Jason Brooks

In my recent review of Red Hat’s Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and its brand-new Xen virtualization features a bit of a hard time with regard to the limitations of its management tools. Relative to the products of VMware, the current market/mind share leader in x86 server virtualization, Red Hat’s Xen implementation has a decidedly […]

My Microsoft Watch colleague Joe Wilcox recently blogged about a Microsoft advertising campaign for its beginning developer-oriented Visual Studio Express Edition, in which a picture of a young Bill Gates sits beside a caption that reads, “Inspiration Starts Somewhere.” However, in light of the patent troubles in which VOIP [voice over IP] pioneer Vonage now […]

Debian GNU/Linx is a popular Linux-based operating system with excellent software management tools and a development pace that is, depending on your perspective, saner or more plodding than those of its Linux distribution rivals. eWEEK Labs tested Debian 4.0, which recently hit FTP servers, and we were impressed to find that while the Debian project […]

In my recent review of Red Hats Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and its brand-new Xen virtualization features a bit of a hard time with regard to the limitations of its management tools. Relative to the products of VMware, the current market/mind share leader in x86 server virtualization, Red Hats Xen implementation has a decidedly […]

Version 5 of Red Hats Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system hit the streets last month, complete with a truckload of updated open-source components and brand-new support for server virtualization-courtesy of the Xen hypervisor project. eWEEK Labs tested RHEL 5 with a particular focus on its new virtualization features. While we think that Red Hat […]

After a few months delay—during which the Free Software Foundation mulled over how to make the world safe for GNU-manity in the face of Microsoft and Novells patent, collaboration and baby-seal-clubbing accord—theres a new draft of the GNU General Public License out for comment. For now, the most promising thing to report about the draft […]

When I learned that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, which is a big release for Red Hat Ive been looking forward to for some time, was coming out on March 14, one of the first thoughts that crossed my mind was, “Great—whens CentOS 5 coming out?” Even though Red Hat has always been very nice […]

The next stable update to the Linux kernel, Version 2.6.21, is slated to include a new feature submitted by VMware called VMI. Virtualized operating system instances can enjoy performance and management benefits if their kernels are modified to communicate with the hypervisor under which they run. This arrangement is called paravirtualization. The initial promise of […]

Virtual Iron Softwares Virtual Iron builds on the Xen hypervisor and other open-source components to form an effective virtualization solution with a price tag low enough to keep market leader VMware on its toes. During tests of Virtual Iron 3.5, eWEEK Labs was particularly impressed with the products provisioning capabilities: We simply plugged our virtualization […]

In the roughly four years since a group of Cambridge University researchers delivered the paper “Xen and the Art of Virtualization” at the ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, the Xen hypervisor virtualization project has become the poster child for the power of the open-source development model. Backed by the efforts of some of ITs […]