FreeOS Reviews

Linux : Reviews : SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional
Posted: ( Fri 6th Jul 2001 08:32:27[PM] UTC )
"I am impressed with the ease of installation and configuration of this latest SuSE product. They have taken great care to provide their customer with the highest quality Linux system that I have used to date. Although there are some notable shortcomings, most of which are not "deal killers", I would recommend this distribution to anyone regardless of their expertise with Linux systems."

Linux : Reviews : KWord in action
Posted: ( Thu 5th Jul 2001 07:54:23[PM] UTC )
"I stumbled across KOffice when a Linux guru friend suggested it to me. Personally, I wouldn't want to switch applications, let alone an operating system, just to use an office suite. Yet now I was stuck between upgrading to Office XP or making the bold move to install Linux and Koffice 1.1 Beta 3. I thought, "why not?" since Linux will always be free, no one person has control over it, and I won't be harassed five years later."

Linux : Reviews : Mandrake Single Network Firewall
Posted: ( Thu 5th Jul 2001 07:50:01[PM] UTC )
"I shall talk about Single Network Firewall from a consultant's viewpoint. That is, I will talk about how its function helps me as a security consultant to accomplish my work. I will talk little on its technical merits, as I personally don't think wrestling with Single Network Firewall for just one day qualifies me to talk about its technical flaws, or merits, or the lack thereof."

Linux : Reviews : LTSP brings Linux to X Window desktops
Posted: ( Mon 2nd Jul 2001 07:33:29[PM] UTC )
Linux Terminal Server Project 2.08 is a stable open-source offering that converts virtually all major distributions of Linux into an X Window terminal server for thin clients. In eWeek Labs' tests, LTSP 2.08 was straightforward to set up and manage and could be a good way to advance Linux to desktop PCs at companies of all sizes.

FreeOS : Reviews : An AbiWord to the wise
Posted: ( Mon 2nd Jul 2001 07:20:05[PM] UTC )
"AbiWord is a word processor that in a few respects looks it 0.7.14 version-age. And there's no getting around it, these shortcomings will need to be fixed before version 1.0. But there are a lot of areas where AbiWord has positioned itself very well against the product it is emulating."

Linux : Reviews : Journalling filesystems for Linux
Posted: ( Mon 2nd Jul 2001 07:13:40[PM] UTC )
This article looks at how to implement ext3, XFS and ReiserFS on your Linux box. Also included are benchmarks of disk operations across these three journaling filesystems.

FreeOS : Reviews : Free practice management
Posted: ( Sun 1st Jul 2001 07:19:28[PM] UTC )
"FreePM is a full-service open source medical practice management system that is licensed under the GPL. FreePM has reached its current beta 3 state of development in only 1.5 years and according to the company, it is ready for comparison to its closed-source competitors that cost far more."

Linux : Reviews : Honey, I shrunk the Linux system!
Posted: ( Sun 1st Jul 2001 07:10:14[PM] UTC )
"The CerfCube is basically a miniature Linux "box" consisting of a StrongARM-based SBC (called a CerfBoard) enclosed in a cast aluminum cube, three inches on a side. Do the math: with a CerfCube, you can fit a complete (networked) Linux system in just 0.015 cubic foot!"

Linux : Reviews : Pentium 4 gone budget?
Posted: ( Sun 1st Jul 2001 07:01:03[PM] UTC )
"Most of the major media outlets were predicting the Pentium 4 to be in that upper-bracket of pricing, that is, the $2500 range. Pogo has recently come along and shattered some of those early predictions with one much lower than that -- try $999."

Linux : Reviews : Tools of the trade: Part 1
Posted: ( Wed 27th Jun 2001 11:53:51[PM] UTC )
In this short series of articles, Carl Constantine will delve deeper into Linux security and discuss protective measures such as VPN systems and tripwire. Although he's aware of the many different security analysis tools out there, he will be covering the tools that have been successful for him. And he keeps adding new tools all the time.

Linux : Reviews : Moneydance Personal Finance Manager review
Posted: ( Wed 27th Jun 2001 11:11:43[PM] UTC )
Stew Benedict reviews Moneydance, a personal finance manager package, much like Quicken, but written in Java which allows it to run on a number of platforms, including Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Windows and MacOS. "All in all, if Quicken is what has been keeping you locked into that other OS, I think you may be able to reclaim a disk partition if you switch over to Moneydance," he concludes.

Linux : Reviews : NeTraverse Win4Lin 3.0
Posted: ( Mon 25th Jun 2001 07:29:04[PM] UTC )
Frederik Dannemare reviews the recently updated Win4Lin. "Win4Lin 3.0 is truly a great product. It has the ability to connect to Exchange Servers using Outlook along with the ability to use VPN from within Win4Lin and is very stable. Speed is great too, pretty much indistinguishable from running native Windows. My only complaint is the lack of support for Debian (and Debian-based distributions) out-of-the-box. Although it is not impossible to install Win4Lin on Debian, it would be nice to see official support for Debian," he writes.

Linux : Reviews : Linksys Instant Gigadrive
Posted: ( Mon 25th Jun 2001 12:07:14[AM] UTC )
Here's a review of the Linksys Instant Gigadrive, which is a network attached storage device built for Windows networks. But at its core, it's a Linux box running Samba. "The most interesting aspect of the GigaDrive is the way that Linux enabled this device's very existence. Compared to the options of writing all of the firmware from scratch or embedding a proprietary OS, Linux offered several clear wins for Linksys: low cost, high reliability, and terrific interoperability," says Ken Treis.

Linux : Reviews : More than a Gigabuck: Estimating GNU/Linux's size
Posted: ( Thu 21st Jun 2001 11:28:10[PM] UTC )
The article examines Red Hat Linux 7.1's source code as a representative GNU/Linux distribution. It found that it would cost over $1 billion (a Gigabuck) to develop, that it includes over 30 million physical source lines of code (SLOC), and that it would have required about 8,000 person-years to develop. Red Hat Linux 7.1 represents over a 60% increase in size, effort, and traditional development costs over Red Hat Linux 6.2 (which was released about one year earlier). Its predominant software license is the GNU GPL.

Linux : Reviews : GeForce3 & Linux Review
Posted: ( Tue 19th Jun 2001 09:41:34[PM] UTC )
evil3d has posted the results of the VisionTek GeForce3 review under Linux. The review includes Quake3 benchmarks at different resolutions/color depths, FSAA sampling, and a Linux vs. Windows comparison. As an added bonus, scores from overclocking are available as well.