Jason Brooks

eWEEK Labs got a hold of Vista Build 5472 on July 18, loaded it up on a test machine and took a quick tour. Microsoft officials told us that a Vista Release Candidate 1 build will be arriving by the end of the quarter. You can expect a more comprehensive review of the new operating […]

Canonicals Ubuntu 6.06 LTS is an excellent Linux-based operating system—so excellent, in fact, that it not only earned eWEEK Labs Analysts Choice designation but has also become our clear favorite among Linux desktop distributions. Click here to read the full review of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. 2 Canonicals Ubuntu 6.06 LTS is an excellent Linux-based operating […]

Now that the beta-palooza that was Microsofts WinHEC has passed, its time for the nine out of 10 desktop users who count themselves as Windows/Office users to spend a sleepy summer dreaming of translucent Vista sidebar gadgets and sliding Office 2007 UI ribbons until RTM (or, perhaps, the more conventionally wise SP1) arrives to trade […]

Novells OpenSUSE 10.1 is a solid, multipurpose Linux-based operating system. In addition to being a very good distribution in its own right, it offers an early peek at the SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop product that Novell is set to ship this summer. OpenSUSE 10.1, like all Linux distributions, bundles a broad assortment of open-source applications […]

Novells OpenSUSE 10.1 is a solid, multipurpose Linux-based operating system that—in addition to being a very good distribution in its own right —offers an early peek at the SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop product that Novell is set to ship this summer. Click here to read the full review of OpenSUSE 10.1. 2 Novells OpenSUSE 10.1 […]

At Winhec May 23, Microsoft released Build 5384 of Windows Vista, aka Windows Vista Beta 2. Based on eWeek Labs tests of the near-Beta 2 Build 5381, we can report that Vista has been progressing steadily, but it will require some more tightening before it will be ready to shed its beta label. In particular, […]

eWeek labs recently tested Longhorn Server builds 5381 and 5384—our first look at the server operating system—and we were impressed by the way that Microsofts forthcoming refresh has progressed, inside and out. Superficially, Longhorn Server expands on the ease-of-configuration strengths of Windows Server 2003. Under the hood, Longhorn Server sports a new TCP/IP stack along […]

eWEEK Labs tested Longhorn Server Builds 5381 and 5384—our first look at the server operating system—and we were impressed by the way that Microsofts forthcoming refresh has progressed, inside and out. Superficially, Longhorn Server expands on the ease-of-configuration strengths of Windows Server 2003. Under the hood, Longhorn Server sports a new TCP/IP stack along with […]

At WinHEC May 23, Microsoft released Build 5384 of Windows Vista, a.k.a. Windows Vista Beta 2. Based on eWEEK Labs tests of the near-Beta 2 Build 5381, we can report that Vista has been progressing steadily, but it will require some more tightening up before it will be ready to shed its beta label. In […]

Trusted operating systems have been used for some time to lock down the most sensitive of information in the most sensitive of organizations. But with security concerns rising and changing by the hour, its now a matter of trust for any organization looking to tighten its computing ship. Several vendors, including Red Hat, Sun Microsystems […]