Practical Technology

The cheapest way to get Ubuntu Linux is to download it, burn it to a CD, and then install it on your PC of choice. The easiest way to get Ubuntu is to buy it pre-loaded on a Dell PC. The U.S. consumer way to get Ubuntu may turn out to be buy it yourself [...]

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On October 10th, Red Hat announced the launch of the Red Hat Partner Center, an online resource offering a centralized place for Red Hat partners to more easily and seamlessly conduct business with Red Hat. Over the last year, Red Hat has been trying to improve its channel partnerships. It started in October 2006, when [...]

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Is Microsoft behind SCO? Well, of course it is. Do you really think Microsoft needed a new SCO Unix license? Please! But you can forget about Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer meeting by some high-tech Redmond cauldron at midnight to plot about how theyll get Linus Torvalds and his little operating system, too. Thats not [...]

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Once upon a time, there was talk of HomeRF or HiperLAN becoming the dominant wireless LAN (WLAN) technology. Not any more, you can stick a fork in them, they’re done. 802.11 technology is well on its way to dominating the WLAN market the way Ethernet had LANs Why? It’s faster and has more range than [...]

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So where is Caldera going with its older operating systems? Linux may be all fine and dandy, but the fate of OpenServer is what the people at the DTR Business Systems reseller show in Las Vegas earlier this month wanted to know, and Caldera’s CEO Ransom Love was there to give them answers. The DTR [...]

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