Corporate adoption of Linux desktops is hindered by the inability to run Windows applications, the difficulty of installing and managing peripheral devices and the challenge of making users feel comfortable with the open-source operating system, a survey shows.
Xbox-Linux Project has announced that they have startd a hacking project against Xbox360 – The Free60 Project, by porting Linux and Darwin onto this brand-new gaming console.
If you want a desktop or laptop and you want to move to Linux then you're cooked. You have very few options and retailers have used low-cost Linux systems to bait and switch users. So, why don't the major Intel vendors offer Linux? Short answer: Microsoft. The old monopolist still commands and makes demands on its OEM vendors.
What's worse? Unsuspecting PC buyers will be faced with the need to upgrade to Vista in the near future. So, that bargain PC from Dell will probably keep on costing you money. Do alternatives exist? We like to think so.L33tdawg: Don't rule out OS X x86 :D
The Mono project has issued a new release aimed at taking the software out of the development environment and onto production systems. Release 1.1.10 contains tweaks such as auto-configuration and the ability to work with virtual hosts.
Mono is designed to allow .NET code to run on non-Windows systems such as Unix and Linux. Despite the system's 1.0 release last year, it has been hampered by significant limitations that have prevented it from being used in production environments.
Microsoft released a study (PDF) today placing the Windows server System up against SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). The study, conducted by Herbert Thompson of Security Innovations Inc., was paid for by Microsoft. As might be expected, almost every result from the experiment favored Microsoft, but readers were warned that the study was ultimately inconclusive due to sample size.
The world's first commercial product based on the Cell BE (broadband engine) processor is expected to ship with a Yellow Dog Linux BSP (board-support package) in Q1, 2006. Mercury Computer Systems says Terra Soft Solutions, one of its VARs (value-added resellers), is developing the BSP.
Additionally, Mercury announced its second Cell BE product, a "Turismo" system targeting dense-computing applications.
Definitely of interest in following up on the supercomputer news today, a list of the top 500 supercomputers has been published at top500.org. What is most interesting about them is that Linux claims 4 of the top 5 as the operating system of choice for these mammoths of computing, On top of that, the Xeon and Opteron have gained much ground in the number of these machines using them, while the ever-controversial Itanium has declined significantly. 7 of the top 10 reside within the U.S., with IBM's BlueGene holding that number one spot.
As you already know, if I have to sit down in front of a computer, I want it to be running the Gnome desktop on Linux. I've watched it mature from a downright ugly, needlessly complex playground for geeks, to an attractive, simple interface that holds its own against commercial alternatives. And yet, every day I still encounter rough edges that make me think there aren't nearly enough folks out there hacking away at this stuff. I'd like to watch.
Slackware is old-school Linux. Back in the day -- before Red Hat seized the throne -- Pat Volkerding's Linux distribution was the undisputed king of the hill. Many still use it today. By the time I started playing with Linux in 1995, or running my Web server with it in 1996, Slackware's slump in market share had already begun. I've tried a lot of different Linux distributions during the years since then, but until recently I had never tried Slackware. Here's what I've learned about Slackware while installing and using the recently released Slackware 10.2.
Most system builders know all too well the headaches involved in recovering a crashed hard drive. The bottom line is, there really are only three kinds of hard drives:
* Hard drives that have failed.
* Hard drives that will fail.
* Hard drives that were retired in the course of a computer upgrade before failure.
