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Computerworld Linux
September 19, 2006
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In this issue:
* Red Hat users invited to test RHEL 5
* Red Hat releases its first open-source application stack
* Google hack: Use Gmail as a Linux filesystem
* University dumps Cisco VoIP for open-source Asterisk
* Mainsoft's Grasshopper jumps onto Visual Studio 2005
Computerworld Blogs:
* IT automation that starts in the middle
* Tried Mandriva One and it sure works great!
* Linux on the desktop - Much relies on Novell. Can they make it happen?
* I prefer Elgato
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Red Hat users invited to test RHEL 5
It releases a public beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with virtualization
technologies intended to help companies get more use from their hardware.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/863490/1292479/34234/2/
Red Hat releases its first open-source application stack
Renewing its thrust against BEA, IBM and HP, Red Hat today announced its first
integrated open-source application stack based on the JBoss application server.
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Google hack: Use Gmail as a Linux filesystem
Need some extra storage? This code lets you use a Gmail account as a 2GB
networked filesystem.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/863490/1292479/34237/2/
University dumps Cisco VoIP for open-source Asterisk
School is moving its 6,000 students, faculty and staff off of Cisco CallManager
IP PBXs and a legacy Nortel Meridian PBX over to Linux servers running
Asterisk, which includes call processing, voicemail and PSTN gateway
functionality.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/863490/1292479/34238/2/
Mainsoft's Grasshopper jumps onto Visual Studio 2005
New features in Version 2.0 include support of the Visual Studio 2005 IDE and
the .Net Framework 2.0, which lets developers leverage Microsoft Windows
development skills to run applications on Linux and Java platforms.
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COMPUTERWORLD BLOGS
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IT automation that starts in the middle
IT automation has been a very top-down process. It started with the biggest
companies, businesses with thousands of user seats. It tackled the biggest
systems, managing servers and large networks. And it came from the biggest
vendors -- HP, IBM, LANDesk, BMC.
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http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/863490/1292479/33261/2/
Tried Mandriva One and it sure works great!
Had an old Compaq laptop lying around and decided to try Linux on it. With the
three day Labor Day weekend upon me, I wanted to see if the Mandriva One Linux
distribution was really as easy to install and configure as claimed. Well,
after downloading the ISO image, then burning it to a CD, I was able to install
it on my laptop in around 15 minutes. For the record, it detected all my
hardware and required very little intervention. It surfs the Net beautifully
and has all the programs one would ever need for basic computing - and best of
all it was free.
To view the rest of the blog post, click the following link.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/863490/1292479/32288/2/
Linux on the desktop - Much relies on Novell. Can they make it happen?
I have been in IT for over 12 years now. I started with DOS 3.x, moved up to
DOS 5.x, then DOS 6. Then I moved to Windows 3.1 and 3.11 WFW, then to 95, 98,
Windows 2000, skipped ME, and went to XP. Now Vista is coming up. On the server
side, I have worked with NT 3.51, 4.0, 2000 and 2003 Server. Now Longhorn is
coming around. I mention all of these OS's because with each version, things
have gotten a little easier and a little better. Installing drivers has pretty
much been a cinch since Windows 2000. Crashes and memory leaks still happen and
cause us all headaches, but that is definitely better than 5 years ago.
Security, though still needing improvement, is better now than ever before.
To view the rest of the blog post, click the following link.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/863490/1292479/31647/2/
I prefer Elgato
TV recording through some kind of computing device is very popular, and as Made
to order MythTV states:
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