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June 11, 2013
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TurnKey Linux offers 64-bit server apps on Amazon cloud

If you want easy, and I mean easy, to set up and run Linux servers on the cloud, you can’t beat TurnKey Linux. The latest version of Turnkey Linux, TurnKey 12.1 is now offering 64-bit Linux cloud-ready appliances.

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June 11, 2013
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Red Hat opens OpenShift PaaS cloud for business

Leading Linux company Red Hat announced on June 10th that OpenShift Online, its public Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud offering, is now open for business.

OpenShift is an open-source PaaS cloud. It’s based on the OpenShift Origin open-source project which was released in May 2012. This, in turn, uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and its SELinux (Security Enhanced Linux) sub-system for its foundation.

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June 10, 2013
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How to restore the delete function to the Android Gmail app

There I was, innocently fiddling with my Gmail while waiting for a movie to start Friday night on my Motorola Droid 4 Android smartphone, when I tried to delete a message… and I discovered that the latest update to the Android Gmail program wasn’t letting me delete messages. What the heck?

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June 10, 2013
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Don’t buy a cloud in a poke!

If you buy cloud services without double-checking exactly what you’re getting and without a real service-level agreement (SLA) you might as well be buying a pig in a poke — in other words, you really won’t know what you’re buying until you’ve wasted your money.

Let’s say you want to use a public cloud for your company. They’re easy, they’re cheap, and they’re available. There’s only one little problem: What assurance have you that you’ll get the performance you need when you need it. The answer, without a detailed service level agreement (SLA) that covers quality of service (QoS), is none.

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