Friday | 9 January, 2009

Stories by: Don Marti

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    Qumranet claims responsiveness, admin advantages for new desktop virtualization product 02/05/2008 11:38:25

    Qumranet has released its Solid ICE desktop virtualization product to general availability this week. The company claims responsiveness and administration advantages over thin client solutions based on the results of pilot projects for several large customers, and today's released version adds multi-monitor support, in demand in the financial industry.
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    New kernel puts a spotlight on memory hogs 18/04/2008 12:16:42

    Jon Corbet analyzes the 2.6.25 kernel, out last night.
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    Linux-proof business 16/04/2008 12:26:05

    Julie Bort talks with Jeremy White about Wine. 1.0 coming up.
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    Kernel as hypervisor: Andrea Arcangeli 26/03/2008 09:57:12

    You're now with Qumranet which is the company behind KVM. Can you briefly tell me about the design of KVM and how that differs from previous virtualization approaches such as Xen and VMware?
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    Zvents releases open-source cluster database 08/02/2008 08:44:44

    Event search firm Zvents is releasing a massively parallel database server, based on a published Google design, as an open source project. The new software, Hypertable, is designed to scale to 1000 nodes, all commodity PCs, said Doug Judd, principal search architect for Zvents.
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    A practical guide to Ubuntu Linux 25/01/2008 08:50:55

    With all the people out there willing to offer help on Linux, getting started should be pretty easy. But with many options in introductory books and easy-to-install distributions, choosing a place to start can be the hard part.
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    MySQL, Solaris share performance tuning feature 18/01/2008 08:38:38

    Sun just announced its acquisition of MySQL, but for several months the open-source database has been getting the performance tracing integration with the Solaris platform that it needs to follow through on Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz's committment to performance improvements.
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    Real or fake Linux PC? Everex will know 02/11/2007 13:56:46

    PC vendors haven't been eager to know how many users run Linux when it's preloaded on their low-end PCs, and how many replace it with an infringing copy of Microsoft Windows. Everex, the latest company to introduce a low-priced desktop Linux system, will have the information, however, thanks to the software update system behind its Linux distribution.
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    Linux tool points out power-wasting applications 02/08/2007 15:30:35

    Linux systems' power consumption is rapidly becoming a top concern for operators of large data centers. A University of California Berkeley study recently attributed 90 percent of the increase in data center power consumption to servers priced at less than US$25,000 each, the market where Linux is most important.
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    Linux contributor base broadens 03/07/2007 14:56:40

    As the number of Linux kernel contributors continues to grow, core developers are finding themselves mostly managing and checking, not coding, said Greg Kroah-Hartman, maintainer of USB and PCI support in Linux and co-author of Linux Device Drivers, in a talk at the Linux Symposium in Ottawa last week.
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    ZFS on Linux: It's alive 22/06/2007 12:16:54

    If you like Linux for the long list of supported hardware but Solaris for the advanced new ZFS filesystem, a new development project might have a happy surprise for you.
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