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What Linus Torvalds thinks about BSD Internet News: "It's soo rude that it's 'funny' - that is if you're not an OpenBSD developer or have a particular affection for monkeys." (Jul 16, 2008)
Linux Today Features
SCO Goes Down and Sun's in Trouble Practical Technology: "The decision is in, and SCO has gone down in defeat. The U.S. District Court in Utah has ruled in favor of Novell in SCO vs. Novell, the keystone case in SCO’s long, and ultimately unsuccessful war against Linux." (Jul 17, 2008)
OpenDomain.org owner: Selfless FOSS helper or domain squatter? (Jul 17, 2008, 12:00 UTC) (874 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "OpenDomain.org is an organization that offers to provide free use of certain domain names to worthwhile open source projects. Ric Johnson, the leader of OpenDomain.org and the owner of dozens of domain names, says he has spent thousands of dollars registering those domains in order to prevent "squatters and phishers" from snapping them up. He's keeping them safe so you can have a chance to use them. However, to some people, based on Johnson's past practices, it's not clear how OpenDomain.org differs from other organizations that buy up domain names in the hopes of future gains."
Event aims to bring Lindependence to one California town (Jul 16, 2008, 14:15 UTC) (725 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "An enterprising group has taken on a radical approach in attracting users to Linux: switch a whole town! Dubbed "Lindependence 2008" (a.k.a. LIN08), this event strives to switch citizens in Felton, Calif., for at least a week from Microsoft Windows to Linux. The initiative, loosely led by Ken Starks in Austin, Texas, and Larry Cafiero in Felton, has taken the idea of introducing normal computer users to Linux to screaming heights. By July 28, those in Felton who decide to take the plunge will go Microsoft-free for a week or more."
Blender 3D: Interview with Allan Brito (Jul 16, 2008, 03:30 UTC) (1340 reads)
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(feedback) Packt Publishing: "Blender is an open source, cross platform suite of tools for 3D creation, capable of modeling, rendering, and animating 3D environments. Since Blender is completely free, everyone can download and use it immediately in commercial projects. It's not a shareware with limited tools, or time constraints; you can use it freely. In the past few years, the Blender user base has grown significantly. One of the positive aspects of Blender is its size—it is only 10 MB and we can even run it directly from a portable drive. Another great aspect of Blender is that we can use various Operating Systems such as Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X, leaving us the choice of which one to use."
Benchmarking Hardware RAID vs. Linux Kernel Software RAID (Jul 15, 2008, 22:45 UTC) (2748 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "Want to get an idea of what speed advantage adding an expensive hardware RAID card to your new server is likely to give you? You can benchmark the performance difference between running a RAID using the Linux kernel software RAID and a hardware RAID card. My own tests of the two alternatives yielded some interesting results."
VMware Makes Linux Fan New CEO (Jul 11, 2008, 16:30 UTC) (3273 reads)
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(feedback) Computer Business Review: "Virtualisation specialist VMware's CEO and co-founder Diane Greene was ousted by the firm's board this week. The word is that VMware chairman (and EMC CEO) Joe Tucci didn't exactly see eye to eye with Greene..."
Looking for Landmarks--Out There On the Grid (Jul 8, 2008, 10:30 UTC) (1071 reads)
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(feedback) OStatic: "Recently, OStatic covered Eucalyptus, an open source infrastructure for cloud computing on clusters that duplicates the functionality of Amazon's EC2, using the Amazon command-line tools directly..."
Can You Feel It? (Jun 20, 2008, 12:00 UTC) (3082 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Magazine: ""Back in late 90's there was a time when clustering was the rage. A few boxes, a fast Ethernet switch, some Linux software and presto, you had a cluster. Like every new technology there are misconceptions, hype and detractors..."
Virtualization and Linux: Red Hat Unveils New Vision (Jun 19, 2008, 22:30 UTC) (2979 reads)
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(feedback) CIO: "What makes this more interesting than just another virtualization announcement: you will be able to carry oVirt-customized VMs from PC to server to what-have-you in your pocket on a USB key drive, Red Hat says..."
Novell Modifies SUSE Linux to Run Faster on Vmware (Jun 18, 2008, 15:45 UTC) (2610 reads)
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(feedback) SearchServerVirtualization: "Waltham, Mass.-based Novell Inc. has added support for VMware Inc.'s Virtual Machine Interface to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2, which Novell says will make SUSE run faster on VMware's ESX hypervisor..."
A Virtual Appliance Primer (Jun 18, 2008, 09:00 UTC) (2432 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "Virtual machines are virtually taking over the world. By itself a virtual machine is just a container that describes various resources such as memory, disk space, processor, and network card, and allocates them from a physical machine..."
Parallelize Applications for Faster Linux Booting (Jun 18, 2008, 04:30 UTC) (3652 reads)
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(feedback) developerWorks: "One of the biggest complaints about Linux, particularly from developers, is the speed with which Linux boots. By default, Linux is a general-purpose operating system that can serve as a client desktop or server right out of the box..."
IBM Supercomputer Dual-Boots Windows and Linux (Jun 17, 2008, 14:15 UTC) (3457 reads)
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(feedback) Techworld: "IBM has demonstrated one of the highest profile supercomputers yet to run Windows as well as Linux--the Akka system, installed at the High Performance Computing Center North (HPC2N) in northern Sweden..."
IBM's Roadrunner Supercomputer Sets World-Record Speed (Jun 10, 2008, 12:45 UTC) (2417 reads)
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(feedback) ChannelWeb: "Beep beep! Sorry coyote, but you're still not wily enough to touch Roadrunner, IBM's supercomputer, billed as the fastest in the world operating at 1 petaflop or 1,000 trillion calculations per second..."
Virtualizing the Embedded World: Vista Over Linux in a Cell Phone? (Jun 9, 2008, 20:00 UTC) (1586 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxPlanet: "While you probably won't run Vista as a virtual machine on your cell phone, there are many viable use cases of virtualization for embedded applications. The most simplest, cheapest, feature rich is using Linux and KVM..."
Win4Lin Overhauls Linux Desktop Virtualisation (Jun 6, 2008, 15:45 UTC) (3409 reads)
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(feedback) Techworld: "Win4Lin Desktop 5 is based on code that has been re-engineered since 2005, when the assets of the former company NeTraverse were acquired to form Win4Lin, now renamed Virtual Bridges..."
Linux File System 'Firestorm' Fizzles (Jun 4, 2008, 15:00 UTC) (3334 reads)
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(feedback) Storage Soup: "I'm no stranger to such responses myself, so it's not that I doubt they occurred, but in poking around on message boards and the various places Newman's article was syndicated I haven't been able to uncover any of that controversy in a public place..."
How To Virtualise A Physical Linux Machine (Jun 4, 2008, 07:30 UTC) (3466 reads)
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(feedback) HowtoForge: "This tutorial shows how you can virtualize a physical Linux machine. It is intended not only for virtualisation, but for any relocation of a RedHat Linux based system from one machine to another..."
When Programming for NASA, Contingencies Pile Up (Jun 3, 2008, 18:45 UTC) (2681 reads)
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(feedback) Australian PC World: "Suppose you were developing software that would run about 50 to 60 operational tasks simultaneously, including the management of multiple mechanical and digital devices..."
Ubuntu 8.04 KVM Benchmarks (May 19, 2008, 07:30 UTC) (4168 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: "...[T]his morning we are publishing some initial benchmarks from the Phoronix Test Suite when running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS as the host OS and then running it as the guest operating system with hardware-based acceleration through KVM..."
SaaS, Open Source and the Migration of Burden (May 8, 2008, 21:45 UTC) (2448 reads)
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(feedback) McPherson: "Just the week before I had a reporter ask me how Linux is going to deal with the threat of cloud computing. The threat? I told her that virtually all of the major cloud computing initiatives (except Microsoft’s) are built on Linux..."
If They Mated: Intel and Cray to Conceive x86 Linux Monster (Apr 30, 2008, 19:30 UTC) (2818 reads)
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(feedback) Ars Technica: "In a move that could have broad implications for the high-performance computing market, Intel and Cray have announced a broad collaboration that will see engineers from the two companies work together on future products and projects..."
Linux and Formula One (Apr 30, 2008, 09:00 UTC) (3529 reads)
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(feedback) ITPro: "It is a testament to the rapid advance of Linux in high performance computing that most teams in Formula 1 have been using Linux systems in their aerodynamic and engine workshops for a number of years..."
OpenOffice.org Storms Away--On the Continent (Apr 20, 2008, 00:00 UTC) (8201 reads)
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(feedback) Computerworld UK: "Some people get sniffy about OpenOffice.org, calling it mickey mouse in comparison to the 'serious' and 'grown-up' Microsoft Office..."
Anatomy of Real-Time Linux Architectures (Apr 18, 2008, 04:30 UTC) (2958 reads)
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(feedback) developerWorks: "This article explores some of the Linux architectures that support real-time characteristics and discusses what it really means to be a real-time architecture..."
Paravirtualization Dead? I Didn't Know It Was Sick (Apr 17, 2008, 22:30 UTC) (3799 reads)
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(feedback) "A friend of mind sent me this link to an entry on Avi Kivity's blog, where the KVM maintainer and Linux kernel developer states (somewhat equivocally) that 'paravirtualization is dead...'"
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