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Yesterday I published results that show NVIDIA’s Linux driver is very competitive with Microsoft Windows 8 when it comes to OpenGL gaming performance. It turns out that the NVIDIA BSD driver, which is still mostly shared common code with Linux and Solaris and Windows, pairs very well with FreeBSD’s Linux binary compatibility layer. The NVIDIA BSD performance is very good … Read More

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA — Thursday, July 25, 2013 — The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today launched a fundraising initiative for Replicant (http://replicant.us), a fully free Android distribution and the first mobile operating system (OS) to run without relying on proprietary system code. Replicant’s small volunteer developer team is focused on improving their OS, while also expanding it to work on … Read More

Today we are pleased to announce availability of the Beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10. This release provides system administrators
with a secure, stable and reliable platform for their organization’s enterprise applications.

  Check Out New Features in Version 3.2 WAN Acceleration WAN and LAN links are often slow or have limited bandwidth, driving the need to optimize network utilization with technology that can reduce network traffic. With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, network acceleration is achieved with enhanced compression and traffic reduction techniques which enable 2X faster backup and replication, as well … Read More

Forums | Blog           Greetings, Company Announcements Telligent Acquires Zimbra from VMware Telligent, a market leader in enterprise social software, today announced that it has acquired from VMware the assets of Zimbra. Upon closing, Telligent and Zimbra will merge to form the new Zimbra, an enterprise software company offering a unified social collaboration suite. Learn more about this exciting news … Read More

After Citrix bought Xen in 2007, the core of this popular open-source hypervisor remained open source, but some of the rest became proprietary software. Now Citrix has decided to take all of its virtual machine manager and cloud XenServer software back to its open-source roots.     Citrix has announced that all of its XenServer 6.2  platform will be open-source software. … Read More

Yesterday SUSE released the third service pack for SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 “Desktop” and “Server” editions, a set of commercial enterprise-class distributions for desktops and servers: “SUSE today announced the general availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 3. This latest service pack brings additional industry-standard hardware support and open source features and enhancements to SUSE Linux Enterprise 11, … Read More

Several days ago, Microsoft released a public beta of their upcoming Windows 8.1 release, which has previously been known and called Windows Blue. This was a great opportunity for me to test the alleged rumors of a desktop renaissance coming back to Windows, given the obvious failure of the Windows 8 operating system in the market. Anyhow, unlike all so … Read More

For me Linux has become more than just a kernel.  Though a kernel it most certainly is. Linux has now become synonymous with a platform. But even better it has become transparent solution provider. A part of daily life. For me my adventure into Linux started with wanting Unix at home. As a Unix programmer and administrator, I was very … Read More

If you want a really fast computer, then Linux is your operating system and Intel may be your chip manufacturer. The June 2013 Top500 supercomputer list is in, and 476 of the top 500 fastest supercomputers in the world run Linux.   Whether you measure supercomputing by number of systems or overall performance, Linux rules. (Image: Top500)   Is that … Read More

While it is common knowledge in the industry that Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation beats Vmware hands down when it comes to pricing, it is more than the 60-80% saving on software cost that should be considered when choosing your virtualisation platform.

The chipmaker will roll out a 64-bit ARM processor in the second half of 2014. (Credit: AMD) Advanced Micro Devices is dipping into the ARM world. The chipmaker announced Tuesday that it plans to develop its first ARM chip starting next year. Codenamed “Seattle,” the chip is being touted by AMD as the industry’s first 64-bit ARM processor from a … Read More

Red Hat has stated that no decisions have been made in a choice between MySQL and MariaDB as the “default database” in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (RHEL 7). In various media reports over the weekend, it was claimed that Red Hat had decided to “ditch MySQL” and move to MariaDB. The reports were based on a presentation at the Red Hat … Read More

What will you do differently now that you know about PRISM? “I don’t see any way that changing my use of technology would affect my situation,” Google+ blogger Kevin O’Brien said. “The government has way more in the way of resources than I can bring to bear here. I am just going to nostalgically recall when the U.S. was a … Read More

With the worldwide public cloud market forecast to grow 18.5 percent in 2013 to $131 billion in total worldwide revenue, according to Gartner, companies are beginning to place their bets in the high stakes marketplace. I’ve been watching as Amazon Web Services works to hold off its challengers in the space. One company to be reckoned with is Windows Azure … Read More