2002

A Penguinista's Shopping List

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Moshe's holiday gift list includes WiFi cards, the Sharp Zaurus 5600, the Linksys Wet11 wireless ethernet bridge, a Mathematica upgrade, and Kevin Mitnick's new book.

Comparing Apples and Penguins

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After extolling the virtues of Mac OS X on the desktop, Moshe takes a look at how it compares to Linux as a server.

Flirting With Mac OS X

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Can a Linux lover find happiness with a Mac? Moshe gets swept off his feet by Mac OS X's combination of Apple elegance and UNIX power.

A Summer Potpourri

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Moshe stirs up a heady blend of ideas, considering problems of mobility and problems of scalability in Linux.

Oracle RAC on Linux

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Moshe tests out Oracle's Real Application Cluster software for Linux, and finds that the product comes with serious drawbacks.

A Wireless Honeymoon

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How to get away from it all, but still stay in touch. Moshe finds a solution with GPRS.

Porting Linux Software to the IA64 Platform

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Moshe explains what he's learned from porting openMosix to a 64-bit environment.

United Colors of Linux

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Nothing proves the resilience of the open-source phenomenon like the quantity and quality of software that continues to come out of it, undeterred by wars, recessions, and social upheaval. All the projects we know from years back are still around, and new ones join the roster every day. This also applies to the subject of this column: the Linux kernel and all its major subsystems. The main distributions are still carrying boring versions and there is very little difference between, for instance, SuSE 7.2 and SuSE 7.3 in terms of new functionality in the main subsystems.

Double Checking Sun's Reality Check

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A Forest of Kernel Trees

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Keeping in Sync

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