Practical Technology

Unix is 40-years old. 1969, the summer of love, was the summer of not having enough computer resources for AT&T Bell Lab employees Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. After the failure of Multics, a timesharing operating system, the two needed a computer and an operating system to run Space Travel, an early computer game. Since [...]

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Sun has released the first update to its recently purchased desktop virtualization program, now called Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0. While not a major update, it does bring improved performance and 64-bit operating system support to the popular open source virtualization program. VirtualBox, now part of Sun’s xVM series, runs on a wide variety of host [...]

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While the worldwide server market’s factory revenue grew 6.4% over the last year, according to the IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Server Track, Linux server revenue was running ahead of the curve at a growth rate of 10%. The economy may be tanking, but the worldwide server market still did $13.9-billion worth of business in 2008′s second [...]

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You know zombie movies. You chop ‘em. You set ‘em on fire. You machine-gun ‘em and they just keep coming. They’re scary at first, but then, except for the very best zombie movies – Night of the Living Dead, 28 Days Later – the zombies get to be pretty darn boring. SCO, the zombie that [...]

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I think The SCO Group deserves every penny they’re asking for… if they were right, but theyre not. Ive been following SCO as a writer since the late 80s, and Ive been using its products for even longer. When Caldera came out with one of the first commercial Linux distributions, I was there too. In [...]

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