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Sun Solaris 10 review
Reviews Moreover, Sun has opted to make Solaris 10 available for free download and, with claims to be able to run Linux applications natively on the new OS, is clearly making a play for the corporate open source market.
[April 21, 2005, 9:25]
Linux Fundamentals review
Reviews On this occasion, StayAhead Training brought together three related courses into one classroom under the umbrella of 'Linux/Unix fundamentals'. The content of the course covered the history of Unix and Linux, common shells, basic syntax, the X...
[May 1, 2007, 14:23]
Desktop Linux for small business review
Reviews As desktop Linux becomes ever more professional, and with Microsoft still a year away from shipping its new Vista version of Windows, could now be the time to go open-source on the desktop? Of course, circumstances will vary from company to company...
[November 24, 2005, 12:40]
Lotus Symphony 1.2 review
Reviews Available in Linux OS X and Windows versions, Lotus Symphony can be downloaded from IBM's web site with a free log-in ID. There are also versions for 64-bit operating systems, including 64-bit Linux. However, it's not open source — it's a...
[February 9, 2009, 10:32]
Letting in Linux review
Reviews Want to learn more about open-source software and the major contributors to the many Linux distributions? It's out there, and it's free -- or at least close to it -- but you just haven't had the nerve to take the plunge and try Linux.
[July 12, 2004, 9:40]
Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring review
Reviews The Linux One version also comes with proprietary drivers for use with a range of third-party devices, while for purists there's a totally open-source implementation (Mandriva Free) without them. Let’s start by getting the updates out of the way...
[May 28, 2008, 10:42]
Moblin v2.0 beta: screenshots review
Reviews The latest netbook OS contender is an Intel-instigated Linux distribution called Moblin, which is now hosted by the Linux Foundation. A number of applications are bundled with Moblin — and the platform's GNOME Mobile basis means it will support a...
[May 21, 2009, 7:46]
ASUS Eee PC 701 review
Reviews And because it's a Linux machine, you can download as much open-source software as will fit into the available storage space. Part of the reason the Eee PC is so inexpensive is that it eschews Windows in favour of Linux — in this case, ASUS's own...
[October 29, 2007, 10:08]
Lotus Symphony: a first look review
Reviews Lotus Symphony is a free productivity software suite from IBM, for both Windows and Linux users. Our early look at Symphony reveals the package to be closer to that of the free, open-source OpenOffice than Microsoft's near-ubiquitous and all...
[September 24, 2007, 7:34]
Alternatives to Microsoft Office review
Reviews Linux Linux Linux And IBM just rolled out a free test version of its Windows- and Linux-compatible Lotus Symphony suite. Windows, Mac, Linux; Java-enabled browsers Microsoft does not support the Open Document Format that the open-source community...
[October 1, 2007, 16:21]
Fedora Core 5 review
Reviews Still, that’s what Fedora Core is all about -- trying out and experimenting with the latest Linux technologies for yourself. Most of the big changes, however, are to be found under the surface -- starting with the Linux kernel, which is updated to...
[March 24, 2006, 12:05]
Lotus Notes/Domino 8, Beta 2 review
Reviews It also makes it much easier to run the client on different operating systems, although IBM has only released betas for Windows, AIX, Solaris and Linux at this point. We didn't have much success getting this part of the Beta to work, but the idea...
[April 20, 2007, 16:54]
Ubuntu Linux 5.10 review
Reviews Unlike all the other Linux distros we have tried, Ubuntu does not ask you to set a root password during the install process. Despite the 'Linux for human beings' line, the Ubuntu installer isn't the most friendly.
[November 24, 2005, 12:30]
Mozilla Firefox 1.0 review
Reviews Firefox 1.0 runs on a variety of Windows operating systems, including Windows 98 through XP, as well as on Mac OS X and several varieties of Linux, including Red Hat Linux 8.0. Firefox is based on open-source code, which is both a good and a bad...
[November 10, 2004, 12:58]
Your antivirus software has B.O. review
Reviews Some vulnerabilities were quite rare: McAfee VirusScan, for instance, produced a buffer overflow -- but only when processing LHA compacted files on Linux. And given that it's open source, the fixes haven't all been assimilated to all the...
[December 12, 2005, 10:35]
Renewed browser wars: IE v Firefox review
Reviews Linux distributions Mozilla offers a whole suite of secure, independent, open-source Internet tools, but it recently streamlined its browser component and named it Firefox. The benefit of this new browser project is that unlike IE, this open-source...
[November 11, 2004, 8:22]
SUSE Linux 10 review
Reviews SUSE Linux 10 includes some features not yet supported in Novell Linux Desktop, but which may come on-board the enterprise flagship in due course. SUSE Linux is available as a free unsupported download, or as a supported package costing €51.68...
[November 14, 2005, 15:50]
SuSE Linux Desktop review
Reviews The quick-moving open source community may soon solve the problem, but that will not be good enough for companies wishing to install Linux desktops today. As is often the case in the Linux world, an open-source alternative to the proprietary...
[July 28, 2003, 8:23]
Build your own Linux server review
Reviews Eliminate distros aimed more at desktop use, and you're left with Novell's SuSE Linux and Red Hat Linux (RHL), both of which have plenty of open source drivers and other software support. Why build your own Linux server?
[April 22, 2004, 9:35]
Red Hat Linux 9 Professional review
Reviews Red Hat 9 dramatically improves the OS's display of fonts, something that Mandrake Linux also does well in its recent 9.1 release. Mandrake's fonts still look sharper in the OpenOffice productivity suite, but Red Hat's look better in the Mozilla...
[May 13, 2003, 10:03]
