Richard Stallman: Cloud Computing a Trap
Oct 01, 2008As an original founder of Open Source, Richard Stallman cautions in an interview with the British Guardian newspaper about the repercussions of cloud computing. His main objection: dependency and loss of control.
more »Saving Power Software-based energy savings
Sep 30, 2008Save power by choosing the right system and software configuration.
more »Cloud Computing Cloud computing with Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud
Sep 30, 2008Cloud computing systems like Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) save power and overhead by taking the peak out of your server load.
more »Video: Burton Group Advisor on Open Source for Corporations
Sep 29, 2008In the video, Linux Pro Magazine speaks to Chris Howard about the Open Source market. Howard is a leading advisor with the Burton Group, an IT marketing and consulting company for customers with more than 2000 people on staff.
Breakthrough: Open Source Firm Official Supplier to British Schools
Sep 26, 2008The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta), the government body with the mission of "Leading next generation learning," has for the first time included Open Source enterprises on their list of official software and IT service suppliers for the nation's schools.
more »The Virtualization Battle: News from Sun, Novell and Microsoft - and Red Hat joins in
Sep 11, 2008The battle in the virtualization market enters a new phase: Sun Microsystems released new versions of its virtualization software Sun xVM. And a few days ago Red Hat announced its takeover of Qumranet, makers of the virtualizer KVM. Meanwhile Microsoft and Novell are teaming up to counter with their own Microsoft Hyper-V and Suse Linux Enterprise Server offerings.
more »X.Org 7.4 Includes New Functions
Sep 10, 2008With a development time of at least a year, X.Org will be released today, delayed by almost six months. Developers want to free themselves from dependencies in future versions.
more »Korset: Linux security thanks to static analysis
Sep 10, 2008Coworkers at the University of Tel Aviv have presented a prototype for a new host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS) for Linux. Named Korset, it uses static code analysis and promises zero failures.
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