Jason Brooks

For many IT administrators, a piece of Microsoft software—particularly one as central to an enterprise as Windows—isnt ripe for rollout until the first service pack release. Judging from the number of security and bug fixes addressed in Service Pack 1, it paid to be cautious with Windows XP. In eWEEK Labs tests of Windows XP […]

Yesterday, the file system team from the OpenBeOS Project (one of several current efforts to bring the BeOS back to life as open-source software) announced that the fruit of their efforts, OpenBFS, has reached beta stage and is ready for testing. Its been a while since Ive maintained a partition for BeOS—Id been awfully interested […]

As eWEEKs own Peter Galli reported earlier this week, Red Hats expanding prominence in the enterprise Linux market–coupled with skepticism toward UnitedLinux as a viable Red Hat rival–has some wondering whether the crimson-capped ones will come to dominate Linux, Microsoft-style. While the parallel may be tempting to draw – the reign of Microsoft and its […]

If you find a feature missing in the K desktop environment, come back in a couple of months. Its surprising how quickly new capabilities can make their way into a piece of software when its developers neednt concern themselves with selling software updates timed for some holiday release date. Last month, the KDE Project made […]

Apples made a lot of waves in the press with its “Make the Switch” advertising campaign, but when it comes to my own personal computing choices, those efforts have registered as little more than a ripple. Users and reviewers of the latest, OS X-based Macs tend to laud the systems for their great beauty and […]

Microsoft Corp. has spent the last couple of years piling enterprise-friendly, network-dependent features into its Pocket PC mobile operating system, but these features do little good when devices lack network connectivity. T-Mobile USAs T-Mobile Pocket PC Phone Edition provides that connectivity, enabling companies to make more of the Pocket PC operating system by pairing it […]

When Microsoft launched Windows XP, a theming system for controlling Windows look and feel was a line item in XPs Whats New summaries. However, with a mere three themes, the feature left much to be desired compared with interface style options provided by other operating systems. Enter Stardocks $30 Skin Studio XP, which lets users […]

During the past few years, flash memory has begun appearing in more and more places. Thumb-drive-type devices, for example, pair a chunk of flash memory with a USB interface, generally for ferrying personal data or large files among computers. I havent gotten very excited over thumb drives, however. The devices often cant be upgraded, and […]

Microsoft Corp. has spent the last couple of years piling enterprise-friendly, network-dependent features into its Pocket PC mobile operating system, but these features do little good when devices lack network connectivity. T-Mobile USAs T-Mobile Pocket PC Phone Edition provides that connectivity, enabling companies to make more of the Pocket PC OS by pairing it with […]

I heard on the radio this morning that fishermen discovered a penguin in Alaska, a world away from its customary South American digs. The dispatch got me thinking about Linux and its disdain for remaining within the bounds of any single computing habitat. Linuxs wandering ways have landed the open-source operating system onto all manner […]