Jon Walker

Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking with Anton Chuvakin, Director of Product Management at LogLogic. We had an interesting discussion about log management and the open source project he's involved in that collects Windows event logs. Here's an overview of our chat. Drowning in logs is all too common nowadays when organizations are struggling with a combination of operational, security, and compliance requirements. A typical organization will have logs from a wide array of log sources such as server operating systems (Unix and Windows), desktops, mainframes, network gear such as routers and switches, web proxies, security gear such as network IDS, IPS or anti-virus tools, Web, e-mail, and DNS server software as well as enterprise applications. Large organizations ty... (more)

Migrating File and Print Services from Windows to Linux

Most organizations provide their users with the ability to print, store, and access files on network servers. Accessing and saving files to network drives and printing to shared network printers is probably something administrators don't spend much time thinking about unless it's to help users install print drivers or assist them in accessing shared network directories. If your organizati... (more)

Fujitsu Siemens Simplifies the Complexities of Software Testing

Customers have high expectations that their software solutions have been stress-tested thoroughly in advance for every conceivable combination of events that might occur in production and that vendors who put out buggy products are exposed quickly. Unfortunately, inadequate infrastructure for software testing is said to cost approximately $59.5 billion annually, according to a 2002 study,... (more)

Should Open Source Applications Run On Windows?

There's been some interesting debate in the Open Source community regarding Open Source applications that run both on Linux and Windows. One camp feels most users select an operating system based on its available applications. If the applications people want are on Windows, they will tend to stick with Windows. Conversely, if the applications they want are only on Linux, they will eventu... (more)

Jon Walker's Linux.SYS-CON.com Blog: Windows Is Not Linux or Linux Is Not Windows?

Windows Is Not Linux or Linux Is Not Windows? Here is a long justification I ran across that argues that the real problem with Linux adoption is that it is different from Windows. In other words people coming from Windows to Linux just have the wrong expectations. I don't quite buy the argument which I feel boils down to "the problem is the users". Before you start insisting that something a... (more)