Articles by Dru Lavigne
Dru Lavigne
Dru is a network and systems administrator, IT instructor, and technical author. She has over a decade of experience administering and teaching Netware, Microsoft, Cisco, Checkpoint, SCO, Solaris, Linux and BSD systems. A prolific author, she pens the popular FreeBSD Basics column for O'Reilly and is author of BSD Hacks and The Best of FreeBSD Basics. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Source Business Resource, a free monthly publication covering open source and the commercialization of open source assets. An intrepid globetrotter, her current experiments include mapping out which airports in the world provide free wireless and looking for eclectic combinations of cuisine.
Whether you’re a software developer, graphic artist, or office manager, odds are you’ve got important files that are routinely shared and updated. This tutorial will show you how to streamline collaboration by creating a secure Subversion repository for archiving those files and tracking revisions.
In the first of our two-part series, Open Source Alternatives for the Office, we examined open source applications that can be used to replace some of the most popular Office 2007 products. In this article, we’ll take a look at open source alternatives to additional Microsoft products commonly used in the office—Publisher, Groove, Visio, and Project.
Microsoft Office has been one of the most popular (and profitable) business software suites for many years, but Office is no longer the only game in town when it comes to basic business applications. In this article we’ll gauge how OpenOffice 3.0, Evolution, and GnuCash stack up to Microsoft Office 2007.
While open source mail servers have always dominated the mail transfer market, enterprises expect much more than just simple mail transfer from their mail servers. How do you pick the right enterprise mail server for your business?