Top Stories by Martin C. Brown
With their Sun Fire V40z Server, Sun is moving into new realms in three
different ways. First, it's a move onto a new hardware platform - namely the
AMD Opteron CPU. Second, it's a move into the 64-bit arena on a platform
other than their familiar UltraSPARC environment. Third is the adoption of a
mainstream Linux distribution as a primary operating system choice.
We tested a V40z with four Opteron 848 processors, each with 2GB (total of
8GB) and two 73GB Ultra320 SCSI drives. Designed for the Data CenterThe V40z
is definitely designed for the data center. With 12 internal fans, the
machine is far too noisy to sit anywhere but in a dedicated server room. The
airflow is specially designed to suck in air from the front and expel it out
of the rear of the machine and the force is strong enough, even in the fully
packed review unit, for you to feel a noticeable suction a... (more)
Q: How can I integrate or replace my current Microsoft Exchange setup when
adding Linux to my network?
There are actually a wide variety of Exchange replacements and clients
available with Linux: some offer partial Exchange feature sets, some are full
solutions, and others are Linux clients that can seamlessly play nice with MS
Exchange. Which one you choose depends on whether you want to simulate the
Exchange functionality, provide similar functionality to Exchange, or whether
you just want an alternative e-mail solution.
Exchange is made up of a number of different components, ... (more)
Related Links: From the Publisher of Linux Business Week
Dear Linux.SYS-CON.com Readers,
Publishing is a fickle business, and in today's world where your comments and
responses can immediately be denounced and exposed, even more so.
There has been a significant amount of discussion regarding recent Maureen
O'Gara stories published in LinuxBusinessWeek regarding the SCO/IBM case. As
we understand, as of today, she is standing by her story and actively seeking
to unseal the court documents mentioned in her story. However
Linux.SYS-CON.com and Linux Business Week are two separate publi... (more)
Well, it’s the end of the 2003 and the start of 2004, so I guess it’s
time to do the traditional combination of a retrospective and a look forward.
It’s been an eventful year in the Linux world, but probably not for all the
reasons we’d all like. Undoubtedly it’s been yet another year of great
advancements of Linux, particularly on the desktop, but the ongoing work on
the server shouldn’t be ignored either. With tools like KDE, Gnome,
OpenOffice and others maturing this year, there’s no doubt that people are
beginning to notice Linux more as a potential replacement for Windows.
In... (more)
U R G E N T A P P E A L
Distributed Denial of Service Attacks against SCO, or anyone for that matter,
are a clearly unacceptable activity. While many in the Open Source community
are not pleased with SCO's lawsuit against IBM, or their proposed legal
challenges aimed at Linux users, these DDoS attacks do not promote the Open
Source cause, and are not consistent with Open Source values. The Open Source
community is based on the notion that principals of free speech should be
applied to software development. DDoS attacks clearly deny the victim the
ability to communicate freely ... (more)
Martin C. Brown is a former IT director with experience in cross-platform integration. A keen developer, he has produced dynamic sites for blue-chip customers, including HP and Oracle, and is the technical director of Foodware.net. Now a freelance writer and consultant, MC, as he is better known, works closely with Microsoft as an SME; has a regular column on both ServerWatch.com and IBM's DeveloperWorks Grid Computing site; is a core member of the AnswerSquad.com team; and has written books such as XML Processing with Perl, Python and PHP, and the Microsoft IIS 6 Delta Guide.
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