December 16, 2009
by sjvn01
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At first glance, there’s little to differentiate between the latest releases of the top Linux distributions: Red Hat’s Fedora 12, Novell’s openSUSE 11.2 and Canonical’s Ubuntu 9.10. They each use the latest releases of open-source applications and are based on … Continue reading
December 3, 2009
by sjvn01
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Red Hat is the number one Linux company on the planet by a wide margin. Their flagship distribution, RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) is great and they have excellent technical support. That hasn’t stopped other companies from trying to ride … Continue reading
November 17, 2009
by sjvn01
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Once upon a time, supercomputers used special vector model processors to achieve their then remarkable speeds. Then, at the turn of the 21st century, people began working out how to achieve record-breaking computer speed by linking hundreds or thousands of … Continue reading
November 12, 2009
by sjvn01
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I’m not going to review the latest release of openSUSE, 11.2, here. For that, you can look forward to reading my head-to-head shoot-out of Fedora 12, Ubuntu 9.10, and openSUSE 11.2 sometime soon. What I can say now though is … Continue reading
November 6, 2009
by sjvn01
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Most of the time you can go for months, years, without patching your Linux distribution and not be in any real danger. A recently uncovered security hole in the Linux kernel does deserve your attention. Specifically, Earl Chew, a Linux … Continue reading
November 6, 2009
by sjvn01
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You’d expect, as my friend Preston Gralla did, that when someone says “proprietary software is eventually going to be doomed,” and that Microsoft’s future might best be served in releasing its own version of Linux that he’s a Linux fan. … Continue reading