August 6, 2008
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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 … Continue reading
July 30, 2008
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Color me surprised. Dana Blankenhorn, a well-known writer about Linux and open source recently asked for someone—anyone–to send him a loaner Linux laptop to replace his now dead Windows laptop. What, he didn’t already have one? Now, you can write … Continue reading
July 29, 2008
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Likewise Software has released a new, open-source version of its eponymous AD (Active Directory) program for integrating Linux, Unix and Mac systems into AD. Likewise Fall includes two main features. The most important, LWIS (Likewise Identity Services) enables you to … Continue reading
June 29, 2008
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I was setting up Windows Server 2008 on a test system today to get a better grip on Microsoft’s just released Hyper-V virtualization when I ran into a completely unexpected problem: I couldn’t set up the system’s initial password I … Continue reading
June 27, 2008
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Generally speaking for consumer/SMB grade network equipment, I swear by Linksys hardware. I’ve been using he Linksys WRT54G family of access points since 2002 ever since Linksys open-sourced the firmware for many WRT54G models and they’ve never let me down. … Continue reading
May 28, 2008
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It seemed like such a great idea. Linux is moving from edge and departmental servers to the data center, so why not offer Linux data center automation, complete with virtualization Linux lifecycle management? Well, maybe it’s still a great business … Continue reading