Linux Terminal Server Project News
- MeeGo and the Great Betrayal Myths of tech history Wednesday, June 22, 2011 @ 6:50AMTwitter fanbois demand resurrection of burned-out platform Nokia's first MeeGo phone is amazing - why did they chuck MeeGo away?…
- BMW Group Financial Services UK Selects Ericom Blaze(TM) to Improve Terminal Server 2003 Performance and User ... Tuesday, April 19, 2011 @ 4:17AMDROITWICH, England, April 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ Ericom, a leading global provider of Application Access, Virtualisation and RDP acceleration solutions, announced today that BMW Group Financial Services UK, has chosen Ericom Blaze to …
- How to install OpenKinect and as3Kinect for popular operating systems - What's new in O'Reilly Answers: Track email ... Thursday, February 17, 2011 @ 8:01AMFrom an equipment list to the software you'll need for Windows, Mac OS X or Linux, this article guides you through the steps required to get your Kinect working with your computer. Read more.More from O'Reilly Answers: How to track an email marketing campaign with Google AnalyticsThe most common XBee mistakes Data analysis: Simulating the newsvendor problem in Python How to jump between matching ...
- Allianz Insurance Plc Selects Ericom Blaze to Improve Virtual Desktop (VDI) Performance and User Productivity Wednesday, January 26, 2011 @ 5:12AMDROITWICH, England, January 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ Ericom, a leading global provider of Application Access, Virtualisation and RDP acceleration solutions, announced today that Allianz Insurance Plc, has chosen Ericom Blaze to improve the …
- Never Recycle an Old PC With Neverware Monday, January 24, 2011 @ 1:30PMNeverware lets schools and other groups re-use old PCs more effectively.
- Never Recycle an Old PC With Neverware Monday, January 24, 2011 @ 12:48PMNeverware? Never heard of it. That is, until I came across it recently in my reading. It’s exactly the sort of thing I’m on the lookout for, as a cloud computing fanatic. Admittedly, there’s not a lot of information about it on the Neverware site, but luckily I know enough about virtual desktops and terminal servers to discuss it. I think I might have a few questions at the end, though.
- Attachmate Reflection Suite for X 2011 Offers Standardized Host Access in a Single Multipurpose Solution Monday, December 6, 2010 @ 7:22AMNext-Generation X Server Product Enables Secure Access to Mission-Critical, Graphically-Rich Applications on UNIX and Linux Platforms From Any Windows Desktop
- Attachmate Reflection Suite for X 2011 Offers Standardized Host Access in a Single Multipurpose Solution Monday, December 6, 2010 @ 7:00AMSEATTLE, WA--(Marketwire - 12/06/10) - Attachmate Corporation today announced the availability of the newest version of Attachmate Reflection Suite for X 2011, Attachmate's next-generation X Server product that enables organizations to securely access text-based and 2D/3D graphics applications on UNIX and Linux systems, as well as mission-critical applications on IBM's System i and System z ...
- AMD joins MeeGo Monday, November 15, 2010 @ 11:31AMAt the MeeGo Conference 2010 today, chipmaker AMD announced it has joined The Linux Foundation's MeeGo open source Linux project.
- Advanced IRC with Smuxi Friday, October 15, 2010 @ 3:07PMLinux Planet: "If you spend much time with any open source project, you're probably going to be spending time in IRC. If you want to make sure you don't miss a minute of your project's conversations, you'll want to check out Smuxi."
- Ubuntu Empire Strikes Back Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 5:08PMThe old "Ubuntu doesn't contribute back" argument cropped up again when Dave Neary released a report of the talk he gave at GUADEC on the contributions made to the GNOME desktop environment. He found that Red Hat and Novell contributed the most, and that Ubuntu and Mandriva (primarily a KDE distribution) were among the lowest. more
- DisklessWorkstations.com Bundles Support for the Ubuntu Operating System with LTSP Thin Clients Tuesday, April 27, 2010 @ 9:18AMTROY, Mich., April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- DisklessWorkstations.com, a leading supplier of thin client hardware and solutions for open source thin client environments announces Bundled LTSP Support.
- OLPC in Paraguay educates both little kids and teenagers Sunday, April 25, 2010 @ 10:17PMStop: "Today, however, Sugar is usable on any computer running Linux, Mac OS or Windows. Since some months ago I had described how the XO laptop is used in some Nepali schools, this time I interviewed Bernie Innocenti, an italian developer who worked on that project and now is doing the same thing in Paraguay. "
- Final Notes from the ODF Plugfest in Granada Wednesday, April 21, 2010 @ 8:43AMZona-M: "A representative of the Spanish Ministry of Presidency, Miguel Angel Amutio Gomez, started the day explaining the crucial points of the Spanish law 11/2007: the right for everybody to use whatever digital technology they like best and the obligation for all Public Administrations to avoid discrimination of citizens based on their technological choices."
- New Features In Bash Version 4.x - Part 1 Wednesday, April 7, 2010 @ 11:40AMLinuxCommand.org: "It's quite possible that a script that you wrote ten years ago still works perfectly well today. But even so, every few years the GNU Project releases a new version of bash."
- Distro options Monday, April 5, 2010 @ 9:28PMLike the previous version, the M'Serv S2100 runs FreeNAS well. We were able to move the SATA disks and CompactFlash, and it picked back up right where it left off on the A2000 box.
- Banish boring terminal windows with Bashish Tuesday, March 16, 2010 @ 1:46PMSourceforge: "Swedish student Thomas Eriksson says a lot of advanced computer usage is still best done from the terminal. Given that, he’s developed Bashish to provide a more useful and beautiful terminal environment."
- After 2 Years of Development, LTSP 5.2 Is Out Sunday, February 21, 2010 @ 4:43PMThe Linux Terminal Server Project has for years been simplifying the task of time-sharing a Linux system by means of X terminals (including repurposed low-end PCs). Now, stgraber writes "After almost two years or work and 994 commits later made by only 14 contributors, the LTSP team is proud to announce that the Linux Terminal Server Project project released LTSP 5.2 on Wednesday the 17th of ...
- News and views on Linux on the desktop ... Tuesday, February 9, 2010 @ 3:09PMDell PCs cram multimedia power into tiny package — Nov. 13, 2009 — Dell announced a miniature PC using single- or dual-core AMD processors, available with Ubuntu Linux.
- News and views on Linux on the desktop ... Wednesday, January 27, 2010 @ 8:39AMABI's Jeffrey Orr on rising Linux netbook sales — Nov. 06, 2009 — After ABI Research projected that Linux represents a 32 percent share of netbooks in 2009 and will overtake Windows in 2013, we spoke with ABI analyst Jeffrey Orr. Orr notes the rise of international consumers and ARM-based netbooks, and discusses Ubuntu, Moblin, Android, and Chrome OS. ...
- News and views on Linux on the desktop ... Friday, January 15, 2010 @ 2:24PMCentOS rev's to version 5.4, tries on KVM — Oct. 23, 2009 — The CentOS project, which has apparently settled a dispute that threatened to lead to a fork, released CentOS 5.4. Reflecting changes made to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, CentOS 5.4 upgrades 266 packages, adds 27, and implements preview versions of the ext4 file-system and KVM hypervisor.
- News and views on Linux on the desktop ... Wednesday, December 23, 2009 @ 1:24PMHulu comes to Linux — Oct. 16, 2009 — Web video site Hulu has released a Linux version of its Hulu Desktop. Hulu Desktop for Linux is optimized for Ubuntu 9.04 and Fedora 11, offers search and playback controls, and includes publisher tools for locating and integrating content, says Hulu. ...
- Android on the Rise, While .Net Takes a Blow Thursday, October 15, 2009 @ 7:08AMAndroid will be the No. 2 smartphone OS by 2012, according to Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney! This fall's march of the Androids notwithstanding, the open OS now accounts for less than 2 percent of all smartphones, according to a recent report. In three years, however, it will make up more than 14 percent, beating Apple, Microsoft and RIM.
- The 10 Best Mobile Business Apps Friday, September 11, 2009 @ 9:23AMThe marketplace for mobile apps continues to expand. Here are the 10 best apps for turning your cell phone into a powerful business tool.
- Linus Is A Fake! Friday, September 4, 2009 @ 2:29PMEvery true Linux geek knows that Linus Torvalds is our fearless leader, the developer-in-chief, keeper of the stable tree and decider of what will be. But according to the Linux Foundation, what you see may not be what you get. read more
- Smartphones: A Tower of Babel for developers Friday, September 4, 2009 @ 5:54AMould-be mobile developers face a Tower of Babel environment, making it tough to figure out how -- indeed, whether -- to take the plunge into creating apps for the small but enticing mobile market, says Infoworld's Paul Krill.
- Smartphones: A Tower of Babel for developers Wednesday, September 2, 2009 @ 5:00AMIn the fast-moving world of smartphones, application developers must make choices: Develop native applications for Apple's iPhone or perhaps for the Palm Pre. Or maybe build for Symbian, the RIM BlackBerry, or Google's Android. If you have the time and skills, you can build your application again and again for different phones, using native development resources.
- Wi-Fi Authentication With FreeRADIUS Thursday, August 20, 2009 @ 4:36PMIt's free, it runs on Linux, and it's the most widely used RADIUS server on the planet. Here's how to deploy FreeRADIUS for Wi-Fi authentication on your network using CentOS.
- Edubuntu followup Thursday, August 6, 2009 @ 11:31PMA number of readers posed both thoughts and questions related to my Wednesday post, "The state of Edubuntu...Thoughts?" While the expected "Why the hell would you use *nix anyway?" sorts of questions were thrown in for good measure, many readers had solid recommendations based on experience while others had...
- Indicaa Group provides secure centralized application access to 15 branches Monday, July 20, 2009 @ 3:48AMIndicaa Group Limited, the world's leading trader in containerized scrap metal based in Dubai, has deployed application delivery solution Propalms TSE that provides centralized application access to 50 users across 15 remote sites.
- A desktop savings plan Wednesday, July 1, 2009 @ 12:55PMDesktop virtualization aims to lower the costs and increase the security of desktop computers, but agencies must determine which approach — or combination of methods — best suits their needs.
- News and views on Linux on the desktop ... Friday, May 22, 2009 @ 3:01PMSun virtualization technology adds VM exports — Apr. 08, 2009 — Sun has added support for the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) to the latest version of its "open source" desktop virtualization software.
- News and views on Linux on the desktop ... Friday, May 22, 2009 @ 9:46AMLF taps rev'd OpenSUSE Build Service — Apr. 08, 2009 — The Linux Foundation (LF) announced that OpenSUSE's Build Service will be incorporated in its Linux Developer Network (LDN). Claimed to be the only development platform that enables software to be packaged for all major Linux distributions, the OpenSUSE Build Service was released in a 1.6 version that adds ARM support.
- News and views on Linux on the desktop ... Tuesday, May 19, 2009 @ 6:01PMIntel lets go of Moblin — Apr. 03, 2009 — Intel has handed over control of its Linux-based, Moblin stack for MIDs and netbooks to the Linux Foundation (LF). In its role as "host" of the open-source Moblin.org community, the LF will offer "technical support" for the group -- and possibly move the stack to embrace platforms beyond Intel's Atom. ...
- News and views on Linux on the desktop ... Tuesday, May 19, 2009 @ 2:31PMAsus netbook includes optical drive — Apr. 01, 2009 — Asus has announced a netbook that includes an integral optical disk drive.
- News and views on Linux on the desktop ... Tuesday, May 19, 2009 @ 2:16PMFedora 11 boasts 20-second startup — Mar. 31, 2009 — The Fedora Project has released a beta version of its community-sponsored, Red Hat-based Linux distribution, with the final due in May. The Fedora 11 beta release offers faster, 20-second bootups, improved package management, new virtualization features, and support for cross-compiling Windows applications, says the open-source project.
- News and views on Linux on the desktop ... Friday, May 15, 2009 @ 3:46PMBtrfs, Squashfs, and Tuz, oh my! — Mar. 26, 2009 — Linus Torvalds announced that Linux 2.6.29 is available and ready for service, along with a temporary new mascot in the Australian Tuz (pictured).
- News and views on Linux on the desktop ... Thursday, May 14, 2009 @ 2:01PMNowhere to hide: Forensic tool moves to Linux — Mar. 26, 2009 — Linux'ers who thought they had erased all traces of their latest Ponzi scheme, beware: MacForensicsLab's desktop forensic tool has moved to Linux.
- News and views on Linux on the desktop ... Thursday, May 14, 2009 @ 1:31PMRecession tipping IT toward open source? — Mar. 25, 2009 — The recession has sharply accelerated interest in open source technologies among enterprise IT buyers, says an eWEEK story.
- News and views on Linux on the desktop ... Wednesday, May 13, 2009 @ 9:16AMSLE 11 adds enterprise features — Mar. 24, 2009 — Novell announced the availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Desktop (SLED) and Server (SLES) 11, offering new support for virtualization and cloud computing.
- Attachmate Connects Remote Users to Mission-Critical UNIX Applications with Reflection X Advantage Version 2.0 Monday, May 11, 2009 @ 7:00AMSEATTLE----Attachmate Corporation today announced Attachmate® Reflection® X Advantage version 2.0, a multiplatform X server that connects remote Windows, UNIX, Linux and Mac desktop users to graphical UNIX-based applications.