Vista RC1 verdict: Windows wiz Oliver Rist peered into Vista RC1 and wasn't enamored by what he saw. Hardware hiccups and compatibility concerns suggest that this release might not be worth deploying for anyone but the power users in your organization. The good news: RC1 looks polished enough that Rist predicts that Vista will ship by January 2007. Those of you still hankering for Vista news should bookmark InfoWorld's ever-expanding Vista special report page.
FreeBSD still looks good to me: Over in The Deep End, Paul Venezia shares his experiences dipping in to FreeBSD 6.1. He acknowledges the upgrade from Version 4.9 came bit late, but that really speaks well to the reliability of the OS, right? As for 6.1: "This server does just about everything, from handling a massive mail volume and the associated filters and virus scanning duties, to mailing lists served via mailman, to hosting over 80 domains for both DNS, mail and Web hosting."
Phenomenal routing power, itty-bitty living space: Cisco announced the newest and smallest member of the CRS-1 family. This four-slot CRS-1 model delivers 320Gbps of total switching capacity in a 40Gbps-per-slot chassis. It's built to support the growing demands for IPTV, digital video, and other advanced business and residential IP services. Networking superstar Brian Chee, who pens keys the Geeks in Paradise blog, declares that rookie router (due out in November) will help Cisco give Juniper a run for its money and will "most likely become the core switch/router for most future Cisco solutions."
Blog roundup: Virtualization Report-er David Marshall peeks at Vizioncore esxRanger Professional 2.0, a hot backup and recovery solution for VMware Infrastructure 3.
Paul Krill points out a couple of product announcements out of Redmond, including Expression Web Beta and IronPython 1.0, which recently starred in a screencast by Blogger in Chief Jon Udell.
Posted by Ted Samson on September 6, 2006 06:00 AM
