10 ways you might be breaking the law with your computer: UPDATED 10 Things: "Legislation that affects the use of Internet-connected computers is springing up everywhere at the local, state and federal levels. You might be violating one of them without even knowing." (Mar 12, 2010)
Linux Today Features
Linux Today Sticky Page On this page we'll maintain links to important articles and documents that pertain to Free Software, Linux, and the tech industry. Please submit your suggestions to editors@linuxtoday.com. Thank you! (Jun 15, 2009)
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The 10 Most Downloaded Open Source Apps Of All Time! Geek Trio: "Everyone loves open source software. After all… its free! Many times I’ve heard the question, “what is the most popular open source application of all time?” I decided to find out." Mar 10, 2010
Linux: A Platform for the Cloud (Mar 18, 2010, 00:03 UTC) (1489 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "The goal of this article is to review the history and architecture of Linux as well as its present day developments to understand how Linux has become today's leading platform for cloud computing. We will start with a little history on Unix system development and then move to the Linux system itself."
Top 10 Data Storage Technologies That Could Disappear (Mar 16, 2010, 05:02 UTC) (3299 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Storage Forum: "Instead of predicting which technologies will take over in the future, let's predict what won't be there, or what will gradually start to fade in the storage and data center world."
VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 3.1.x On A Headless Fedora 12 Server (Mar 15, 2010, 23:34 UTC) (1840 reads)
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(feedback) Howtoforge: "This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun VirtualBox 3.1.x on a headless Fedora 12 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the virtual machines over a remote desktop connection, so there's no need for the VirtualBox GUI."
Setting up MySQL Cluster 7.0 in Linux (Mar 7, 2010, 12:03 UTC) (2642 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Admin Zone: "You might know that beginning with MySQL 5.1.24, support for the NDBCLUSTER storage engine was removed from the standard MySQL server binaries built by MySQL. Therefore, here I’m using MySQL Cluster edition instead of MySQL Community edition."
Using Nmap to Fix a Problem (Mar 5, 2010, 22:02 UTC) (2357 reads)
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(feedback) Systhread: "Ever had an ipv4 network address that is supposed to migrate over via a high availability mechanism simply not work, or even stranger if there were several addresses some do and some do not?"
Oracle Drops Hitachi Data Storage Arrays (Mar 5, 2010, 09:02 UTC) (2000 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Storage Forum: "Oracle will stop selling high-end data storage arrays from Hitachi Data Systems at the end of the month, according to a notice from HDS to its channel partners."
HipHop steals Web serving from Apache at Facebook (Feb 26, 2010, 13:03 UTC) (2539 reads)
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(feedback) CIO: "Despite using the venerable LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) stack to build one of the busiest sites on the Internet, Facebook is moving its main Web serving infrastructure from Apache to HipHop for PHP, which has its own embedded Web server."
In-depth documentation of openQRM available
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(feedback) LinuxPR: In-depth documentation of openQRM available
A complete technical documentation about the concepts, architecture and internals of openQRM including use-cases is now available.
Linux is now Oracle's low-end offering (Feb 21, 2010, 04:02 UTC) (4100 reads)
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(feedback) Search Enterprise Linux: "Oracle Corp. has rekindled its Solaris love. Sun's Solaris operating system will underlie new high-end data center appliances running the Oracle software stack. And Oracle EnterpriseLinux now becomes the preferred OS for lower-end commodity hardware."
IBM Unveils Clustered NAS Storage (Feb 13, 2010, 20:02 UTC) (3206 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Storage Forum: "The Samba-based systems include management nodes, switches, interface nodes, data storage nodes, RAID controllers and expansion units, and offer snapshot capabilities, tiered storage and HSM through Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)."
Who Is Developing KVM Linux Virtualization? (Feb 12, 2010, 15:03 UTC) (3434 reads)
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(feedback) Serverwatch: "Five years ago, the open source Xen hypervisor was the primary technology that big vendors like IBM and Red Hat were adopting and pushing. In 2010, that's no longer the case as the rival KVM effort is now getting the attention of both IBM and Red Hat , as well as many others in the Linux ecosystem."
Red Hat Ramps Up Open Source Cloud Projects (Feb 11, 2010, 20:33 UTC) (1503 reads)
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(feedback) Datamation: "The cloud isn't just another word for basic application hosting on a single remote server. The cloud involves the notion of distributed assets that are highly available and scalable."
The new LTSP-Cluster website's officially out (Feb 11, 2010, 10:03 UTC) (1819 reads)
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(feedback) Stéphane Graber's website: "The LTSP-Cluster project is proud to announce that its website is now on-line.
LTSP-Cluster is a project to extend LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project) with the required components for a large scale deployment."
Nexenta = flying a F29 with a wii remote and other highlights of the last few days (Feb 9, 2010, 23:33 UTC) (1927 reads)
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(feedback) Nexenta: "Just since Wednesday of this week here are a few things that have happened:...One of the world’s top technology companies took delivery of a HA Cluster with attached JBODs from PogoLinux and reached out to us and Pogo to say this is great and they’d like us to talk to their corporate headquarters about a larger relationship."
HP Launches First Quad-Core Itanium Systems (Feb 9, 2010, 19:33 UTC) (3223 reads)
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(feedback) Serverwatch: "Intel launched what will be its largest server and storage refresh beginning Monday with the introduction of the Itanium 9300 line, the long-delayed "Tukwila" family of quad-core Itanium processors."
BM Ups Its Processor Power to 7 (Feb 9, 2010, 17:33 UTC) (1980 reads)
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(feedback) Hardware Central: "During an event late last month celebrating the completion of Oracle's merger with Sun, the company's outspoken chief executive took repeated shots at IBM (NYSE: IBM), saying that Big Blue's systems couldn't scale."
Health Check: FreeBSD - "The unknown giant" (Feb 4, 2010, 23:33 UTC) (2707 reads)
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(feedback) The H Open: "FreeBSD is the most accessible and popular of the BSDs, has code at the heart of Darwin and Apple's OS X, and has powered some of the more successful sites on the Web, including Hotmail, Netcraft and Yahoo!, which before the rise of Google was the busiest site on the internet."
How to configure maximum performance storage space for Debian GNU / Linux on IBM (Feb 4, 2010, 14:03 UTC) (1791 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Blog: "The IBM DS 8300 Data Storage Systems are multi millions dollars flexible high availability and performance SAN machines.
But you may left much of such performance and availability behind if you do not configure then correctly for Debian GNU / Linux."
Size Can Matter: Throughput Performance with a Disk-Based Journal - Part 4 (Feb 4, 2010, 00:03 UTC) (1755 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Magazine: "Turning from Metadata performance to throughput performance, we examines the impact of journal size on ext4 when the journal is disk-based. Dig into the numbers and see what you can do to improve throughput performance."
TPC Benchmarks Now Measure Server Power Use (Feb 3, 2010, 17:32 UTC) (1462 reads)
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(feedback) ServerWatch: "The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) today announced its newest specification, TPC-Energy, which measures the energy usage of a server to gauge not only transactions per second but transactions per watt as well."
London Stock Exchange Linux switchover set for September (Feb 3, 2010, 16:32 UTC) (2408 reads)
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(feedback) Computerworld UK: "The London Stock Exchange will switch on the first module of its Linux and Unix-based trading platform in September, replacing existing Microsoft .Net architecture."
When Memory Serves You: Using ramfs and tmpfs (Feb 1, 2010, 15:33 UTC) (2805 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Magazine: "Need a performance boost for your reads from and writes to a database or other dynamic files? A RAM-based filesystem is just what the good system doctor ordered"
High-end NAS device runs Linux (Jan 30, 2010, 20:02 UTC) (4032 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Devices: "Enhance Technology announced an eight-disk, Linux-based network-attached storage (NAS) device, offering up to 16TB of SATA storage. The UltraShare NAS8000-P4 incorporates an Intel Xeon (Nehalem) CPU clocked at 2.0GHz, four gigabit Ethernet ports, and an optional gateway for expanding to up to 176TB."
Blade Server Reality Check (Jan 29, 2010, 13:03 UTC) (2564 reads)
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(feedback) Serverwatch: "Are you seriously considering, or currently deploying, blade servers in 2010? If so, I hope you've done your research and accepted their vendor lock-in and other shortcomings in addition to their marketed promises."
Record-setting Linux (Jan 26, 2010, 12:34 UTC) (1787 reads)
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(feedback) Cyber Cynic: "Recently, French software engineer Fabrice Bellard calculated the value of pi to 2.7 trillion numbers — with a souped-up but otherwise ordinary home PC running Red Hat's Fedora Linux."
China Details Homemade Supercomputer Plans (Jan 25, 2010, 13:33 UTC) (2057 reads)
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(feedback) Technology Review: "It's official: China's next supercomputer, the petascale Dawning 6000, will be constructed exclusively with home-grown microprocessors. Weiwu Hu, chief architect of the Loongson (also known as "Godson") family of CPUs at the Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), a division of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, also confirms that the supercomputer will run Linux."
Grid Computing and the Future of Cloud Computing (Jan 22, 2010, 09:04 UTC) (2256 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Storage Forum: "One of the most notable projects to make use of grid computing was SETI@home, which utilized thousands of Internet-connected computers to search for extraterrestrial intelligence (and still does)."
10 Years of IBM Linux: Embracing Customer Choice (Jan 21, 2010, 12:02 UTC) (1918 reads)
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(feedback) Database Trends: "Involved with Linux since IBM's initial entry into the space more than 10 years ago, Jonathan Prial is now vice president of enablement for sales teams at IBM. Here, he talks with The Linux Executive Report from IBM about IBM's early presence in the Linux market, how he sees Linux use evolving, and why it's important to be a student for life in the world of technology."
Size Can Matter: Ramdisk Journal Metadata Performance - Part 2 (Jan 20, 2010, 20:03 UTC) (2298 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Magazine: "Previously, we examined the impact of journal size using a separate disk on metadata performance as measured by fdtree. In this follow-up we repeat the same test but use a ramdisk for the journal, thereby boosting the best performance. Or does it?"
VirtualBox’s Little Secret: The Command Line (Jan 19, 2010, 23:34 UTC) (5376 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Magazine: "Casual VirtualBox users might not know about the awesome power that lurks just beneath the surface in the Command Line Interface (CLI)."
The Performance Of EXT4 Then & Now (Jan 19, 2010, 23:04 UTC) (4932 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: "The performance of the EXT4 file-system commonly goes down with new kernel releases and not up, as kernel developers continue to introduce new safeguards to address potential data loss problems that initially plagued some EXT4 users."
