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Libranet: TCO-Friendly GNU/Linux

By Timothy R. Butler | Jul 30, 2003 at 10:55 PM

Libranet is a bit different than the other GNU/Linux distributions we are considering this time around. In an era when distributions are often judged by the glitz that their installer and customized desktop provides, Libranet has neither glitz nor much of a customized desktop.

SuSE 8.2: More Desktop Progress

By Timothy R. Butler | Jul 17, 2003 at 10:51 PM

As we lead up to the 2003 Open Choice Awards here at Open for Business, we start afresh on our desktop distribution survey. Over the next few weeks we will consider Mandrake and Red Hat's latest entries, as well as lesser-known Libranet GNU/Linux. Today, however, we put the microscope on the successor to the spring Penguin Shootout award's winner — SuSE Linux 8.1.

HP Delivers Linux Desktops

By Staff Staff | Jul 02, 2003 at 7:30 PM

PALO ALTO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—July 2, 2003—HP (NYSE:HPQ) today introduced an affordable, high-quality desktop PC for small- and medium-sized business (SMB) customers: the HP Compaq Business Desktop d220 Microtower.

DreamWorks Goes For Linux With "Sinbad"

By Staff Staff | Jul 01, 2003 at 8:12 PM

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.

Stallman: SCO smear campaign can't defeat GNU

By Staff Staff | Jun 26, 2003 at 1:21 AM

SCO's contract dispute with IBM has been accompanied by a smear campaign against the whole GNU/Linux system. But SCO made an obvious mistake when it erroneously quoted me as saying that “Linux is a copy of Unix.” Many readers immediately smelled a rat—not only because I did not say that, and not only because the person who said it was talking about published ideas (which are uncopyrightable) rather than code, but because they know I would never compare Linux with Unix.

Mandrake Goes For High Performance Clustering

By Timothy R. Butler | Jun 24, 2003 at 9:33 PM
At the International Supercomputer Conference 2003 today, MandrakeSoft announced its latest entry to the company's growing portfolio of middle-to-high end server products. MandrakeClustering is a high performance clustering distribution for IA-32 and AMD64 (Opteron) architectures. IA-64 support should come in September, the company reported.

Red Hat Working on Open Source Java

By Staff Staff | Jun 23, 2003 at 9:06 PM

Red Hat Inc is in discussions with Sun Microsystems Inc about launching an open source version of Sun's Java environment, according to Red Hat chairman and CEO Matthew Szulik.

Flipping the Switch

By Staff Staff | Jun 23, 2003 at 8:50 PM

In the latest of his legendary keynote stage shows, Steve Jobs kicked off Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference this morning in San Francisco by showing off the company's speedy new aluminum G5 desktop Mac. But while listing the new machine's impressive specs, Jobs left out a related, eye-popping statistic: Business Week columnist Alex Salkever dropped the bomb last week that next year, “Linux should pass Apple in market share for desktop operating systems on computers.”

Win4Lin 5: A Real Win for Linux Users

By Timothy R. Butler | Jun 18, 2003 at 4:35 PM

About a month ago, NeTraverse contacted OfB Labs with an early release copy of Win4Lin 5.0, the follow-up to the already impressive Win4Lin 4.0 released in May 2002. Win4Lin, for those not familiar with it, offers near-native (or better) speed “virtualization” of a Windows box so that one can run Windows 9x (95/98/Me) inside GNU/Linux.

DHBA's Iams on SCO and Linux

By Staff Staff | Jun 12, 2003 at 5:07 PM

With concern rising about SCO's recent legal maneuvers, many organizations are trying
to grasp the exact ramifications this may have on their deployment of GNU/Linux projects.
While there is clearly no solid answer yet, in a special to Open for Business, GNU/Linux
developer, consultant, and author Andrew D. Balsa interviews Tony Iams of D.H. Brown Associates (DHBA)
on the subject.

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