July 10, 2013
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Is Red Hat switching from Oracle‘s MySQL to MariaDB for its default database management system (DBMS) in its next major operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)? Officially, Red Hat hasn’t decided to switch to MariaDB. Unofficially, it appears to … Continue reading
July 9, 2013
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The Linux Foundation used to be just about, well, Linux. Now, it also manages an open software defined network alliance, OpenDaylight, and the open-source Xen virtualization manager. On July 9th, the first fruit of these new efforts arrived: Xen 4.3. … Continue reading
July 8, 2013
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It doesn’t get much scarier than this. Bluebox Security claimed to have discovered a vulnerability in Android’s security model that could allow attackers to convert 99 percent of all applications into Trojan malware. Google has told ZDNet that the hole … Continue reading
July 8, 2013
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SUSE Studio is a great online program. It enables pretty much anyone create their own customized Linux distribution without being a Linux kernel engineer. But after you had built it, you were on your own… until now. Starting July 8th, … Continue reading
July 8, 2013
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After Citrix bought Xen in 2007, the core of this popular open-source hypervisor remained open source, but some of the rest became proprietary software. Now Citrix has decided to take all of its virtual machine manager and cloud XenServer software back … Continue reading
July 2, 2013
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The famous quantum reality thought experiment Schrödinger’s Cat, may or may not exist, but the latest version of Red Hat’s community Linux Fedora 19 nick-named Schrödinger’s Cat is alive, well, and ready to be downloaded. Fedora 19, Schrödinger’s Cat, lives. … Continue reading