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Linux beats Microsoft with Itanium support
News Itanium, its operating systems, and applications such as databases all are considered evaluation versions not yet ready for production use. Meanwhile, compatible production versions of Linux from Red Hat, Turbolinux and Caldera Systems are...
[December 22, 2000, 8:39]
Companies choose not to pick up a penguin
News Yet tech Web sites continue to fill pages with debates about the total implementation and support costs of Linux compared to Unix and Windows operating systems. Almost every large company has at least thought about Linux, and many of them are...
[November 7, 2001, 12:45]
Microsoft puts 64-bit Windows to the test
News While Linux and other operating systems will also be available for Itanium, sources close to Intel say the company is banking on Windows and its huge market share to drive sales. New 64-bit systems can accomplish roughly double the amount of work...
[May 24, 2001, 10:19]
Unisys ClearPath: Building on a New Platform
White Papers The result of this partnership will be a common platform that will support the ClearPath operating environment and management tools as well as multiple operating systems, including Microsoft Windows and Linux.
[June 5, 2007, 1:00]
Dell's Linux PC launch founders
News All its PCs previously sold in the UK ran Windows operating systems. But, after promising that the systems would be available today, Dell faced ongoing technical problems. Customers trying to view details of the systems via the Ubuntu link...
[August 8, 2007, 18:25]
Linux: The back door is open
News By changing the underlying economics of operating systems, in time-honoured Net fashion. Cisco Systems and Northern Telecom. What will also drive usage among information systems (IS) managers is that the code itself is free.
[September 15, 1998, 10:30]
Sun's Java misses the XP bus
News The company acknowledged that because of timing issues, no PC maker has opted to incorporate Sun's version of the Java Virtual Machine -- or JVM -- in Windows XP systems. Naila Seif, director of software marketing for Compaq's Access Business Group...
[August 21, 2001, 8:51]
Bankruptcy and more layoffs in Linux world
News The moves will leave the company with about 110 employees working on core projects: the Embedix and RTXC operating systems and programming tools to build computing systems using them, Chief Executive Bryan Sparks said in a statement.
[September 13, 2001, 12:54]
Charity's battle with Microsoft hits a nerve
News Colin and Therresa Bayes, who set up PCs for Kids in 1999, have been embroiled in a standoff with Microsoft over the installation of obsolete operating systems on recycled computers which are donated to underprivileged kids.
[July 26, 2001, 11:08]
Red Hat releases newest Fedora
News Among other features, Fedora Core 4 -- released on Monday -- comes with the Xen virtualisation software, which lets multiple operating systems run on the same computer. In years ahead, those systems could become harder to find as Apple moves to...
[June 14, 2005, 11:45]
Support is major Linux worry for the enterprise
News It is fundamental to our business operations to create applications independent of all operating systems," explained Grant Straker, chief technology officer of Australian developer tools vendor Straker Interactive.
[October 17, 2002, 8:07]
Intel confirms Pentium bug, seeks workaround
News An Intel spokeswoman in Santa Clara, Calif.said a crash occurs when a user intentionally adds some obscure code to the DOS, Linux, Windows 95 or NT operating systems. Still, there are tens of millions of installed clients running those operating...
[November 11, 1997, 10:49]
IBM chooses Linux for Indian desktop
News Abdul Kalam in which he supported more widespread use of open-source operating systems. Read the latest headlines at ZDNet UK's Operating Systems News Section. IBM in India has launched a desktop computer sold pre-loaded with the Linux operating...
[June 3, 2003, 11:21]
Adobe calls a halt to FreeHand
News Adobe does not plan to develop and deliver any new feature-based releases of FreeHand, or to deliver patches or updates for new operating systems or hardware. It should come as no surprise, but Adobe Systems has officially declared an end to...
[May 17, 2007, 11:25]
AOL keeps Lindows at arm's length
News Lindows.com, like other "alternative" operating systems such as Mandrake Linux, is installed on inexpensive PCs from retailer Wal-Mart, which cost under $200 (about £128). The Netscape technology is also available on Windows, Macintosh and other...
[October 2, 2002, 15:12]
Novell readies revamped NetWare
News After leading the market for network operating systems during the 1980s and early 1990s, Novell lost ground to Microsoft and its Windows operating system. The addition of Java and Web services software from Silverstream into NetWare should allow...
[February 7, 2003, 15:16]
Microsoft releases Vista programming tools
News It will be shipped with Vista and also made available in versions for Microsoft's current client and server operating systems, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, Bixhorn said. The release is "a significant checkpoint" on the road toward delivery...
[January 19, 2006, 8:15]
Open-source flaw threatens Microsoft
News As reported earlier this week by ZDNet UK, a flaw in the zlib software-compression library could leave much of the systems based on the open-source operating system Linux open to attack. A security flaw in open-source software used by Linux and...
[March 15, 2002, 8:57]
HP ProLiant ML310 review
Reviews Otherwise, you can choose a Celeron or Pentium 4 processor rated between 2.8GHz and 3.4GHz; up to 4GB of memory; from one to four 80GB to 250GB 7,200rpm SATA hard drives or 36GB to 146GB 15,000rpm SCSI drives, with or without RAID support; an...
[June 24, 2005, 9:30]
Red Hat rains on Xen parade
News Xen, whose development is led by US-based startup XenSource, allows users to run multiple operating systems as guest virtual machines on the same hardware, potentially allowing for greater utilisation of resources.
[July 31, 2006, 13:00]
