Thin-client desktops: Not defunct yet
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Thin-client computing has been around for a decade, but the rising costs of updating software and installing security patches on networked personal computers is sparking renewed interest
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Powered by its SUSE Linux subsidiary, Linux Desktop 9 includes the usual suspects of the Linux desktop, including Mozilla&#39;s Firefox Web browser, the Gaim instant messaging client, the Novell Ximian Evolution Groupware client and the OpenOffice.
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Adobe's AIR allows applications to bridge the Web and desktop.
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Group seeks to make Web access for mobile device users as easy as it is for desktop users.
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Setting up a file server doesn't need to be complicated. read more
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This miniature budget notebook may not be preloaded with Windows, but it ably serves most on-the-go computing needs.
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The trials and tribulations of application dependency in a virtualized, hosted world.
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InformationWeek: A Desktop Pipeline reviewer invites readers to step into the SP2 waters, and offers some suggestions on how to do it as safely as possible.
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New virtual-machine technology can be used to test software patches and migrate aging Windows NT applications. By John Foley, Paula Rooney, CRN.
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Did you know you can download SourceforgeEE for 15 users for free. You'll find it on Sourceforge.net and it comes in a VMWare appliance. That version will accommodate 50 users if you want to pay for more than 15 seats. From an enterprise point of view, the cost is quite reasonable.
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Previous tips showed you how you can use Expos&#233; to instantly unclutter your desktop or an application. Expos&#233;&#146;s coolness doesn&#146;t end there, though. How would you like to see it work in slow mo&#146;?  [Dec 22]
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Macromedia promises to speed development of Internet applications with a new tool for its Flex platform. With Flex, enterprises can add interfaces to strategic applications, including visual
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A suite of diskless Folding At Home utilities. http://reilly.homeip.net/folding   Download from http://reilly.homeip.net/folding/  Moved source and bug / feature tracking to SourceForge. Fixed a couple of issues in the SMP hang check - now supports multiple SMP instances (if you have more than 4 processors) and still does the kill if the Autosend text happens after the hang. Also added a check that the download from Stanford didn't error and if it did print troubleshooting suggestions and stop there.
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Microsoft engineer shows off a new "MinWin" kernel that takes up a fraction of the space of the traditional OS.
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Continuing the thread on commoditization of scalable server software, the third installment. Yesterday, Matt Tucker from the OpenFire community, said: "I'm not sure that S3 magically kills off the scaling priests. It certainly makes it easy to turn on more storage resources, but writing an application to scale efficiently across multiple virtual machines is no easy task." To which I responded... It won't make scaling obsolete, but what it does do is commodify it. Right now I can't buy a Jabber server that scales without also hiring someone who will scale it for me. But in a few years I should be able to buy a Jabber server that, when it needs more CPUs, just asks for them all transparently to the user, the same way my word processor asks the OS for more memory today. I remember word processors that didn't do memory management, you got a 64K buffer and that's it. One document. When you filled it up, you started another. Technology will go forward and scaling won't be a black art, it'll be something built into the software you license.
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How far is too far when it comes to the freedom of software? Plus: Palm slipping, Windows sliding.
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Prism, a new Windows-only beta release from Mozilla Labs, lets users run web applications in separate, stripped-down browser windows, making them look and act more like desktop applications. Compiler has a first look.