Jason Brooks

[WP_IMAGE] I’ve just returned from Atlanta, where Cameron and I attended a Microsoft Server and Tools reviewer workshop packed with cool product presentations, such as those for Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud computing services, and for the LightSwitch non-developer development platform. However, I found my my enthusiasm for Azure and for LightSwitch somewhat stunted upon finding […]

This week at its Google I/O conference, the Web giant announced that Chrome OS, its long-awaited, “nothing but the Web” operating system, will soon be available for purchase, powering a pair of Samsung and Acer “Chromebooks.” [WP_IMAGE] My overall take on ChromeOS hasn’t much changed since early developer builds of the platform first turned up […]

GNOME Shell represents a new desktop approach intended to make applications easier to access, limit workspace distractions and make more use of modern desktop and notebook hardware. Canonical, for its part, has broken ranks with GNOME by opting to not participate in GNOME Shell, instead developing for Ubuntu a separate interface, called “Unity.” Unity is […]

[WP_IMAGE] Late last month, The Attachmate Group completed its acquisition of Novell. Moving forward, Novell and SUSE Linux will operate, alongside NetIQ and Attachmate, as four separate business units-a reorganization that unravels the 2003 SUSE acquisition that had established Novell as a Linux and open source player. In the years following its SUSE pickup, Novell […]

Novell’s SUSE Manager 1.2 provides users of the company’s line of enterprise-oriented, Linux-based operating systems with a server management tool built from the ground up with Linux in mind. SUSE Manager, which began shipping in March, is based on Spacewalk 1.3, an open-source project born out of Red Hat’s own server management product, Satellite, the […]

The GNOME Foundation, which has overseen the development of the default graphical environments for the Linux- and Unix-based operating systems from Red Hat, Novell, Canonical, Sun Microsystems, Oracle and others, has diverged from the consistent look and feel that marked its namesake desktop environment for years, with its new GNOME Shell interface. GNOME Shell represents […]

Installation I installed SUSE Manager on a virtual machine running on VMware vSphere—the product came on an iso image bundled with a copy of SLES 11. Oracle XE SUSE Manager ships with a built-in Oracle XE database, which I used for my tests. In a production environment, Novell recommends using a full-sized version of Oracle […]

Novell’s SUSE Manager 1.2 provides users of the company’s enterprise-oriented Linux-based operating systems with a server-management tool built from the ground up with Linux in mind. SUSE Manager, which began shipping in March, is based on Spacewalk 1.3, an open-source project born out of Red Hat’s own server-management product, Satellite, whose code Red Hat freed […]

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