Since the beginning of the year, Linux job postings have been growing at a torrid pace. Find out which jobs are growing fastest in this report from James Maguire.
Thursday, September 6, 2007 10:37:26 AM EST
SugarCRM 5 Pulling Against Closed Source CRM
The multi-billion-dollar market for CRM software is hotly contested by closed source vendors like SAP, Oracle and Salesforce.com among others, all of whom spend tens of millions of dollars marketing their wares. Can open source compete?
Tuesday, September 4, 2007 12:22:43 PM EST
Moving Closer to 802.11n
The Linux kernel's wireless networking has received a welcome overhaul, but 802.11n drivers are still in their early stages.
Monday, August 27, 2007 11:19:59 AM EST
Indiana's Calling, Is Anyone Listening?
Telling the story of Project Indiana is not an easy one. Headlines like "Sun hopes for Linux-like Solaris" or "Sun OpenSolaris to become more 'Linux-like'" have published, accompanying similarly themed articles. The problem is, this assertion is not quite on the mark. LinuxPlanet talked with several members of Sun's OpenSolaris team to discern just what the deal is.
Friday, July 27, 2007 01:41:24 PM EST
Bring Order to Your Open Source
There's probably more open source in your organization than you think, which makes it critical to put some governance standards in place.
Thursday, July 5, 2007 01:39:34 PM EST
Snort: IDS Done Well (and Good)
Open source IDS Snort went from a weekend hobby to a multi-million dollar best of breed industry leader.
Monday, July 2, 2007 11:31:58 AM EST
QuickBooks and Linux: A Server Story
For a lot of small-to-medium-sized business, the holdout has been Quickbooks Enterprise Solutions. Despite its "Enterprise" name, Intuit has aimed the product at businesses ranging from 50 to 250 people. For many businesses, this accounting server is now the de facto standard for financial organization, but it has been available only for Windows. But no longer--now you can buy Quickbooks Enterprise Solutions for Linux. Well, with limits.
Thursday, June 28, 2007 11:39:18 AM EST
Measuring Linux and Open Source
As Linux continues to move into the enterprise data center, its power and speed are often touted as being stronger and faster compared to other operating systems. But how much faster? And what numbers are used to determine its performance? One decades-old organization has already explored the paths of computer measurement, and is hoping to lend Linux the benefits of the trails it has already blazed.
Monday, June 25, 2007 10:05:46 AM EST
Learn Your Linux Clustering Options
"Cluster" is probably the most heavily abused term in the computing world. In this article we'll talk about what a cluster really is, and give an overview of the Linux technologies that can help you implement various types of clusters. The main focus will of course be on building clusters for highly available services
Tuesday, May 29, 2007 08:32:46 AM EST
Linux Kernel Launches Hardware Management Features
The 2.6 Linux kernel has been one amazing roller-coaster ride of excellent new features and changes coming faster than you can say "git along now, little patchies." Hardware detection and management, and removable media management are probably the most obvious changes to users.
Monday, May 7, 2007 10:27:42 AM EST
MontaVista 5.0 Aims To Drive Embedded Linux Development
With a major revampment of MontaVista Linux Professional Edition, MontaVista Software hopes to spur development of more embedded Linux systems in handheld PDAs, smart phones, telecom equipment, and all manner of other devices.
Thursday, April 12, 2007 09:57:14 AM EST
GPLv3 Draft Comment Phase Begins
Now that the third draft of GNU Public License (GPL) version 3 is out the door, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) will be "actively" seeking out comments from the open source community--and officials expect to get particularly strong response around provisions involving the Novell/Microsoft deal and so-called "Tivo-ization" in embedded devices.
Monday, April 2, 2007 07:39:56 AM EST
A New Dawn Rising For Open Documents?
With the filing of a new bill in Oregon, five US states have now taken legislative action around adopting open documents. Still, government agencies in the US lag way behind those in Europe in moving beyond Windows lock-in.
Friday, March 30, 2007 06:35:47 PM EST
San Francisco Turns To Open Source For Mapping Urban Forest
How can open source software be harnessed to help solve environmental issues? The City of San Francisco is now starting to find that out, by turning to MapGuide Open Source software for use in its "urban forest" initiative.
Friday, March 30, 2007 10:03:46 AM EST
Novell BrainShare 2007 Preview
When Novell's BrainShare users' show opens its doors this Sunday, Microsoft will be on hand for the first time ever. With and without this controversial, recently minted partner, Novell will issue announcements around SUSE Linux in areas that include products, training, and new customer wins, say company sources.
Friday, March 16, 2007 10:35:17 PM EST
Symantec Takes On Virtualization Management Across Environments
With its announcements this week around virtualization and Red Hat Linux, Symantec is moving beyond a past strategy of providing tools for multiple OS to a new vision of managing multiple virtualization environments. In this emerging area of heterogenuous virtualization management, Symantec is also bound to face plenty of competition from companies ranging from Microsoft to VMware and XenSource. But Symantec is well up to the challenge, according to some analysts who are deeply steeped in virtualization technologies.
Thursday, March 15, 2007 03:32:00 PM EST
Upstart Plans to Ease Linux Management
Ubuntu has an interesting project called Upstart, which is a replacement for the traditional Unix init system. The goals of Upstart are ambitious: to modernize and streamline the boot process, control user tasks, and manage services. Carla Schroder examines how this new project will work.
Thursday, March 8, 2007 10:15:16 AM EST
Tresys Nails 'Hardened Security' With Brickwall & Upcoming Razor
After releasing Brickwall Security Suite in January, open source security specialist Tresys Technology is forging ahead on a user symposium slated for March, plus work with IBM around Razor, its second commercial product for smoothing implementation of the SELinux "hardened security" now included in the Linux kernel.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007 09:07:36 PM EST
Openbravo's ERP Draws International Cheers
With open-source ERP deployments now starting to take more hold, Spanish-based Openbravo is quickly gaining international penetration, garnering as many as 20,000 downloads a month of its Web-based software from all over the world.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007 01:31:45 PM EST
The State of Enterprise Linux
For more than 20 years, Unix played the role of the 800 pound gorilla in the server space, especially in enterprise, scientific, government and academic environments. But traditional Unix vendors have faced increasing competition on two fronts. Microsoft Windows Server products have made significant inroads, particularly in the business back-end. To a lesser extent, but cutting closer to the bone, is competition from Linux.
Monday, February 5, 2007 11:22:42 AM EST
Other Markets Might 'Terrify' Microsoft, But Not The Legal Space
Although Linux might be making big inroads in some vertical markets, Microsoft Windows keeps enjoying virtually complete domination of the legal software space, with the small exception of some embedded appliances, concurred participants in this week's LegalTech show in New York City.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007 08:08:55 PM EST
Zimbra Pursues Microsoft, Novell With Revamped Software, Red Hat Pact
Open source-based messaging and collaboration specialist Zimbra is picking up more steam in its bid to compete against Microsoft Exchange and Novell GroupWare, with the release of Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) 4.5 today and intentions to roll out a 5.0 update--plus an expanded deal with Red Hat Software--later this year.
Monday, January 29, 2007 09:49:41 AM EST
Linux Dodges Microsoft In Retail Vertical Space
In the face of a big vertical marketing blitz by Microsoft, keenly evident at last week's National Retail Federation (NRF) show, several retailers in the "household name" category keep forging ahead with Linux implementations of their internal computer systems anyway. Jacqueline Emigh reports.
Wednesday, January 24, 2007 11:01:18 AM EST
Virtualization Gets A Grip In 2006
When it comes to Linux servers, a few months can make a whole lot of difference. Earlier this year, Red Hat, Novell, and most major Linux vendors were doing their best to fend off Windows Virtualized Server by getting their own virtualization offerings out the door first. Jacqueline Emigh concludes this three-part series on Linux in 2006.
Sunday, December 31, 2006 09:53:34 PM EST
Enterprise Linux 2006--A Year Of Deals
In the enterprise Linux space, 2006 was marked by greater expansion of Linux into vertical markets, new products, and most notably, a string of surprise business deals among vendors. The year also bore witness to an increasing trend, of sorts, among Novell, Oracle, and other software companies to justify their actions on the basis of "customer demand." Jacqueline Emigh reports
Saturday, December 30, 2006 09:11:10 PM EST
Desktop Linux--What Happened, And What Didn't, In 2006
Mozilla, Adobe, and Novell made some major news in desktop Linux this year, and smaller developers introduced interesting innovations. But on the whole, 2006 was just about as memorable for what didn't happen on the Linux desktop as what did happen, with interoperability issues of various sorts playing big roles on both sides of that stage.
Tuesday, December 26, 2006 12:57:05 PM EST
Is Linux Ready for Small Business?
Many small businesses have avoided Linux for a variety of reasons: not enough applications, complexity of installation or that it requires too much technical know-how to run. The technology has matured over many years, which raises the question: how valid are these considerations today? Drew Robb reports.
Thursday, December 21, 2006 01:38:47 PM EST
Heading Beyond Wall Street--HP's Linux-Enabled Blade Workstation
Hewlett-Packard is eyeing additional markets for a new Linux-enabled remote blade workstation solution, already in use at Lloyds TSB and several other big financial trading firms. Jacqueline Emigh gets the low-down on a groundbreaking product line HP is introducing in the financial sector.
Monday, December 11, 2006 03:16:29 PM EST
Open Source Is More Than Software Alone
Open source development is influencing phenomena far beyond software, including manufacturing processes, classroom teaching, and the types of media now emerging online, said CollabNet CTO Brian Behlendorf, best-selling author Thomas L. Friedman, and other members of a panel of business and technology visionaries.
Thursday, November 30, 2006 10:17:19 PM EST
Hovsepian: Balancing on the Novell-MS Tightrope
A lot has been said about the hows of the Novell-Microsoft deal, but what about the whys? What motivated Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian to initiate a deal with Linux's No. 1 Enemy? In this interview, Hovsepian reveals the business realities behind the move, and that when it comes to Microsoft, Novell knows full well who it's dealing with.
Thursday, November 30, 2006 02:17:09 PM EST
GL Studio Puts Simulators On The Desktop
In the latest multi-million dollar training simulators, pilots get to shoot the bad guys out of the virtual sky, while infantry men practice driving their vehicles over virtual desert terrain. Today's sophisticated virtual trainers immerse the soldier in ever more realistic combat situations.
Monday, November 27, 2006 09:58:19 AM EST
SCALE Readies 'Non-Commercial' Open Source Conference
Despite the proliferation of LinuxWorld and other commercial open source shows, several regional Linux organizations continue to hold their own conferences and expos. Jacqueline Emigh highlights one such conference, the popular and growing SCALE 5X show in Los Angeles.
Monday, November 20, 2006 09:07:03 AM EST
CentOS: Oracle Linux Doesn't Measure Up
Oracle's plans for its own Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) product, announced last week, follow on the heels of Red Hat derivatives put together by dozens of open source projects, including CentOS, Pie Box, and Startcom Linux. But this week, members of the influential CentOS community voiced strong pessimism over Oracle Linux.
Thursday, November 2, 2006 02:50:56 PM EST
New Linux Security Products Glimmer On Horizon
Beyond displaying an extensive slate of existing Linux products, vendors at this week's InfoSecurity show pointed to possible future offerings ranging from a Linux client for a CD-ROM encryption system to a Linux-enabled all-in-one device for securing both physical access and video surveillance.
Friday, October 27, 2006 10:09:34 AM EST
FSG Launches Tools, LSB Developers Network With Linux Apps in Mind
To help spur the creation of a lot more applications for Linux, the Free Standards Group and technical publishing firm O'Reilly Media have launched the Linux Standard Base Developer Network (LDN), a developer's network loosely modeled after the Microsoft Developer Network.
Monday, October 23, 2006 03:34:52 PM EST
Tux Barada Nikto?
They may not be trying to take over the world, but robotic science is coming right along. Given its flexibility and low to no license fees, Linux is more and more the operating system of choice as Jacqueline Emigh discovered in Wired NextFest's "Robot Row."
Thursday, October 19, 2006 10:56:27 AM EST
At Intel's Request, Glide Online Suite To Get Linux Client, Back End
Under urging from Intel Corp., TransMedia's Glide online applications suite--an emerging competitor to Microsoft Office--will gain a Linux desktop client in January of next year plus a Linux version of its back-end infrastructure during the March 2007 timeframe. Jacqueline Emigh reports.
Monday, October 16, 2006 03:07:35 PM EST
Bugzilla Makes Big Trucks Better
Adapting the popular Open Source Bugzilla framework proved a great way to track the Komatsu manufacturing process. Rob Reilly files this report on a unique solution to a long-standing problem.
Monday, October 9, 2006 10:19:18 AM EST
Open Source BI Broadens Out in Myriad Directions
With business intelligence (BI) heading more widely into Linux these days, vendors are adding more open source componentry in a variety of places, much to the glee of users ranging from financial services firm Tradewinds to health care IT specialist Nequalsone. Jacqueline Emigh reports.
Thursday, September 28, 2006 01:43:55 PM EST
Open Sourcer Qlusters Launches Commercial Sys Management
Today, open source player Qlusters will roll out the first commercial edition of its multiplatform systems management architecture, aiming its new OpenQRM Pro product at SMB and enterprise customers that don't want to pay the heftier prices of existing offerings from IBM, HP, and BMC.
Monday, September 25, 2006 10:13:51 AM EST
Software Compliance Gets Easier to Manage
Software license compliance is not one of those issues that just leaps out and screams for assistance, but if you are running a software development shop with multiple projects with multiple developers on each project, license compliance is a very serious issue to contemplate indeed.
Monday, September 25, 2006 09:34:00 AM EST
Interop: More Net Management Products Move to Linux
Citing a rise in customer demand for Linux, companies at this week's Interop show demo'd new Linux-enabled products running the gamut from multifunctional management appliances to specialized software for combatting viruses and administering UPS power devices. Jacqueline Emigh reports.
Friday, September 22, 2006 09:49:42 AM EST
Serving Non-Profits: A Case Study
The challenges of deploying open source in a non-profit environment are real, but not insurmountable. One Georgia business makes a living deploying IT solutions to K-12 schools, and reveals how they have been successful using open source to do it.
Thursday, September 14, 2006 09:54:45 AM EST
The Challenges of Open Source in Non-Profits
Open source seems to present a number of obstacles to those making technical purchasing decisions in those businesses that are classified non-profit. The interesting facet of this discussion, however, is that the same business needs exist in not-for-profit institutions as it does in for-profit ones. At the end of the day, each organization has to have money in the bank to conduct its affairs. Ian Hodge files his debut report for LinuxPlanet.
Monday, September 11, 2006 11:44:26 AM EST
BI Vendors Get Smart Around Linux, Open Source
As Linux steps beyond the limits of technical applications, business intelligence (BI) is one area that's leading the way. In a rash of recent BI announcements at LinuxWorld and elsewhere, many vendors are developing new business models, while consciously giving customers a choice between Linux and other operating systems--and in some cases, between commercial and open source implementations, too.
Thursday, August 31, 2006 03:21:59 PM EST
GroundWork to Break New Net Management Ground at Interop
When the Interop trade show unfolds in New York next month, its underlying network infrastructure will be managed and monitored by GroundWork Monitor 7, a new edition of a Linux-based software offering that mixes open source tools with unabashedly proprietary middleware.
Wednesday, August 30, 2006 02:01:09 PM EST
Must-Haves For The Linux Road Warrior
Network-centric services are connecting users to some truly valuable data. For the price of a computer, a network connection, and a browser, you can find information on just about anything, from anywhere on the planet. Rob Reilly takes time from his travels to demo two valuable road warrior tools.
Monday, August 21, 2006 10:12:31 AM EST
IBM's Lotus Sametime Heads for Linux, Voice Messaging
On Monday at LinuxWorld, IBM announced the first Linux desktop client for its Lotus Sametime instant messaging (IM) and collaboration platform, along with plans to add voice messaging to Sametime. Jacqueline Emigh reports.
Monday, August 14, 2006 04:25:05 PM EST
LinuxWorld Analysts Cite Hottest Open Source Trends
What are some of the hottest trends in the Linux/open source market today? Avid activity among some resellers, abundant virtualization, and a growing tendency to mixed open source/proprietary deployments, according to a trio of top industry analysts, who helped to preview LinuxWorld San Francisco.
Wednesday, August 9, 2006 02:58:27 PM EST
Big Blue Gets Cool
With its new round of "Cool Blue" PC servers, rolled out last week, IBM is starting to push HPC (high-performance computing) beyond the scientific-technical niche and into the mainstream, particularly among SMBs (small to mid-sized businesses). Jacqueline Emigh reports.
Monday, August 7, 2006 02:42:57 PM EST
Finding the Open Source Tipping Point
When open source developers gather on a panel to discuss whether "all software will go open source," you can expect the sentiment to tip that way, only with lots of arguments. A recent AlwaysOn Innovation Summit planel explored this very question and others.
Thursday, August 3, 2006 10:42:49 AM EST
Defense Department Marches Towards Open Source
In a new initiative to spur more use of open source software within the US Defense Department, the department's Office of Advanced Systems and Concepts has begun teaming up with Red Hat, Novell, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and AMD--along with big systems integrators and "non-traditional" open source companies--to glean insights that will help shorten the learning curve to deployment. Jacqueline Emigh reports
Monday, July 31, 2006 03:34:26 PM EST
LinuxWorld Reshuffles Its Trade Show & Conference Deck
With LinuxWorld San Francisco 2006 just around the corner, curiosity is hovering in the air over IDG's plans for future Linux and open source events. What's the bottom line on this subject from IDG's VP of LinuxWorld, Melinda Kendall? Jacqueline Emigh files this preview of the next big Linux show.
Friday, July 28, 2006 04:53:20 PM EST
This is Red Hat Calling
Linux leader Red Hat is aggressively pushing its Linux solutions into the telecom space with a series of new partner initiatives. Sean Michael Kerner examines Red Hat's new incursions into the world of telecommunications.
Monday, July 24, 2006 03:06:06 PM EST
Securing Your Asterisk Server, Part 1
If you're using Asterisk for your voice over IP needs, you'll need to lock down your Asterisk server, and that begins with secure passwords.
Tuesday, July 18, 2006 02:53:36 PM EST
A New Router, a New Direction for a Router Maker
Using open source software, a rational license policy, and modular hardware, this router company is challenging the marketplace with lower prices and all the features, carving out a cost conscious niche for itself.
Thursday, July 13, 2006 10:01:08 AM EST
Linux Vendors Try To Beat Microsoft To Widespread Virtualization
With Microsoft trying to ramp up its Windows Virtual Server for release next year, Red Hat, Novell, Xandros, and other Linux vendors are pulling out the stops toward virtualization in hopes that Linux might start to beat Windows as the base operating system of choice among enterprises and small businesses.
Tuesday, July 11, 2006 09:58:04 AM EST
Embedded Linux--Rising or Falling in Consumer Devices?
Is the use of embedded Linux rising upward or dwindling downward? Some recent research tends to point in one direction, and some in the other. So to shed just a little more light on this question, Jacqueline Emigh tries a different litmus tests.
Tuesday, June 27, 2006 10:40:01 AM EST
You Need a Corporate Open Source Policy
As organizations bring more and more open source software into their IT environments, they are beginning to realize the need for more control. Decisions about whether or not to incorporate open source into their operations involve complex issues that go beyond the technology. Open source expert Maria Winslow outlines what companies need to properly implement and take advantage of open source.
Monday, June 26, 2006 09:47:27 AM EST
Linux Gains Ground in Wall Street Nooks, Crannies
Behind the scenes on Wall Street, who is really using Linux? Although developers remain the major practitioners, Linux is also making headway these days as a grid platform for transaction processing, a place for running algorithmic trading engines, and even as a desktop environment, according to participants in this week's SIA (Securities Industry Association) conference in New York City. Jacqueline Emigh reports.
Friday, June 23, 2006 02:20:50 PM EST
Computing for a Cure
Silver anniversaries are normally joyous occasions, but not this one. June 5, 2005 marked the 25th anniversary of the discovery of AIDS. Amid the calls for greater awareness and increased funding was recognition that, from a medical viewpoint, billions of dollars spent on research had produced little progress in recent years. Find out how Linux is part of the fight to cure this disease once and for all.
Wednesday, June 21, 2006 01:41:47 PM EST
Novell's Desktop Advances
At LinuxWorld Canada 2006, Dee-Ann LeBlanc sat down with Ross Chevalier, Chief Technology Officer of Novell Canada, Ltd, who wanted to talk about why 2006 is finally the year of Linux on the desktop. Or, more precisely, "The Year of Adoption for an Enterprise Linux Desktop."
Friday, June 16, 2006 02:45:30 PM EST
FreedomHEC Unconference Fosters Linux Device Support
Although quickly convened, last month's first-time FreedomHEC event brought together hardware makers and driver developers in ways that could help boost device connectivity for Linux. Jacqueline Emigh gets a post-show debrief from conference organizer Don Marti.
Friday, June 9, 2006 04:32:11 PM EST
Dojo The Mojo For IBM's AJAX Push
IBM has announced it is partnering with the Open Source Dojo Foundation in an effort to help further AJAX development. As part of its involvement, IBM is open sourcing code to help the Dojo toolkit improve its accessibility, internationalization and data model.
Friday, June 9, 2006 01:00:31 PM EST
My Penguin, The Doctor
Many people in the Linux community know that its an operating system built to handle the most mission-critical of jobs. In fact, Linux is so stable, it can handle the most mission-critical job of all: managing the human heart. Rob Reilly reports.
Thursday, June 8, 2006 10:33:34 AM EST
Open Source a Judgment Standard
Open Source is changing the way that Gartner Group measures the application development market. The big loser as a result may well be proprietary Java application development tools, according to this Sean Michael Kerner report.
Thursday, June 1, 2006 11:41:11 AM EST
Zenoss--Open Source Systems Management for SMBs
Eyeing systems management as the next big market to "go open source," Zenoss, Inc. is now trying to give mid-sized customers another alternative beyond the two main choices available so far: massive suites from the "Big Four" giants or a mishmash of specialized point solutions. Jacqueline Emigh reports.
Wednesday, May 31, 2006 03:09:07 PM EST
Linux Computing at MIT
It is the institution that is arguably the home of free software, as well as so many other important technologies. So it comes as no surprise that the IT infrastructure at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology depends on Linux. Rob Reilly takes a tourist's look at the nuts and bolts of MIT information systems.
Tuesday, May 30, 2006 09:06:26 AM EST
New OpenClovis Project Builds Communication Systems
Formerly known as Clovis Solutions, Inc., OpenClovis has announced it has launched the OpenClovis Software Project, contributing more than 500,000 lines of carrier-grade application service code to developers under the GNU General Public License. Rob Reilly reports on how the carrier-grade industry will be affected by the onset of more open source technology.
Monday, May 15, 2006 01:40:56 PM EST
Unitrends Adds Linux Hot Snapshotting To Appliance-Based Rapid Recovery
Servers crash. Hard drives die. Users delete files they want back. OS patches don't work. It's possible to recover... if you've got the right files, the right spare hardware, enough time, and enough knowledge. Daniel P. Dern reports on one new product that uses Linux to provide rapid, bare-metal recovery in a snap.
Thursday, April 27, 2006 09:24:02 AM EST
Linux Rising in Financial Firms; But Some Users Wonder Why
Among early adopters of Linux, Wall Street looms as tall as its skycrapers. But why are some financial services firms starting to take giant steps into Linux, and what stands in the way of even bigger penetration? Jacqueline Emigh files this report from this week's Linux on Wall Street show in New York City.
Thursday, April 27, 2006 09:15:14 AM EST
Novell Chips Away at Microsoft's Desktop Dominance
In an effort to break some of Microsoft's stranglehold on the desktop, Novell is taking new steps in the product and pricing arenas to attract customers who want to move either gradually or quickly to Linux. Jacqueline Emigh reports.
Monday, April 3, 2006 09:18:58 AM EST
The Mobile Linux Initiative at OSDL
On October 16, 2005, the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) announced the creation of a new initiative called the Mobile Linux Initiative (MLI) to focus on accelerating the adoption of Linux in the rapidly growing mobile market. The OSDL's Ibrahim Haddad files this report on the progress of MLI.
Sunday, April 2, 2006 02:54:46 PM EST
New SUSE Linux Features New Interface, More Mono Apps
While Novell conducts video-enabled usability tests of new GUIs, the company's partners are implementing Mono, a cross-platform development environment built into the new SUSE Linux 10, along with other tools to create applications and hardware drivers for current and future editions of Novell's Linux desktop. Jacqueline Emigh reports.
Friday, March 24, 2006 10:46:09 AM EST
OpenVZ Delivers Easy Virtualization
Understanding virtualization is not an easy thing to do. The concept of many virtual machines running on board a single physical machine sounds all well and good but to many, even in the IT field, the idea seems rather, well... virtual. Brian Proffitt reports on one open source approach to virtualization that is getting a lot of attention, including from Linux kernel developers.
Thursday, March 9, 2006 10:32:06 AM EST
Wall Street: Linux Gets a Lift from Web Services, Tech Support
Are Linux and open source implementations rising on Wall Street? "Yes," said participants in a financial services IT trade show held this week in New York City, who cited Web services and incremental improvements to tech support as two big drivers. Jacqueline Emigh reports.
Tuesday, February 28, 2006 10:37:36 PM EST
Collax Takes Appliance Approach to Push Linux into SMBs
In the early days of the Internet, a software appliance would have been called a "turnkey solution," so the idea is nothing new. But that hasn't stopped a number of Linux vendors from pushing their software appliance wares into the market, a move that is seeing some early signs of success. Brian Proffitt reports on one vendor that may have big things to offer SMBs
Friday, February 24, 2006 12:08:57 PM EST
Linux Rare at Legal Firms, Except for Security
In the increasingly Microsoft-dominated land of law firms, Linux deployments remain just about nil, but security appliances are starting to stand out as one exception, according to attorneys and IT folks attending LegalTech. Jacqueline Emigh files this report.
Friday, February 10, 2006 07:01:11 PM EST
IBM Rolls Out Blades for Virtual Desktops, Hollywood Movies
IBM and some of its customers are starting to test new "virtual desktop" solutions running atop Linux-, Unix-, and Windows-based blade servers, including three souped-up systems rolled out at an event in New York City this week. Meanwhile, all IBM blade servers, old and new, are now being outfitted with new Linux-enabled management controllers, regardless of which OS the servers running. Jacqueline Emigh reports.
Thursday, February 9, 2006 02:56:32 PM EST
Big Vendors Leap To More Linux In Retail Stores
Although Microsoft is becoming an increasingly formidable rival in the same space, IBM, Sun, Oracle, and many other vendors are now responding to renewed opportunities for Linux in department store environments, as retail chains like Circuit City, Pep Boys, and Urban Outfitters start to step to 100-percent Linux deployments on their store-level IT systems. Jacqueline Emigh reports from this year's National Retail Federation show.
Thursday, January 26, 2006 09:53:49 AM EST
Scali Manage 5 Offers to Tame Linux Cluster Proliferation
As Linux cluster use in the datacenter grows with each passing day, a unique problem has begun to develop, the kind of problem most people like to have: there seems to be just too many Linux clusters out there. Scali has released a new management application that promises to keep all of a company's clusters under control in one place.
Tuesday, January 24, 2006 09:32:33 AM EST
How Relevant is the Homeland Security Grant?
Three organizations--Stanford University, Coverity, and Symantec--recently received a Department of Homeland Security grant to assist open source projects in tightening their code with automated code-checking. The question is, will this help be welcome? LinuxPlanet speaks with Coverity's CTO and founder as well as Linus Torvalds to see just how useful Coverity's defect reports have been.
Monday, January 23, 2006 08:58:26 AM EST
Hardware Emulation and Old Games
Have you ever found yourself quoting something from a favorite old arcade game ("Elf needs food, badly!") and wondered whatever happened to that original experience? When caught in a nostalgic mood, it's a natural move these days to find out if you can revisit those old games again.
Monday, January 2, 2006 10:44:47 AM EST
Novell's New CTO/EVP Mulls 2006 Linux Strategy
Novell has a new CTO, a position that has gone unfilled for a while. In this article, Jacqueline Emigh finds out about Dr. Jeffery Jaffe and reports on what he is bringing to Novell--and what he thinks Novell will soon be bringing to the world.
Thursday, December 29, 2005 02:11:27 PM EST
Interop: Giants, Start-ups Examine Open Source
From giants such as Sun and Computer Associates to start-ups such as Sourcefire and GroundWorks, companies are now stepping in to the open source market from a variety of directions and perspectives, as evidenced at last week's Interop show in New York City. Jacqueline Emigh reports.
Wednesday, December 21, 2005 11:25:23 AM EST
Knock Knock. Who's There? Mandriva
To say that Mandriva has been quiet on the Linux front lately might just qualify as an understatement. The Paris-based Linux distribution company has had a rough road these last couple of years, having pulled themselves out of redressement judiciaire (the French equivalent of Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US) in March 2004. But now the company is back with a vengeance, and is more than willing to discuss its past, present, and future. Brian Proffitt reports.
Thursday, December 15, 2005 10:39:26 AM EST
Sun Gives Red Hat, Novell Their Niagara Marching Orders
Sun Microsystems is "talking publicly" this week with both Red Hat and Novell SuSE about doing native ports of their respective Linux distributions to the high-powered and relatively low-priced RISC-based T1000 and T2000 Fire Servers rolled out in New York on Tuesday. Find out more about how the open source bug has bitten Sun in this report from Jacqueline Emigh.
Friday, December 9, 2005 01:15:18 PM EST
Verano--Improving Industrial Network Security
Verano is on a mission to safeguard industrial control networks... like manufacturing plants, waterworks, or electrical grids. They use a combination of hardware, proprietary and Open Source based software to head off threats, both internal and external to the protected network. Rob Reilly reports on the company's latest technology.
Monday, December 5, 2005 12:28:46 PM EST
Getting the Real Facts: How Industry Analyst Reports Can Trick Readers
Microsoft's "Get the Facts" advertising campaign makes the claim that Windows offers a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) than Linux, and backs it up with reports from well-known industry analyst firms. But Linux advocates claim that the TCO of Linux is lower, and some other studies back them up. How can you separate the fact from the fiction?
Monday, November 14, 2005 10:12:15 AM EST
Communicate with CommuniGate Pro 5.0
Do you need an Internet communications server solution that handles email, instant messaging, calendaring, and VoIP? Want it to run on Linux? CommuniGate Pro 5.0 could be the ticket. Rob Reilly examines the features of the latest flagship release from Stalker Software.
Thursday, November 10, 2005 10:27:22 AM EST
The Yin and Yang of Open Source Commerce, Part 4
"The bulk of Linux business opportunity is demonstrably in the SMB/SME marketplace, a market that is presently under-serviced by Linux companies. The nature of the market as a whole has been discussed, and in this concluding part of the series, the competitive situation is briefly mentioned so as to round out the argument that it is time for seriously profitable Linux business activity from businesses that know the rules for success..."
Friday, November 4, 2005 01:33:23 PM EST
The Yin and Yang of Open Source Commerce, Part 3
"Had Linux companies better focused their efforts on the SMB/SME market, the operating system market share picture would look far more rosy for Linux and OSS than it does today. There is some suggestion in what we have seen so far that Linux has performed well despite the efforts of the Linux vendors. It is as if the market has made a run for Linux, in spite of the lack of market presence by Linux vendors..."
Thursday, November 3, 2005 10:47:01 AM EST
The Yin and Yang of Open Source Commerce, Part 2
By targeting the enterprise markets, Linux vendors are going after big bucks. But have they completely ignored a much better market and, in so doing, slowed the overall commercial development of Linux? Part 2 of this special series examines where a better market opportunity may reside.
Wednesday, November 2, 2005 09:12:43 AM EST
NightStar Brings Commercial Development Tools to Linux
With the upcoming rollout of NightStar LX, Concurrent Computer Corp. is bringing tools first created for internal use to outside Linux application developers who are willing to turn to commercial products to get the capabilities they need.
Friday, October 28, 2005 05:31:08 PM EST
Google Displays Model OSS Citizenship
One of the hottest companies on the planet, it is a well-known fact that Google has relied on open source tools and technology to build itself. But how good of an open source citizen is Google? Based on its actions in 2005, the company's doing a pretty good job.
Wednesday, October 26, 2005 03:57:48 PM EST
Getting the Real Facts: How to Read an Analyst's Report
Microsoft's "Get the Facts" advertising campaign makes the claim that Windows offers a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) than Linux, and backs it up with reports from well-known analysts. But Linux advocates claim that the TCO of Linux is lower, and some other studies back them up. It's time to clear up the confusion, beginning with this introduction to a new LinuxPlanet series.
Thursday, October 13, 2005 11:00:45 AM EST
LinuxWorld UK Impresses With Depth
Last week's LinuxWorld UK may not have been the biggest Linux show around, but LinuxPlanet editor Martin C. Brown was more than a little impressed by the depth of the vendors and presentations there. Linux is still running strong in Europe and momentum couldn't be higher.
Monday, October 10, 2005 02:17:03 PM EST
Inside the Novell Linux Migration
It is open knowledge that Novell has been progressing towards migrating their own internal desktops and servers to a pure-Linux play. Details of this migration have been sketchy, but in a public presentation to attendees of Ohio LinuxFest, Novell specialists gave a rare look inside the ongoing move to Linux and laid out ideas for other companies to follow in their own migration plans.
Thursday, October 6, 2005 11:29:56 AM EST
Gaming Open Source
The enterprise is about open source. Open source is about the enterprise. Its business value is unrivaled. Okay, okay, we get that. But when you strip away all the efficiency models, the market-speak, and the TCO reports, what's fun about open source? Dee-Ann LeBlanc reports on the State of the Gaming Nation in Linux and open source today.
Monday, October 3, 2005 12:18:55 PM EST
What's Holding Up Linux on Wall Street?
Although the financial services industry has adopted Linux more slowly than first expected, Linux is now starting to hold more sway, even if often from behind the scenes, according to participants in this week's High Performance on Wall Street conference in New York City.
Thursday, September 29, 2005 04:21:08 PM EST
From Contributors to Customers: How Open Source Projects Turn Into Successful Businesses
Currently, over 100,000 registered open source projects are on SourceForge.net, and you've never heard of most of them. While the great majority of projects remain in obscurity, some have turned into successful businesses and made the transition to mainstream. Maria Winslow looks at some of the features of this new breed of business.
Monday, September 26, 2005 12:05:04 PM EST
Kaspersky: More Adoption Could Make Linux Attractive Target
Linux needs anti-virus? As malware writing gains more of a profit motive, according to one security exec, that improbable future may yet come to pass.
Tuesday, September 6, 2005 03:38:27 PM EST
Embedded Linux Takes Big Strides Forward
Embedded Linux is all about the small, the stable, and the fast. The latest release from embedded powerhouse MontaVista, MontaVista Linux Pro 4.0, promises all three in its quest to provide Linux-based computing for devices everywhere.
Friday, September 2, 2005 02:14:50 PM EST
Beautiful LinuxFest, In Ohio Again I See
If LinuxWorld Expo has become the place for the suits, and OSCON has become a developer's haven, then where does the average Linux user get to go? In the Midwest, one event that seems to be answering this need is the Ohio LinuxFest--an event that promises to meet the technical and social needs of the Linux user.
Thursday, September 1, 2005 11:33:32 AM EST
IBM Package Expand Grids on Linux (and Elsewhere)
"Grid computing is the domain of the enterprise-level business." Not anymore, thanks to a new on-demand grid service from IBM that puts Linux-powered grids in the hands of small- to medium-sized businesses.
Wednesday, August 31, 2005 04:18:15 PM EST
Now Here It Is, Your Moment of ZENWorks
Novell's recently released ZENWorks 7 adds some major new Linux functionality--but a long-term product redesign is also under way, and the first overhaul of Novell's multiplatform systems administration package could hit the streets as early as next year.
Monday, August 29, 2005 01:49:18 PM EST
Integration: Versora Readies Software for Gradual Migration
For companies looking at adopting Linux on the desktop, Versora is now readying a new edition of its Progression Desktop software, slated to offer new "transitional" capabilities geared to giving users a chance to make the move gradually.
Monday, August 22, 2005 03:41:50 PM EST
A PC For Every Citizen
Imagine a world where you can access your messages and files from any platform, anywhere. SimDesk Technologies is delivering on that idea, using open source and an upcoming Linux client to let anyone gain access to their data from any PC. And their customers aren't the enterprise... it's the citizens of Houston, Chicago, and yes, the State of Indiana.
Thursday, August 18, 2005 03:35:02 PM EST
Carrier Grade Linux: Adoption and Deployments
In this article, Ibrahim Haddad continues his detailed examination of Carrier Grade Linux, with an overview of CGL distributions, deployments, and some of the challenges ahead.
Thursday, July 14, 2005 12:04:22 PM EST
Managing Open Source Usage in Off-Shore, Outsourced Development: Best Practices
With the growth of outsourcing and off-shore staffing of software development projects, it has become common for companies to accept large blocks of source code into their corporate software repositories from development teams that they don't manage directly. If companies aren't managing these development teams directly, how can they be sure that the source code delivered to them is free of open source code that could potentially cause problems for them?
Thursday, June 30, 2005 12:18:36 PM EST
Carrier Grade Linux: Linux in Telecom
The Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) released the latest version of the Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) Requirements Definition--version 3.1 on June 2, 2005. CGL 3.1 is the successor to CGL 2.0 and 1.1, the earliest versions of CGL which have been broadly adopted by the industry. In this article, Ibrahim Haddad of the OSDL provides an overview of the state of Carrier Grade Linux.
Thursday, June 23, 2005 01:04:34 PM EST
Linux Goes Offroading
When most people think about mobile Linux, they're talking about laptops. When Paul Perrone, CEO of Perrone Robotics and CTO of Assured Technologies, talks about mobile Linux, he's talking about having Tux drive himself on a 175 road trip across the Nevada desert. James Turner reports.
Thursday, June 16, 2005 11:22:30 AM EST
OpenNMS: A Study in Deployment
"At one point we had three separate network monitoring systems, three separate performance management tools and a plethora different scripts, web pages and command line tools. We sent out critical alerts by email, pager, and SMS, often to completely inappropriate people. The company was growing, and it looked like it was beginning to need a grown-up systems management tool, but which one...?"
Thursday, June 2, 2005 12:15:45 PM EST
LinuxWorld Summit: Linux Replacing Other Enterprise OS
"Linux is rapidly replacing Unix, Windows, and old-style mainframes for mainstream enterprise use, despite lingering issues ranging from the availability of enterprise server applications to the quality of desktop Linux software, according to attendees at this week’s LinuxWorld Summit in New York City..."
Thursday, May 26, 2005 04:03:50 PM EST
LinuxMedNews.com--Just What the Doctor Ordered
Dr. Ignacio Valdes is celebrating five years on the Web with LinuxMedNews.com, a site that is devoted to Linux and open source software stories related to the medical community. Rob Reilly spoke with Valdes to find out how Valdes manages this site and why his such a big proponent of Linux.
Thursday, May 5, 2005 10:58:01 AM EST
Linux on the Desktop--Wide Deployment Soon?
Is Linux about to "make it big" on a lot more desktops worldwide? Executives from Novell and IBM expressed diametrically opposing opinions on this question, in a panel discussion at last week's "Linux on Wall Street" conference that also touched on the server and IP (intellectual property) sides of Linux. Jacqueline Emigh reports.
Thursday, April 28, 2005 11:08:21 AM EST
Behind the New Mandriva
Citing desires for both a "new identity" and an end to possible legal liability, Mandrakesoft changed its name to “Mandriva” last week, not long after announcing a merger with Conectiva and many details of a future product roadmap. Some members of the Linux community are unhappy about the changes, but Mandriva has plans to make the changes more palatable.
Monday, April 11, 2005 03:44:57 PM EST
OpenNMS Helps Keep Tabs On Networks
"OpenNMS is an open source package that has not only been successful as a tool to help network managers run their networks, but also as an example of how open source software can be leveraged to create a service business. The latter will be the focus of this article..."
Thursday, April 7, 2005 04:14:25 PM EST
WiFi PDA Meets Linux--Part 1
In this series we'll give tips and observations on using a current generation WiFi enabled PDA with Linux desktops and servers. The plan is to save you some research time by showing you what has worked for us, using a standard off-the-shelf PDA and a Linux-based operation.
Thursday, March 31, 2005 03:56:48 PM EST
Black Duck On Demand
Black Duck Software is rolling out an on-demand service that will help small companies establish their software compliance processes at a modest cost. This puts open source licensing analysis capabilities within reach of small software development shops, law firms involved in intellectual property litigation and venture capitalists doing due diligence.
Monday, March 28, 2005 09:31:27 AM EST
Tall Maple Fills a Tall Order
The presence of Linux-based appliances for IT is growing more and more. But the work to produce such devices has also kept growing, keeping potential appliance-based solutions off the market entirely. But one new company has a strong solution: develop most of the appliance platform ahead of time, leaving only the specialized code to the appliance maker.
Thursday, March 10, 2005 10:04:09 AM EST
The Debian Delay: Is Sarge MIA? Or Simply a POW of Process?
The latest release of Debian Linux, code named "Sarge" was supposed to report for duty at the end of last year. That didn't happen. Why has Sarge been delayed and ultimately does it matter? Debian developers and Debian's founding father talked to LinuxPlanet about Sarge's delay and its ultimate deployment.
Thursday, March 3, 2005 02:53:08 PM EST
Free Standards Group Has Goals in Sight
To say that the Linux Standard Base has a lot of confusion surrounding it could be a bit of an understatement. But that is the challenge Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Free Standards Group, has facing him these days.
Monday, February 14, 2005 12:02:55 AM EST
Desktop Linux Summit 2005: Interest Continues to Grow
Linux author and correspondent Dee-Ann LeBlanc made her way to the Third Annual Desktop Liux Summit and files her observations on how the show is going this year: "One thing's for sure. Not only is the Linux desktop itself growing, but so is interest in it..."
Friday, February 11, 2005 09:39:58 AM EST
Outblaze Kindles Own Linux Flame
There are companies out there who will never need to migrate to Linux. The joys and pitfalls of transition will be forever lost to them. That's because they've been using Linux from Day One. Outblaze, an e-mail and messaging provider that handles about five percent of the world's total e-mail traffic, is one such company.
Thursday, February 10, 2005 11:07:36 AM EST
OSDL Linux Summit--A Conference with Some Differences
At first glance, the upcoming OSDL (Open Source Development Lab) Linux Summit looks more or less like any other industry conference. But Summit organizers have something different in mind for this conference, which is soley aimed at promoting Linux adoption in the enterprise.
Thursday, December 30, 2004 09:39:45 AM EST
Veritas Storage Foundation Eases Pain of Data Migration
"Vendor X Ports Enterprise Widget App 5.0 to Linux! Nations Rejoice!", the headline might read. Or: "New Linux App To Bring World Peace." You've read the headlines. We've even written some of them. But in all this glorious talk about applications moving to Linux, what about all that data you have? How does that get over to Linux?
Thursday, December 2, 2004 08:00:40 AM EST
Unisys Makes Big Play for Linux in 2004
Unisys has not-so-quietly entered the Linux enterprise arena this year, after a rather cold relationship with the open source operating system. Now that the Blue Bell, PA-based company has come in from the cold, what Linux products and services will it now offer?
Monday, November 29, 2004 10:22:34 AM EST
Imprivata's OneSign Simplifies Password Management
"Imagine having separate login names and passwords for your desktop machine, email account, and the main application that you use for your job. At the same time, you might have a different user name/password combination for a web application or other programs. Then imagine, that all the systems you use enforce password aging, on different time schedules. In short order, the situation gets way out of hand..."
Monday, November 15, 2004 10:13:11 AM EST
New Project Hopes to Quell EU Open Source Patent Concerns
Borrowing a concept from a very popular open source site, Open Source Risk Management (OSRM) has launched a study today that's designed to assess whether current European laws regarding technology patents actually do what they're supposed to and protect true innovation rather than corporate interests.
Monday, November 8, 2004 09:46:45 AM EST
Switching to Linux is Getting Easier
Deciding to switch to Linux is one of the daunting questions every CIO must continually evaluate. Fortunately, the answer is getting simplier as Linux evolves into the enterprise-ready versions making their way onto the market today.
Monday, November 1, 2004 09:46:42 AM EST
Hang Time for Kernel Real Time
Earlier this month, MontaVista released a proposal to incorporate real-time processing directly in the Linux kernel. The proposal has been met with a decidedly mixed reception, even though MontaVista could stand to lose some business if it goes through.
Monday, October 25, 2004 02:59:51 PM EST
Network Intrusion Detection, Neighborhood Watch Style
Keeping an eye on the valuables stored away in your network is a tough job these days. Thugs and criminals are trying to jimmy your ports. Terrorists are lurking around your network neighborhood. And stealthy email spy-ware may already be in employee mailboxes, just waiting to silently ship secrets out to the cyber underworld.
Monday, October 11, 2004 12:35:29 PM EST
Linux Books--Then and Now
Want to read a good book? How about a good book on Linux? Rob Reilly files this report on the State of the Linux Publishing Market.
Monday, October 4, 2004 12:43:14 PM EST
OpenCountry To Update Cross-Distribution Linux Management
If you’re a Linux administrator, most of the tools available to you are either too limited in scope or overly big, complex, and expensive, according to OpenCountry CEO Michael Grove. Naturally, OpenCountry is offering its answer to this particular problem.
Thursday, September 30, 2004 11:12:24 PM EST
Oracle on Linux Gets One Firm Great E-Commerce Seats
As what is known as a "secondary ticketer," StubHub.com specializes in helping its customers to get good deals on sporting events, concerts, and live theater. But from the perspective of Shawn Kernes, VP of technology, StubHub itself is now getting great value out of running the company's Oracle database on Linux.
Wednesday, September 29, 2004 11:42:12 AM EST
DistributionWatch: Your Guide to Linux Distributions
The Linux universe is ever-expanding. See for yourself in LinuxPlanet's updated guide to Linux distributions, an ongoing project to become a handy reference to what distros work best for you. (Updated September 2004)
Monday, September 27, 2004 03:25:10 PM EST
Linux Writer Gets Ready For Disaster... Again
When disaster strikes, how does the home and small business computer owner recover? As Orlando-based Rob Reilly prepares for another potential encounter with a hurricane, he lists all the ways a system can be recovered... and protected.
Thursday, September 2, 2004 12:26:58 PM EST
3PAR Snapshots Your Data
Database managers and system administrators in charge of maintaining huge sets of files frequently feel the heat when data gets corrupted or a user decides that he didn't want to delete something. Administrators need effective ways to deal with these situations.
Thursday, August 26, 2004 11:59:08 AM EST
Students Create Linux Code For Real IBM Products
While some college students did little else but hit the beach, about 20 highly select computer science and MBA degree candidates interned with IBM this summer, creating Linux code along the way. Software developed through IBM’s “Extreme Blue” internship program will turn into real IBM applications for electrical utilities, financial risk management, and other industries.
Monday, August 16, 2004 02:39:18 PM EST
Linux Skills in High Demand as IT Jobs Pick Up
More employers are looking to hire people with Linux experience and skills than another skillsets, according to a new report. And that demand is expected to last another few years.
Thursday, August 12, 2004 10:44:14 AM EST
Emulex Connects To Linux
Emulex, with an installed base of 1.6 million host bus adapters, recently announced that drivers for their line of HBA boards would be supported in future updates of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9. Rob Reilly has the details within.
Monday, August 9, 2004 01:58:29 PM EST
Xandros To Roll Out Myriad Servers After Desktop Release
Xandros has seen a new version 2.5 launch of their desktop product, so will they rest on their laurels? It seems unlikely, since next week at LinuxWorld they plan plan to introduce their new Xandros Desktop Management Server. More on the company's plans to shake the Linux, er, world within.
Saturday, July 31, 2004 10:44:01 AM EST
Oracle Forges Further with Linux
Oracle's new 10g database on Linux continues the company's tally of record-breaking TPC-C benchmarks. Naturally, Oracle's pretty darned proud of their product. So what will Oracle do for an encore? Big hint: roll more products over to the Linux platform.
Thursday, July 22, 2004 03:30:19 PM EST
The Scoop on Gelato: Intel & Free Standards Group to Join
"The Gelato Federation, an industry consortium dedicated to advancing Itanium, is looking at adding about a dozen new member organizations by the end of this year, including Intel and the Free Standards Group. Meanwhile, in one of Gelato's open source projects, members are producing an IA-64 version of Eclipse..."
Thursday, July 15, 2004 03:17:30 PM EST
Zeroconf: A Net Admin's Work is Still Never Done
If you thought zeroconf would solve all your network configuration problems, you might want to hold on to your subnet calculator: The standard isn't soup, and configuration-free devices might make for a few too many chefs in your network kitchen.
Monday, July 12, 2004 12:22:46 PM EST
Clients Find The IDEAL Way
How do you make money with free and open source software? You get really good at implementing it for a variety of tough clients. Orlando-based IDEAL Technology Corp. is one such company, celebrating five years of Linux consultancy with clients such as the Army and the IEEE in their portfolio.
Thursday, July 8, 2004 11:37:51 AM EST
LinuxWorld 2004 San Francisco--A Preview from the Top
More business focus, with some technical information thrown in for good measure. That's the recipe for this summer's LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco, as show organizers try to cater to the ever-increasing interest in Linux for the enterprise crowd.
Wednesday, June 30, 2004 10:59:43 AM EST
Is Linux Desktop Better Than Windows?
Use of Linux by nonprofit organizations is nothing new. For one thing, the lower costs of Linux fit in well with limited budgets. Now, though, some end users at nonprofit organizations are choosing Linux for a completely different reason--namely, a better desktop experience than they've been getting from Windows.
Monday, June 28, 2004 04:25:15 PM EST
Verano's Industrial Defender Does Just That
So, what's keeping the bad guys out of the computer systems that run a huge metropolitan water works? Or, how would a plant manager know if someone had broken into his multi-megawatt power plant's network? What would happen if a virus got into their plant's networks and took out all of their MS boxes for a few hours? These are questions that security company Verano is answering with Linux-based technology.
Monday, June 21, 2004 11:17:28 AM EST
Large Plans for Linux at Marist College
You might not associate a small upstate New York college with penguins, but recently Marist College became host to one of three OSDL laboratories. This is a school, however, with even stronger ties to Linux and Open Source.
Thursday, June 17, 2004 10:10:16 AM EST
Can Linux Help Both Haves and Havenots?
How does Linux help IT companies make money, while at the same facilitating computer access among the world's "havenots"? In a special session at the CeBIT America, sponsored by the Business Council for the United Nations, representatives from IBM, Red Hat, Oracle and other organizations explored some manifestations of the paradoxical role played by Linux in today's global economy.
Monday, May 31, 2004 10:27:41 PM EST
Linux Criticism Revs Up
The Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt aimed at Linux is getting more prevalent everyday. Are we in the midst of a whisper campaign against the Penguin, or is this just the price Linux pays for success?
Thursday, May 20, 2004 11:28:09 AM EST
IBM Workplace - A Good Thing for Linux?
IBM Workplace, a new application management model launched this week, is bound to spell changes ahead for Linux developers, administrators, and desktop users. Just what kind of impact should the Linux community expect?
Thursday, May 13, 2004 10:27:46 AM EST
Penguins Like Salmon, Too
Springtime is a time for budding flowers, buzzing bees, and, it seems, Linux and open source seminars. Correspondent Dee-Ann LeBlanc files this report on her recent visit to the up-and-coming show: Linuxfest Northwest 2004.
Monday, May 10, 2004 10:51:35 AM EST
Is Linux Desktop at the Crossroads?
With Microsoft's next generation version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, scheduled for release as much as 12-24 months away, does Linux have a window of opportunity to capture market share? The answer depends on who you ask, but even the most optimistic prognosticators don't see Linux desktop eating into Microsoft's domination of the desktop in any significant way.
Thursday, May 6, 2004 10:07:53 AM EST
Real World Linux 2004: Bigger and Better
RealWorld Linux 2004 came to a close last month with a lot of news generated around the newest Linux player on the block, Novell. But what was the show as a whole like? Speaker-correspondent Dee-Ann LeBlanc gives this review of the conference atmosphere and events.
Monday, May 3, 2004 12:18:16 PM EST
Dell Takes More Steps into Linux
Dell, a long-time member of the Wintel camp, has started taking more steps into Linux, often hand-in-hand with various software partners. Outside of splashier deals with the likes of Red Hat, Oracle, and SAP in North America, Dell' has more quietly started selling SUSE Linux and Red Flag distributions on other continents.
Friday, April 30, 2004 03:57:58 PM EST
Opteron's First Year All About Linux
"Opteron's first year has been all about Linux," said Christopher Rimer, an exec in AMD's Infrastructure Enablement Group. Over time, though, industry experts expect 64-bit x86 implementations from AMD and Intel to gravitate much more towards Microsoft Windows, without leaving Linux behind, either.
Wednesday, April 28, 2004 10:49:07 AM EST
A Day at the IT Forum in Vancouver
LinuxWorld Expo, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Comdex... the major events that all feature or showcase Linux and Open Source. But how is open source being talked up at smaller, business-oriented seminars? Dee-Ann LeBlanc takes a look at one such local seminar and discovers the grass-roots state of open source.
Monday, April 19, 2004 12:57:27 PM EST
The Changing Face of Open Source
The stereotype of the lonely programmer working in the wee hours is seriously outdated. The second generation of open source projects responds to specific business demands, and the people building these applications are getting paid -- even if the code they write will be free.
Thursday, April 15, 2004 11:20:23 AM EST
Novell Eyes YaST Solutions of Various Stripes
"In releasing YaST (Yet Another Setup Tool) to open source, Novell has thrown down the welcome mat to management solutions aimed at homes and small businesses as well as enterprises, according to Novell officials..."
Monday, April 12, 2004 03:20:04 PM EST
Linux Vendors Push Migration Strategies
Use Linux today, all the pundits proclaim. The cost seems right, the scale seems right... there's just one problem: what's the best way of actually migrating to this open-source OS? Recently, more vendors are stepping up with clear guidelines and toolkits that can make the move to Linux a lot easier.
Thursday, April 8, 2004 11:37:51 AM EST
Novell Plans Future of Red Carpet, ZenWorks
As BrainShare 2004 continues, almost every Novell product has some sort of plan to make it integrate better with the company's new Linux strategy. This includes ZenWorks and the newly acquired Red Carpet, as Jacqueline Emigh reports.
Thursday, March 25, 2004 04:17:54 PM EST
Sun Wants to Make Linux 3D
"Sun Microsystems, a company that has been making noise lately in the Linux desktop market with StarOffice 7 and Java Desktop, is currently working on an experimental 3D successor to Java Desktop that they believe will change the way we interact with computers, and in the end elevate the popularity of Linux in general..."
Monday, March 22, 2004 08:37:36 AM EST
JBoss' Open Source Plans
"Fueled by a $10 million injection of investment capital, JBoss plans to keep offering its J2EE application server and other open source software for free..."
Thursday, March 18, 2004 09:00:06 AM EST
Bacone College Stays Cutting Edge With OpenOffice.org
After 124 years of continuous operation in Oklahoma, Bacone College must know how to do a few things right, especially when it comes to making strategic decisions for the future. It should then come as no surprise that the college would choose to standardize on OpenOffice.org for its writing, spreadsheet, and presentation needs.
Thursday, March 11, 2004 11:28:09 AM EST
VERITAS Continues Linux Push
At the January LinuxWorld Expo 2004, VERITAS made a number of announcements that demonstrate this company's commitment to the Linux space, and the new products have kept coming steadily since then. Dee-Ann LeBlanc recaps VERITAS' Linux product line to date.
Monday, March 1, 2004 10:33:10 AM EST
Choices in Embedded Linux: Commercial or Roll Your Own
Over the past week, Red Hat and Wind River's upcoming embedded Linux OS has generated considerable industry buzz. Yet there are many other commercial solutions already on the market in the embedded Linux space. There's also the "roll your own" approach, relying on "free" open source components. So what's the best route for a developer to take?
Friday, February 27, 2004 02:47:44 PM EST
Wind River Changes Course Towards Linux
Just today, Wind River announced a team up with Red Hat in order to develop Red Hat Embedded Linux for the device software optimization market. So why--after a history of moves away from open source--the change in strategy? Jacqueline Emigh reports.
Monday, February 23, 2004 02:09:20 PM EST
Sun To Linux-Enable All Java And C/C++ Tools
While some in the Linux community have criticized Sun Microsystem's approach on to Java, the company is starting a plan to release all of its development toolset for the Linux platform.
Tuesday, February 17, 2004 10:12:14 AM EST
Linux, SiteScape Save the Green
When you hear the phrase "saving the green," do you usually conjure images of saving the environment? Or, perhaps, saving money? Green is a color associated with these elements, so it there can be a pause when this phrase is heard, until one can figure out the context. In the case of one government agency's use of Linux and some very flexible collaboration software from SiteScape, both instances of the phrase can certainly be true.
Thursday, February 12, 2004 03:47:52 PM EST
Sun Readies Three Linux Desktop Offerings
Sun's upcoming 3D desktop environment, codenamed Project Looking Glass, drew lots of glances at LinuxWorld last month, largely because of advance demos by Computer Associates. However, Sun is planning not just one, but three new offerings in the overall desktop space. Jacqueline Emigh reports.
Monday, February 2, 2004 11:29:02 AM EST
Economy On An Uptick, Say Some .Orgs
The major vendors all have their press announcements and PR people to let us know how things went at LinuxWorld for them. But how did the .Org Pavilion do during the show? From all indications, not too bad, not too bad at all.
Friday, January 30, 2004 10:29:56 AM EST
The Year in Linux - Highs & Lows of 2003
Every year has good and bad points. For members of the Linux community, though, the pendulum swung to absolutely new highs and lows during 2003. LinuxPlanet reviews the highlights and lowlights of a year many will not soon forget.
Thursday, January 15, 2004 10:16:44 AM EST
Novell Plans GUI For '04
Novell is planning new Linux products for 2004, now that its Nterprise Linux Services 1.0 product is out the door. The second edition of Linux Services will feature a graphical user interface, in addition to the command line interface in 1.0. More on this, and other upcoming developments from the new player in the Linux arena in this report.
Tuesday, December 30, 2003 10:06:40 PM EST
iSeries Linux Apps Now Total 300, EFT Solution Is The Latest
IBM Monday unveiled S2 Systems' OpeN/2 financial services application as the latest software solution for Linux running on iSeries, which brings the number of Linux apps available for the iSeries midrange server to more than 300. This mid-range Linux system is making a big impact in the enterprise, with more to come.
Tuesday, December 23, 2003 09:55:06 AM EST
SUSE/IBM, Red Hat/Oracle Tool Up On CCS Security
Backed by big name partners, SUSE Linux and Red Hat are each putting their security systems through the rigorous paces of Common Criteria Scheme (CCS) testing, with ultimate plans to reach the same security ratings already achieved by Microsoft and Unix players.
Friday, December 19, 2003 01:56:17 PM EST
Linux in the Security Crosshairs
Linux's growing popularity is attracting unwanted attention from virus writers, script kiddies and other criminal elements. In response, Linux advocates are putting a new emphasis on security measures and working to reassure companies that the OS is ready for important business networks.
Monday, December 15, 2003 10:51:44 AM EST
Linux-Based PageBuilder Takes on Microsoft's FrontPage
Web-based tools are nothing new. But a California company is using Red Hat Linux and PHP to create PageBuilder, a server-based software system aimed at quick, WYSIWYG creation of Web pages from Linux, Windows, and other desktops.
Thursday, December 4, 2003 09:45:37 AM EST
Will Linux Topple Windows from the Desktop?
Will Linux ever oust Windows from most people's desktops? Backing from big vendors like Novell and Sun certainly doesn't hurt. Yet lingering barriers remain. During recent industry conferences, Linux veterans pointed to factors that include usability, fragmentation in users' preferences, and the need for both more desktop apps and better tech support.
Monday, December 1, 2003 10:34:56 AM EST
Netli Adds App-Level SSL To Ultra High Speed Network
At Comdex this week, Netli will announce the addition of hardware-based application-level acceleration and encryption for Web sites that use its Linux-enabled NetLightning high speed Internet overlay network. The three-year-old Silicon Valley start-up will also make an official rollout of four more blue-chip customers: Boeing, Hewlett-Packard, Tektronix, and Scholastic Publishing.
Monday, November 17, 2003 11:09:19 AM EST
Progeny Makes a Love Match
Earlier this week, Progeny announced that it had named former Caldera/SCO CEO Ransom Love to its board of directors. And while some are focusing on Love's past, they might want to take note of Love's future as he teams with Progeny to move towards a unified commercial Linux platform once again.
Thursday, November 13, 2003 09:26:44 AM EST
Spam Cleaning with the Big Boys
"You think you've got spam problems with a hundred or so spam messages a day? Try being an ISP or a business where on a good day you don't get more than a one hundred thousand spam mails a day..."
Monday, November 10, 2003 10:28:07 AM EST
NASA Boosts Linux SGI Supercomputer to 512 Processors
When NASA doubled their 128-processor SGI machine to 256 Itanium processors last month, they had such success that they decided to double the platform again: up to 512 processors. The system is officially functioning, but did NASA meet with the same great results it got when it went to 256? A lesson in high-end scaling was definitely learned.
Thursday, November 6, 2003 10:27:32 AM EST
From the Data Center to the Desktop: Linux Grows Up
Linux has matured from a robust adolescence, a time when those in the server room had those in the board room convinced that it had the potential to be everything for everybody, to being known for being highly effective in certain conditions, such as those that benefit from scaling out, yet less desirable in others, such as those that require scaling up. So what is the state of Linux in the enterprise, circa 2003?
Tuesday, November 4, 2003 09:06:40 AM EST
Crime Checkers Adopt Linux Device to Ward Off Worms
After attacks from the Nimda and Code Red worms back in 2001, National Background Data (NDB) turned to Astaro Security Linux (ASL), a multi-faceted Linux-based network appliance. ASL will keep playing a behind-the-scenes role when the national criminal background checking service moves its Web front end from Windows 2000 to Linux later in 2003.
Thursday, October 30, 2003 03:38:08 PM EST
Linux Security: Tips from the Experts
Is Linux more secure than Windows, or vice versa? Fueled by conflicting industry reports, this controversy keeps raging. To arrive at a well-informed opinion on the subject, you need to know as much as you can about what kinds of security measures are actually available for Linux.
Thursday, October 30, 2003 10:27:40 AM EST
Linux Is Sometimes a Pleasant Surprise
Sometimes companies aren't actively seeking Linux for the solution to their problems; sometimes Linux just happens to be the best solution for their needs. One NY-based sporting goods chain found itself in this position recently, and they are so far pretty impressed with the benefits of the unsought platform.
Monday, October 20, 2003 11:44:49 AM EST
Linux Rescue Disks Get a Kick from GAR
Spurred by its recent adoption of the GAR build system, The LNX-BBC Project is now galloping right along. Find out the progress of the project and learn how mini-distros can be put to work in your organization.
Monday, October 13, 2003 10:53:01 AM EST
Linux Cost Savings Add Up
Companies that have changed their systems over to Linux report cost-savings across a wide variety of categories. Learn that it's not just license savings that you'll pocket if your organization shifts to Linux and open source.
Monday, October 6, 2003 11:00:44 AM EST
Which Linux Distro Is Best For You?
At the recent PC Expo in Manhattan, a few sessions turned to the topic of Linux. One such session provided a introductory round-up of the Linux distributions that are out there, and which might be better suited for commercial, development, or power-user scenarios.
Monday, September 29, 2003 11:06:21 AM EST
Catapult MySQL with Pogo Linux
If you're an enterprise looking to start using open-source and Linux solutions in your company, the hassles of systems configuration and administration might make you hesitate. Pogo Linux has come up with a solution that will take even these minor concerns away: the DataWare 2600--specifically tuned and configured for MySQL database.
Thursday, September 25, 2003 12:21:35 PM EST
Novell's Linux Users Report Installation Glitches
As Novell prepares the year-end release of its Nterprise for Linux services, early beta testers are liking what they see, but many are reporting concerns with limitations in installing the software. While Novell delays the release to include newly-acquired Ximian software into Nterprise, it will have these issues to tackle as well.
Monday, September 22, 2003 03:26:10 PM EST
Linux Clusters Rev Up on PC Blades
When it comes to Linux clusters, mainframes have long drawn the largest acclaim. Now, though, scientific and technical imaging specialists such as Paradigm and Electro-Optical Sciences (EOS) are praising the gains they're seeing from Linux clusters on PC servers, even without blades.
Monday, September 15, 2003 11:35:20 AM EST
Komodo Breathes New Fire into IDE
Developing for Linux (or any other platform) is a cutting-edge proposition that demands the best tools for the best job. ActiveState's Komodo is one such tool, bringing sophistication and flexibility to open-source developers.
Thursday, September 11, 2003 11:17:35 AM EST
Boscov's Inches Into Linux
Massive mainframe migrations, dizzying desktop moves--all a part of the huge effort to move to Linux, ri
