Public Beta for Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Red Hat announced the public beta availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), a web service that provides resizeable compute capacity in the cloud and…
Microsoft FUDwatch: Windows vs. Linux security
It's been at least a week since the last bout of Microsoft FUD hit the wires, so I guess it was time for a new wave. Today's FUD comes from an article Microsoft released on how its security…
Open source management tools gaining traction
Open source management software has become a viable alternative to commercial products, and a recent rash of partnerships proves it, one analyst says.
Red Hat and Hyperic have announced…
The emergence of enterprise class open source
Steve Bale, general manager of EnterpriseDB International, discusses the amalgam of open source and private enterprise and the new opportunities this trend offers VARs.
Now more than ever,…
A California city rebuilds network using all open source software
When the city of Madera, Calif., needed a new voice system, it turned to open source technology -- not just for the IP telephony but for an entire network-infrastructure overhaul and loads of…
DirectX 9.0c on Linux with Wine
Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms. Here's how to get…
Torvalds On Where Linux Is Headed In 2008
The creator of Linux is excited about solid-state drives, expects progress in graphics and wireless networking, and says the operating system is strong in virtualization despite his personal lack…
Linuxlookup Weekly Wrap-up for Nov 25 2007
Here is the Linuxlookup.com weekly wrap-up, some of the hottest stories in the Linux community this week were...
- Linux faces up to Microsoft
- YaST Survey Finished
- Global…
Jack In The Box Runs On Linux
"So my local Jack In The Box has been displaying it’s penguin pride lately. From the other screens I saw flashing by it seems that the tv system is driven by a dual-core Dell running Fedora. From…
Open-source software gamble for Google
Can something you give away for free turn into a gold mine? That's the multimillion-dollar question Google Inc. is betting on with its push into open-source software.
From a technophile's…