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Go to Toys ‘R Us for your Linux netbook needs

July 2nd, 2009 · 2 Comments

One of the most annoying things, thanks to Microsoft strong-arming PC manufacturers, is finding a Linux netbook to buy at a store-front retailer. But, it turns out that there’s at least one store that still carries Linux netbooks: Toys R Us.
Why? Well, perhaps Microsoft overlooked it, but small computers, like netbooks, turn out to be [...]

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Tags: Business · Infrastructure · Laptop · Linux · Microsoft · Operating System

London Stock Exchange to abandon failed Windows platform

July 1st, 2009 · No Comments

Anyone who was ever fool enough to believe that Microsoft software was good enough to be used for a mission-critical operation had their face slapped this September when the LSE (London Stock Exchange)’s Windows-based TradElect system brought the market to a standstill for almost an entire day. While the LSE denied that the collapse was [...]

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Tags: Business · Linux · Microsoft · Operating System · Windows

Ubuntu heads to the clouds

July 1st, 2009 · No Comments

On July 1, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu in partnership with Eucalyptus Systems, an open-source cloud infrastructure firm, will be launching Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Services.
According to sources at Canonical, Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Services “is a set of new professional services to help and support users building ‘private clouds’, that is cloud infrastructures behind a [...]

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Tags: Canonical · Cloud Computing · Infrastructure · Linux · Operating System

Never reboot again with Linux and Ksplice

June 29th, 2009 · No Comments

I usually have to reboot my Linux systems about once every six months. Linux is as stable as a rock. Windows, while it’s gotten better, is another story entirely. While I no longer need to reboot Windows on a daily basis, I still must reboot my Windows PC at least twice a month-one “what the [...]

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Tags: Desktop · Infrastructure · Linux · Operating System · Server

Digg, Dug, Buried: How Linux news disappears

June 25th, 2009 · No Comments

Like it or lump it, the major reason that determines whether any given online story will get read or not is how much play it gets on news link sharing sites and social networks like Digg, reddit, and StumbleUpon. Unlike earlier news sharing sites like Slashdot, these sites have no central editorial control. Instead, the [...]

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Tags: Business · Journalism · Linux · Microsoft