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OS shoot-out: Windows vs. Mac OS X vs. Linux The Mac's been on a roll, both due to its highly regarded Mac OS X Leopard operating system and to an unhappy reception for Microsoft's Windows Vista. The result: For the first time in memory, the Mac's market share has hit 9.1 percent, according to IDC data, and Wind Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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EditGrid brings Web 2.0 tricks to spreadsheets Excel is synonymous with spreadsheets for many of us. But EditGrid, a new online spreadsheet service, could convince you that Microsoft's product isn't the best financial analysis tool under all circumstances.Ed Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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The Industry Standard taps crowd wisdom Are crowds really wise? A growing number of businesses are betting they are. The latest venture is a new incarnation of The Industry Standard, the poster child for the rise ? and precipitous fall ? of the dot-com boom. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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IBM brings 5GHz chip to its top-selling Unix server The Power 570, IBM's top-selling midrange server, is now available with a 5GHz Power6 processor, which was previously available only in IBM's high-end Power 595 system, as IBM targets customers who want to use its hardware for virtualization and server consolidation. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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7 dirty secrets of the security industry Corporate IT executives need to beware the seven dirty secrets of the security industry that can undermine the safety of business networks, a security expert told attendees at Interop Las Vegas."It's best to hav Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Linux Foundation names new CTO The Linux Foundation has selected a new CTO, Ted Ts'o, who has been known as the first North American developer of the Linux kernel, the foundation said on Thursday.Ts'o has served as a foundation fellow and chi Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Developing Software for Linux Platforms LinuxLink: "Fortunately, for aspiring programmers, the very best tools are also completely free. Linux provides a complete programming suite, from editor to run-time environment. The Linux tool chain is widely used throughout industry for the heavy lifting of software development, and a good Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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Canonical moves on desktop, server Linux Canonical, which wants Linux to challenge Apple's Macintosh in usability on the desktop, is unveiling on Monday upgrades to its Ubuntu Linux distributions, offering 3G and virtualization improvements. Version 8.10 of Canonical's Desktop and Server Linux distributions Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Linux Standard Base boosts developer features A beta version of Linux Standard Base (LSB) 4.0 released this week adds developer features to technology intended to reconcile differences between Linux distributions, the Linux Foundation said.Version 4.0 offer Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Hyper-V adds flexibility but brings new risks too Virtualising a datacentre can make it more flexible, but it also introduces new points of failure and it doesn't remove the need for critical servers to be duplicated for fail-over, disaster recovery (DR) specialist Neverfail has warned. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Intel updates parallel development tool Intel on Tuesday will unveil at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, what it described as a substantial upgrade to Intel Threading Building Blocks. TBB 2.1, a developer tool that features a C++ template library for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, ?en Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Linux Standard Base 4 is Coming in for a Landing Cyber Cynic: "If you write software for Linux though you can pretty much do whatever you want, except, of course, you shouldn't. Because if you do re-invent the wheel every time you write for Linux, we end up with software that doesn't work or play well with other Linux software. That's where Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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Taking A Good Long Look At Vector Linux 5.9 Standard LinuxDevCenter: "Over the past 14 months I've reviewed two previous releases of Vector Linux: Vector Linux 5.8 Standard and Vector Linux 5.8 SOHO..." Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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Intel ports thread optimization tool to OpenSolaris C++ developers using Sun Microsystems' OpenSolaris OS have a new tool from Intel for optimizing their applications to run on multicore processors, Intel said on Thursday.Called Threading Building Blocks, the too Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Picasa For Linux 3.0 Brings Better Photo Management to Free OS The latest desktop software release from Google brings the Linux version of its photo-management app up to par with its Windows counterpart. Photographers working with the free OS now get automatic camera detection, full integration with their other applications and better performance. Mac users Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Picasa For Linux 3.0 Brings Better Photo Management to Free OS The latest desktop software release from Google brings the Linux version of its photo-management app up to par with its Windows counterpart. Photographers working with the free OS now get automatic camera detection, full integration with their other applications and better performance. Mac users Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Hackers port Linux kernel to iPhone If you know one thing about Linux users, it's probably this: They enjoy the challenge of installing their operating system of choice on pretty much anything with a transistor in it. It's only a matter of time before they get around to replacing all those electronic si Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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tor2web Brings Anonymous Tor Sites to the "Regular" Web ars Technica: "Regular web users can now access anonymously-published websites that are masked by Tor's hidden services thanks to a new tool called tor2web. The tool, created by former Reddit developer Aaron Swartz and WikiScanner creator Virgil Griffith, enables people to view these hidden w Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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Windows 7: The Linux killer Microsoft has long been worried about Linux competition in the server market. When it came to ordinary PCs and laptops, however, it knew it had little to fear.But that was then. Now Microsoft may fear Linux on t Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Linux Tool Speeds Up Computer Forensics for Cops CNET News: "Australian university students have developed a Linux-based data forensics tool to help police churn through a growing backlog of computer-related criminal investigations..." Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |