Reports

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

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

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

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

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

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

Big Machines, Big Linux
Often called the aging dinosaur of IT, the IBM mainframe product line is starting to make a real comback in sales and deployment. The secret to its recent success, of course, is server consolidation with Linux as the platform. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols focuses on the new IBM z990, aka the T-Rex, which shows that dinosaurs should not be trifled with.
Tuesday, May 27, 2003 10:31:07 AM EST

Students Score Big Opportunities For Learning Using Linux
In a practical sense, it is rather hard to ask users to just quit using the technology they're used to cold turkey. Rather than abandoning their use of Windows altogether in favor of Linux and Open Source, one Florida school is opting for a slower, more balanced approach as they move towards Open Source and Free Software. And, as Rob Reilly reports, the results are already pretty dramatic.
Friday, July 12, 2002 11:08:18 AM EST

Bigger, Faster, Smarter, Friendlier
Linux just keeps getting better as it moves towards its objective - total world domination, or at least a better alternative to the Windows operating system. Here's a small taste what we can look forward to now, over the next year, and beyond...
Thursday, September 9, 1999 04:31:08 PM EST

Reviews

Versora Progression Desktop 2.0 Progresses
Versora's Progression Desktop migration tool gets better with every release. Now on version 2.0, the developers have expanded the capabilities of the software and qualified it with many more operating systems. It's never been easier to transfer your settings from Windows to GNU/Linux. Jem Matzan files this review.
Thursday, August 10, 2006 10:18:59 AM EST

Better Email Security with Procmail
Pete Mills takes a look at a great free program which blocks out a lot of Email virus problems for MS Windows and NT- by filtering incoming Email on a Linux box.
Monday, July 19, 1999 02:56:04 PM EST

Tutorials

Networking with Ubuntu 8.04 and Windows, Part III
In the first installment of this tutorial series we configured Ubuntu to share with Windows and set your Computer Name and Workgroup values. In Part II, we discovered the nitty gritty of the network connection details in Ubuntu. Finally, we'll figure out exactly how to share the files on your Ubuntu machine, both quick and easy, and with access controls.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 08:30:00 PM EST

Admin Digest: Setting Up A SuSE 8.0 Linux DHCP Client
Enterprise businesses with their own IT staffs may have the knowledge and where-with-all to implement Linux in their organizartions, but what about the small-business owner who has to manage everything from buying pencils to setting up the network? The Admin Digest is a new series designed to address Linux solutions for people who have other things they can be doing with their time. This first installment examines how to use SuSE Linux 8.0 to create a DHCP client system.
Monday, December 30, 2002 10:45:39 AM EST

Routing NetBIOS with Linux
Use Linux to allow NT/95 Workstations to see the Network Neighborhood across different Masqueraded TCP Networks, by following this tutorial from Matt Clements.
Friday, October 29, 1999 05:59:12 AM EST