Jason Brooks

XenEnterprise 3.0 is the long-awaited first product from XenSource, the firm founded by members of the Xen open-source project to productize Xen virtualization technology and offer it up to enterprises out to boost server utilization and manageability. Click here to read the full review of XenEnterprise 3.0. 2 XenEnterprise 3.0 is the long-awaited first product […]

Weve seen a bevy of Vista builds lately, and each has made some improvement over the other. But, now that the day of reckoning for Vista is drawing near, eWeek Labs wanted to put the operating system to a real-world test—that is, what will it be like to upgrade a Windows XP machine to Vista? […]

Microsofts latest revised deadline for shipping Windows Vista, the long-awaited follow-on to its turn-of-the-millennium Windows XP, is right around the end of the year. eWEEK Labs tests of Vista Build 5568, a test release that Microsoft has characterized as very close to RC1, show that the operating system is gaining speed and losing quirks—quickly enough, […]

Yesterday I dropped by the Four Seasons Hotel to check out VMware’s public demo of its in-development virtualization software for OS X. I watched an Intel Mac Mini with 2GB of RAM run Windows XP within OS X, more or less the same way VMware Workstation or Player runs Windows within Windows or within Linux. […]

Ubuntu Linux 6.06 LTS—the free operating system that eWEEK Labs recently named the current Linux desktop champ—recently hit a sizable pothole on the road to enterprise-class stability. In a bug-fix update to the distributions xserver-xorg-core component—the system application responsible for serving Ubuntus graphical environment—the Ubuntu project team disabled the GUIs of many users upon their […]

Instalinux.com is a handy Web site from which users can create customized installation images for a handful of different Linux distributions. The sites service, SystemDesigner, is free, and administrators should find it particularly helpful when provisioning multiple machines—either physical or virtualized. The Instalinux site was put together by former Hewlett-Packard employee Chris Slater, and SystemDesigner […]

Virtualization and Linux can be a match made in heaven, which is why enterprise Linux heavyweights Red Hat and Novell are pushing so hard to make support for virtualization a highlight of their respective mainstream Linux operating systems. Also recognizing this potential—but pursuing a markedly different tack toward realizing it—is rPath, a company that offers […]

Weve seen a bevy of Vista builds lately, and each has made some improvement over the other. But, now that the day of reckoning for Vista is drawing near, eWEEK Labs wanted to put the operating system to a real-world test—that is, what will it be like to upgrade a Windows XP machine to Vista? […]

Instalinux.com is a handy Web site from which users can create customized installation images for a handful of different Linux distributions. The sites service, SystemDesigner, is free, and administrators should find it particularly helpful when provisioning multiple machines—either physical or virtualized. The Instalinux site was put together by former Hewlett-Packard employee Chris Slater, and SystemDesigner […]

On Aug. 25, Microsoft released to testers Vista Build 5536, the latest in a long line of sneak peeks at Microsofts forthcoming desktop operating system. eWEEK Labs tests of Build 5536 show that the operating system is gaining speed and losing quirks as its release nears. We downloaded the new build, which is marked “Pre-RC1,” […]