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Thanks to a report from Wired, we now know that the mini-datacenter (code named Sub-Zero)  that Facebook is building as an add-on to their existing Oregon datacenter campus, will be dedicated to datacenter backup. According to the report, Facebook will use a new type of low-power deep storage device that doesn’t currently exist. Facebook is apparently setting their engineering staff … Read More

Android’s market share climbs to 64.1% – up 20.7% from 2011 In the smartphone operating system market, Android extended its market share lead by 20.7 percentage points in the second quarter of 2012. According to Gartner Inc., Android’s share increased from 43.4 to 64.1 points, specifically. Full story

Upcoming Webinar with Live Q&A Join Michael Osterman, President and Founder of Osterman Research, as he talks about the future of messaging and collaboration and reviews Zimbra’s features and functionality in comparison to other enterprise email systems, including Microsoft Exchange, Google Apps, IBM Lotus Domino and Novell Groupwise. Attend this live 55-minute interactive webinar to: Learn how Zimbra compares to … Read More

oVirt 3.1 has become the second official release of the oVirt project. With it, the developers of the virtual datacentre management platform say they have narrowed the gap between “the open source virtualisation platform and proprietary alternatives”. In February, version 3.0 became the first official release of oVirt, and offered a range of virtualisation management components that also formed the … Read More

  From the ‘CentOS vs. Oracle Linux’ files: Red Hat makes its money from selling support subscriptions for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Mostly the same bits are available entirely for free by way of the community led CentOS project that clones RHEL. I recently chatted with Red Hat CEO about CentOS and the long story short is he’s good … Read More

The Commodore 64 turns 30 this month. How does it compare to modern computers? The Commodore 64, released 30 years ago this month, was a groundbreaking computer when it was released. It combined a low price with remarkable power but how does it compare to a modern computer? To put it into perspective, we’ve compared some key Commodore 64 specs … Read More

Topic: Linux Follow via: RSS Email Alert 42Comments 7 Votes 11 inShare more + Dell re-enters high-end Linux laptop market with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Summary: UPDATED: Through the years, Dell has had an on-and-off relation with Linux. It looks like they’ve kissed and made up, judging by the pair of new high-end laptops running Red Hat Enterprise that Dell … Read More

Fedora (and probably Red Hat) really really appreciate the contribution community developers bring to the popular Linux distribution. So much so, they want to give out some presents – 220 presents to be exact. Since that isn’t enough to go around, contributors will be randomly chosen from a sweepstakes pool. Fedora is giving away 50 OLPC XO 1.75 machines, 150 … Read More

Summary: Microsoft’s latest patent licensing deal isn’t like its recent Android/Chrome OS arrangements. It is with a service provider running Linux boxes in its own datacenters. For the past couple of years, Microsoft has been on a tear of signing up Android and Chome OS device makers to license publicly unspecified Microsoft patents that Microsoft claims are infringed upon by … Read More

Following some initial concern earlier in the month about a large volume of small, last-minute pull requests that ultimately necessitated a seventh release candidate, Linux creator Linus Torvalds on Saturday published the final version 3.5 of the Linux kernel. “Ok, not a lot happened since -rc7,” Torvalds admitted in his announcement email. “There’s a number of MIPS commits (for some … Read More

Is Dell (DELL) becoming an open source company? Yes, but it is not exactly being planned that way. It is bubbling up like most open source projects do. But in many respects the move to open source is also by design. Dell does not want to be a box maker anymore. That makes open source a desirable option. With open … Read More

According to a report on technology blog GigaOm, seven OpenStack developers have left Rackspace to work for Nebula. Nebula, which was founded by former NASA Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Chris C. Kemp, is also heavily involved in development on OpenStack as it forms the basis for its cloud computing hardware appliances. Full story

“A near monopoly is like a dictator,” said Roberto Lim, a lawyer and blogger on Mobile Raptor. “Even a benign dictator runs the risk of failing to respond to the needs of the people, and how many people would called Microsoft benign? “What Microsoft forgot is that sooner or later, the masses do rebel.” The times, they are a-changin’, as … Read More

This week PC giant Dell Computer has served up a series of announcements that the company claims show how committed it is to open source. First, the company has pledged through its “Project Sputnik” effort, to deliver an Ubuntu-based laptop that will focus on developers. And, the company has announced enhancements to its OpenStack-driven cloud computing solutions. Full story

Open-source software is a key driver for small business in the U.S. and contributes an enormous amount to the economy, perhaps to the tune of $1 trillion in economic output. PORTLAND, Ore. — The open-source community creates tremendous value for the U.S. economy, driving small and midsize businesses (SMBs) and empowering entrepreneurs, according to a top open-source supporter. At the … Read More