I've always been fond of
the saying 'There are no
absolutes' because I find
the irony appealing. You
see, despite being the
editor-in-chief of a
leading Linux magazine, I
don't believe there's a
best choice in operating
systems othe...
In a small or
medium-sized business,
the cost of telephone
equipment, phone lines,
and long distance calls
can easily reach tens to
hundreds of thousands of
dollars. A chief
executive officer or
operations manager,
looking for way...
Open source telephony
will play a key role in
keeping North American
companies competitive in
today's global
marketplace. Not only
does open source reduce
upfront and operational
costs, it increases
productivity and furthers
innov...
Much as some people would
like to paint Open Source
licensing as a viral
disease that can cause
untold problems for
innocent software
companies, the truth is a
lot less dramatic.
Fedora Core (http://fedor
a.redhat.com) is one of
the world's most popular
Linux distributions in
part from support by Red
Hat and a strong
community of users. It
also has been a proving
ground for Red Hat to
develop technologies tha...
You don't have to be
around Linux for long
before you hear about
'the dependency problem,'
which is no problem at
all for many users -
until the day it bites
them. In a nutshell, the
problem is that most
Linux applications depend
...
There's been some
interesting debate in the
Open Source community
regarding Open Source
applications that run
both on Linux and
Windows. One camp feels
most users select an
operating system based on
its available
applications. If ...
For many businesses, the
Web storefront is the
only point of contact for
customers, and for others
it's a major one. As
such, it's important that
this architecture meets
the needs of your
business, not just from a
technology point o...
We have all done it
before. You accidentally
type in the wrong
argument to rm or select
the wrong file for
deletion. As you hit
enter, you notice your
mistake and your stomach
drops. You reach for the
backup of the system and
real...
Every company that
develops software whether
for internal use or to
sell to customers is now
working in a new
'mixed-IP' environment
created by the spread of
Open Source. This new
environment's impact on
software development has
been dramatic.
One of the obvious
driving factors around
enterprise Linux adoption
has been the significant
cost savings on software
and hardware. Quite
simply, the hardware is
cheaper and the OS is
cheaper. By taking
advantage of the
explosion ...
At first glance, you
might think accounting
systems are the main type
of software that keep you
using Windows systems.
QuickBooks, Peachtree,
Microsoft Money, and
Quicken all run on
Windows, and not directly
in Linux. These programs...
Some exciting things are
happening in Barcelona,
Spain. In order of
presumed interest to
LinuxWorld readers, these
are: MareNostrum, the
fifth fastest
supercomputer in the
world, which runs SuSE
Linux on over 2,000 IBM
blades, was...
In 1998, Michael Kunze
wrote an article for c't,
a biweekly German
computing magazine,
hoping to demonstrate
that free software could
be an effective
substitute for its
commercial counterparts.
In the article, he coined
the acrony...
In the beginning, the
800-pound gorilla of
online industry was
Prodigy, Inc. This joint
venture between IBM and
Sears Roebuck boasted 2.5
million subscribers in
1993, the year before
Netscape broke open the
Internet.
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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
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
ago. The values tha
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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