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KDE: It's Time For a Fork Practical Technology: "OK, I've now tried KDE 4.1. I'd been assured that it would be better than KDE 4.0x. It is. That's the good news..." (Jun 29, 2008)
Linux Today Features
Why Linux Developers Are Wasting Their Time Red Devil's Tech Blog: "How many Linux users do you know who, once they have installed a new distribution, are so happy with its default appearance that they leave it alone...?" (Jun 28, 2008)
Can You Feel It? (Jun 20, 2008, 12:00 UTC) (2346 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) (1980 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) (1580 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) (1564 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) (2689 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) (2577 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) (2306 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) (1316 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) (3218 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) (3109 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) (3187 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) (2537 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) (3854 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) (2149 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) (2671 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) (3281 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) (8075 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) (2779 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) (3695 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...'"
Monster Savings from Virtualization on Sesame Street (Apr 3, 2008, 18:45 UTC) (2305 reads)
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(feedback) CIO: "Noah Broadwater, VP of information services for Sesame Street Workshop, likes using open source virtualization tools for several good reasons--starting with green ones that have nothing to do with Oscar the Grouch..."
Oracle Expands Its Linux Base (Mar 26, 2008, 14:15 UTC) (1875 reads)
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(feedback) internetnews.com: "Oracle claims that it continues to pick up users for its Linux offering and now is set to add new clustering capabilities to the mix..."
We Don't Need No Stinking Black Boxes (Mar 26, 2008, 00:00 UTC) (2691 reads)
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(feedback) Between the Lines: "In Late February, VMWare announced the release of ESX Server 3i, the first release of their embedded hypervisor platform for OEMs..."
Hyper-V Leaves Linux Out In The Cold (Mar 21, 2008, 03:15 UTC) (3700 reads)
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(feedback) NetworkWorld: "Though I'm anxious for Hyper-V to be released, especially the standalone version (which is not what this RC announcement was about), I'm very disappointed in Hyper-V's lack of support for Linux..."
