By Linux News Desk Mainsoft announced the winners of the 'Race to Linux 2.0.' Jointly sponsored by Mainsoft, IBM, and Novell, the Race to Linux 2.0 challenged .NET developers to take three open-source ASP.NET 2.0 applications from Windows to Linux using their cross-platform tool of choice (e.g. Mono, Mai... Apr. 25, 2007 08:15 PM EDT Reads: 11,796 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk Once released, the technology called the IBM System p Application Virtual Environment (System p AVE) is designed to open a universe of thousands of x86 Linux applications to the System p platform. The news follows IBM's recent launch of three System p-based Web-tier servers aimed at co... Apr. 24, 2007 09:45 PM EDT Reads: 8,902 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk In the throes of a budding relationship with Canonical Ltd, Sun says Glassfish, the open source Java Enterprise Edition 5 application server, will be available on Ubuntu, the species of Linux Canonical is commercializing. Glassfish is currently governed by Sun's CDDL license. Ubuntu, w... Apr. 16, 2007 11:15 PM EDT Reads: 30,688 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk Novell today announced that it has joined The Green Grid, a consortium of information technology companies and professionals committed to improving energy efficiency in the data center. As a contributing member, Novell is working with other members of The Green Grid, such as AMD, Dell,... Apr. 13, 2007 07:45 PM EDT Reads: 7,774 |
By Linux News Desk A lot of water has run under the bridge in the three years since Sun and Fujitsu vowed to replace their respective Sparc/Solaris-based Sun Fire and PrimePower machines with a 'co-developed' Advanced Product Line (APL) - using a 90nm 2.4GHz dual-threaded dual-core Fujitsu Sparc 64 VI - ... Apr. 10, 2007 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 8,567 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk 'It's really important to understand the issues and opportunities for Linux in multiple environments, and the addition of Marvell, Nokia and VirtualLogix will deepen our understanding and help us all push the envelope even further,' said Jim Zemlin, executive director of The Linux Foun... Apr. 4, 2007 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 9,408 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk  After 70% of the people who wrote into its newfangled IdeaStorm suggestion box said they would use a Dell with Linux, Dell said Wednesday that it will start offering Linux pre-installed on select desktops and notebooks. It hasn't said yet what machines or what Linux distribution or dis... Apr. 3, 2007 05:30 AM EDT Reads: 11,174 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk Novell is going into the thin client business with a server-based version of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and an image-creation toolkit that resellers can configure, sort of like a poor man's Citrix or Sun Ray. A California school district put its 2,000 machines on the stuff, saying i... Mar. 27, 2007 11:15 PM EDT Reads: 9,676 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk Virtual Bridges announced the release of a major upgrade to its Win4Lin Pro product. Win4Lin Pro Desktop allows Linux users to run Windows applications from the security of the Linux desktop. Win4Lin Virtual Desktop Server is the enterprise/SMB product for delivering Windows applicatio... Feb. 27, 2007 11:00 AM EST Reads: 10,776 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk Altiris announced the addition of new Linux1 patch and virtual server management capabilities to help secure and manage heterogeneous server environments. Altiris also announced updates to integrated deployment, patch and monitoring capabilities for Dell servers. Feb. 26, 2007 12:45 PM EST Reads: 18,454 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk XenSource, Inc., the leader in infrastructure virtualization solutions based on the open source Xen(TM) hypervisor, today announced a comprehensive family of server virtualization products supported and maintained by the company leading the evolution of Xen. Designed to meet the needs ... Feb. 20, 2007 05:45 PM EST Reads: 11,641 |
By Linux News Desk Novell announced the industry's first enterprise Linux-based virtualization solution built on Xen, optimized for Intel Virtualization Technology. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 from Novell running on Dual-Core Intel Xeon platforms will provide customers with a low-cost, high-performin... Feb. 19, 2007 04:15 PM EST Reads: 17,183 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk Sun Microsystems has outlined its three-pronged approach to virtualization: harnessing commodity technologies, delivering Sun's own advanced products and technologies, and leveraging Sun's global expertise in providing systems and software. Sun will continue to help customers use virtu... Feb. 19, 2007 04:15 PM EST Reads: 15,144 |
By Linux News Desk a new suite of next generation,cross-platform and cross-service, workflow-driven and rules-based,management products and integration frameworks. The suite enables datacenter managers and system administrators, with typical Windowsadministration skills, to configure and support an optim... Feb. 14, 2007 09:30 AM EST Reads: 10,711 |
By Linux News Desk The OpenVZ project announced its operating system-level server virtualization software technology is incorporated into Debian GNU/Linux giving users full access to OpenVZ software, which helps increase server utilization rates. At the same time, the OpenVZ project revised licensing ter... Feb. 14, 2007 08:45 AM EST Reads: 19,078 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk Nationwide, a diversified insurance and financial services organization, announced it has completed deployment of a virtualization solution running SUSE Linux from Novell on IBM mainframe computers to help the company reduce the total cost of ownership of its IT environment. Feb. 14, 2007 08:45 AM EST Reads: 13,763 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk the Oracle Management Pack for Linux provides Oracle Unbreakable Linux support program customers with comprehensive Linux server lifecycle management, helping to reduce the complexity and cost of managing their Linux operating system environments. Jan. 22, 2007 04:30 PM EST Reads: 11,621 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk Penguin Computing, an AMD Platinum Solution Provider, has announced the Altus 600 server, specifically designed for the needs of high performance computing (HPC). Jan. 9, 2007 11:00 AM EST Reads: 11,720 |
By Linux News Desk MultiGen-Paradigm, Inc., providing real-time, 3D visual simulation solutions, and Concurrent, a provider of time-critical Linux operating systems and integrated computer solutions for mission-critical applications, has jointly announced that Lockheed Martin has selected their integrate... Jan. 8, 2007 02:00 PM EST Reads: 13,712 |
By Linux News Desk The Free Software Foundation is recommending gNewSense and Ututo as beginners' Linux distributions. Ubuntu user and member Ryan Lortie has written an Open Letter to the FSF raising some big points dealing with the goals of the FSF and how to accomplish them. We bring you the full text. Dec. 30, 2006 11:15 PM EST Reads: 18,725 Replies: 5 |
By Linux News Desk Six months into his $350 million Red Hat adventure and JBoss head Marc Fleury, middleware's outspoken bad boy, is on three-months a-heck-of-a-time-to-take-it paternity leave - with the usual speculation that he's not coming back - after he mouthed off to eWeek about how 'I went to Red ... Dec. 16, 2006 03:15 PM EST Reads: 17,357 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk Volanté Systems offers a new Linux POS (point of sale) solution for the hospitality and gaming industries, where the demand for complete reliability and security is critical. Their creative approach to wireless mobile computing makes Volanté the perfect wireless solution for venues suc... Dec. 14, 2006 02:00 PM EST Reads: 13,133 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk The YHGfL network, which runs on a Linux environment to help the not-for-profit organization keep costs down, opted for CRYPTOCard?s KT-1 two-factor authentication keychain token solution because it was cheaper than other products and could run on open source software. Dec. 14, 2006 10:00 AM EST Reads: 12,964 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk A survey of technology decision-makers shows very strong customer support for the recent agreement between Microsoft and Novell designed to improve interoperability between Windows Server(R) and SUSE Linux Enterprise. Nearly all respondents agree with improving interoperability, having... Dec. 13, 2006 04:15 PM EST Reads: 10,678 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and other Linux kernel contributors announced the availability of major Linux serviceability improvements including new kdump and SystemTap features. These enhancements are available in the latest releases of Linux distributions. Dec. 13, 2006 03:45 PM EST Reads: 14,025 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk The Itanium Solutions Alliance announced a $100,000 sponsorship of the Gelato Federation, a global technical community dedicated to the advancement of Linux on Intel Itanium architecture. The partnership will strengthen the community of support for Itanium 2-based platforms and open so... Dec. 12, 2006 06:00 AM EST Reads: 11,370 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk FSMLabs released carrier grade real-time operating system support for the new ATCA telecommunications reference design from AMD. FSMLabs' RTLinux for the AMD Opteron processor-based 64-bit Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (AdvancedTCA) platform from Pinnacle Data Systems (PDSi) ... Dec. 12, 2006 05:45 AM EST Reads: 14,330 Replies: 2 |
By Linux News Desk MontaVista Software, embedded Linux provider announced a technology preview of its 5.0 products which are scheduled for release in the first half of 2007. The interactive preview will be available to all of MontaVista?s current subscription customers. The technology preview will not on... Dec. 11, 2006 09:00 PM EST Reads: 10,330 Replies: 2 |
By Linux News Desk IBM announced that IBM System p5 servers, running the Linux OS, have achieved industry-leading benchmark results that beat HP servers in important measurements of business and scientific performance. The IBM System p5 servers using the Linux OS surpassed HP Integrity and ProLiant syste... Dec. 11, 2006 09:00 AM EST Reads: 10,450 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk Availigent, provider of Application Service Management software for Linux-based, dynamic data centers, has joined the Open Grid Forum to accelerate the development of a common set of standards for grid computing. Grid computing is an emerging computing model that allows many networked ... Dec. 9, 2006 05:00 AM EST Reads: 9,368 Replies: 2 |
By Linux News Desk Linux-based server solutions provider Collax announced expanded bandwidth management of the Collax Security Gateway. The UTM solution in Version 4.0.10 prioritizes and guarantees bandwidths in Virtual Private Networks; giving Voice-over-IP (VoIP), and other critical business applicatio... Dec. 8, 2006 11:00 AM EST Reads: 11,102 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk Zi Corporation, provider of intelligent interface solutions, has announced its software is now integrated with Qtopia Greenphone. The Greenphone is the first Linux mobile device tool for application developers. Zi software has been pre-integrated on Qtopia to enable faster handset deve... Dec. 8, 2006 09:00 AM EST Reads: 10,394 Replies: 1 |
By Linux News Desk Taiwanese systems integrator AR Infotek has built an 'entry-level' 1U rackmount server appliance platform around an AMD x86-compatible embedded processor. The Teak 3258 is based on a passively cooled Geode LX-800 processor, and features soldered-down RAM, and two LAN bypass ports. Dec. 8, 2006 03:00 AM EST Reads: 8,440 |
By Linux News Desk Enea plans to market a small-footprint TCP/IP stack add-on for OSEck, its compact RTOS (real-time operating system) for DSPs (digital signal processors). The 'DSPNet' stack should enable DSP farms running OSEck to connect via gigabit Ethernet to heterogenous, distributed systems runnin... Dec. 8, 2006 03:00 AM EST Reads: 9,693 |
By Linux News Desk Open-Xchange Inc. has said that it has signed a partnership and support agreement with MySQL AB. This partnership enables Open-Xchange to embed the MySQL database into its leading open source collaboration server. Open-Xchange will add MySQL support to its Linux based collaboration sol... Dec. 8, 2006 01:00 AM EST Reads: 8,595 |
By Linux News Desk Taiwanese pop superstar Jay Chou launched Motorola's thin, Linux-powered Rokr E6 multimedia phone, at the ITU Telecom World tradeshow this week in Hong Kong. The fourth-generation music phone is just over half an inch thick (14mm), and features a 2-megapixel camera and business card re... Dec. 7, 2006 07:00 AM EST Reads: 13,229 |
By Linux News Desk Trolltech has plans to speed up the use of Linux-based cellphones by offering developers a Linux-based OS and applications suitable for mobile phones. Greensuite, built on the Qtopia embedded Linux platform for mobile phones, is a set of applications similar to other mobile operating s... Dec. 7, 2006 07:00 AM EST Reads: 8,771 |
By Linux News Desk SafeNet is shipping an 'integrated IPSec VPN platform' software said to support VPN connections from next-generation mobile devices. QuickSec 4.1 Server and Client Toolkits helps developers incorporate the most current IPSec security standards, such as MobIKE, into carrier-grade securi... Dec. 7, 2006 05:00 AM EST Reads: 8,749 |
By Linux News Desk Mandriva launches Mandriva Flash, the first Mandriva Linux Live USB key. Hit the right key with Mandriva Flash. Bringing its long experience with Live CDs, Mandriva aims to offer the best performing live system. All you have to do is plug in the USB key, turn the PC on and the Mandriva... Dec. 7, 2006 04:00 AM EST Reads: 10,272 |
By Linux News Desk AMD has announced the transition to 65nm process technology, beginning with the immediate availability of energy-efficient AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core desktop processors. The move to 65nm process technology enables AMD to produce more processors on a 300mm wafer, for increased productio... Dec. 7, 2006 02:00 AM EST Reads: 11,011 |
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