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27Apr 2012

Chakra Archimedes-2012.04 review

Because we always hear about Ubuntu, Mint, Debian or Red Hat, I'd like to check and review other distributions that sometimes fit your needs better than the standard ones.

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19Apr 2012

If you want to set up a Linux virtualization server, Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) is an easy-to-use turnkey solution.

Proxmox Virtual Environment 2.0 lets you run and manage both KVM virtual machines and OpenVZ containers using a powerful web interface

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16Apr 2012

SAP Wants to be a Database Company

The name SAP has been synonymous with enterprise applications for decades. Now SAP executives want their company to be synonymous with databases too.

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15Mar 2012

What is a Raspberry Pi and why you should care

Raspberry Pi is a tiny computer that runs Linux for, drum-roll please, $35

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13Mar 2012

NVIDIA now a member of The Linux Foundation

The major graphics chip manufacturer joins Fleundo, Lineo Solutions, and Mocana to be welcomed to The Linux Foundaton

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08Mar 2012

The GNOME 2 Zombie

In the past year, the GNOME 2 release series has become the zombie of the free desktop. Although replaced by GNOME 3, it refuses to die. Its mourners flock to Xfce, in which they see a resemblance of the deceased. It lives an undead existence in a crippled version in the current GNOME's fallback mode

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28Feb 2012

Mellanox Accelerates Low-Latency Networking

Mellanox today announced a new version of its network messaging accelerator, VMA 6.0, which helps to deliver UDE latency of 1.4 microseconds and TCP latency of only 1.7 microseconds

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09Feb 2012

Why Supercomputing Matters

To your typical IT organization, the Top500 Supercomputing list released twice a year -- while interesting -- has little bearing on today's operations.

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16Jan 2012

7 hot storage startups to watch

As the sheer amount of content on the Web has continued to increase exponentially, so too have the storage needs of large enterprises.

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10Jan 2012

Android Was 2011's Open Source Story of the Year

As we bid goodbye to 2011, there are lots of stories appearing on what a game-changing year this was for Linux, but my choice for open source story of the year is Android

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06Jan 2012

Red Hat to hire 1,000 more employees in 2012

According to Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst, the biggest commercial Linux vendor is planning on hiring at least 1,000 new employees in 2012--increasing the size of its staff by 24 percent.

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07Jul 2011

Are Ubuntu's Glory Days Over?

The Ubuntu apologists are making all sorts of noise about how Canonical is targeting a new market (tablets and similar screen resolution devices), but we've seen this show too many times before," explained Slashdot blogger Barbara Hudson. "Red Hat didn't get to be profitable (something that still eludes Canonical) by dumping their target customers every year to chase new opportunities.

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05Jul 2011

EnterpriseDB Extends PostgreSQL for Itanium

Enterprise giant Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) has been warning its users this year that it plans to abandon the Intel Itanium architecture that powers HP's (NYSE: HPQ) Unix operating system. While Oracle isn't interested in supporting Itanium, others are.

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22Jun 2011

Linux Mint 11 review

Linux Mint 11 is the latest release of Linux Mint, a desktop distribution based on Ubuntu Desktop. This is different from Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE), a version of Linux Mint based on Debian. (See a review of LMDE.)

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17Jun 2011

Silver Peak Bulks Up on WAN Optimization

The purpose of WAN optimization technology is to get as much data as possible over a link.

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15Jun 2011

Preparing Yourself for the Linux Admin Market

There are a lot of IT professionals who are trying to make their resume look better by taking Linux Administration classes.

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13Jun 2011

Adobe: 64-bit Flash Player Later This Year

Linux 64bits been abandoned by Adobe since a while. Here is an updated status of the project

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07Jun 2011

Linux 3.0-rc1

email from Linus Torvalds

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03Jun 2011

55 Open Source Replacements for Information/Project Management Tools

Experts say that interest in IT project management has grown substantially in recent years. A December 2010 report from Dice.com put project managers fourth on its list of the most in-demand IT jobs for 2011.

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01Jun 2011

Use an alternative DNS ?

Internet is impossible to imagine without DNS.

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