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Network attached storage offers efficient file sharing

Author: JT Smith

InfoWorld writeup about new NAS [Network Attached Storage] devices and how to use them; most will work with any OS.

Category:

  • Unix

Linux news and new product briefs

Author: JT Smith

General wrapup of the last two weeks’ Linux-oriented news from LinuxWorld. (If you’ve been following NewsForge you’ve seen all these stories already.)

Category:

  • Linux

E-Books go mainstream

Author: JT Smith

PCWorld.com article says mainstream publisher “…Simon & Schuster plans full season of digital books, including a timely election report.”

Category:

  • Linux

Jesses Berst says Internet Explorer is not the only Web browser

Author: JT Smith

ZDNet’s Jesse Berst talks about alternatives to Microsoft Internet Explorer, which (according to the article) is now used by 86.08% of Internet users.

Sony claims Crusoe-powered laptops will be out in October

Author: JT Smith

CNN.com story says Crusoes will be in Viao Picturebooks due in stores mid – to – late October. Other laptop vendors expect to have Cruso-based products out in November or December.

Category:

  • Unix

New 64-bit HP Unix server to compete with Sun

Author: JT Smith

HP’s new ‘Superdome’ server is supposed to help HP take some of the big-time Unix server market away from Sun, but in an Inter@ctive Week story, writer Ken Popovich expresses skepticism about their potential success.

Category:

  • Unix

KDE may form ‘League’ to compete with Gnome Foundation

Author: JT Smith

“The KDE Project, the group of hackers that created
KDE, is now contemplating the creation of some kind
of foundation entity — which some are calling the
KDE League — to spearhead the direction and
development of KDE,” apparently in an attempt to coutnerbalance the much-covered, recently-formed Gnome Foundation, according to a story at ZDNet News.

Category:

  • Open Source

Humor: Ex-Corel technician’s rogue Web site

Author: JT Smith

At the humor site Segfault.org: The Corel Corporation has filed an injunction this morning against former Corel support technician Phil Lamire, to try to get him to stop answering Linux technical support questions on his rogue Web site.

Category:

  • Management

PDA pioneers make enterprise gains

Author: JT Smith

Handhelds advanced further into the enterprise last week as the
three major platform suppliers, Microsoft, Palm, and Psion,
added functions and eased manageability, from ZDNet News.

Electronic Arts applauds decision to enforce ratings

Author: JT Smith

Electronic Arts, the world’s leading developer and publisher of video games, today released a statement of support for retailers who have vowed to support the industry’s rating system on games, reports Business Wire.