Practical Technology

San Francisco, Calif.—Ubuntu is well known in user circles as the cool kids’ Linux. It’s available pre-installed on PCs and laptops from Dell and from numerous smaller computer vendors. What Ubuntu hasn’t been known as is a Linux distribution that matters to CIOs and IT managers. Things are changing. Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company, is finally [...]

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No, I’m not talking about the iPhone. My problem was when my wife and I decided it was time to retire her slowly dying IBM ThinkPad X40 and bring in a fresh new MacBook Pro in its place. Well, that was the plan anyway. More >

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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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