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FLOGGER OF EXPENSIVE PRINTER INK HP has become the first major vendor to launch ARM-based servers. HP launched its Redstone server range using low-power processors from both Intel and ARM vendor Calxeda. HP claims Redstone servers are designed for testing and proof-of-concept, presumably the concept that it can produce ARM-based servers. The Calxeda Energycore processors in HP’s Redstone servers are … Read More

Samsung takes step forward in $3.9B chip effort in Texas Officials in the Lone Star state have given Samsung the green light to expand chip production lines at an investment cost of $3.9 billion.   Samsung takes step forward in $3.9B chip effort in Texas Officials in the Lone Star state have given Samsung the green light to expand chip … Read More

For many PC users, the prospect of switching away from Mac or Windows and onto Linux can be a nerve-wracking one.     After all, Linux holds only a minority share of the desktop market, and not all of us know people who are already using it. The idea of making the switch can often feel like taking a blind … Read More

10 reasons to choose Ubuntu 12.10 over Windows 8 | PCWorld.

Five reasons 2012 was a great year for Linux via Five reasons 2012 was a great year for Linux | PCWorld.

If the Leap is anything to go by, the days of the mouse are numbered. The 3D-gesture-sensing device lets you control your computer with a wave of your hand – and it could be yours early next year. Developed by Silicon Valley startup Leap Motion, the Leap is the size of a smartphone and behaves like a smaller, super-accurate version … Read More

MailArchiva 3.1.3 New Release New Features [AR-139] – message tagging (see: http://help.mailarchiva.com/#enterprise-tagging) [AR-287] – auto search (see: http://help.mailarchiva.com/#enterprise-auto-search) [AR-288] – message hold: ability to prevent retention rules deleting mails (http://help.mailarchiva.com/#enterprise-hold) [AR-292] – antivirus scanning using clamd (see: http://help.mailarchiva.com/#enterprise-antivirus) [AR-294] – high availability (requires deployment of an additional server)

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Free and open source software didn’t invent Live Disks (external CDs, DVDs, or flash drives from which you can boot a computer). That honor, according to Wikipedia, goes to FM Towns OS in 1989. However, no other segment of IT has made Live Disks so much a part of their culture as the open source community. Most major Linux distributions … Read More

Just in time for Christmas, the 3.7 Linux kernel was released on December 10, 2012, and brings with it 64-bit ARM support plus a multitude of improvements and changes. The main changes are: ARM Multi-platform and 64-bit support TCP Fast Open Server Side support SMB2 protocol support NFS V4.1 support BtrFS updates VXLAN support perf trace Cryptographically-signed kernel modules Intel … Read More

Going private and re-establishing itself as a separate business unit appears to have done SUSE, the Linux company, a world of good if one goes by the comments of Nils Brauckmann, president and general manager. Eighteen months ago, the company began re-establishing itself in Nuremberg, after having been an integral part of Novell in the US. SUSE was bought by … Read More

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It’s been an amazing year for Linux. Linus Torvalds was recognized with one of the highest honors in technology, the Millennium Technology Prize. The Linux Foundation launched CloudOpen to a sold out crowd. Red Hat achieved its $1B milestone. Android outpaced all other platforms on smartphones and made its way into tablets and other form factors. Please join us in celebrating … Read More

Linux 3.7 has more robust Intel and NVIDIA graphics drivers, support for ARM64, can handle NAT for IPv6 and has better Btrfs performance. These are just some of the enhancements in the latest version of the Linux kernel. Ten weeks after the arrival of Linux 3.6, Linus Torvalds has released kernel version 3.7. The new kernel includes a slightly larger … Read More

After ten years of work and six years after the last major release, the developers of the Samba team have announced the release of Samba 4.0, the latest version of the free software implementation of the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. Samba 4 introduces long-awaited support for Microsoft’s Active Directory technology by implementing a combination of an LDAP directory server, … Read More