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There seems to be a recurring phenomenon in the technology press, where any trojan that affects Linux or Macs becomes front page news. On the other hand, trojans that affect Windows are mostly ignored, perhaps because this is considered to be the normal state of affairs. There are two common statements made in the discussions of these rare events: No operating … Read More

Will gaming prove to be a key to increased usage for Linux? Valve’s decision to cater its gaming platform to the OS could be a step in that direction. “Linux-based games consoles are clearing the way to push Linux gaming into the mainstream,” said Hyperlogos blogger Martin The legendary Mark Twain is said to have once observed, “If you don’t … Read More

DreamWorks Animation Utilizes the Red Hat Portfolio to Build a Private Cloud for Financial and Creative Applications Customer: DreamWorks Animation SKG Industry: Entertainment Geography: Glendale, California, and Redwood City, California Business Challenge: Enable rapid and cost-efficient scalability of computing and resources for HPC (high-performance compute) workloads and optimal use of a multi-datacenter footprint. Enhance the reliability and availability of mission-critical … Read More

To start with, I became a big fan of PCLinuxOS since February this year. First time, I used PCLinux (I am still a Linux n00b) when I downloaded the Feb’12 release and installed it in one of the systems I have. I am not a KDE fan but PCLinuxOS is different! I have used Ubuntu mostly in last 2 year … Read More

Xfce 4.10 is the latest release of the excellent Xfce desktop, full of useful incremental improvements and no shocking surprises. Workflow and efficiency are everything. I want my Linux graphical environment to be the way I like it, and not an obese system hog. I have a lot of favorite Linux desktop environments (Fluxbox, KDE4, Ratpoison, E17, Razor-qt) and Xfce … Read More

Adopting Linux as a platform has helped change Oracle over the past 15 years from a fragmented, decentralized behemoth to a sleek, consolidated service provider, said Senior VP and CIO Mark Sunday in Oracle’s LinuxCon keynote presentation Friday morning. In exchange, Oracle also played a large role in shaping Linux, especially in the server space, said Wim Coekaerts, Oracle’s Senior … Read More

Lookout people, we have officially started down the path toward creating the borg! Bioengineers at Harvard University have created “cyborg” flesh by growing tissue around nanowires and transistors. Half living cells and half electronics, the human tissue is able monitor and transmit data like a heart rate. Working off a scaffolding of collagen interwoven with nanowires and transistors, the researchers … Read More

Without Wine, it’s now possible to run Unreal Engine 3 on Linux. Last year Epic Games ported their Unreal Engine 3 to Adobe Flash Player 11 using Adobe’s Stage 3D low-level API. Stage 3D exposes full GPU-hardware-accelerated 2D/3D APIs for Flash and AIR to web-browsers as well as iOS and Android. Full story

Google has said that it does not want the ruling in the Apple-Samsung patent lawsuit to “limit” consumers’ access to Android devices. A US jury ordered Samsung to pay Apple over $1bn (£664m) on Friday after ruling it had infringed several of the iPhone maker’s software and design innovations. Samsung said it intended to appeal. There has been speculation that … Read More

Anaconda, the Fedora system installation program, is one of the best available on any distribution – Linux or BSD. It has its faults, but in general, it has more features than any I have used. At least for me, it offers all the features that I need, plus it is very easy to use. Its interface is very intuitive, and … Read More

Red Hat plans to release an enterprise grade version of the OpenStack open source software for hosting IaaS (infrastructure as a service) deployments. The company has posted an unsupported preview edition of the package, ahead of its full commercial release, expected in early 2013. Full story

Thanks to a report from Wired, we now know that the mini-datacenter (code named Sub-Zero)  that Facebook is building as an add-on to their existing Oregon datacenter campus, will be dedicated to datacenter backup. According to the report, Facebook will use a new type of low-power deep storage device that doesn’t currently exist. Facebook is apparently setting their engineering staff … Read More

Android’s market share climbs to 64.1% – up 20.7% from 2011 In the smartphone operating system market, Android extended its market share lead by 20.7 percentage points in the second quarter of 2012. According to Gartner Inc., Android’s share increased from 43.4 to 64.1 points, specifically. Full story

Upcoming Webinar with Live Q&A Join Michael Osterman, President and Founder of Osterman Research, as he talks about the future of messaging and collaboration and reviews Zimbra’s features and functionality in comparison to other enterprise email systems, including Microsoft Exchange, Google Apps, IBM Lotus Domino and Novell Groupwise. Attend this live 55-minute interactive webinar to: Learn how Zimbra compares to … Read More