October 1, 2013
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Still using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.x? Red Hat hasn’t forgotten about you. The Raleigh, NC-based open-source company has just released RHEL 5.10, the latest minor release of the mature RHEL 5 operating system. Red Hat releases upgrade to … Continue reading
September 25, 2013
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When I did a story recently about in-demand open source jobs, I wasn’t surprised to hear from Dice that the job market was hot, hot, hot for OpenStack (for Big Data, Hadoop in particular) and for the LAMP stack (Linux, … Continue reading
September 17, 2013
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On September 17, IBM will announce at LinuxCon 2013 that it will invest $1 billion in new Linux and open-source technologies for its Power Systems servers. This announcement comes 12 years after IBM famously announced that it was backing the … Continue reading
September 15, 2013
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In the eternal IT war between development and operations, one perpetual battle has been between the developers, who want the newest software tools, and the system operators, who want nice stable. reliable programs. Red Hat wants to bring a truce … Continue reading
August 26, 2013
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Everyone uses virtualization, but almost no one talks about benchmarking it. It’s easy to understand why. It’s hard to do. Fortunately, the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), recently released a new benchmark for datacenter-level virtualization, SPECvirt_sc2013. New virtualization benchmark for … Continue reading
August 25, 2013
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Anyone who pays any attention to Web servers knows that Apache is the most popular Web server. What only professional Web developers and administrators know is that Nginix, a high-performance, open-source Web server, is battling with Microsoft’s Internet Information Services … Continue reading