Jason Brooks

I’ve been burned more than once by lighter-than-laptop computing devices that have failed to fulfill their promise. Still, I can’t help but be excited about Palm’s Foleo mobile companion. The 2.5-pound device, which Palm announced recently and plans to begin shipping later this summer, will sport the display and keyboard of a typical notebook computer […]

Dells customer feedback-driven initiative for preloading Linux on some of the machines it sells is moving forward with a full head of steam. Its been only a handful of months since the OEM began fielding Web-borne requests to add the open-source operating system to its preloaded platform mix, and Dell is already a few weeks […]

After devoting the bulk of its efforts over the past couple years to realizing the advanced server technology goals of Red Hats Enterprise Linux product, the community-powered Fedora Project has turned its attention toward catching up with the distribution and packaging advances of its Linux rivals. eWEEK Labs tested the fruit of these efforts—Fedora 7—and […]

Ive been burned more than once by lighter-than-laptop computing devices that have failed to fulfill their promise. Still, I cant help but be excited about Palms Foleo mobile companion. The 2.5-pound device, which Palm announced recently and plans to begin shipping later this summer, will sport the display and keyboard of a typical notebook computer […]

eWEEK Labs has come to rely on VMwares excellent line of desktop virtualization tools to work the magic of running diverse operating systems and software configurations in the product evaluations that we conduct. Therefore, its with pleasure that we report that the latest incarnation of VMwares Workstation—Version 6—continues to make more seamless the connection between […]

The Internet has been abuzz lately with talk of a potential pairing between Google and Salesforce.com–a line of speculation that I find particularly intriguing. For one thing, with the amount of ink that’s been spilled over Google-DoubleClick and Microsoft-aQuantive, and what it all means for the future of advertising, it’s refreshing for once to ponder […]

The other night, I was watching an episode of Nova on PBS about the present and future of solar power and the major changes in the way we generate and distribute energy that future solar advances will trigger. Predictably enough, the whole thing got me thinking about free and proprietary software and the friction we’re […]

The Internet has been abuzz lately with talk of a potential pairing between Google and Salesforce.com—a line of speculation that I find particularly intriguing. For one thing, with the amount of ink thats been spilled over Google-DoubleClick and Microsoft-aQuantive, and what it all means for the future of advertising, its refreshing for once to ponder […]

While theres no shortage of new and expanded functionality in Microsofts “Longhorn” Server, the forthcoming follow-on to Windows 2003 Server also makes a virtue out of doing less. In eWEEK Labs tests of Longhorn Server Beta 3, we noted the strides that Microsoft has made in building more helpful server management tools and in extending […]

Earlier this month at JavaOne, Sun made good on its pledge to release Java 2 Standard Edition as free software, a move that should mark the start of a beautiful new relationship between Linux and Java. Until now, licensing conflicts between Suns Java and prominent Linux distributions such as Debian or Fedora made it tough […]