Stories about: APT

Kim Polese, CEO of SpikeSource, speaks about the open-source movement and new products SpikeSource introduced at LinuxWorld.

Providing location information to thousands of mobile phone users is all in a day's work for Ubuntu Linux, which has replaced popular enterprise distribution Red Hat for Locatrix Communications' mission-critical workloads.

The national council of the Australian Computer Society (ACS) has elected seven ICT professionals to Fellows in recognition of their outstanding contribution to the industry.

When John Halamka first became the CIO at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre in Boston in 1998, he was told that being an IT chief was a 9-to-5 job. He quickly discovered that they had it backward. "It turned into a 5-to-9 job," says Halamka, meaning 5 a.m. to 9 p.m.

So, you've just installed Ubuntu 7.04, otherwise known as the "Feisty Fawn" release of everyone's favorite (for now) flavor of Linux. You booted the installation disc , looked around the test environment to discover that your hardware was working, and double-clicked the Install icon on the desktop. The Ubuntu installer helped you make room for Linux on your hard drive, and even copied over some of your documents and settings from Windows.

After several months of delays, Debian developers have released Debian 4.0, code-named "etch".

If you're old enough to remember the "generation gap" of the 1960s and 1970s, then it's likely you're now part of the "establishment" that manages the use of personal computing in business.

Luke Kanies is a 31 year old system administrator turned developer living in Nashville, Tennessee. He has been a Unix and Linux administrator for ten years, and has spent the last five years focused on developing automation frameworks. In 2003 he founded Reductive Labs to work on new open source automation and administration tools, and Puppet is its first major project. Kanies spoke with Computerworld about Puppet and what it offers IT administrators.

Feeling a little left behind in the storm of Second Life happenings? Here are some answers that will catch you up to the potentials of Linden Labs' virtual economy.

Open source router company Vyatta debuted earlier this year with a Red Hat-style alternative to Cisco and Juniper offerings: the Open Flexible Router, an open source-based WAN router and firewall stack, freely downloadable, with service and support offerings available for purchase. Since then the company has generated buzz in the network industry, while releasing products such as a pre-installed appliance-like version on Dell servers. Vyatta CEO Kelly Herrell and chief strategy officer Dave Roberts recently told Phil Hochmuth what Vyatta is, and is not, and what it hopes to become. (The following is an edited transcript.)

Apple's CEO Steve Jobs is a happy man at the moment. Five years ago his company lost $25 million. Last year it generated profit of $1.3 billion. This success is thanks mainly to its iPod music player.