Linux Articles

Linux : Articles : Opie puts Linux in your hand
Posted: ( Sat 9th Aug 2003 09:42:58[AM] UTC )
The Opie project has reached its 1.0 milestone, offering a standardized Linux-based platform for a variety of handheld devices.

Linux : Articles : Linux nears Windows XP usability
Posted: ( Tue 5th Aug 2003 06:38:17[AM] UTC )
Linux, once viewed as an operating system that only computer geeks could appreciate, is today a much more user-friendly software that companies, public administrations and consumers can master almost as easily as Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP.

Linux : Articles : Waiting for the Year of the Linux Desktop
Posted: ( Tue 5th Aug 2003 06:38:17[AM] UTC )
Can Linux cut it on the desktop? That was the question Linux Magazine asked its readers three years ago, promoting an interview with Corel Software CEO Michael Cowpland. At the time, Corel wasn't alone in making a play for the desktop PC. Other companies, for example Eazel and games maker Loki Software, built their businesses around what they saw as a promising Linux desktop market. But all of them were wrong.

Linux : Articles : Scribus excels at DTP
Posted: ( Mon 4th Aug 2003 11:36:47[AM] UTC )
Scribus, a new desktop publishing and layout program for Linux, is the most impressive new free software application I've ever seen. Period. No contest.

Linux : Articles : Linux took on Microsoft, and won big in Munich Victory could be a huge step in climb by up-and-comer
Posted: ( Sun 27th Jul 2003 10:34:43[AM] UTC )
On the brink of losing a pivotal account to an ascending rival, Microsoft last March dispatched CEO Steve Ballmer to the rescue. The German city of Munich was balking at a $36.6 million proposal from Microsoft to upgrade 14,000 desktop PCs to the latest versions of Windows and Office. Instead, Munich -- Germany's third-largest city and a technology hub for Central Europe -- was leaning toward a switch to Linux, the upstart computer operating system whose open-source code is continually improved by volunteer programmers worldwide.

Linux : Articles : Running Linux with Office XP: Is it ready for business?
Posted: ( Thu 3rd Jul 2003 01:09:59[PM] UTC )
Linux has made a big impact in the server room, but usability issues and lock-in to Microsoft Office have conspired to hold it back on the desktop. That all just changed

Linux : Articles : Sinbad Hears Linux's Siren Song
Posted: ( Thu 3rd Jul 2003 09:56:16[AM] UTC )
A thousand years ago, people were telling the story of Sinbad the Sailor and his seven amazing voyages. Now the swashbuckling sailor has been given new life with Linux.

Linux : Articles : VMWare Workstation 4.0 Review
Posted: ( Wed 25th Jun 2003 10:59:50[AM] UTC )
If you have a mixed network like I do sometimes you have to compromise. At my job we run Windows, Linux and a sole Mac (Graphics dept.) and lets face it, when you do consulting work and if you design and develop custom applications you have to be able to develop for your clients platform and as much as I hate it, it's a Windows world. Before I used to have 2 workstations, one Windows and one Linux, or I had to dual boot. In the past, virtual machines have been lacking. Either they were too slow or lacking a certain pizazz to get the job done. Enter VMWare Workstation 4.

Linux : Articles : The Wrong Choice: Sometimes it's Linux, consultant says
Posted: ( Mon 2nd Jun 2003 09:10:38[AM] UTC )
An IT consultant says Linux was the wrong choice for one of his clients -- one who ended up getting done in by a remote programmer with too big a fingerprint on a custom application.

Linux : Articles : Ten reasons to turn to open source support services
Posted: ( Mon 2nd Jun 2003 09:09:03[AM] UTC )
Free software support is usually an e-mail or a mailing list away for the open-source community. Linux users don\'t need to play phone tag with help desks, just tap into the bevy of resources available online. Usually, users said, an answer is no more than a day away.

Linux : Articles : A new distro in town: Gentoo emerges victorious
Posted: ( Mon 2nd Jun 2003 07:57:54[AM] UTC )
The 'meta-distro' Gentoo makes it possible to compile and configure everything on your system exac tly the way you like, providing you with more structure and tools to ease the process and automate updates. Do I still like Debian? I absolutely love it. But until further notice, Gentoo is now my f lavor of Linux.

Linux : Articles : Grandma Runs Linux... Has it Been a Year Already?
Posted: ( Fri 16th May 2003 05:10:50[AM] UTC )
A year ago this Mother's Day weekend, I converted my mom, a 67 year old mother of 3, and grandmother of 4, to Linux. With regards to computers, she barely knew a right-click from a left-click, and didn't deal well with navigating menus, or changing settings of any kind.A year ago this Mother's Day weekend, I converted my mom, a 67 year old mother of 3, and grandmother of 4, to Linux. With regards to computers, she barely knew a right-click from a left-click, and didn't deal well with navigating menus, or changing settings of any kind.

Linux : Articles : Linux/OSS support, part 4: Step-by-step guide to getting it
Posted: ( Fri 16th May 2003 05:10:12[AM] UTC )
An IT manager describes his step-by-step process for finding free Linux or open-source software support.

Linux : Articles : Microsoft's double standard on third-world piracy
Posted: ( Fri 16th May 2003 05:08:43[AM] UTC )
outhEast Asia - I would like to talk about Microsoft's double standard regarding software piracy. I work for a software development company. We are currently working on different projects for a big telecommunications company under Microsoft's Consulting Services division. But let me tell you... at this very moment, if the BSA comes crashing into our development location, all our equipment will be confiscated, and we will be fined for our use of pirated Microsoft products (Windows 2000 AS, Visual Studio 6.0, Visual Studio .NET, SQL Server 2000, BizTalk 2000, etc.).

Linux : Articles : Dos & don\'ts: Smoothing out patch-management woes
Posted: ( Tue 15th Apr 2003 09:59:08[AM] UTC )
Gibraltar Software CTO Mark Allen shares some advice on developing a strategy for patching critical systems and applications.