Cluster Resources Works With IBM to Provide Moab Hybrid Cluster Solution on iDataPlex
Linux PR: "The Moab Hybrid Cluster solution with IBM's new iDataPlex enables both Windows and Linux OSes to run on the same platform."
A Guide Through the Linux Sound API Jungle
Lennart Poettering: "At the Audio MC at the Linux Plumbers Conference one thing became very clear: it is very difficult for programmers to figure out which audio API to use for which purpose and which API not to use when doing audio programming on Linux. So here's my try to guide you through this jungle ..."
Technical Overview: Maemo 5, the Next-Gen Nokia Tablet OS
Ars Technica: "Nokia is pushing significant architectural changes at many different levels in the Maemo platform stack. The new components will simplify application development and bring new capabilities to future Internet Tablet products."
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Migrations Made Simple: The Beauty of Unix
InfoWorld: "Many, many things have changed at the OS level between Fedora Core 3 and CentOS 5.2 (which is basically RHEL 5), the number of services provided by the server had quintupled, and I had only a five-minute window to make the swap. However, these are Linux boxes. That makes all the difference."
Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex" (Alpha 6): First Impressions
IT Wire: "Ubuntu 8.10 'Intrepid Ibex' Alpha 6 absolutely flies on my laptop. It boots faster and generally feels more responsive than the 8.04 version, which again felt faster than 7.10 and 7.04."
Track Your Missing Laptop With Adeona
Linux.com: "... the free software utility Adeona won't preemptively deter theft, but it will help you track down your stolen equipment and better the chances of its recovery by police."
Desktop Linux Suckage: Where's Our Steve Jobs?
Elliotth's Blog: "The Linux kernel has its Steve Jobs ... What does the Linux desktop have? The Linux desktop has nothing. No person, not even a committee. Just the GNOME HIG."
Is Sun Solaris on Its Deathbed?
InfoWorld: "Sun officials believe the 16-year-old Solaris platform remains a pivotal, innovative platform. But at the Linux Foundation, there is a no-conciliatory stance; the attitude there is to tell Solaris and Sun to move out of the way."
gOS 3.0 Goes Gold
Desktop Linux: "The last time we looked at gOS on a netbook, we were pretty horrified, to be honest."
Many Happy Returns of the Day (Fedora Turns Five)
Paul Frields: "If you haven't seen the lovely and festive new banner on the Fedora home page today, check it out! Today is a celebration -- FIVE GREAT YEARS of Fedora so far."
GNOME 2.24 Released
The GNOME Project has announced the release of GNOME 2.24.
Red Hat Q2 Earnings Beat Street
Reuters: "Red Hat Inc., the world's largest publicly traded provider of Linux software, posted a quarterly profit that beat Wall Street targets, helped by strong growth in its subscriptions business."
Networking 101: TCP In More Depth
Linux Planet: "Last week's introduction to TCP promised that this article would enlighten, entertain and obviate all other documentation. Well the last one isn't quite possible in this much space, but let's go ahead and take a look at TCP operational issues, now that we know a little about what TCP actually is."
Ubuntu Bug 272826: Ubuntero
Linux Magazine: "According to the Ubuntu Community page, Ubunteros (aka Ubuntites) are Ubuntu activists. This Ubuntero name has been used for the past few years, but now there is discussion about changing it to Ubuntista, or another gender-neutral word."
Plug and Run Fedora on a TOSHIBA A300D Laptop, Part II
Spread Fedora: "... I will explain you how I made to work my laptop with Fedora. No, not my opinion or expectations of it but how I made it to work, what were my difficulties and how I solved them."
Linux Foundation's Zemlin Declares Solaris All But Dead
Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin has said it is time for Solaris to simply move out of the way and yield the future to Linux. 'The future is Linux and Microsoft Windows. It is not Unix or Solaris,' he claims, contending that Sun's strength in long-lifecycle apps is giving way to Linux, as evidenced by the rise of Web apps, where Linux holds a decided advantage, Zemlin claims. With capabilities such as ZFS and DTrace, Sun is trying to compete based on minor features, he says. 'That's literally like noticing the view from a third-story building as it burns to the ground.'
Technogeeks Save America
Reason Online, the online presence of libertarian political magazine Reason, is featuring a book review of Cory Doctorow's book, Little Brother. Little Brother re-imagines George Orwell's classic, dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, as a modern cyberpunk thriller for a young adult audience.
GNOME 2.24 Released
The GNOME project has released GNOME 2.24 today. In case you're new here: "GNOME 2.24 is the latest version of the GNOME Desktop: a popular, multi-platform desktop environment for your computer. GNOME's focus is ease of use, stability, and first class internationalisation and accessibility support. GNOME is Free and Open Source Software and provides all of the common tools computer users expect of a modern computing environment, such as e-mail, groupware, web browsing, file management, multimedia and games. Furthermore, GNOME provides a flexible and powerful platform for software developers, both on the desktop and in mobile applications." GNOME 2.24 comes packed with changes.
Services Instead of Subsystems?
According to Microsoft beat writer Mary Jo Foley, word is that "Windows 7's mail, photo-management and movie-maker subsystems applets are all being replaced by optionally installable Windows Live equivalents." To many, replacing subsystems with services is a good thing. But what will the self-professed geeks think? Cnet seems to think that "Windows 7 must appeal to geeks--or else!"
Five Reasons to Forego the G1
DaniWeb: "On one level, the geek in me certainly shares the excitement. It's open source. It's Google's first entree into the phone market."
Google, VMware Offer New Twist on OS Battlegrounds
ServerWatch: "Are Chrome and Virtual Datacenter OS putting a new spin on a long-standing model (and sticking it to Microsoft), or they the start of its dissolution?"
Where Windows is Number 2 to Linux
ComputerWorld Blogs: "Microsoft encourages us to think of Linux, when we think of it as all, as an also-ran operating systems for nerds."
Running VirtualBox 2.0 on a Headless Ubuntu 8.04 Server
HowtoForge: "This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0 on a headless Ubuntu 8.04 server."
Overland Adds Midrange NAS
InfoStor: "Overland has rewritten its Linux kernel for improved stability and performance and improved its support for Windows file and folder access control lists."
Leapfrog Makes a Flying Leap onto the SOA Pad with Open Source & Agile
CIO: "Some development teams are building a service-oriented architecture the old fashioned way: fast."
ASUS Eee PC 901 Linux Boot Performance
Phronix: "Specifically with this testing we had used the stock versions of Fedora 9, Fedora 10 Alpha, Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 6, and Mandriva 2009 Beta 2."
Profit Pops at Red Hat But KVM Payoff Will Wait
internetnews.com: "As income and revenues rise, the Linux vendor sheds some light on its view of the future of hypervisors and Fedora."
Binary Build for Native Gtk+ Mac OS X Port Released
Imendio has released a binary build for the native Gtk+ Mac OS X port. It can be downloaded at the project's webpage. The installed frameworks can be used directly in the Xcode IDE and come with a project template that sets all the necessary flags and variables to build against them.
HA and DR for Virtual Environments
Logan Harbaugh examines five products for ensuring high availability and performing disaster recovery in complex virtual environments. 'HADR is fraught with complexity, due to the intricacies of virtualization itself,' Harbaugh writes. 'Just as there is no single solution for HADR in general, there is no single solution within virtualization: Different products address different areas, including backups, failover, deployment, and storage virtualization.' Harbaugh's comprehensive article helps sort out the complexities of achieving 'always-on virtualization.'
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