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Hong Kong Jockey Club, Lockheed Martin, Swiss Re and T-Systems increase server uptime, improve efficiency and accelerate innovation using SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and related technologies

Some things don’t go together: Cats and dogs, New York Yankee and Boston Red Sox fans, Linux and Windows or do they? In San Francisco, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said, and I quote, “Microsoft loves Linux.

Today in Nuremburg, Germany SUSE  announces the availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 (SLES 12). I had the pleasure of speaking with SUSE’s George Shi, Product Marketing Manager and Kerry Kim, Director of Strategic Marketing about the release and some of the new features.

Kano Computing, a startup that plays in the learn to code space by adding a step-by-step hand-holding layer atop the Raspberry Pi single-board microcomputer to make hacking around with code and learning about computational thinking child’s play, has shipped all the hardware kits in its first batch of crowdfunded orders and pre-orders. Full story

We are aware of a potentially dangerous vulnerability in the ‘bash’ application that affects most Linux and Unix systems including Apple OS X  A fix is available for most modern versions of Linux and we urge everyone to patch their systems as soon as possible against this critical vulnerability.

Red Hat posted strong quarterly results on Thursday that beat Wall Street’s expectations, and a big part of the news was that the company is starting to see meaningful revenue from its many initiatives surrounding the OpenStack cloud computing platform.

Zimbra Collaboration is an Enterprise Open Source messaging and collaboration solution, that takes care of all your collaboration needs. Zimbra can be accessed from the Zimbra Web Client, MS Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird and other standards-based email clients and mobile devices.

Red Hat Satellite 6 integrates Puppet to make it both a datacenter server and cloud administration tool. As did predecessors, RHS 6 provides a complete life-cycle management of Red Hat systems with provisioning software distribution, patch and configuration management, along with subscription management across physical, virtual and cloud environments.

What we’ve come to know as network and application infrastructure is transitioning towards the private cloud. He wants Red Hat to be able to offer cloud solutions that are scalable, feature-rich, yet easy to implement.

There are still many users of other operating systems who think that Linux is behind Mac OS X and Windows in terms of desktop design, but the reality is just the other way around.

Open source technologies are “more secure” than software that is developed in a proprietary way, Red Hat’s JBoss middleware business unit general manager, Mike Piech, said in a meeting with journalists.

Krita is a wonderful drawing and painting program, and it’s also a nice photo editor. Today we will learn how to add text to an image, and how to selectively sharpen portions of a photo. Full story

The Opportunity rover, which has been exploring Mars for ten years now, has been randomly rebooting for several months. An artist rendition of the Opportunity Mars RoverThe scientists believe that the rebooting is happening because of trouble with the Opportunity rover’s 256MBs of flash storage.

Why SanDisk uses Linux and open source software, why the company joined the Linux Foundation, which trends in the storage industry are affecting them, and how they are participating in the storage industry transformation.

Now customers can order an unlimited number of the Enterprise for VMware Essentials edition $299 per socket, minimum 2 sockets, and Pro for VMware Essentials edition $199 per socket, minimum 2 sockets.