Red Hat revenues exceed a billion dollars

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Red Hat has recorded an annual revenue of a billion dollars with its latest fourth quarter results, making it the first “pure play” open source company to make a billion dollar revenue in one year. The company reported a fourth quarter revenue of $297 million, up 21 per cent compared to the same quarter a year before. This brought it … Read More

Microsoft’s Lessons Learned From Linux

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Another session taking place next week at the 6th Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, besides Qualcomm allegedly wanting to kill all proprietary drivers, is two Microsoft engineers talking about their Linux driver development experiences. The session, entitled “Microsoft’s Journey to the Linux Kernel”, is to be presented by Tom Hanrahan and Ky Srinivasan. Hanrahan serves as Microsoft’s program manager for Linux … Read More

Archiving Images with an Open Source Scanning Robot

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Project Gado is developing an inexpensive, open source, autonomous archival scanning robot. The goal? To create a tool that will allow small archives and museums digitize holdings at a low cost and help preserve important documents and pictures. In the process of developing the Gado, the ambitious project is also helping preserve the Afro-American Newspapers photo collection. Founded in 2010, … Read More

Hands-on: GNOME 3.4 arrives, introducing significant design changes

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The developers behind the GNOME project have announced GNOME 3.4, a new version of the desktop environment. The update brings several significant new features and a number of design and usability improvements. GNOME is an open source software stack that provides a desktop shell, applications, and development frameworks that are commonly used on the Linux platform. It is the default … Read More

Red Hat family tree

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An interesting look back at the history of Red Hat Linux and it’s derivatives: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Redhat_family_tree_11-06.png

Scientific Linux, the Great Distro With the Wrong Name

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Scientific Linux is an unknown gem, one of the best Red Hat Enterprise Linux clones. The name works against it because it’s not for scientists; rather it’s maintained by science organizations. Let’s kick the tires on the latest release and see what makes it special. Full story

Telkom lines update

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Telkom has repaired our voice lines and as of 08:00 this morning we have been able to take calls again. Internet access is working via our backup wireless link.  

Urgent: DcData Telkom lines offline

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We are experiencing a Telkom outage in our area that has resulted in a loss voice and data connectivity to our support office. Please use the following contact details to reach DcData: Garth Lancaster: 0781417916 Neil Wilson: 0837877424 David Wilson: 0824147413

What’s the best Linux server for you?

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Whatever your size, there’s a distribution that fits When it comes to clothes, I’m a normal guy. I just want to walk into a store, grab something that fits, buy it (What, try it on? Are you kidding!?), and head home. Well, that’s what I want to do. I’ve learned over the years that just because something should fit doesn’t … Read More

Samsung Has G2D Driver, Virtual Display For Linux 3.4

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Besides the DRM work already piling up for Linux 3.4, there’s more. The Samsung developers responsible for the Exynos graphics driver have sent in their “-next” pull request, which brings several new features, including the basis of 2D acceleration for this open-source ARM graphics driver. There’s also a virtual display driver that could be used for handling wireless displays. Full … Read More

PHP 5.4 Release Brings Many Changes

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PHP 5.4.0 was officially released today as a major advancement over the PHP 5.3 code-base. Among the many improvements to PHP 5.4 is support for language traits, a shortened array syntax, a built-in web-server, compatibility changes, and many other improvements. Full story

ClearOS 6.2 Moves A Step Closer To Release

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While all the major RHEL derivatives are now up to version 6.2 in par with upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux (see the RHEL vs. Oracle vs. CentOS vs. Scientific Linux benchmarks), ClearOS is still in beta for its 6.2 milestone. ClearOS, which formerly was known as ClarkConnect, is derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS. While ClarkConnect was known … Read More

RHEL vs. Oracle vs. CentOS vs. Scientific Linux benchmarks

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Does Red Hat Enterprise Linux perform any better (or worse) than the various “Enterprise Linux” distributions that are derived from RHEL? Now that Scientific Linux 6.2 was released, here is a performance comparison of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Linux, CentOS, and Scientific Linux across three different systems. Full story

Developing an Open Source Governance and Compliance Program at Bank of America

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Open source software usage has accelerated over the past decade, and today most enterprises use open source on the desktop as well as in development and critical infrastructure. As open source adoption has increased, so too has the realization that responsible open source usage requires organizations to actively manage it with policies, processes, tool sets, and human resources. Best-in-class enterprises … Read More

Ubuntu for Android to Star at Mobile World Congress

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According to Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical is moving quickly ahead with its plans to bring Ubuntu to platforms going well beyond just desktop computers. In his latest blog post, Shuttleworth notes: “We’ll show Ubuntu neatly integrated into Android at Mobile World Congress next week. Carry just the phone, and connect it to any monitor to get a full Ubuntu desktop with … Read More