Jason Brooks

SUSE Studio is a Web-based service for creating custom operating system and application bundles-also known as software appliances-based on Novell’s family of SUSE Linux-based operating systems. The free service, which recently concluded its limited beta period and is now broadly accessible, is part of Novell’s SUSE Appliance Program-an initiative intended to streamline product delivery and […]

LABS GALLERY: Novell SUSE Studio Makes Linux Appliance Creation a Snap Getting Started SUSE Studio supports OpenID for authentication. Choose Your Appliance Foundation As base distribution options, SUSE Studio offers up the free and community-supported openSUSE 11.1, alongside two versions of the Novell-supported SUSE Linux Enterprise. I could choose from a variety of system templates […]

Labs Gallery: rPath rBuilder 5 Gets Flash-y, Adds Linux Distro Support by Jason Brooks Appliance Options The first step to creating a software appliance with rBuilder involves choosing your desired Linux distribution platform and selecting which deployment options to support. Package Selection Using rBuilder’s new Flash-based interface, I could grab software components from the repositories […]

With its rBuilder 5.2.1, rPath aims to streamline the deployment and maintenance of application workloads by providing IT organizations with the tools to roll their applications into Linux-based software appliances that are ready to deploy on popular server virtualization platforms, cloud computing services or bare-metal systems. Rather than manage the operating system, application and virtual […]

Microsoft’s Office 2010, which eWEEK Labs tested in a Technical Preview release, has quite a bit in common with the past several new Office upgrades–namely, the new suite is brimming with enhancements to core Office capabilities, many of which center around exposing the apocryphal 80 percent of Office functionality that most users overlook. For example, […]

There’s a new chapter under way in the saga of Google versus Microsoft-one that comes in the form of two major product announcements that have tech pundits licking their chops for a clash of the computing titans. In one corner, we have Google, which announced plans to develop a second Linux-based operating system to complement […]

Labs Gallery: Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview in Pictures by Jason Brooks Backstage Pass All of the Office 2010 components feature a new “Backstage” area, in which “meta document” options such as saving, opening, printing and exporting are gathered. Outlook Backstage In Outlook, the Backstage area contains account and folder settings, alongside import and export […]

Labs Gallery: Nokia N97 Is One Feature-Packed Smartphone by Jason Brooks Slide-out Keyboard The N97’s input options, which include a touch-sensitive display and a slide-out keyboard. But Wait, Theres More For good measure, the N97 sports the dynamic duo of a handwriting recognition application and a tiny stylus. Storage Options The N97 offered me the […]

Nokia’s N97 may be the world’s most feature-packed smartphone. At least, if there’s a mobile device festooned with as many radios, input options, software sources and configuration menus as Nokia has managed to cram into the N97, I’ve never encountered it. Take the unit’s input options, which include a touch-sensitive display, a slide-out keyboard and, […]