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 then unproven Linux with a billion-dollar investment.
September 16, 2013
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New Orleans: If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a million times: The reason why desktop Linux hasn’t made it is because of its lack of games. Thanks to Gabe Newell, CEO of Valve and its Steam game platform, that’s not true anymore.
September 16, 2013
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NEW ORLEANS: Who writes Linux? Perhaps the better question is who doesn’t write it?
At LinuxCon, in New Orleans, The Linux Foundation revealed in its latest report “Linux Kernel Development: How Fast It is Going, Who is Doing It, What They Are Doing and Who is Sponsoring It.” that the largest collaborative project in the history of computing is growing larger than ever with over 10,000 developers contributing to Linux in the last eight years.
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 to these old enemies, and no, it’s not DevOps.
September 13, 2013
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Despite being the most popular open-source database management system (DBMS), Oracle’s MySQL has been sinking into trouble. Major Linux distributions like Red Hat and SUSE, are switching it out for its fork, MariaDB. Major Websites, such as Wikipedia, have also replaced MySQL with MariaDB. Now, adding insult to injury, Google is moving to MariaDB from MySQL.
September 12, 2013
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The NSA is in our in-box, malware is everywhere, and Web sites are getting knocked off by hackers ever other day. So you might think us computer users would be trying to take better care of our home computers. You would be wrong.
At the @Microsoft Conversations event in Washington DC on September 12, 2013, Microsoft released its latest Microsoft Computing Safety Index (MCSI) results for worldwide consumer computer security. The results were awful.
Shame on you! Report shows users lazier than ever about security practices. More >