August 14, 2013
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Most Mac and Linux users think anything Windows can do their operating systems can do better. Often, they’re right, but then there comes that day when they really need to run that one special Windows application and then they’re stuck. … Continue reading
August 12, 2013
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No one doubts that Android is the number one smartphone operating system and that Apple’s iOS is number two. The real question is “Who will be number three?” Windows Phone is moving up; Blackberry is imploding; and, the Linux-based Ubuntu … Continue reading
August 11, 2013
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Canonical , Ubuntu‘s parent company, made a bet. It wagered that there were enough visionaries out there to crowd-source 32-million dollars for the first Linux-powered combination smartphone/PC, the Ubuntu Edge. It seems that the company will lose that wager, but … Continue reading
August 6, 2013
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You can’t claim that the Apache Drill programmers think small. Their design goal is for Drill to scale to 10,000 servers or more and to process petabyes of data and trillions of records in less than a second. If this … Continue reading
August 6, 2013
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Apache’s Drill goal is striving to do nothing less than answer queries from petabytes of data and trillions of records in less than a second. You can’t claim that the Apache Drill programmers think small. Their design goal is for … Continue reading
August 4, 2013
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All a Linux distribution really needs is any version of the Linux kernel that fits its needs. Linux businesses, like Canonical, Red Hat, and SUSE need more. When they build commercial Linux distributions they need to know that the base … Continue reading