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In a move that could be described by the cliché “better late than never,” it appears the U.S. Government has finally reached out to the experts to fix the beleaguered Healthcare.gov. Details are minimal at the moment, but CNBC broke the news via Twitter on Thursday shortly before Noon PDT that the Obama administration has tapped at least three Silicon … Read More

The company is out with a new initiative called On-Ramp to Enterprise OpenStack to drive enterprise adoption of the framework for building and managing private, public, and hybrid clouds. Red Hat is closely collaborating with Intel on the On-Ramp program, “educating customers on the benefits and capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform running on Intel Architecture.

Transform your virtual infrastructure into a private cloud Deploying a private cloud is a hot industry topic. You can use your existing investments in datacenter virtualization to build a private or hybrid cloud. But transforming your virtualized infrastructure into a private or hybrid cloud can be daunting. There’s a lot to consider, including: What virtual infrastructure should be used. How … Read More

The next major release of the OpenStack public, private and hybrid cloud computing platform, dubbed Havana, is now out. If you think this is just an incremental release, check out the huge list of contributors at the bottom of this page. The eighth release of the platform has more than 400 new features. There are security enhancements, new services such … Read More

Collaboration can change the world and Linux and open source developers must use what they’ve learned to lead the way.

Oracle has a love-hate relationship with open source technologies.  In a whitepaper (PDF) for the Department of Defense, Oracle claims that TCO (total cost of ownership) goes up with the use of open source. They’re essentially trying to build a case for the use of their own products within the government. Oracle also attacks the community-based development model, calling it more … Read More

Samba 4.1 brings Linux desktop and Mac files from Windows 8, Server 2012 Summary: Samba, which has been bringing Windows-compatible file sharing to Linux servers, Mac servers, and desktops for years, takes another step forward. The big file-sharing leap came with Samba 4. That release brought Linux an Active Directory (AD) domain controller. With that version, Samba gained the ability … Read More

Many organizations struggle to gain operational and analytical insights due to the inability to access data locked in disparate applications and technology silos. The exploding volume and diversity of data makes physical consolidation or replication impractical for all data integration needs. Unlock the potential of your data Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization beta, formerly known as Red Hat JBoss Enterprise … Read More

Build the cloud your developers want and your business needs Initial cloud implementations don’t always deliver fully on their promise. Do you hear your business and developers still asking for more robust sets of functionality, like self-service catalogs, rich development environments, broad access to services automation, and elastic resources? Learn from Red Hat’s cloud success In this webinar you’ll learn … Read More

Today, Red Hat announced the latest release of Red Hat® JBoss® Portal. For high-impact, self-service applications, JBoss Portal provides proven performance at scale, plus flexible integration with existing infrastructure and other JBoss investments.

From Fedora 19 with the very latest software components for Linux virtualization, the performance of KVM, Xen, and VirtualBox were benchmarked from the Intel Core i7 4770K “Haswell” CPU. Since last month’s Haswell launch we have published many benchmarks of the new Intel CPUs but not being covered at Phoronix until today is the Linux virtualization performance for Haswell.

12 development kernel and the Mesa 930-devel OpenGL drivers.

Computerworld – Automakers are working to standardize on a Linux-based operating system for in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems that would make it easier for cars to act more like smartphones.

Ever since Oracle bought MySQL a fair number of MySQL users started looking for an alternative, due mainly to doubts that Oracle would be a good steward of a key software project. Once upon a time there was a speedy relational database called MySQL. It was invented by a Swedish company, MySQL AB, which was founded by David Axmark, Allan Larsson and Michael “Monty” Widenius. MySQL was firmly entrenched as an extremely important piece of technology, the foundation of the Internet and of many private businesses, and he feared that Oracle would not be a good steward of MySQL, but would kill it, or close the source. Monty did not retire to count his giant pile of Sun money, but instead forked MySQL and created MariaDB in 2009. MariaDB is now managed by the MariaDB Foundation, which is led by Michael Widenius, David Axmark, and Allan Larsson (sound familiar?). What if you want commercial support? Then you talk to the nice people at SkySQL, who provide support and custom engineering for MariaDB, and migration assistance from MySQL. Be sure to study MariaDB is a binary drop in replacement for MySQL before you try it. MariaDB is MySQL with improved and extra features, and even though the Foundation wants to maintain binary compatibility I expect increasing divergence, and someday they’re going to have to leave MySQL behind. Because the world is full of MySQL, and so we database nerds must be fluent in MySQL. But not migrate from MySQL or any other RDBMS, because that is a giant and error-prone task.

Since Valve announced its open source Linux SteamOS distribution and Steam Machines prototype in late September, numerous questions remain. Last week, however, Valve released more details on the Steam Machines prototype.