Jason Brooks

Five years ago, Red Hat sent a shock wave through the Linux community when it announced a new bleeding-edge development pace for its flagship distribution, Red Hat Linux. Starting with Red Hat Linux 9, which was soon rebranded as Fedora Core, Red Hat forced its users to choose between the stable, supported and per-system fee-toting […]

I came across an interesting item on OSNews today — a link to a Computerworld story in which Terri Forslof, manager of security response at TippingPoint, explains why Ubuntu Linux was the only OS left standing at the pwn2own contest her firm sponsored at CanSecWest. ““There was just no interest in Ubuntu,” said Terri Forslof, […]

Today, eWEEK’s Clint Boulton is reporting on the latest efforts to save the Sprint-Clearwire nationwide WiMax wireless data network scheme. Back in July, Sprint and Clearwire struck up an arrangement in which the two companies would work together to build out and maintain a nationwide wireless network based on the years-old, often-demoed-but-too-seldom-spotted-in-the-wild WiMax technology. In […]

With the dramatic cost savings and management benefits that server virtualization delivers for enterprises, just about every IT problem area is starting to be cast as yet another nail to be driven by the hammer of virtualization. The IT industry’s largest vendors are scrambling to outfit enterprises with a virtualization tool for every occasion. And, […]

At Novell’s recent BrainShare conference in Salt Lake City, company executives laid out their vision and strategy under the banner Project Fossa. What does “fossa” mean? According to Wikipedia, a fossa is either an agile, mongooselike creature from Madagascar, or a term describing a depression or hollow. Based on the search I conducted for the […]

Apple’s announcement yesterday that it plans to add support for Microsoft’s Exchange groupware server on the iPhone and the iPod Touch devices has gotten me thinking about Exchange support (or lack thereof) on other platforms, such as Linux and, strangely enough, Apple’s own OS X. It’s possible now to link up pretty much any mail […]

Come this June, in enterprises across the country, I expect that Treos will begin to wither in the eyes of one-time loyalists, and that erstwhile thumb-keyboard addicts will start to judge their BlackBerrys to be significantly sourer. That’s because June is the month in which Apple has promised to ship an enterprise and third-party application […]

The latest iteration of VMware’s Virtual Infrastructure, the server virtualization platform comprising ESX Server 3.5 and Virtual-Center 2.5, boasts a set of hardware support enhancements, scalability improvements and new automation provisions that stand to enforce the popularity of VMware’s already market-leading virtualization offering. VMware has taken impressive steps toward broadening the range of equipment that […]

Today, Google rolled a much-anticipated new component into its family of online applications: Google Sites. The new service is the fruit of Google’s 2006 purchase of hosted wiki provider JotSpot, and I’ve been looking forward for some time now to see what the search giant would do with its purchase, and to see how well […]

When I read about the recent Princeton University paper on subverting hard drive encryption by fishing for encyption keys in system RAM, I got to wondering about the vulnerability of my own Ubuntu-powered notebook computer. After all, support for out-of-the-box hard drive encryption is one of the reasons why I opt for Ubuntu for my […]