The challenge of coming up with a code name for the successor to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, "Precise Pangolin", has been met by Mark Shuttleworth announcing the new name and denying any plans to change from Upstart to Systemd…
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IBM Announces Linux Servers with POWER7 CPUs
Computers with IBM's POWER7 have been available for the AIX, IBM i (formerly OS/400) and Linux operating systems, but now IBM has announced the first servers with the POWER7 hardware that only run with Red Hat or SUSE Linux…
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CentOS 6.2 – Installing mod_spdy With Apache 2 – Level Novice
SPDY (Speedy) is an experiment with protocols for the web. Its goal is to reduce the latency of web pages. mod_spdy is an open-source Apache module which supports the use of SPDY protocol to the Apache HTTPD server. This…
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Google Shutters Several Projects, Including Picasa for Linux
Ever since its inception, Google has been known for its "throwing spaghetti at the wall" approach to new product development. It throws spaghetti at the wall, and sees what sticks. The company consistently shuts down projects that it has s…
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Mozilla’s Plans to Compete in the Smartphone Market Are Advancing
For quite some time now, Mozilla has been ramping up its effort to become a serious player in the mobile operating system and smartphone arenas. We've covered the company's Boot to Gecko platform — an open, web-centric operating environment…
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US Patent Office Declares Oracle Patent Valid After Reexamination
The US Patent Office has reexamined one of the Sun patents that was initially invalidated and has declared it as valid. Oracle now has three patents in its arsenal for its dispute with Google over Java and Android…
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Weekend Project: Discover Linux Astronomy Tools
Considering Linux's foothold in everything from embedded devices to supercomputers, describing the project's growth as astronomical is no exaggeration. But it is a literal truth, too, as Linux and open source software power scores of profess…
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Grab the Geeko by the Horns: The Boosters are Hiring
SUSE, our founder, partner and sponsor, has put out a couple of job openings for the openSUSE Boosters Team! Are you a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) enthusiast?
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Cycle Computing Spins up 50K Cores on AWS for Viral Research
Jason Stowe and the crew from Cycle Computing has upped the Ante once again this week with the announcement that company successfully provisioned a 50,000-core utility supercomputer in the AWS cloud for Schrödinger and Nimbus Discovery to accel…
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VMware CEO Sees OpenStack as Lacking Maturity
Earlier this week, we covered a post from VMware that seemed to brush off all three of the emerging open source cloud computing platforms that are gaining such strong momentum, namely OpenStack, CloudStack and Eucalyptus.
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