Jason Brooks
When Red Hat inc. turned its general-purpose Linux distribution from a retail product to the community-supported Fedora project, the company set out to define the…
Desktop systems based on IBM’s PowerPC 970 and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s Athlon 64 processors place 64-bit computing within the reach of mainstream users without…
This month’s release of Evolution 1.5 provides an early look at what’s set to change when Ximian Inc.’s popular e-mail and calendar application for Linux…
Back when Windows XP was still known by the code name Whistler, the most exciting thing about Microsoft Corp.’s client OS-in-progress was that it wasn’t…
The latest version of Samba, the free software that provides systems running Linux and Unix with Windows-compatible file and print services, now works more closely…
Although Linux tends to grab most of the open-source operating system spotlight, it’s hardly the only solid free software option. eWEEK Labs tested one open-source…