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You could drop iSCSI and just use layer-2 Ethernet to transfer blocks, but then you'd have to define a comm protocol for disks on layer-2 Ethernet. Not that it couldn't be done, but I'm not aware of one in common use today (at least not on commodity Ethernet hardware).

ATA over Ethernet gets you at least halfway there.

http://www.pcquest.com/content/technology/2006/106 110402.asp
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8149
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10880_11 -6106721.html

Between Apple's AAC and Microsoft's WMA, which is cross platform and which is Windows-only?

This is a trick question, right?

Not only do those people look like zealots, I believe you are one of them too. Either you are new here or you are a zealot. Because...

You can't run .NET on linux
You can't run ASP.NET on linux
There's not an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for .NET on linux
There's no commercial support for .NET on linux

So I am betting you want to bash Novell too because they support .NET?

http://www.pcquest.com/content/web/2005/105021002. asp

This is pretty cool, I have one.

General office use..

we want to be able to open our word processor and spreadsheet applications in under 3 seconds like we could 20 years ago.

Multimedia

any video editing software you would be using wouldn't be worth a damn if it couldn't splice up the work and run multitheaded. this has traditionally been one of the most cpu intensive applications. converting/compressing/rendering video format. cinelerra for linux is able to not only multi-cpu, it will cluster your video editing. http://www.pcquest.com/content/networking/10310110 1.asp

no matter what you're doing with these machines, these will knock your socks off.

iMesh and Kazaa use the FastTrack network, a propietary technology developed by a Swedish company. They need to pay this company licensing fees to use the network, which is probably why no exact open-source, adware-free equivalents exist... unless you count the hacked "light" versions of these two that have the adware removed but can still access FastTrack.

More about FastTrack here

I thought this was old news - Master Card has been pushing Paypass for around two years now.

I still don't see why it's such a big deal.

India already has its own Linux Distribution :-) Take a look at ELX Linux. Every couple of months, PCQuest Magazine distributes a CD with the magazine with customized version of Debian on it. The customization is good enough to be called its own distro.

HTH,

Jalil Vaidya

In the same note, are there any organizations/companies that have played a major role in helping Linux become popular?

For instance, I know that in India, the magazine PC Quest was initially responsible for making Linux popular - they used to distribute Linux CDs (started out with Slackware and then moved on to Redhat) free with their magazines, and this helped spread the word :)

And how big a role do LUGs really play in actually making the general public (schools, businesses and the common user) aware of Linux? Are they actively involved (I know that ILUGC in India is quite proactive) or do they have any kind of tie-ups and the like with organizations to help spread Linux?

Linux makes quite a bit of practical sense in India. No indian can really afford to pay retail for software. Even the $40 that is the (rumored) cost of windows to PC OEMS is something most people just cannot pay in addition to the huge price of a computer. The OS and the office suite are thus mostly pirated, and usually include a plethora of free viruses...Ditto for the development environments. Everyone who is serious about learning comp/programming realizes sooner o\r later that instead of trying to pirate each and every tool one needs for a dev environment, its just better to move to linux.
In addition to that, there are magazine like PC Quest which have distributed free linux distro CDs (and include loads of good linux articles) with the magazine since around 1994. These CDs are how i got hooked on linux. That helps...
In my college, the IITs linux has long been the OS of choice in comp labs. They would rather buy a few more PCs than spend the huge ammount on WIN+DEV STUDIO, (even after the educational discount), and even when i was there, 5 years back, students, even non power users clearly preferred the linux systems over the NT systems...to the end where they migrated the NT ones to linux too.
blah...i thought i had a point here...DAMN ADD :P Ghoul2

Ultra Wide Band technology that uses broad spectrum pulses rather than the traditional carrier frequency approach can potentially be even faster. See here

Are they going to be plugging this creature? They are testing it against RedHate Linux.

Computer magazines have been taking the initiative where vendors haven't. PC Quest has been carrying Linux on a cover CD once every year since 1996 (Slackware the first two years, RH since). CHIP Magazine (where I work) put RH 6.0 on it's August 99 CD with an eight-page article on installing and the first few steps. PC World has Corel Linux on the current issue's CD. All major magazines here come with monthly cover CDs. It's how we make up for lack of bandwidth to download individually.

Kiran Jonnalagadda

Yippee..India is GREAT!! :) We do this every year. At one time the same magazine PC QUEST released OS2/Warp around the time Windows 95 was coming out.
The Linux articles on its web can be found here

Yippee..India is GREAT!! :) We do this every year. At one time the same magazine PC QUEST released OS2/Warp around the time Windows 95 was coming out.
The Linux articles on its web can be found here