Vol: 2 Iss: 11 Read back Issues

Open Source and Open Standards As the Linux and open source communities continue to expand, there's a lot of discussion happening around the ideas of open source and open standards. It's not enough, people say, to just have the software code be open source - th... Oct. 29, 2004  Reads: 16,309

Free Software Wins Major Battles, But What About the War? The Free Software Foundation was founded when software was becoming increasingly proprietary and restricted, with software vendors asserting more and more control over what customers could do with their software. Nov. 14, 2004  Reads: 11,435  Replies: 1

Exclusive Linux.SYS-CON.com Interview: Where Is Sun Going with Linux? Linux.SYS-CON.com's senior contributing analyst, Bill Claybrook, spoke with John Loiacono, executive vice president of Sun Microsystem's Software Group about his new job, and what he has in store for Sun's Linux strategy. Nov. 12, 2004  Reads: 36,280  Replies: 17

OSDL's Data Center Linux Data Center Linux (DCL), one of four OSDL initiatives, has the goal to accelerate Linux adoption in corporate data centers. DCL provides a center of gravity for developers, users, vendors, and the open source community to work tog... Oct. 29, 2004  Reads: 14,189

Linux on the Desktop: Bringing Linux into the Corporate Environment Linux is coming to a desktop near you. In the last year the question being asked has gone from 'Can it happen?' to 'When and how do we get there?' Nov. 24, 2004  Reads: 17,554  Replies: 4

Rumors of Microsoft's Demise Are Premature...But Not Unthinkable Penguinistas have long loved to ruminate over a beer about the potential reversal of market share between Microsoft and companies offering open source solutions. But such ruminations were often left to discussions at the pub or the ... Nov. 12, 2004  Reads: 28,896  Replies: 19

Cover Story: Linux 3D - The Future Looks Bright OpenGL (the open standard graphics library originally developed by SGI, pioneers in computer visualization) is fully supported under Linux, meaning that accelerated viewport previews, such as rotating around a textured and shaded ... Nov. 29, 2004  Reads: 25,116  Replies: 2

Improving Swing Performance: JIT vs AOT Compilation The JFC/Swing API, natively precompiled on Linux for the first time, delivers measurable improvement in Java GUI performance. The Excelsior Engineering Team has ported Excelsior JET, a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) with an ahead-of-t... Nov. 11, 2004  Reads: 34,262  Replies: 5

Building Secure Wireless Networks While many paranoid system administrators and users still consider any WLAN to be a gaping hole, these networks can be successfully secured against snooping and unauthorized access with a little thought and effort. Fortunately for ... Oct. 29, 2004  Reads: 23,048

CanadaDrugs.com, from Online to In-Hand This article describes how an industry-leading online pharmacy safely and successfully fills thousands of prescriptions each day using an ordering and workflow system built on top of SUSE Linux and Emic's clustering application solution. Oct. 29, 2004  Reads: 12,931

Managing Digital Pictures with Linux In August, as the proverbial dog days of summer were upon us, I found that news in the Linux world slowed as many people went on vacation with their families. Consequently, these Linux users spent a considerable amount of time sna... Oct. 29, 2004  Reads: 17,250

AdvancedTCA and Carrier Grade Linux Telecommunications service providers face a tough challenge in today's marketplace. To stay competitive and profitable, they must rapidly introduce new voice and data services while, at the same time, continue to reduce capital ex... Oct. 29, 2004  Reads: 9,158

Obsessive-Compulsive Addict Meets the Ultimate Barcode Scanner First things first. This is a tale of addiction. It isn't pretty. If you have small children, you should probably keep this out of their hands until they're ready to deal with the frankly mature material involved. Oct. 29, 2004  Reads: 10,624