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Mark R. Hinkle
Mark Hinkle is the Vice President of Community at Zenoss Inc. the maker of the open source application, server, and network management software. He also is along-time open source expert and advocate. He is a co-founder of both the Open Source Management Consortium and the Desktop Linux Consortium. He has served as Editor-in-Chief for both LinuxWorld Magazine and Enterprise Open Source Magazine. Hinkle is also the author of the book, "Windows to Linux Business Desktop Migration" (Thomson, 2006). His blog on open source, technology, and new media can be found at http://www.socializedsoftware.com. |
i-Technology Viewpoint:
The New Paradigm of IT
Buying By Mark R. Hinkle  With the U.S. economy and
IT spending finally
appearing to be making a
comeback and China and
India adopting IT faster
than you can say
symmetric
multiprocessing, why am I
predicting layoffs? Oct. 11, 2005 03:15 AM Reads: 92,064 | Red Hat Fedora and
Enterprise Linux 4 Bible By Mark R. Hinkle  I was recently looking to
upgrade a laptop to
Fedora Core 4, which
happened to happen at
roughly the time I got a
copy of Red Hat Fedora
and Enterprise Linux 4
Bible by noted technology
author Christopher Negus.
During a quick scan I ran
into a section that I
thin... Sep. 18, 2005 01:00 PM Reads: 16,318 | Linux.SYS-CON.com's Mark
Hinkle: Confidence in
Open Source By Mark R. Hinkle  I recently attended a
concert with a friend and
one of his clients. My
friend runs a storage
practice for a systems
integrator and his client
works as an IT manager
for a pharmaceutical
company. During the
introductions my friend
mentioned to his client
that I was... Sep. 10, 2005 02:30 AM Reads: 13,222 | Alternative Ways to
Download Files with Linux By Mark R. Hinkle  Fedora Core (http://fedor
a.redhat.com) is one of
the world's most popular
Linux distributions in
part from support by Red
Hat and a strong
community of users. It
also has been a proving
ground for Red Hat to
develop technologies that
will eventually make
their way... Aug. 12, 2005 04:00 PM Reads: 29,638 | Enterprise Users, Keep
Your Options Open By Mark R. Hinkle  I've always been fond of
the saying 'There are no
absolutes' because I find
the irony appealing. You
see, despite being the
editor-in-chief of a
leading Linux magazine, I
don't believe there's a
best choice in operating
systems other than the
one that works best for... Aug. 12, 2005 02:00 PM Reads: 12,159 | VMware Workstation 5: The
Software Testers' Friend By Mark R. Hinkle  I love virtual machines.
They enable me to stretch
my limited hardware by
letting me run more than
one operating system on a
single computer. But my
needs pale in comparision
to those of quality
assurance and testing
teams. They have to test
tens if not hundreds of ... Aug. 5, 2005 01:15 PM Reads: 17,558 Replies: 1 | SpikeSource: Automated
Open Source Testing and
Certification By Mark R. Hinkle  SpikeSource, a starry
Redwood City, California,
start-up providing Open
Source software testing
services, wants to
embolden enterprises to
use the Linux, Apache,
MySQL, and
PHP/Python/Perl (LAMP)
stack
(www.spikesource.com).
Their goal is to certify
the LAMP sta... Jul. 17, 2005 12:45 AM Reads: 17,442 Replies: 1 | The Network Is Computing
for Sun By Mark R. Hinkle  In May 2005, Sun
Microsystems announced
that they had entered
into an agreement to
acquire remote access
vendor, Tarantella
(www.tarantella.com), in
a $25 million cash
agreement. Tarantella is
the producer of secure
remote access software
that enables network
ac... Jul. 11, 2005 07:15 PM Reads: 17,727 | Crossing the Open Source
Chasm By Mark R. Hinkle  Recently I have had a
number of conversations
with people who make
their living in open
source, and every one of
them talked to some
degree about the idea
that they were starting
to address a market that
has, in the parlance of
Geoffrey Moore, crossed
the chasm. Jul. 8, 2005 03:00 PM Reads: 11,342 | Interview with Userful
CEO and Founder Tim
Griffin By Mark R. Hinkle  Userful of Calgary,
Alberta, makes a
resource-sharing system
for Linux called 1-Box
(www.userful.com). 1-Box
is a multiuser approach
to Linux desktop
computing that turns a
single computer into a
network of up to 10
workstations. Traditional
networks require a
s... Jun. 14, 2005 11:15 AM Reads: 14,013 | KDE's KIOSK Admin Tool By Mark R. Hinkle  Linux is infinitely
configurable. It's so
flexible it runs on
mainframes, cell phones,
PCs, even gaming stations
and digital video
recorders (DVRs). This is
one of its biggest
strengths especially for
those who want control or
the freedom to tailor a
desktop PC to... Jun. 14, 2005 11:00 AM Reads: 14,590 | Linux and Mobile
Computing: Where Next? By Mark R. Hinkle  Linux has built its
reputation as a server
operating system as a
premier platform for the
Web servers that power
the Internet and a key
building block in grid
computing. But does it
have a prominent place in
the future of mobile
computing? Jun. 14, 2005 08:00 AM Reads: 13,314 | Intel Counsels Desktop
Linux Movement By Mark R. Hinkle Everyone knows Intel
wants to sell processors,
but the question is does
it really care what
operating system is
running on the chip? The
answer is, apparently,
yes. It's taken notice of
the effect Linux is
having in the IT market
and it's reacting. For
example, Li... May. 30, 2005 12:15 PM Reads: 22,647 | Novell BrainShare 2005 By Mark R. Hinkle Held in at the Salt
Palace Convention Center
in downtown Salt Lake
City, Novell's annual
user conference was an
excellent place to learn
about Novell's
proprietary solutions. It
was also evidence of
their evolution to new
environments that will
continue to be pepp... May. 30, 2005 12:15 PM Reads: 8,405 | The LAMP "Cooperative" By Mark R. Hinkle When you consider the way
LAMP (Linux, Apache,
MySQL, PHP, Perl, or
Python) has evolved, you
could draw comparisons to
a very low tech but
effective method of
collaboration: the
farmers' cooperative.
Individual farmers on
their own lacked the
means to collect,
n... May. 30, 2005 12:00 PM Reads: 14,421 | The LAMP Cooperative By Mark R. Hinkle In an April 2005 Netcraft
survey of over 62 million
Web sites, Apache was far
and away the market
leader for Web server
software with 69.19% of
the total market share,
followed by Microsoft
with 20.55% and Sun a
distant third with 3.04%. May. 25, 2005 08:30 PM Reads: 11,288 | A Letter To Our Readers By Mark R. Hinkle The editorial staff of
LinuxWorld Magazine would
like to set the record
straight on our efforts
and intentions with
regards to what we
publish on LinuxWorld.com
and LinuxWorld Magazine.
Due to an unfortunate
series of events, we
recently advised our
publisher to r... May. 12, 2005 03:00 PM Reads: 31,235 Replies: 15 | LinuxWorld Expo By Mark R. Hinkle The Birkenstocks and
beards where mothballed
this year as the new
guard entered LinuxWorld
Expo in button-down
shirts and ties and the
occasional Brooks
Brothers suit. This
year's LinuxWorld was all
about business or at
least that's the message
IDG, the conference... Apr. 6, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 16,441 | Linux Migration: It's a
Voyage By Mark R. Hinkle When I was younger I used
to love to watch Star
Trek. My favorite part of
the show was the
transporter. I was in awe
of the idea that the crew
of the Enterprise could
just transport anywhere
they wanted to go. Mar. 10, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 12,073 | Managing Linux Desktops By Mark R. Hinkle I often speak about the
Linux desktop as a viable
business solution and
analyze how and why it
works, what's handy and
where it's progressing
but maybe one point gets
lost and that's the
manageability of the
Linux desktop, not only
locally but remotely and
centrally. Mar. 10, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 15,014 | How Do I Manage My Linux
Infrastructure or How Do
I 'Herd Cats'? By Mark R. Hinkle Once you have Linux in
your enterprise you
obviously are aware of
the value that it brings
in terms of stability,
security, and total cost
of ownership, but you may
be left with one final
obstacle: the management
of your Linux
infrastructure. Feb. 8, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 13,213 | Point-and-Click Linux!
Your Guide to Hassle-Free
Computing By Mark R. Hinkle If you have ever met
Robin Miller or 'Roblimo'
as he prefers to be
called, you immediately
realize that he's one of
the endearing
'characters' that make
Linux colorful. Roblimo
is editor-in-chief for
the Open Source
Technology Group, which
includes Linux.com,
sl... Feb. 8, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 19,947 Replies: 4 | What It Means to Be the
Best By Mark R. Hinkle What it means to be the
best is a relative thing.
In the sports world it's
the score at the end of
the game, the winning
record that indicates who
beat whom. In the world
of Linux, it's more
subjective to the goals
of the end user. Jan. 17, 2005 12:00 AM Reads: 12,743 | Linux on the Desktop:
'Don't Stop Thinking
About Tomorrow' By Mark R. Hinkle As 2004 comes to a close
I keep hearing a
Fleetwood Mac tune
playing somewhere in the
back of my head, 'Don't
stop thinking about
tomorrow...' especially
the chorus, which goes
something like this,
'It'll be here, better
than before. Yesterday's
gone, yesterday's ... Dec. 29, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 11,640 | '...and Thanks for the
Fish' By Mark R. Hinkle Yep, there is a new
sheriff in town. I am
pleased to be writing
this editorial as the new
editor-in-chief of
LinuxWorld Magazine.
Before I start
prophesying about the
bright future of the
magazine, I would like to
reflect on our
accomplishments, thanking
former ... Dec. 13, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 12,729 | Robertson:
"OpenOffice.org and
Firefox are the Secret
Weapons of Desktop Linux" By Mark R. Hinkle 'I think OpenOffice.org
and Firefox are the
secret weapons of desktop
Linux,' said Linspire CEO
Michael Robertson today
as he announced the
release of a new retail
software box set
consisting of open source
favorites OpenOffice.org
office suite and the
Firefox Web... Nov. 23, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 14,404 Replies: 3 | Managing Digital Pictures
with Linux By Mark R. Hinkle In August, as the
proverbial dog days of
summer were upon us, I
found that news in the
Linux world slowed as
many people went on
vacation with their
families. Consequently,
these Linux users spent a
considerable amount of
time snapping large
numbers of pictures,
... Oct. 29, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 18,024 | Spam and the Linux
Desktop By Mark R. Hinkle It's a fact of life for
most of us: we all
receive e-mail
solicitations to 'Make
Money Fast' or for a
'Mail Order Drugstore' or
offensive or adult
content that makes us
blush, especially when a
colleague is looking over
our shoulder. Spam, a
slang term for
Unsol... Sep. 27, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 17,222 Replies: 1 | How to Avoid Desktop
Disasters By Mark R. Hinkle It's 2:00 a.m., you're
working on that critical
presentation, and the
power goes out. Since you
moved your power supply
to your significant
other's computer, you
just lost all your work. Aug. 31, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 17,089 | SAS: World's Largest
Privately Held Software
Company... By Mark R. Hinkle SAS (www.sas.com) is the
world's largest privately
held software company and
a global leader in
business intelligence
software. SAS, founded in
1976 and headquartered in
Cary, N.C., has taken a
different path than many
of the
'Johnny-come-lately'
software vendors,... Aug. 31, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 15,212 | Changes in Computing By Mark R. Hinkle In my editorial in last
month's LinuxWorld
Magazine, I defined
inflection points (with
the help of Intel's Andy
Grove) as those things
that change our behavior
with regards to our IT
strategy. I was speaking
of software and hardware
upgrades and other
realities of... Jul. 27, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 13,648 | Inflection Points By Mark R. Hinkle Inflection points in
mathematics are those
points on a graph where
its concavity changes.
Andy Grove, founder of
Intel, defined inflection
points in the business
world as events that
change the way we think
and act. And to that end
Linux is most certainly
the ca... Jun. 15, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 13,274 | Live CD Linux
Distributions By Mark R. Hinkle Many people feel that if
they get something for
free there is no real
value in it, but that's
not always the case. Free
doesn't always equate
to low quality or
'cheap.' Especially when
it comes to open source
and free software. Jun. 15, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 35,734 Replies: 1 | Guide to Linux on the
Business Desktop Part 3 By Mark R. Hinkle Welcome to the third
installment of 'Guide to
Linux on the Business
Desktop.' Part 1 (Vol. 2,
issue 4) covered some of
the many Linux
distributions available,
and Part 2 (Vol. 2, issue
5) looked at some of the
major vendors' Linux
desktop offerings and
began to ex... May. 18, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 15,805 | Guide to Linux on the
Business Desktop Part 2
of 3 By Mark R. Hinkle In Part 1 of this series
(LWM Vol. 2, issue 4),
Dr. Migration analyzed
some common Linux
distributions with the
goal of helping you
figure out which is right
for you. This month, he
takes a look at some of
the major vendors' Linux
desktop offerings and
begins to e... Apr. 19, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 15,522 | EmergeCore's IT in a Box By Mark R. Hinkle EmergeCore's president
and CEO, Dave Brown,
learned that in the ISP
business, reliability and
value were keys to
success for his
customers. That's why he
chose Linux as the
operating system to power
his IT in a Box IT-100.
The IT-100 is a 'Swiss
Army Knife' of Lin... Apr. 19, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 14,899 | Stalker CommuniGate Pro By Mark R. Hinkle CommuniGate Pro 4.1 (CGP)
is a comprehensive e-mail
platform that includes a
variety of messaging
services. First and
foremost, CGP provides
standards-based e-mail
services, including SMTP,
POP, and IMAP. E-mail can
be accessed and sent via
most any e-mail client o... Mar. 16, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 19,867 | Guide to Linux on the
Business Desktop Part 1 By Mark R. Hinkle I originally planned a
series of articles
dedicated to building the
ultimate Linux desktop
for business users.
However, after doing some
research I changed my
mission - this will still
be a series of articles
dedicated to the Linux
desktop for the everyday
produc... Mar. 16, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 23,984 Replies: 9 | Linux Powers North
Carolina's MCNC Research
Grid By Mark R. Hinkle MCNC is a nonprofit
organization located in
Research Triangle Park,
North Carolina. It was
founded by the state
General Assembly in 1980
to drive technology-based
economic development in
North Carolina by
partnering with
universities, businesses,
and government. Feb. 18, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 10,659 | Applications Are the Key By Mark R. Hinkle In this month's column,
Dr. Migration takes a
look at the Linux desktop
from an applications
point of view. Although
widespread adoption of
desktop Linux isn't a
reality yet, the
prognosis is good. I
recently wrote an article
for LinuxWorld.com on a
user-oriented ... Feb. 18, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 15,046 Replies: 2 |
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