How to Make Windows Faster than Linux Tech Source: "I can go on and on explaining about its quickness but since I'm here to teach you how to make Windows faster than Linux, I will now share with you these tips:" (Jul 16, 2010)
Linux Today Features
Claimed Proof That UNIX Code Was Copied Into Linux Slashdot: "SCO's ex-CEO's brother, a lawyer named Kevin McBride, has finally revealed some of the UNIX code that SCO claimed was copied into Linux." (Jul 12, 2010)
OpenStack: Open Standards Meet The Cloud (Jul 28, 2010, 22:04 UTC) (906 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "We’re pleased to see OpenStack, the new open source project for cloud computing projects from Rackspace and NASA. In the past, only large institutions like NASA had access to super computing functionality to complete large-scale computational projects."
Why Solid State Drives Won't Replace Spinning Disk (Jul 23, 2010, 22:04 UTC) (6357 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Storage Forum: "It's been a period of tremendous evolution for flash, but I believe dark clouds are forming on the horizon. Let's start with a little history to help me make my point."
IBM`s New Mainframe: The Key is the Core (Jul 22, 2010, 15:06 UTC) (1663 reads)
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(feedback) eWeek: "IBM claims its new zEnterprise mainframe is the highest performing, most efficient mainframe ever and the z196 core server has something to do with that. The system is 60 percent faster than its predecessor and uses the same amount of electricity."
Install opensuse 11.3 as PV Guest at Xen 4.0.1-rc4 (2.6.32.16 pvops) on top of U (Jul 22, 2010, 06:06 UTC) (1443 reads)
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(feedback) Xen Virtualization on Linux and Solaris: "The procedure driven by virt-install (libvirt 0.8.2) has been managed via keyboard due to mouse pointer stayed frozen at center of VNC window all the time of installation and finally at Gnome Desktop came up at the end"
Amazon opens supercomputing service (Jul 14, 2010, 07:36 UTC) (1838 reads)
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(feedback) CNet: "A new option for Amazon Web Services has arrived: the raw computing power of supercomputing clusters now widely used in research circles."
Exploring the software behind Facebook, the world’s largest site (Jul 13, 2010, 17:08 UTC) (2589 reads)
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(feedback) Pingdom: "At the scale that Facebook operates, a lot of traditional approaches to serving web content break down or simply aren’t practical. The challenge for Facebook’s engineers has been to keep the site up and running smoothly in spite of handling close to half a billion active users"
EMC Moves into Business Analytics with Greenplum Acquisition (Jul 13, 2010, 15:08 UTC) (1381 reads)
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(feedback) eCRM Guide: "Greenplum is built on the open source PostgreSQL database and commodity hardware, giving the company a pricing edge over competitors. It also developed its own MapReduce technology after initially looking at Hadoop."
Vietnam Banks On Linux (Jul 12, 2010, 13:36 UTC) (1926 reads)
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(feedback) Muktware: "Vietnam Joint Stock Bank for Industry and Trade (VietinBank), one of the largest banking institutions in Vietnam, has selected an IBM System z10 mainframe to support the expansion of its banking businesses."
Set up Xen 4.1-unstable & 2.6.32.16 pvops Dom0 on top of Ubuntu 10.04 Server (Jul 10, 2010, 23:03 UTC) (2165 reads)
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(feedback) Xen Virtualization on Linux and Solaris: "Due to presence CSs 21556 (blktap2: Fix tapdisk disktype issues) , 21167 (Port latest grub zfs boot code to pygrub) Xen instance been created bellow would provide an option to test NexentaStor-Community-3.0.2-xen.tar.bz2 "
OCFS2: Unappreciated Linux File System (Jul 1, 2010, 06:04 UTC) (2644 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Magazine: "OCFS2 is a clustered file system initially contributed by Oracle and can be a great back-end file system for general, shared storage needs."
Billing's new face: High performance at a lower cost (Jun 30, 2010, 23:05 UTC) (1905 reads)
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(feedback) Connected Planet: "For operators having to upgrade billing systems, expensive hardware is often no longer an option, and for that reason they are looking to low-cost Linux-based systems that deliver more bang for the buck."
Stayin' alive: Ten years of Linux on the mainframe (Jun 30, 2010, 08:35 UTC) (2285 reads)
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(feedback) The Register: "It would be hard to find two technologies that would seem to be more diametrically opposed in the data center than the IBM mainframe and the open source Linux operating system."
The Planet uses KVM and Ubuntu for Cloud hosting (Jun 27, 2010, 04:05 UTC) (3853 reads)
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(feedback) Network World: "The Linux KVM hypervisor is gaining steam in the cloud computing market, with two major vendors using the virtualization software to create cloud platforms to compete against Amazon's popular EC2 service."
Bluecherry releases a Linux MPEG-4 compression card
(Jun 19, 2010, 16:12 UTC) (3361 reads)
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(feedback) The Inquirer: "This effectively puts Bluecherry as the first company to produce a multi-input MPEG-4 hardware compression GPL driver written around the Linux kernel's API."
SeaMicro Launches an Atom-Powered Cloud Computing Server (Jun 16, 2010, 18:48 UTC) (1977 reads)
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(feedback) ServerWatch: "The Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP software of the popular LAMP stack used by Web servers that the SM10000 is optimized around, will run unmodified on the SM10000, no recompile needed. 'We are a LAMP stack crushing machine,' boasted Feldman."
CentOS / Redhat Linux: Setup KVM Virtualization (Jun 15, 2010, 23:29 UTC) (3557 reads)
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(feedback) nixCraft: "KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions Intel VT or AMD-V. How do I install KVM under CentOS or Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5.5?"
Linux PC Robot < 500$ DIY Linux robot (Jun 15, 2010, 08:04 UTC) (3432 reads)
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(feedback) Handle With Linux: "The objective of LinuxPCRobot is to build a fully functional robotic development platform for $500 or less using linux, commonly available components, a little skill, and some good old fashioned scrounging."
Low Cost/Power HPC (Jun 11, 2010, 22:19 UTC) (3692 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Magazine: "The concept is based on building clusters using low cost nodes (less than $500 each). Because lower cost nodes will run slower and have less cores than the big server nodes, they would need to be smaller and use much less power."
Top 10 Linux Powered Robots From Around The World (Jun 11, 2010, 21:43 UTC) (3726 reads)
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(feedback) Tech Drive-in: "Many Robots built by multi billion organizations like NASA for advanced space exploration and other complicated tasks are powered by Linux. Here is a nicely compiled list of Robots powered by Linux from around the world."
Hands-on Tutorial for Getting Started with Amazon SimpleDB (Jun 10, 2010, 14:21 UTC) (2452 reads)
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(feedback) PACKT Publishing: "With Amazon SimpleDB you can scale your application's database on the cloud. We are going to sign up for an AWS account, download and install the necessary libraries, and create little code snippets for exploring SimpleDB."
Ten years of IBM mainframe Linux (Jun 9, 2010, 04:41 UTC) (3336 reads)
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(feedback) Cyber Cynic: "Today, IBM and Linux go together like peanut butter and jelly — or, if you're prefer a tech business analogy, Microsoft and Windows. IBM does it because Linux brings in billions for the companies not only on mainframes but across its server line and its consulting businesses."
Qi Hardware Launches Open-Source Computer (Jun 7, 2010, 20:16 UTC) (3034 reads)
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(feedback) PC Mag: "It's difficult to envision a computer that's completely open-source—and I mean completely, right down to the software on its drives, the drivers for its components, and the circuit boards for its construction."
Mandriva Linux is a fantastic scientific platform (Jun 7, 2010, 14:13 UTC) (3220 reads)
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(feedback) Mandriva Blog: "I’m now a researcher in bioinformatics working as a post-doc on bone cancer. During the past ten years Mandriva has proven rock solid on all the installations I had to perform for my own usage and for my colleagues."
Enable multipath SAN-boot Linux system on IBM DS8000 Storage (Jun 4, 2010, 01:34 UTC) (3138 reads)
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(feedback) IBM Developerworks: "To boot your Linux system from a SAN device, you'll need to set up a SAN boot operating system to your storage with multipath driver support; that's where this article comes in."
Intel Unveils 50-Core Supercomputing Processor (Jun 2, 2010, 15:04 UTC) (2947 reads)
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(feedback) Hardware Central: "Intel has announced a new multi-core processor, and the fact that it was introduced at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) instead of the consumer-oriented Computex show taking place at the same time should be an indication of its target market."
GNU/Linux *Does* Scale – and How (Jun 1, 2010, 18:31 UTC) (3640 reads)
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(feedback) Open Enterprise: "Now we have the latest figures, and they're pretty stunning. Windows is *still* on just 1% of the top 500 systems; Unix is still on 4%; but GNU/Linux has now soared to 91%."
Nearly every supercomputer runs Linux (Jun 1, 2010, 15:31 UTC) (3577 reads)
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(feedback) IT Wire: "Announced earlier today, the 35th list of the top 500 supercomputers contains few surprises, just that Linux has almost total domination of the list."
SGI advances Linux on the HPC front (May 26, 2010, 21:02 UTC) (2184 reads)
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(feedback) The Inquirer: "Silicon Graphics International (SGI) represents how a once fiercely proprietary company has been able to leverage open source for High Performance Computing (HPC), much to its benefit."
Distributed data processing with Hadoop (May 26, 2010, 09:02 UTC) (2769 reads)
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(feedback) IBM Developerworks: "This article—the first in a series on Hadoop—explores the Hadoop framework, including its fundamental elements, such as the Hadoop file system (HDFS), and node types that are commonly used."
ABC GNU/Linux (May 18, 2010, 23:02 UTC) (2410 reads)
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(feedback) Dr. Dobbs: "Live, installable Linux distribution that communicates between clusters of computers so that they can work in parallel"
Cloud Storage Will Be Limited By Drive Reliability, Bandwidth (May 17, 2010, 14:33 UTC) (2203 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Storage Forum: "We've all probably heard more than we want to hear about clouds this week, thanks to EMC World, but there are some things you need to think about if you're considering adopting a cloud model as part of your storage networking architecture."
Air Force may suffer collateral damage from PS3 firmware update (May 13, 2010, 10:33 UTC) (4161 reads)
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(feedback) ars Technica: "When Sony issued a recent PlayStation 3 update removing the device's ability to install alternate operating systems like Linux, it did so to protect copyrighted content—but several research projects suffered collateral damage."
Get ready for 7Gbps wireless networking (May 11, 2010, 22:02 UTC) (2362 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxDevices: "The Wireless Gigabit Alliance announced a specification it says will bump wireless networking speeds up to 7Gbps -- more than ten times faster than the highest 802.11n rate."
PC Building: Intel's Turbo Boost vs AMD's Turbo Core (May 5, 2010, 13:34 UTC) (3552 reads)
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(feedback) PC Business: "Even now there are few applications that take full advantage of multicore processers. For those that do the benefits are huge, but some applications just don't work well in a multithreaded environment."
Hypervisor (May 5, 2010, 04:03 UTC) (4290 reads)
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(feedback) Datamation: "A hypervisor is a software technology used in virtualization, which allows several operating systems to run side-by-side on a given piece of hardware."
