It seems as if every day
a new Linux distribution
emerges into the world.
True, it can lead to some
confusion in the
marketplace and
fragmentation of the
Linux brand name, but
open source is all about
confusing the end user by
hav...
By this point in our
discussion you should be
comfortable with the idea
of the three file
descriptors associated
with the Linux command
line: stdin, stdout, and
stderr (pronounced
'standard in,' 'standard
out,' and 'standard
error').
From the start it seemed
obvious. In building an
electronic voting system
(known to the industry as
a DRE, or Direct
Recording Electronic),
you must follow four key
principles:
As Linux continues its
ascent in enterprise
computing, major vendor
support for
business-critical
applications is evolving
to keep pace. Among the
challenges enterprises
and vendors face is the
need for advanced
security and
acc...
The Linux Kernel Summit
takes place every year
and the last few years
it's been held in Ottawa,
Canada. Prior to that it
was in San Jose,
California. USENIX
organizes the whole event
and they're sponsored by
various companies; Oracl...
It became apparent to me
recently at the
LinuxWorld Conference and
Expo that our choice of
words matters. I was
standing at the Mozilla
booth when two guys came
up and peered over my
shoulder. 'They're
selling the T-shirts
here, t...
Data protection is never
more vital than in the
world of health care,
where sensitive and
life-impacting data is
the cornerstone of
medicine. More than 3,600
physicians in 26 states
turn to our company for
outsourced claims
reimbu...
You've seen time and time
again in these pages that
Linux rules on the server
side of the game market.
In the past I've focused
on MMORPGs, those
massive, persistent
worlds where hundreds or
thousands of people
interact with each ot...
I was introduced to Linux
in 1992, when the first
version was available. At
the time I was visiting
Poland and my company was
building an inventory
control system. One of
our partners had decided
to use Linux to run their
inventory ...
It's a fact of life for
most of us: we all
receive e-mail
solicitations to 'Make
Money Fast' or for a
'Mail Order Drugstore' or
offensive or adult
content that makes us
blush, especially when a
colleague is looking over
our should...
LWM's senior contributing
analyst, Bill Claybrook,
spoke with Doug Levin
(CEO and president),
Palle Pedersen (CTO), and
Karen Faulds Copenhaver
(executive VP and general
counsel) of Black Duck
Software in Waltham, MA,
about the comp...
It's been several years
since information
appliances came and went.
Devices like 3Com's
Audrey and the Netpliance
I-Opener were simplified
computers, designed for
Internet access.
In recent years, the
adoption of Linux in the
data center has
progressed beyond
infrastructure services
such as e-mail and file,
print, and Web serving.
Today, Linux is widely
used as a business
application server and is
moving de...
When clients ask me,
'Sam, honestly, how do I
get started with open
source?' it's usually
clear that the first step
is to install Mozilla
Firefox on their Windows
machines. The next step
is to install the
OpenOffice.org suite and
...
The battle between IT
professionals and those
who use the Internet for
destructive purposes is
raging - and there's no
end in sight. Reports of
computer crime and
incidents from the CERT
Coordination Center at
Carnegie Mellon
Univ...
In this issue, Bernard
Golden, author of
Succeeding with Open
Source, discusses open
source software, its pros
and cons, and how to
choose the right Linux
implementation for your
business.
The NAIS (NASA
Acquisition Internet
Service) organization
provides procurement Web
applications for the
entire agency through a
suite of 14 applications.
Tools relating to
efficient procurement,
such as posting
solicitations and l...
Online gamers have been
flocking online en masse
to play with friends,
online players, and
online gaming teams. Some
gamers go on to compete
in LAN tournaments and
online gaming leagues for
money and prizes. One
common type of onlin...
When companies purchase a
significant number of
machines and cluster them
together to solve their
computing needs, their
site environment often
drives specific
requirements for their
clusters.
So it's begun. Microsoft
is admitting in its
financial filings that
Linux and open source are
eating into its revenues.
Worse for them, they say,
is that what they're
seeing is the tip of the
iceberg.
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I took the advice of a
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and went a little out of
the way to go to a DLP
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Canonical CEO Mark
Shuttleworth has been
telling Reuters that Sun
is in the process of
certifying Ubuntu on some
of its low-end and
mid-size hardware. The
code it's
Because AJAX moves so
much application logic
from the server to the
client, it forces many
developers to master a
wider range of web
technologies than ever
before. T
I installed Ubuntu on the
Toshiba laptop. Ubuntu
installed in 15 minutes -
49 for Windows XP and 125
for Windows Vista.
Ubuntu's desktop came
right up. I opened the
Zend has decided, and I
think this is a great
idea, to join in with the
Eclipse community that
was founded in large part
by IBM a number of years
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I took the advice of a
friend of mine and
steered clear of the
'normal' movie theaters
and went a little out of
the way to go to a DLP
movie theater. The
experience 
Canonical CEO Mark
Shuttleworth has been
telling Reuters that Sun
is in the process of
certifying Ubuntu on some
of its low-end and
mid-size hardware. The
code it's 
I installed Ubuntu on the
Toshiba laptop. Ubuntu
installed in 15 minutes -
49 for Windows XP and 125
for Windows Vista.
Ubuntu's desktop came
right up. I opened the 
Zend has decided, and I
think this is a great
idea, to join in with the
Eclipse community that
was founded in large part
by IBM a number of years
ago. The values tha