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Using Secure Remote Connection to Access Office Resources Connected PCs

sjvn — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:06:32 +0000

Computers and Internet access are universally available, but your corporate network resources are probably only available on your office PC and on your laptop. If you wanted to securely use your office resources from another computer — say, your husband’s laptop or your local library’s PC — you were out of luck. Until now.

By using [...]

Ubuntu 9.10: Linux for business

sjvn — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:32:48 +0000

When you think Ubuntu, you almost certainly think of it as a desktop distribution. And, make no mistake about it, Ubuntu 9.10 is a great desktop distribution, but that’s not what Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company, is focusing on with this release and the next, long-term support version, which will follow this one. No, Canonical has [...]

Microsoft’s Linux driver offering planned for years

sjvn — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:31:47 +0000

I’m really not sure why everyone is so surprised that Microsoft submitted the driver source code for four Microsoft Hyper-V drivers for inclusion in the Linux kernel under the GPLv2 license. You see, Microsoft and Novell have been working on this for over two years now.

These drivers, jointly called the Linux Device Driver for Virtualization, [...]