Jason Brooks

It seems as if a new Linux-based operating system is born every day, each facing the challenge of justifying its existence in a field thats already rather crowded with mature Linux distributions. But one relatively young Linux distribution worth keeping an eye on is Foresight Linux, a desktop-oriented platform that hit its Version 1.0 release […]

Among early adopters of Microsoft’s freshly minted Windows Vista operating system, the strongest reactions so far seem not to revolve around the system’s fancy new looks or its handy search facilities, but rather around Vista’s knack for asking permission to carry out operations that require administrative privileges. Summing up the annoyance felt by many Vista […]

While cruising through Slashdot this afternoon, I came upon an item in which Rolling Stone blogger Charles Coxe asks whether Apple may become Is the New Evil Empire. “Once but the student (see their classic 1984 ad, their PC vs. Mac ads and oh, everything else that’s ever come out of their mouth), it seems […]

After reading my colleage Joe Wilcox’s ebullient ode to the new Windows Vista commercial that appeared during Lost, I had to see it for myself. Here’s what I got: A click on the image brought me to Adobe’s site, where I was informed that I’d need to upgrade my Flash Player version to 9.0.31.0–which is […]

Linux and Apples Mac OS X are effective desktop operating systems, to be sure, but Microsofts Windows has such a big piece of the operating system market pie that many application vendors dont even bother making their products available for non-Windows platforms. CodeWeavers CrossOver 6.0, a commercial distribution of the open-source Wine Project, allows users […]

EWEEK Labs recently tested a beta release of VMwares “Fusion,” a desktop virtualization product for Mac OS X thats comparable in function to VMware Workstation but with a distinctively Apple-flavored appearance. When Fusion comes out of beta, it will compete with Parallels Parallels Workstation for the job of offering OS X users easy access to […]

It seems as if a new Linux-based operating system is born every day, with each facing the challenge of justifying its existence in a field thats already rather crowded with mature Linux distributions boasting active user bases and organized bodies to back them. But one relatively young Linux distribution worth keeping an eye on is […]

This morning I came across a Linux-supporting sysadmin’s tale of woe entitled: Ten years of pushing for Linux adoption in the workplace (and why I gave up.) To sum it up, the writer of the piece, Jim Sampson, has been trying to get Linux working with Microsoft Exchange since the mid-nineties, and he’s had nothing […]

Michael Geist – Vista’s Fine Print Raises Red Flags Microsoft responded to Guttman’s paper earlier this month, maintaining that content owners demanded the premium content restrictions. According to Microsoft, “if the policies[associated with the premium content] required protections that Windows Vista (tags: vista drm licensing microsoft) Vista Chattiness Is in the Eye (Ear?) of the […]

Once upon a time, when DOS walked the Earth, the command line was the primary user interface for most of our computers. Then, Windows came along, and Microsoft seemed set on leaving the command prompt to dry up and wither into obscurity. Fortunately, Microsoft has again turned its attention to the command line and, in […]