Jason Brooks

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Covers a Lot of Ground by Jason Brooks Host and Guest for Virtualization SLES 11 offers install-time options for deploying virtualization guest or host systems, as well as for setting up regular bare-metal servers. VM Manager SLES 11 includes code from the Red Hat-driven virt-manager project for keeping tabs on […]

Setting out to be all things to all people is generally a bad idea, since you’re likely to end up leaving everybody at least a bit disappointed. However, Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11’s readiness to serve a broad range of hardware and application masters is arguably more virtue than vice. After all, OS platforms […]

The best and the worst attributes of Linux as a desktop operating system involve acquiring and maintaining software applications. If Linux is to pile up more desktop adherents, the vendors and communities that back the open-source platform need to work together to accentuate those positives and shrink down the negative aspects of getting and managing […]

Conficker is a work of malware that, in the form of multiple variants, has been worming its way through unpatched Windows desktop and server machines for the past four months. Conficker has garnered mainstream attention of late due to an April 1 trigger that researchers have identified in the most recent variant of the worm. […]

The best and the worst attributes of Linux as a desktop operating system involve acquiring and maintaining software applications. For me, the positives outweigh the negatives, making Linux the best desktop operating system option I’ve encountered, and the one I choose at work and at home. If Linux is to pile up more desktop adherents, […]

For the past few years, Novell’s Linux platform advertisements-aimed, presumably, at corporate IT managers-have carried the slogan: “Your Linux is Ready.” Novell’s tagline is particularly apt when applied to the company’s line of desktop Linux offerings, the latest of which, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11, began shipping the week of March 23. After all, since […]

eWEEK Labs Examines SLED 11, the Microsoft-Friendly Linux Support for .pst in Evolution In SLED 11, the Evolution mail client gains support for importing messages stored in Microsoft’s .pst file format. This feature worked for me without a hitch. MAPI Support in Evolution SLED 11’s mail client also gains support for Microsoft’s proprietary MAPI (Messaging […]

eWEEK Labs Shows You How to Install Apps on Ubuntu Linux by Jason Brooks Software Repositories Are Your Friends One of the handiest characteristics of today’s typical Linux-based operating system is easy access to software applications through networked repositories. In Ubuntu, our software sources tour begins here. Canonical-Supported Applications Ubuntu’s Software Sources tool breaks out […]

Whenever a major acquisition-like the currently rumored IBM acquisition of Sun Microsystems-occurs, attention immediately turns to product and technology overlap. Too much overlap, and the deal doesn’t make sense. The conventional wisdom here seems reasonable enough, but we must pay attention to the way that open-source development and licensing models-to which both Sun and IBM […]

During the past several months, it’s been pretty much impossible for anyone keeping tabs on IT to ignore the Rise of the Netbooks. Despite a weak overall market for notebook computers, netbook sales have been growing at a healthy clip. There’s no secret to the appeal of netbooks: The systems combine mobility and low cost, […]