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In the “Building application sandboxes on top of LXC and KVM with libvirt” FOSDEM presentation, Red Hat developer Daniel Berrange introduced libvirt-sandbox, which confines individual applications in a secured area (“sandbox“) using the KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) virtualisation solution or LXC (Linux Containers). In the KVM variant, the program starts the kernel and initramfs in a virtual machine (VM), which … Read More

FreeBSD 9.0 released FreeBSD 9.0 has been released. Highlights of this release include a new installer, Capsicum Capability Mode for sandboxing, softupdates journaling for the Fast Filesystem, user-level DTrace, ZFS updates, and much more, see the release notes for more information. “The FreeBSD Project dedicates the FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE to the memory of Dennis M. Ritchie, one of the founding fathers … Read More

Android this year surpassed both iOS and Blackberry as the most popular smartphone OS, further catapulting Linux into the spotlight in the mobile device industry. Just a couple months ago, Amazon announced what analysts say is the first real threat to the iPad, the Amazon Kindle Fire. This introduction once again put Linux in the spotlight by allowing a major … Read More

Linux Mint 12 Lisa Review Until the release of Ubuntu 11.04, Gnome 2.x seemed to have become the standard desktop interface for Linux. It was the default for Ubuntu, Fedora and Linux Mint, three of the biggest distributions, and many others relied on it too. Of course, lots of people use KDE, but since they released version 4, things seemed … Read More

RALEIGH (WTVD) — Another company is making the City of Raleigh its headquarters. Raleigh Mayor Nancy McFarlane announced Friday that Red Hat, Inc. will make the 100 block of East Davie Street in downtown Raleigh its new global headquarters. The software company has over 4,300 employees in more than 70 offices in 30 countries – over 600 of those are … Read More

System administrators who need a Linux system will often opt to purchase a bare-metal system and install Linux on the system their way. After all, Linux folks are a rogue, radical ilk. They think differently. They administer servers differently. And, they purchase systems differently. The CXO, purchasing agent or other money-responsible party, on the other hand, has the corporate trust … Read More

NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the US, has launched code.nasa.gov, a web site that will serve as the central source of information about the agency’s open source projects. The site, which is still in early alpha, is intended to help unify and expand NASA’s open source activities. Full story

Summary: Why will Microsoft be releasing a persistent virtual machine feature on its Azure cloud platform so users can host Linux? Because that’s what its customers want. Full story

Red hat is out with the new version 6.2 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), which has a focus on cutting costs and optimizing resources for enterprise storage. “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 operating system achieved the largest multi-core Linux configuration results certified to-date on the two-tier SAP(R) Sales and Distribution (SD) standard application benchmark,” the company said in a … Read More

Ubuntu has found some new horizons in China. In a post on Canonical’s blog, it was announced that Canonical and Dell will bring PCs loaded with Ubuntu to the Chinese market. According to the post: “The stores will feature Ubuntu on a range of Dell computers, and will carry branded marketing collateral in-store, trained staff positioning the benefits and advantages … Read More

The first commercially available cloud compute service built on the open source OpenStack platform has been announced by IT infrastucture provider Internap. The company says that, by being based on OpenStack and through the use of standardised APIs, the new service, Open Public Cloud, enables customers to avoid the pitfall of cloud vendor lock-in. The service uses the open source … Read More

Whether the acronym “NoSQL” stands for “not only SQL,” as some database architects content, or literally “no SQL,” up until this month, it has been taken to imply “no Oracle.” One of the many hallmarks of Oracle’s SQL RDBMS technology, historically, has been consistency — the notion that every client perceives the same view of the data at any one … Read More

The most important thing about Ice Cream Sandwich is that “there seems to be a change in the wind insofar as Android being a pure operating system is concerned,” said blogger Roberto Lim. “With Android 1.6 to 2.3, the ‘vanilla’ version was a pretty basic OS, which provided the minimum necessary smartphone functionality.” With ICS, “the vanilla Android install is … Read More

We are pleased to announce the availability of MailArchiva ISP Edition v1.0.23. This release brings the following changes: Traffic received on milter and SMTP interfaces that is not destined for any local supported domains is not rejected, but simply ignored. This enable you to only archive certain domains, while ignore others Please also note that if you are running v1_0_21 … Read More

Vodacom announced an Ubuntu Linux-based netbook for the developing world, to be initially be launched in South Africa for $188. The Vodafone Webbook offers a 10-inch screen, 512MB of RAM and 4GB of storage, a Vodacom SIM card slot, and a weight less than 2.2 pounds, says the mobile provider. Full story