Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category

OpenSUSE now a little more Open

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

Due out this Thursday is the latest offering from the OpenSUSE project. OpenSUSE 11.1 releases with some minor tweaks to the license agreement and removes some of the proprietary software that was originally bundled with it such as Acrobat and Java. Not surprising given Novell and Microsoft’s relationship. The modifications ...

Fedora 10 Released

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Out today is the latest offering from the Fedora Project.  Cambridge was just released and has some improvements over previous releases and uses some of the latest features, fixes, and wizardry! Fedora 10 was built on kernel version 2.6.27, which was officially released in October. This version improved compatibility for popular ...

Making the Switch

Friday, November 14th, 2008

With the failing economy and the rising costs of staying in business many compaines are deciding to switch platforms from Windows to Linux.  I happen to support Open Source software and would like to see more companies make the switch but, alas not everything in life is simple.  Linux has ...

Market Research indicates Linux will dominate mobile internet devices

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

During the Linuxworld Expo in San Francisco, ABI Research is forecasting that open source will play a huge roll in the market of portable internet devices.  The research projects that 305,000 mobile internet devices will be sold and that sales will be around 39.6 million by year 2012.  This is ...

Name your flavor!

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

When it comes to Linux you can find a myriad of different products out there.  I think the major market leaders are Ubuntu and Red Hat's offerings but, what do you use?  Personally, i'm a Red Hat fan because we use it at work and I use Fedora at home ...