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Linux on the Cloud: IBM, Novell & Red Hat

sjvn — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:37:22 +0000

Today, March 16th, has been filled with Linux and cloud news. Which is great, I guess, if you’re ready to trust your data to the cloud.

In case you don’t follow Linux as closely as I do, here’s the round-up. Red Hat and Novell have joined up with IBM to provide a new open cloud environment [...]

Torments of the Internet damned

sjvn — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:09:46 +0000

I live on the Internet. I work on the Internet. I keep in touch with my friends on the Internet. Without the Internet, I’m out of business. I’m not the only one. But lately, with my rock-solid AT&T DSL connection (6Mbit/sec. down, 512Kbit/sec. up), I’ve taken it for granted. That was before my [...]

Ubuntu 9.10: Linux for business

sjvn — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:32:48 +0000

When you think Ubuntu, you almost certainly think of it as a desktop distribution. And, make no mistake about it, Ubuntu 9.10 is a great desktop distribution, but that’s not what Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company, is focusing on with this release and the next, long-term support version, which will follow this one. No, Canonical has [...]