Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Odds are most of us will never need the network throughput speeds of 2GB Fibre Channel or iSCSI or 10GB Ethernet. But, if you’re working at a data center with hundreds to thousands of servers, clusters and terabyte-sized databases, then every millisecond matters. This is why Intel is promoting a new, fast way of transporting […]

During the last several months, the Software Freedom Law Center has gone on the warpath to defend the GPL. On Dec. 17, the SFLC announced its second win in its four lawsuits against companies it says have violated the General Public License, as Xterasys, a Wi-Fi OEM, has agreed to settle. The SFLC had filed […]

Dell has told DesktopLinux.com that it will be announcing Dec. 19 that it will be releasing PCs with Ubuntu 7.10 (aka Gutsy Gibbon) as part of its Dell Consumer Linux lineup along with the ability to legally play DVDs. According to Dell spokesperson Anne B. Camden, the “Dell Inspiron 530N desktop and Inspiron 1420N notebook […]

Even before I picked up Unix, I worked on networks. While networking has gotten simpler, it’s almost all TCP/IP now instead of Arcnet, Token-Ring and a half dozen dusty wiring and protocol schemes. The services that use networking have gotten ever more powerful and more complicated. That’s why a book like Carla Schroder’s Linux Networking […]

The first thing we can say about the Linux desktop in 2007 is that there are more users than ever. The Linux Foundation 2006 survey had fewer than 10,000 people signing in. This year more than 20,000 Linux desktop users reported in. Who are these users? Most of them, 69.4 percent, work in small companies […]

Open-source projects often face the problem of keeping track of a project’s code, while avoiding stifling developers’ creativity. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, claims it has a solution to that problem: Bazaar 1.0, its new version control system. Unlike most VCSs (version control systems), Bazaar is a distributed, rather than centralized, system. This may […]

After an unexpected delay of eight days, Novell finally announced its financial results for its fourth fiscal quarter and 2007 fiscal year, which ended Oct. 31, 2007. Novell reported net revenue for the overall year of $932 million, a loss of $26 million or 8 cents per share, although the company also reported 69 percent […]

Second in the Linux server business to leader Red Hat, Novell is continuing to strive for major server wins. In its latest significant victory, Novell announced that Office Depot has elected to consolidate its server infrastructure on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 1. In the past, Office Depot, with offices in 43 countries, […]

Do you really like OpenOffice.org as your office suite? Would you like to be able to use it on any computer with an Internet connection? If you answered yes to both those questions, you’ll be interested in Ulteo’s beta of Ulteo Online Desktop, which allows the use of OpenOffice.org over the Internet as SAAS (software […]

One of the oldest jokes about the Internet goes, “Imminent death of the Internet predicted, GIF at 11.” Just the acronym “GIF” gives you an idea how long people have been predicting that the Internet was about to be overwhelmed by traffic. To prevent our cable and DSL modems from delivering Hayes 1200-baud SmartModem-like performance, […]