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Red Hat Aims To Remove Barriers And Spin Off Fedora
Open source solution provider Red Hat announced
its strong commitment to patent reform to remove
barriers to innovation at the Red Hat Summit yesterday.
Red Hat Flips Its Fedora
The Fedora Project gets flipped into a new group,
the Fedora Foundation, and spun off from the main
corporation.
Linux Loves Nokia’s 770 Tablet
Forget the old PDAs. Nokia's got something cool
as school to compete in the same market. The new
Nokia 770 Internet tablet gives users some groovy
new tools to surf the net with and they told everyone
about all about it at the Linuxworld Summit in the
Big Apple.
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06.22.05
New server NIC for Linux boxes makes intriguing claims
Users looking to get more bandwidth out of Linux server connections
may want to check out a new server adapter from start-up Level
5.
The firm's EthernetFabric product - available this week for
all Linux servers running the 2.4 or 2.6 kernel - is a dual-port
Gigabit Ethernet NIC, which adds a new wrinkle into the development
of next-generation, high-capacity server interconnect hardware,
such as InfiniBand, Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) and
iWarp.
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Nokia shifting to Linux as it joins with Apple to challenge Windows 2
Nokia’s ambitious bid to make the mobile phone as important a client device
for business and leisure as the notebook PC took another important turn last
week with news that it has created a browser in collaboration with Apple,
which will be managed under the open source process.
This starts to address awkward web browsing, a key weakness of the phone’s
bid to be the ‘new notebook’, and it raises interesting questions about how
much further Nokia and Apple could go in cooperating on the anti- Microsoft
ecosystem, and how far Nokia is committing its future to Linux.
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IBM, Red Hat To Boost Linux Education
Introduced at the International Supercomputer Conference, updates
to the Unified Cluster Portfolio were highlighted by HP StorageWorks
Scalable File Share (HP SFS) 2.0, a Linux cluster file server
that triples performance and doubles capacity at a lower entry
price. Enhancements to HP XC System Software and HP Cluster
Platform systems were also included.
The HP Unified Cluster Portfolio is a modular package of hardware,
softwareand services that helps customers better manage, store,
access and visualizethe large volumes of data created by the
computational analysis used in suchhighly complex areas as human
genomics and the development of nano-scale electronic devices.
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Trying Oracle on Linux in the Enterprise
My company runs its Oracle databases on HPUX11i and Hewlett
Packard hardware. Oracle and HP are certified for use with Linux,
so I wanted to see how the performance of some of our databases
would compare if moved to Linux. My ideal goal was for Linux
to do everything HPUX does, interconnecting with our existing
infrastructure seamlessly. I wondered whether we'd lose any
flexibility in administration.
For my first proper dive into the world of Linux, I chose
Intel processors, thereby sticking to the philosophy of not
changing too many components at one time. I was curious about
how new 32-bit processors would compare to our "old"
64-bit UNIX ones. I'd read that the faster processors would
more than make up for being only 32-bit, especially for our
environment where most of our databases aren't too large and
don't really get hammered that much. Our storage area network
(SAN) is integral to our systems, so I really wanted to push
to get all the features of our SAN disks from HPUX working
on Linux as well. Finally, there's much talk about cost savings
with Linux, and I wanted to add my two cents to the wide-ranging
differences people find in total cost of ownership (TCO).
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