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Cumulus Outs Cisco-Threatening Linux Network OS

Published: 1 hour 57 min ago

The eagle seen flying over San Jose Wednesday was not a good omen for Cisco Systems. That quickly became evident from the way the creature befouled Cisco headquarters and beat its wings so that it sounded like it was humming the tune “Ding, dong, the witch is dead.”

Speed Up Your Web Site with Varnish

Published: 7 hours 58 min ago

Varnish is a program that can greatly speed up a Web site while reducing the load on the Web server. According to Varnish's official site, Varnish is a "Web application accelerator also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy". more>>

Start-up readies network-optimized Linux for data centers

Published: 10 hours 30 min ago

Start-up Cumulus Networks this week has emerged with a Linux network operating system designed for programmable data centers like the ones Google and Facebook are building. The company's Cumulus Linux OS operating system includes IPv4 and IPv6 routing, plus data center and network orchestration hooks. Much like OpenFlow for independent, software-defined control of network forwarding , Cumulus ...

Using BlinkStick with Raspberry Pi

Published: 12 hours 18 min ago

Hooking up LEDs to Raspberry Pi's GPIO pins and controlling them using Python scripts is a great and fun way to learn the ropes. For more advanced projects, you might want to consider investing in BlinkStick

Planet Linux Caffe to Begin Accepting Bitcoin at HackMiami 'Day of Bitcoin Secrets,' Hackers and Cryptocurrency ...

Published: 14 hours 10 min ago

CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- via PRWEB - Hackers, information security professionals, and cryptocurrency enthusiasts will descend upon South Florida during the 'Day of Bitcoin Secrets' taking place June 27, 2013 ...

Cumulus Networks™ Brings the Power of Linux® to Networking

Published: 14 hours 22 min ago

Cumulus Networks today emerged from stealth to unveil Cumulus Linux, the first true, full-featured Linux operating system for datacenter networking. Already in deployment by several next-generation service providers and enterprises, Cumulus Linux enables fast, easy and affordable networking and fills the void for a truly standalone network operating system .

Leadwerks for Linux

Published: Wed, 06/19/2013 - 07:36

Last week we launched a Steam Greenlight campaign to put 3D game development on Steam. This week, we're rolling out the next stage of our plan with a Kickstarter campaign to bring Leadwerks to Linux. This will let you build and play games, without ever leaving Linux. Leadwerks for Linux...

Linux continues to rule supercomputers

Published: Tue, 06/18/2013 - 21:49

If you want a really fast computer, then Linux is your operating system and Intel may be your chip manufacturer.

Non-Linux FOSS: libnotify, OS X Style

Published: Tue, 06/18/2013 - 21:35

One of the things I dislike about using Irssi in a terminal window on OS X is that I often miss the screen flash when someone mentions my name in IRC. With some fancy SSH tunneling (maybe more on that some other issue) and a really cool pop-up notification tool, if someone mentions my name, I can't miss it. more>>

Linux-based surveillance cameras start at $70

Published: Tue, 06/18/2013 - 16:08

 Linux Gizmos : D-Link has begun shipping four new models in its line of Linux powered surveillance-oriented Cloud Cameras, and has updated its web-based Mydlink software with new remote monitoring and video management features.

Calzedonia Improves Competitiveness with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP® Applications

Published: Tue, 06/18/2013 - 15:00

NUREMBERG, Germany, June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- SUSE® today announced that the Calzedonia Group, one of Italy's most popular retail chains of intimate apparel and accessories, has reduced IT operational ...

Linux Foundation's Linux Training Scholarship Program Opens for Applications

Published: Tue, 06/18/2013 - 13:00

The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced its 2013 Linux Training Scholarship Program is open for applications.

Can Red Hat do for OpenStack what it did for Linux?

Published: Tue, 06/18/2013 - 11:14

Red Hat made its first $1 billion commercialising Linux. Now, it hopes to make even more doing the same for OpenStack.        

Linux Top Three Takeaways from the Red Hat Summit

Published: Tue, 06/18/2013 - 06:30

The world's biggest Linux vendor (by revenue) hosted it's annual customer and partner event, known as the Red Hat Summit. Over the course of the multi-day event Red Hat and it's partners talked about the latest and greatest in Linux and open source with a heavy emphasis this year on the cloud.

Locking Down Linux Security - Can Vulnerabilities Ever be Eliminated?

Published: Mon, 06/17/2013 - 23:34

How does Red Hat go about building and developing a secure Linux operating system?

SCO Rises from the Swamp

Published: Mon, 06/17/2013 - 22:28

Longtime litigator revives an ancient suit against IBM alleging Linux infringes on Unix copyrights. 

UberStudent Project Releases UberStudent 3.0

Published: Mon, 06/17/2013 - 22:14

Specialty distro keeps the focus on advanced learning.

Containers—Not Virtual Machines—Are the Future Cloud

Published: Mon, 06/17/2013 - 21:16

Cloud infrastructure providers like Amazon Web Service sell virtual machines. EC2 revenue is expected to surpass $1B in revenue this year. That's a lot of VMs. more>>

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 software stack still under wraps

Published: Mon, 06/17/2013 - 19:34

There was a story recently that Red Hat would replace MySQL with MariaDB in the next version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Actually, Red Hat isn't saying yet which DBMS, or any other specific program, will be shipping in RHEL 7.

Can Red Hat do for OpenStack what it did for Linux?

Published: Mon, 06/17/2013 - 17:07

Red Hat made its first $1 billion commercializing Linux. Now, it hopes to make even more doing the same for OpenStack.