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Samba 3.2 reflects open source project's ambivalence toward Microsoft

Samba 3.2 reflects open source project's ambivalence toward MicrosoftSamba 3.2 reflects open source project's ambivalence toward MicrosoftLets see if there is a way to get rid of Samba completely. Perhaps Microsoft could make a protocol to work on all machines and thus eliminate the need for Samba."Leading a panel"Indeed...

Tags: Samba, Jeremy, Samba 3.2, ambivalence, Microsoft Corp., open source project, open source

Discussion threads 2008-05-08

Samba 3.2 reflects open source project's ambivalence toward Microsoft

Samba’s forthcoming version 3.2 release capitalizes on Microsoft’s interoperability commitments while also guarding against patent covenants that threaten the GPL. Samba 3.2, which is expected to be released in roughly one month’s time, offers improved integration with the Active Directory in Windows Server 2003 and recently released...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Jeremy Allison, Samba, Microsoft Corp., Samba 3.2, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Open Source, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-05-08

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openSUSE 11.2 M8: What a Fine Lookin' Lizard

Ubuntu's Karmic Koala isn't the only hot Linux beta floating around. On October 1, the openSUSE project released Milestone 8 of openSUSE 11.2, which is slated for general release in November, just in time for the holiday season. Milestone 8 will precede two release candidates to be also released...

Tags: Ubuntu, GNOME, KDE, Object-oriented, KDE 4.3, openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 8, Open Source, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-04

Samba 3.4.2 (Mac)

Samba is an open source software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Open-source Software, Samba, Andrew Tridgell, Smb/Sme, Open Source

Software downloads 2009-10-01

Dejal Simon 2.5.3 (Mac)

Dejal Simon is the essential site monitoring tool for Mac OS X. It checks web pages, FTP and DNS servers, local or remote ports, and other services for changes or failures, and notifies you via e-mail, sound, speech, Twitter, HTML reports, and other means. Add tests to Simon to track...

Tags: Web, Apple Macintosh, Twitter Inc., Monitoring, Server, Web Page, Dejal, Dejal Simon, Channel Management, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-09-10

News to know: Bing; Windows; HP; RIM; ZuiTUbe; CD sales; Wimax

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Bing gains search share on Yahoo, Google Ed Bott: XP, Vista, or Windows 7: Which OS is...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Hewlett-Packard Co., CD, Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Sales Strategy, E-mail, WiMAX, Operating Systems, Software, Sales, Online Communications, Wireless And Mobility

Blog posts 2009-08-19

Eating my own dogfood?

Eating my own dogfood?My month with UNR so farI have been using UNR 9.04 for a month now, on my Acer Aspire One A150. I like it very much. My multiple boot AAO has two other operating systems on it as well (openSUSE 11.1 and Windows XP Home), but those...

Tags: SMB/SME, Microsoft Windows XP, Ubuntu, Eating, Samba

Discussion threads 2009-05-26

Canonical's Ubuntu reaches for the cloud

Canonical's Ubuntu reaches for the cloudJaunty Jackalope is DOAUbuntu 9.04 ("Jaunty Jackalope") is dead on arrival DOA, as far as I'm concerned. I first tested it as a "LiveCD" on a 2.4 GHz Intel Celeron laptop computer with 512 MB RAM (470 MB available to system) and internal 30...

Tags: Web browsers, PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, Ubuntu, Jaunty Jackalope, Canonical

Discussion threads 2009-04-28

GPL's cloudy future

One of the things about getting older is that you learn to ignore things until you have to do something about them. It's a learned efficiency, I suppose, rationing your increasingly precious time out to the unceasing demands upon it. I finally realized I have to do some serious thinking...

Tags: Software, GPL, Cloud Computing, Free Software Foundation, BSD, Free Software, Affero GPL, AGPL, Open Source, Jeremy Allison

Blog posts 2009-04-07

Sharepoint as a Gateway Drug to Greater Efficiency...

Sharepoint as a Gateway Drug to Greater Efficiency...Largely irrelevant post due to SharePoint 14 and Office 14This post is largely irrelevant due to the upcoming social enterprise features in SharePoint 14 and Office 14. It is a shame the post was not written in the context of what should come...

Tags: Content management, Groupware, Collaboration, Enterprise software, Gateway Inc., Microsoft SharePoint, Office 14

Discussion threads 2009-03-11

Microsoft: Litigate on FAT, and you'll be the next Unisys

Remember "Burn All GIFs" from 1999? In 2009, the Open Source mantra of choice could very easily turn into "Destroy all FATs" If you've been following the news in the Linux community, you've probably heard that Microsoft is currently in a lawsuit with...

Tags: FAT32, Consumer Electronics, Patent, TomTom, Unisys Corp., File System, Microsoft Corp., Tom Tom, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-03-05

Don't ignore the netbook

Don't ignore the netbookI agree completelyThe Netbook is the form factor that Apple always bragged about, except when considering price.Sure, we can make sleeker desktops, smaller desktops, and even thinner laptops, but we can't do the smallest?They always talked up the Mac Mini for the same reason, now they don't...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, netbook, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-02-25

“Security” issues

“Security” issuesPoor programming and poor programmers.Software producers have convinced everyone it is the nature of software to have security problems. Why has the world bought that scenario? I still say that software companies need to be held financially accountable for the damages their software causes its users. Microsoft should have...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, security, SunOS 5.10

Discussion threads 2009-01-26

The 2008 Chutzpah in IT Marketing Awards

The 2008 Chutzpah in IT Marketing AwardsWanna clarify...?[b]The 2008 Tyrian Silver Shekels go to the Wintel Customer Base - for increasing their purchases of Vista on Core Duo after the Wintel partners switched to marketing their yet undeliverable copies of the same Apple and AMD technologies they've been denigrating for...

Tags: Mainframes, Virtualization, Servers, mainframe, Apple Inc., server, Linux, IBM Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., software

Discussion threads 2008-12-29

New toy or new best friend?

New toy or new best friend?My money is on the BlackBerryI'm betting you'll get tired of carting the netbrick around and opt for the compact, constant connectivity of the BlackBerry.Netbook all the way ...The netbook allows you to have network connectivity with VNC, SSH, RDP, NFS, Samba, etc. plus you...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Semiconductors, netbook, Linpus, Ubuntu, computer, new best friend, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-12-28

IBM Linux-OpenOffice Desktop offering - history repeating

IBM Linux-OpenOffice Desktop offering - history repeatingOS/2 was the best OS...ever written at the time. It would still compete with anything MS has ever written. It was fast and you couldn't crash it. Even if you tried.You mention XP has its limitations. What are they?If anybody is planning on encroaching...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, desktop, IBM Corp., Linux, distro

Discussion threads 2008-12-09

Talking with Likewise on GPLv3 and community management

I've been watching Palamida's tracking of GPLv3 (and LGPLv3) adoption over the last year with interest. It looks like adoption is moving at a reasonable, if not super-speedy, pace. However, not everyone is moving from version 2 to version 3. One company, Likewise, actually decided to move backwards from GPLv3...

Tags: Community, Likewise Software, GPLv3, Q, Open, Fall Edition, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-11-26

A quick update on OpenSUSE

A quick update on OpenSUSEWindows is not the answerWhat part of issues with Vista in the first place did you miss? [url=http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1910]Read up...[/url] Linux is his answer. Wireless with Broadcom has always been a PITA, they are being dorks and not helping out. BUT ndiswrapper will solve the problem. ]:)RE:...

Tags: Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Novell OpenSuse, quick update, laptop computer, wireless, desktop

Discussion threads 2008-10-21

October promises to be hot month for Drupal, Mono, OpenOffice, Ubuntu

October is promising to be a big month for open source releases. As the page on the calendar turned, Acquia launched of its commercially supported version of the popular Drupal open source social publishing system. And over the weekend, Novell-sponsored Mono project announced the...

Tags: .Net, Development Tools, Drupal, Linux, Mono, Office Suites, Open Source, OpenOffice, Operating Systems, Paula Rooney, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ubuntu

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Apple finally ships DNS flaw fix, patches 16 other Mac OS X holes

[ UPDATE: nCircle Andrew Storms reports that the DNS client on the OSX 10.4.11 distribution still has not been patched.  ] Apple has shipped a Mac OS X security update with patches for at least 17 documented vulnerabilities, including a fix for the serious DNS...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, DNS, Patch Management, Apple Inc., Issue, Arbitrary Code Execution, Flaw, Application Termination, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Domain Names, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-31