Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

At eWEEK, we’ve just put up a new slide show: 15 Open-Source Business Influencers. It hasn’t been up for more than a few hours and I’ve already gotten some questions about our choices.So, here are some answers.First, why isn’t Richard M. Stallman, father of GNU software and “free software” on the list? Ah, well, the […]

I’ve been running Windows XP3 since release candidate 1 was made available to TechNet members on December 3, 2007. And you know what? It just works. I reviewed XP SP3 RC1, not long after it was out. I was impressed. This version of XP is faster, has improved security and, in the months since then, […]

If you were an open-source, non-profit developer and you needed legal help, you went to the Software Freedom Law Center. If, however, you were in the open-source business and you needed free software savvy legal help, finding a competent attorney could be a challenge. So it is that the SFLC has announced the formation of […]

If you want broadband Internet connectivity, chances are you use a DSL, or cable-modem-based landline connection at home or a T1, T3 or frame-relay at the office. WiMAX technology promises to replace that last mile connection with a point-to-multipoint wireless connection in the same way that 802.11 Wi-Fi has replaced the wired LAN. WiMAX, the […]

If I know anything, I know operating systems. My first one was CICS/MVS on an Amdahl mainframe, followed by VAX/VMS, CP/M-80, TOPS-20, more Unix and Linux variations than you could shake a stick at, every version of DOS and Windows from 1.0 on to today. For sheer annoyance value, Vista takes the prize. There have […]

OK, so we’re not there yet. Well, none of us who isn’t running supercomputers or one heck of a cluster is there yet, anyway. But as RAM continues to drop in price, I can see the day coming.Come the day we get a terabyte of RAM in our systems, we’ll find a need for it. […]

For the first time in ages, the sale of new PCs with Windows as a percentage of the PC market is declining sharply. The new winner is the Mac, but, while no one does a good job of tracking the still-new, pre-installed Linux desktop market, it’s also clear that Linux is finally making impressive inroads […]

I would have liked to have been able to tell you in great detail exactly what desktops and laptops will soon be coming from Hewlett-Packard equipped with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10.I’d like to tell you, but HP is still holding its Linux desktop cards close to its chest and not revealing any details. This […]

For far longer than any of its developers would care to recall, Wine, the best program to use in Linux to run Windows applications, has been in development. Now, at long last, Wine 1.0 is scheduled to be released.To be exact, Wine (Wine is not an emulator) 1.0 should appear June 6, on the project’s […]

Novell and SAP have announced that they will customize SAP’s enterprise applications to work even more efficiently with SUSE Linux Enterprise and its associated virtualization and identity management technologies. According to the press release, Novell and SAP will optimize SUSE Linux Enterprise for SAP’s data center applications, further promote SAP’s SUSE Linux-based Business All-in-One solutions […]