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When I was a kid, all I wanted to be was a rock star. I wanted to play guitar, get up on stage, and have everyone scream while I cranked out some hard rockin' tune. I wanted to see lighters held up in the crowd as I finished my last set - dripping with sweat, completely tired, and no e... Apr. 11, 2005 Reads: 17,254 Replies: 7 | According to Larry Rosen, 'One of the challenges to writing about licensing in a book not specifically written for licensing professionals is to make a very dull subject interesting.' Rosen has met that challenge in his exciting guide to the Open Source licensing zoo. Apr. 9, 2005 Reads: 17,573 | As Linux moves in everywhere within enterprise computing - in embedded solutions, on the desktop, in distributed applications, and on mainframe - the LinuxWorld Magazine News Desk brings you all the latest developments. Apr. 7, 2005 Reads: 13,285 | My first encounter with Parasoft Insure++ and Parasoft Corporation was in the mid-'90s when I was working for a small company developing parsers and translators for languages used in semiconductor chip design. Like developers on almost any development project, we ran into a 'runaway' m... Apr. 7, 2005 Reads: 15,442 | Unix Advanced Visual QuickPro is a step-by-step guide to configuring the finer points of your Unix machine from file sharing, Web sites, and e-mail through to virus scanning. I talk to the author and long-time friend, Chris Herborth, about the book and the future of Unix and Linux gami... Apr. 6, 2005 Reads: 12,768 | If the print gods are with us, this time, after seven previous columns, we'll finally have a shell script that you can type in and experiment with. Imagine! The last column addressed the challenges of generating a reasonably random number to enable us to write a rudimentary hi-low gues... Apr. 6, 2005 Reads: 8,832 | The Open Source Software Institute is an advocacy group with a mission to promote Open Source software in government. We caught up with executive director John Weathersby to tell us more. Apr. 6, 2005 Reads: 14,356 | The Birkenstocks and beards where mothballed this year as the new guard entered LinuxWorld Expo in button-down shirts and ties and the occasional Brooks Brothers suit. This year's LinuxWorld was all about business or at least that's the message IDG, the conference producer, tried to co... Apr. 6, 2005 Reads: 16,530 | To Open Source or not to Open Source - that is the question. Or is it? Open Source has matured into a robust development model, and many businesses that shied away from it are reconsidering it. The good news these days is that Open Source is no longer an all-or-nothing choice. Apr. 6, 2005 Reads: 19,446 Replies: 2 | Justin Smith thinks in practical terms. As CTO of Guilford County Government in North Carolina, budgetary concerns were the driving force in his considering Open Source technologies. Smith saved an estimated $27,000 a year by replacing two servers on the edge of his network, and began ... Apr. 6, 2005 Reads: 14,972 | Getting the design of your database right has a huge impact on a number of issues. Primarily performance, but it can also affect other areas like the flexibility of your database and how it integrates with the application-level solution, such as PHP or Perl, that you're using. Apr. 6, 2005 Reads: 15,534 | Linux PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is a wonderful authentication application library that's used by essential programs like 'login' and 'passwd', and, so, is included in virtually every Linux distribution. Still, for most beginning Linux users and even a few veterans, PAM is ... Apr. 6, 2005 Reads: 18,334 | We're all familiar with the disruption and cost of moving. When I'm asked what it takes to motivate an organization to move to desktop Linux, my answer is simple, 'Migrating desktops is like moving to a new house. What would it take to get you to move your house or office tomorrow?' Th... Apr. 6, 2005 Reads: 12,507 |
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