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Red Hat to Protect Linux Customers

By Staff Staff | Jan 25, 2004 at 12:47 AM

Red Hat Inc. on Tuesday will follow the lead of Hewlett-Packard Co. and Novell Inc. by announcing a plan to protect its enterprise Linux customers.

Is SCO Denting Customers' Buying Plans?

By Staff Staff | Jan 25, 2004 at 12:46 AM

Are The SCO Group Inc.'s ongoing legal attacks against Linux vendors putting any dent in customers' plans to buy Linux? The answer is a resounding “No,” judging from reactions of showgoers at this week's LinuxWorld here.

Apple bolsters Xserve Platform

By Staff Staff | Jan 25, 2004 at 12:42 AM

Apple next month will offer the Mac business market much-anticipated hardware upgrades to its Xserve platform. Forthcoming will be a 2GHz dual-processor G5 server in a 1U form factor and Xserve RAID with 3.5TB of storage capacity.

Apple's core: The Mac turns 20

By Staff Staff | Jan 25, 2004 at 12:39 AM

Its dedicated users are so passionate they're often described as religious about their love for the machine.

Panther: A Look at Mac on Its 20th Birthday

By Timothy R. Butler | Jan 24, 2004 at 11:10 PM

Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the Apple Macintosh computer. While the original Mac is certainly meager by today's standards, there are few that would argue against its revolutionary status in the early years of personal computing. In commemoration of that event, today also marks the launch of OfB MacFor.Biz, the new section of Open for Business that will cover the Mac in much the same way OfB covers GNU/Linux and BSD. In this premier piece, we will examine the latest Mac OS X, 10.3 “Panther,” on two separate generations of Macintosh systems.

Update: Improved OpenGL benchmark results included below.

MandrakeSoft Reports Profitable Quarter

By Timothy R. Butler | Jan 22, 2004 at 6:22 PM

MandrakeSoft, the French GNU/Linux distributor who filed for bankruptcy protection one year ago last week, announced today that its first fiscal quarter of 2004 resulted in a positive operating result of €280,000. This follows news in recent weeks that the company is preparing an exit plan to leave bankruptcy protection by the end of the quarter.

Basic Lesson #3: Talk to Me

By Ed Hurst | Jan 22, 2004 at 12:25 AM
So far, we have discussed how Open Source technology is more secure because of how files are handled. Now we will examine stability issues.

IceWM with Sound

By Ed Hurst | Jan 14, 2004 at 11:30 PM
In previous articles, I've focused on helping users of older hardware get the most from it. While most of the FOSS world uses one of the two major desktop interfaces -- KDE or Gnome -- there are plenty of folks using interfaces that are less resource hungry. While it's important to note here that hogging resources is what one pays for all the nifty automatic features found in KDE or Gnome, in reality there are few other compelling reasons to use either. While XFce is a much lighter competitor for them, the latest version (4.x) disappoints me with its lack of a sound module.

Shuttling Along: A Second Look at the SB62G2

By Timothy R. Butler | Jan 12, 2004 at 11:36 PM

As promised in part 1 of this review, this time around we will consider the software side of the Shuttle XPC SB62G2, a system we named our product of the year for 2003. The Shuttle is an excellent little machine, as we noted last time, but there is still that one important detail that needs to be considered: how well does it work with GNU/Linux? That is what I will attempt to overview below.

Desktop FreeBSD Part 2: Initial Setup

By Ed Hurst | Jan 03, 2004 at 12:40 AM
There are several tasks to which we must attend before actually making use of our freshly installed FreeBSD system. Immediately upon reboot, you will find yourself in the console. While it is possible to setup and use the graphical login managers -- kdm, gdm or others -- it is important to note that this uses extra resources. One of our assumptions is that you might not have all that excess horsepower, so we'll stick with the console login for now.
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