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| The Linux Foundation Recruits Seven European Companies Including Codethink and ... ITProPortal The Linux Foundation has announced that seven European companies have decided to join the organisation. These companies include Codethink, KeyPoint Technologies, Lanedo, Meinberg Funkuhren, Picochip, Puzzle ITC and RPA RusBITech. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Canonical Releases Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Tom's Hardware Guide Mozilla's Thunderbird has become the default email client in Ubuntu, while Evolution is now an optional download. Of course, the new lease is based on the Linux 3.0 kernel and employs an update to GNOME 3.2 as legacy desktop environment. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Canonical Lays Ubuntu Cloud Claim CTO Edge Canonical continues to expand its ambitions in the enterprise with a release of its Ubuntu Linux distribution that includes a tool for automating the deployment of applications in cloud computing scenarios. Previously known as "Ensemble" during ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| With Skype, Microsoft gains about 50 communications patents Network World Microsoft has promised that Skype support for Linux, Android won't stop, but Skype could give it more ammo in its patent licensing war. By Microsoft Subnet on Fri, 10/14/11 - 7:09pm. So Microsoft has officially spent $8.5 billion on Skype and announced ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| TMCnet Virtualization Week in Review TMC Net In another story, Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on the growth of Linux, has named three new member companies. Eucalyptus Systems (News - Alert), Nebula and Virtual Bridges are the new members of the Linux Foundation. ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| Isle of Open Source 2011 at Villa Bighi Malta Independent Online What do Google, Microsoft, Linux, US Navy and the local company MARSEC-XL have in common? The answer will be provided at the Isle of Open Source 2011 (IOOS2011) conference being held this week on 20 and 21 October at Villa Bighi in Kalkara. ... |
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| Arch Linux with KDE 4.7 YouTube First time installing Arch Linux. Very impressed so far with this OS. From 2002 I was using only SuSE on all my PC's, but from now on things are about to change. Arch Package Manager "Pacman" is very good. Many think that the installation of Arch is ... |
| Linux Mint developers make GNOME 3 edition plans The H Clement Lefebvre, Linux Mint Founder and lead developer, has announced that his project has started work on a GNOME 3 edition of its next major release, version 12. The new edition will initially be developed alongside the GNOME 2.32-based release ... |
| Looking for a polished Linux desktop? Consider KDE CIO Magazine Created with a focus on end users, this interface is a popular standard in many Linux distributions. In the world of Linux desktops, Ubuntu's Unity and GNOME have tended to dominate the headlines in recent months, but there's another contender that ... |
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| Penguin Computing Ranked amongst Top 50 Fastest Growing Private Companies in ... MarketWatch (press release) "Penguin Computing has benefited from fundamental changes occurring in the industry as customers look for customized, build to order Linux-based data center and supercomputing solutions that are delivered both on premise and/or as a cloud-based service ... |
| Kensington Orbit Wireless Mobile Trackball ZDNet UK (blog) By JA Watson, 17 October, 2011 09:42 Various thoughts and adventures, including but not limited to Linux, assorted bits of hardware new and old, and occasionally Windows XP/Vista/7. Let's start this week off with something positive, and something new ... |
| Stallman on Steve Jobs: Tasteless or Incisive? TechNewsWorld Linux Girl encountered arguments on both sides on the streets of the blogosphere. "RMS needs to understand RIP better rather than rant about DRM," said Slashdot blogger yagu. "I think he's wrong here. He can rant as much as he wants, but in my opinion ... |
| IBM big iron OSes treated to spit and polish Register The interesting bit is that IBM planned to support AIX on the Power blades and Linux on the x86 blades, mainly because it controls AIX and Linux is open source so it can see how to integrate Linux into its Unified Resource Manager control freak on ... |
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| Welcome to Ubuntu 11.10: Oneiric Ocelot ZDNet If you want an old style GNOME interface, , look to Mint Linux. Want to try the new GNOME shell, see Fedora. Ubuntu's default desktop is going to stay Unity. I like "Ocelot" a lot for the same reason I like Windows 7. As W7 is a far less "kludgy" ... |
| Worried About Win 8 Secure Boot? So Is the Free Software Foundation PCWorld By Katherine Noyes, PCWorld The secure boot mechanism planned for Microsoft's Windows 8 has already provoked considerable outcry from Linux users worried that the technology will make it impossible to install their favorite free and open source ... |
| Linux 3.1-rc10 LWN.net Li (1): staging/octeon: Software should check the checksum of no tcp/udp packets Shawn Guo (1): ARM: 7122/1: localtimer: add header linux/errno.h explicitly Steve French (1): [CIFS] Fix first time message on mount, ntlmv2 upgrade delayed to 3.2 Thadeu ... |
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| Managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux network settings using NetworkManager Search Enterprise Linux In Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you'll find NetworkManager as the default solution to manage network connections. It functions almost the same as system-config-network, but with a graphical display. After performing an installation of Red Hat Enterprise ... |
| Debian GNU/Linux Live Images Updated ZDNet UK (blog) By JA Watson, 18 October, 2011 10:38 Various thoughts and adventures, including but not limited to Linux, assorted bits of hardware new and old, and occasionally Windows XP/Vista/7. I mentioned last week that there was a new Debian GNU/Linux release ... |
| Open source jobs: What's hot, where to look, what to learn ITworld.com Android, the runaway smartphone, tablet, and e-reader success, is based on the Linux kernel. The cloud, which is inevitably settling over us like a great damp fog bank is FOSS-powered, as are the two best Web browsers that we use to interface with the ... |
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| Linux Mint Will Soon Get a GNOME 3 Edition PCWorld (blog) By Katherine Noyes, PCWorld Now that Ubuntu Linux has chosen Unity as its default desktop environment, Linux Mint stands out as perhaps the most user-friendly distribution offering a non-Unity default alternative, as I've noted before. ... |
| Scientific Linux alert SL-post-20111017 (postgresql) LWN.net For Scientific Linux 6, the updated postgresql packages upgrade PostgreSQL to version 8.4.9. Refer to the PostgreSQL Release Notes for a full list of changes: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/release.html For Scientific Linux 4 and 5, ... |
| Microsoft isn't the enemy when it comes to blocking Linux on Windows 8 PCs ZDNet (blog) In the 'Windows' corner is Ed Bott, who wonders who 'Linux fanatics' want to make 'Windows 8 less secure'. Can't we all just get along? No … oh well, it was worth a try. Note: It's worth pointing out that 'secure boot' wouldn't just prevent PC owners ... |
| Bacula Systems Releases Linux Bare Metal Restore Feature MarketWatch (press release) YVERDON-LES-BAINS, Switzerland, October 19, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Bacula Systems®, the world's leading provider of commercial open source backup and restore software, announced today the availability of its Linux bare metal restore feature, ... |
| Red Hat Expands Cloud Ecosystem through Partnership with Virtustream MarketWatch (press release) With this, Virtustream has added support for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to its xStream cloud platform and now offers Red Hat Enterprise Linux on-demand to customers. Virtustream can now offer its customers a more scalable and flexible cloud ... |
| The University of York Extends IT Support beyond the Classroom with Bomgar MarketWatch (press release) "Some vendors charged extra to support anything other than Mac and Windows, whereas Bomgar's solution also includes support for Linux and a wide range of mobile devices for no additional costs. There are so many extra features with Bomgar, ... |
| PhotoRec Heroically Rescues Deleted Files TechNewsWorld Sure, if you delete most files -- even some standard graphics images -- from the hard drive, the Linux trash can visibly holds the goods. But unless you know about PhotoRec, your deleted photographic images and files from anywhere else stay buried in ... |
| Alphinat introduces version 5 of SmartGuide® for easy Cloud application ... PR Newswire (press release) NET environments, on Windows or Linux, as Portlets, Servlets, Web Parts and User Controls, on-premise or in the Cloud. "Geared towards business experts and developers, SmartGuide's ease of development and its deployment flexibility delivers unrivaled ... |
| SGI to sell Cloudera software and services The H Linux server specialist SGI is moving further into the big-data market: it has signed a partnership agreement with Cloudera Inc., the provider of Apache Hadoop-based data management. Under the terms of the agreement, SGI will distribute Cloudera ... |
| Traditional Medicinals Leverages QAD Enterprise Applications San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Traditional Medicinals also called on Strategic to install its new QAD ERP system on Linux servers. The company expects to improve its IT infrastructure, lower costs and increase efficiency with the improved uptime, reliability, security, ... |
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| As Ubuntu Linux Turns 7, 'Precise Pangolin' Planning Begins PCWorld By Katherine Noyes, PCWorld It was exactly seven years ago that the very first version of Ubuntu Linux--dubbed “Warty Warthog”--was released, kicking off a long line of increasingly popular versions of the free and open source operating system. ... |
| Windows 8: A bad bet ZDNet (blog) By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | October 20, 2011, 12:07pm PDT Given my choice of desktops, I'm running Linux, but over the years Windows has gone from being a bad joke of a desktop operating systems–Windows ME and Vista–to being a reasonably good ... |
| Bitdefender Launches Security Solution for Virtualized Datacenters MarketWatch (press release) Security for Virtualized Environments by Bitdefender integrates with VMware vShield Endpoint(TM) to protect Windows servers and desktops, as well as Linux and Solaris systems. Security is a top priority for virtualized datacenters as an increasing ... |
| Sabayon Linux 7 "Core" editions released The H The Sabayon development team has released four new "Core" editions of version 7 of its Linux distribution: SpinBase, CoreCDX, ServerBase and OpenVZ. The SpinBase edition is the Core edition on which all Sabayon releases are based. ... |
| myhosting.com Re-Launches Shared Web Hosting plans with enhanced Features PR Web (press release) myhosting.com, a worldwide leader in Linux VPS, Windows Hyper-V VPS Hosting, Web Hosting and Hosted Exchange Email, has announced that it has re-launched its portfolio of shared web hosting plans based on CentOS Linux and Windows 2008, ... |
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| Operating system Linux deters computer viruses WFXL FOX 31 by Sarah Bleau LEESBURG, GA -- In our Facebook Story of the Day viewers wanted to know about a computer operating system called Linux. Linux is an alternative operating system such as the popular Windows system or the iOS for Macs. ... |
| Wyse Introduces Industry's Fastest Desktop and Mobile Thin Clients MarketWatch (press release) The Wyse Z50 desktop and Wyse X50m mobile thin clients add to its portfolio of Linux products for enterprises that demand high-performance devices capable of running advanced applications and multimedia with uncompromised quality. ... |
| ARM-powered Ubuntu 'Webbook" Launches in South Africa Tom's Hardware Guide In order to cut costs and power consumption, Vodafone went with an 800 MHz Freescale iMX515 (based on the ARM Cortex-A8), making this netbook the first to ship with a mainstream Linux distribution compiled for the ARM architecture, rather than x86. ... |
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| XBMC-based embedded Linux distro debuts on HTPC mini-PC eWeek The OpenELEC project released an embedded Linux OS designed to run XBMC Media Center home theater PC (HTPC) software on x86 PCs. OpenELEC 1.0 offers a footprint of 80-130 MB, boots in less than 10 seconds, and is now available pre-installed on the ... |
| The Best To-Do App for Linux Lifehacker Linux has a surprisingly large number of to-do apps available for it, including our favorite Windows and Mac app: the simple, good-looking, easy-to-use Wunderlist. Wunderlist isn't the simplest to-do app around, but it strikes a nice balance between ... |
| Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to get extra-long desktop support cycle Ars Technica New versions of the Ubuntu Linux distribution are released on a time-based six-month cycle. Every two years, Ubuntu gets a special long-term support (LTS) release that is maintained for three years on the desktop and five years on servers. ... |
| Why I've finally had it with my Linux server and I'm moving back to Windows ZDNet (blog) And, for you Linux people, you who know it all and look down upon the people who don't spend day and night breathing in the insane arcana of all the little fiddly bits that make up modern distros, I have this to say: I don't have your kind of time. ... |
| Prefer Open Source? Join the Crowd PCWorld Specifically, the data comes from a survey of South African companies recently performed by ITWeb and open source vendor Linux Warehouse. The results are published on ITWeb, and though they don't specify the exact number of respondents, ... |
| myhosting.com Re-launches Shared Web Hosting Plans WebHosting.Info Re-launches its portfolio of shared web hosting plans based on CentOS Linux and Windows 2008, offering additional and enhanced features for new and existing customers. myhosting.com, a provider of affordable VPS hosting and cloud services, ... |
| Balsam Professional 12.1: Loaded Box Delivers Linux Smoothie iTWire (press release) Balsam Professional 12.1, the latest incarnation of open-slx's Linux distribution specifically targeting home and small business users, will be available on November 11, 2011. The box product previously known as „openSUSE Box“ or „openSUSE Retail ... |
| MeeGo's death dented three car projects EE Times Three car electronics designs were among the projects dented when Intel scrapped in late September support for MeeGo, its mobile Linux variant. At least two companies were building in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems for car makers based on MeeGo ... |
| Kaspersky, BitDefender Align with VMware Channelnomics (blog) BitDefender, a Romanian security company, unveiled Security for Virtualized Environments — a security suite designed to protect Windows, Linux and Solaris operating systems running on VMware virtualized servers. Both companies are taking similar ... |
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| Wyse Introduces Linux-Based Desktop and Mobile Thin Clients TMC Net Built on enterprise-class SUSE Linux, both products add to Wyse portfolio of Linux products for enterprises that require high-performance devices capable of running advanced applications and multimedia. Both models include USB 2.0 compliant ports and ... |
| How to Make an Unbreakable Linux Password Using a SHA-2 Hash Algorithm Business Insider In Linux, all password hashes are normally stored using the MD5 hashing algorithm in the /etc/shadow file, but MD5 is algorithmically weak due to collision vulnerabilities. The new recommended standard are the higher level SHA-2 hashing algorithms, ... |
| Preparing a scientific manuscript in Linux: Today's possibilities and limitations 7thSpace Interactive (press release) Authors'specific goal was to examine whether a Linux-based operating system with open source software packages would allow to prepare a submission-ready scientific manuscript without the need to use the proprietary software. ... |
| Ubuntu 12.04 LTS will be supported for 5 years Liliputing Canonical has announced that the next “Long Term Support” or LTS version of Ubuntu Linux will receive 5 years of support and maintenance. Up until now, the company only offered 3 years of support for its LTS projects, but the idea is to offer extended ... |
| Thousands of Penguins Raise Flippers At Microsoft Secure Boot Wired News The controversy has been brewing for a few weeks, with Microsoft saying that everything will be just fine, and the Linux community fretting about a possible flanking attack. For Linux fans, there's a sense of dèjá vu. Microsoft backed a very similar ... |
| Small Systems Solutions conducts customized Red Hat training to industrial ... AME Info Small Systems Solutions is holding two customized Linux Training courses to Industrial Services Company in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in the month of October 2011. These courses are designed to provide the company with the skills, knowledge and ... |
| The H Roundup for the week ending 22 October The H The Linux Mint developers confirmed that they have started work on a separate GNOME 3 edition of their popular Linux distribution, a new version of the "Wary" edition of Puppy Linux arrived, and Kaspersky discovered a new version of the German ... |
| ENT: Moving emails simply - Online with Bob Vaillancourt The Sudbury Star There are actually versions of Thunderbird available for Linux, as well as Mac and Windows. Once installed on the Mac, I simply instructed the program to import my Apple email messages and mailboxes, which it did quite efficiently. ... |
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| Adam Web Solutions Launches Affordable Web Hosting Solutions DigitalJournal.com (press release) A dedicated server includes an operating system (eg Linux or Windows), an internet connection, a web server and an efficient data center. As a reputable hosting firm, Adam Web features 99.9 percent up-time guarantee on its servers and data centers to ... |
| This Week's Top Downloads Lifehacker OpenELEC Is a Fast-Booting, Self-Updating Version of XBMC for Home Theater PCs (Windows/Mac/Linux) OpenELEC aims to make home theater PCs as much like your DVD player as possible, using a lightweight, instant-on version of XBMC that updates itself for ... |
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| Linux Kernel Now Supports OpenRISC, Nested Virtualization PCWorld (blog) By Joab Jackson, IDG News Linus Torvalds has released the next version of the Linux kernel, and with it come virtualization enhancements and support for the emerging OpenRISC processor architecture. Linux 3.1 also includes updates to graphics drivers ... |
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| All About Jobs and Hiring in Linux Land LinuxInsider.com Well it's been a busy month of October here in the Linux blogosphere, with no shortage of news to absorb, react to and fret about. There's been the ongoing Windows 8 secure boot saga, of course -- which just last week gained the voice of the Free ... |
| Nuking Linux servers, one script at a time InfoWorld There are times when you need to nuke a Linux box securely and remotely. Here's how By Paul Venezia | InfoWorld People always talk about the convenience of hosted servers or cloud server instances. But what do you do with them when they're no longer ... |
| TMC Net The company recently announced the availability of its Linux bare metal restore feature. This new feature will now add fast and complete disaster recovery capability to its Bacula Enterprise Edition 4.0 and also goes on to complement Bacula Systems' ... |
| Use Paragon Virtualization Manager to run a Mac within a Mac BetaNews By Joe Cassels Virtual environments on a Mac are often used for running alternative operating systems like Windows or Linux. Most often this is to run software that simply won't work under OS X no matter how hard you try to persuade it. ... |
| Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-ke...@vger.kernel.org> LWN.net As promised, the kernel summit has started, and Linux-3.1 is out. The (small) shortlog of changes since -rc10 are appended, we have mostly some sparc and networking changes, along with some radeon and intel iommu fixes (mostly for largepages and ... |
| AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer On Ubuntu Linux Benchmark Reviews it was months after showing the first Linux benchmarks of an AMD Dual-Interlagos pre-production system. In the days that followed I delivered some initial AMD FX-4100 Linux benchmarks when securing remote access to a low-end Bulldozer system running ... |
| ReportsnReports - Cloud Virtualization Software Market to Reach $16 billion by ... MarketWatch (press release) IBM z/VM offers the ability to run Linux in virtual machines on IBM System z. IT needs to run Linux in virtual machines for enterprise computing. Linux in virtual images is evolving rapidly. Data centers have to meet ever increasing demands with flat ... |