Posts Tagged ‘Feature’

Feature: Is Lion Server suitable for home use? Ars investigates

Posted on January 23rd, 2012 • Filed under Learn • No Comments

Jorge Herskovic, a member of our community, wrote up a detailed account of his own experience working with OS X Lion Server for the benefit of our Mac forum readers. We asked Herskovic to expand on his thoughts a bit and share them with the rest of us; he graciously agreed. Here’s one computer geek’s experience with trying to govern his home Apple gadgets with Lion Server.

First, two confessions: I am a huge Apple fan. I am typing this on my 27” iMac, which sits under a painting of the old rainbow Apple logo in my home office. I own six Macs (four at home, two at work), my wife and I have iPhones, I have an old iPod I use as a car jukebox, and I have an iPad, an Airport Extreme, an Apple TV, and an Apple TV 2. I’ve been to the Apple campus in Cupertino more than once—and I live in Texas. Heck, I’m wearing an Apple T-shirt as I write this. I’m a drooling Apple fanboi.

I’m also a UNIX-loving geek. My first Linux install was Slackware… from a stack of floppy disks, in 1993. I’m competent enough not to shoot myself in the foot too badly. I have owned and managed Linux machines before, still keep a Linux VM on my Macs, and have root to several Important Linux Servers at work. I’ve run mission-critical systems on Linux for more than one company.

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Feature: Private app stores: does your company need its own?

Posted on November 28th, 2011 • Filed under Learn • No Comments

From iOS and Android to BlackBerry and Windows Phone, the app store model has become the main way mobile device users find, download, and update their software. And with employees increasingly begging for access to corporate resources from smartphones and tablets, IT departments are starting to wonder whether they should jump into the app store business themselves.

“The public app store is kind of the wild, wild West,” Forrester analyst Jeffrey Hammond tells Ars. Private app stores, hosted for the employees of a single business, are receiving “a lot of interest from the clients I talk to. Folks realize that self-provisioning is the long-term trend.”

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Feature: Desktop dreams: Ubuntu 11.10 reviewed

Posted on October 23rd, 2011 • Filed under Learn • No Comments

Ubuntu 11.10, codenamed Oneiric Ocelot, prowled out of the development forest earlier this month. In our review of Ubuntu 11.04, released back in April, we took a close look at the strengths and weaknesses of the new Unity shell and compared it with GNOME 3.0. In this review, we’re going to revisit Unity to see how much progress it has made over the past six months. We will also take a close look at the updated Software Center user interface and the transition from Evolution to Thunderbird.

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Feature: Ultrabook: Intel’s $300 million plan to beat Apple at its own game

Posted on September 5th, 2011 • Filed under Learn • No Comments

My desktop isn’t the only computer I plan to replace in the next few months. I need a new laptop too, and my goal is simple: to find a 13″ MacBook Air that isn’t made by Apple.

It turns out that I’m not the only one wanting this mythical non-Apple MacBook Air. Intel wants them too—it calls them Ultrabooks. The chip company has been kicking the Ultrabook idea around for a few months now, and it has grand ambitions: by the end of next year, it wants 40 percent of PC laptops to be Ultrabooks.

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