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Apple, Microsoft and the Malware Wayback Machine
Last month’s cluster of “Mac Defender” malware flareups felt like a flashback to 2001, with the role of Microsoft being played by Apple. The malware, which took advantage of poisoned Google images search results to trick users into installing fake anti-virus software, first appeared in variants that required an administrator password for installation. Soon, though,…
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Navel Gazery, Ubuntu, and Fedora
Welcome to the first non-lorem ipsum post on this, my non-work blog, where many of the things I might write about on my work blog, but don’t, because they seem way too navel-gazy, I may end up writing about here. One such thing: the ongoing (sort of) battle between different Linux distributions on my work notebook.…
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Stacking Up OpenStack Distributions
I‘m taking OpenStack for a spin in our lab, with an eye toward kicking off some reviews coverage of the much-talked-about open source project, and, perhaps, to put the cloud operating system into service running eWEEK Labs’ test infrastructure. I started off my exploration by installing Ubuntu 10.04.2 on a six-core AMD 4000-series server and…
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rPath Is on the Right Track with X6
rPath X6 expands on the company’s software appliance assembly and deployment ambitions with powerful configuration management capabilities and a spruced-up user interface that’s much improved compared with the Version 5.2 release that eWEEK Labs tested in 2009. Also much improved is the product’s support for deploying software images to VMware, EC2 and other virtualization hosts.…
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Microsoft’s Hyper-V Support Expansion Should Serve Red Hat Well
This week, Microsoft announced that it would support CentOS as a guest operating system on Hyper-V, citing CentOS support as the number one interoperability requirement among Web hosting providers weighting whether to consolidate their system virtualization on Microsoft’s hypervisor. When I read the news, my thoughts turned immediately to Red Hat and its Red Hat…
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New Horizons for Mono, and for Silverlight
I’ve just returned from Atlanta, where Cameron and I attended a Microsoft Server and Tools reviewer workshop packed with cool product presentations, such as those for Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud computing services, and for the LightSwitch non-developer development platform. However, I found my my enthusiasm for Azure and for LightSwitch somewhat stunted upon finding that…
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When ChromeOS Arrives, Will Offline Support Arrive With It?
This week at its Google I/O conference, the Web giant announced that Chrome OS, its long-awaited, “nothing but the Web” operating system, will soon be available for purchase, powering a pair of Samsung and Acer “Chromebooks.” My overall take on ChromeOS hasn’t much changed since early developer builds of the platform first turned up nearly…
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Ubuntu Unity and GNOME Shell: New Looks for Desktop Linux
GNOME Shell represents a new desktop approach intended to make applications easier to access, limit workspace distractions and make more use of modern desktop and notebook hardware. Canonical, for its part, has broken ranks with GNOME by opting to not participate in GNOME Shell, instead developing for Ubuntu a separate interface, called “Unity.” Unity is…
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What’s Next for SUSE?
Late last month, The Attachmate Group completed its acquisition of Novell. Moving forward, Novell and SUSE Linux will operate, alongside NetIQ and Attachmate, as four separate business units—a reorganization that unravels the 2003 SUSE acquisition that had established Novell as a Linux and open source player. In the years following its SUSE pickup, Novell trumpeted…
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