Those who want to try the much-hyped Hadoop but haven't got a cluster or two to spare can now test the data processing platform on their desktops, thanks to a new release from Hadoop distributor Hortonworks. Hortonworks Sandbox is a ...
PC World-We've known for some time that a"pure GNOME"version of Ubuntu Linux was in the works,and following last week's release of Ubuntu 12.10"Quantal Quetzal,"the first GNOME Remix of the software has now made its debut as well. "The ...
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Attempting to arrive at a solution to a complicated issue, the Linux Foundation has introduced a possible way that smaller Linux distributions can be run on machines using UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) technology. Linux ...
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Canonical has released both the server and desktop editions of 12.10 Ubuntu, which offers a glimpse of how this Linux distribution will evolve in the next few years. Ubuntu 12.10 "effectively sets out the future direction of how Ubuntu ...
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Ubuntu 13.04, scheduled for release in April next year, will have some of its key parts developed under wraps with the help of community members who can be trusted not to talk in their sleep, Canonical's founder Mark Shuttleworth wrote in a ...
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PC World - It's been less than a year since I first wrote about Bodhi Linux 1.2.0, but already the popular, Ubuntu-based Linux distribution has reached its second major milestone. During the intervening time Bodhi has crept upward from ...
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IDG News Service - Red Hat plans to release an enterprise grade version of the OpenStack open source software for hosting IaaS (infrastructure as a service) deployments. The company has posted an unsupported preview edition of the package, ...
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Ubuntu Linux may be all over the news recently, but anyone who's ever perused DistroWatch has a pretty good sense of just how many other Linux distributions are out there as well, ready to be tried at will. Next month, however, that list ...
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The next version of Ubuntu Linux will include a new feature that can incorporate commonly used Web apps directly into the user's desktop, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth announced at OSCON on Thursday. The new feature, called Ubuntu ...
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There are all kinds of Linux servers. The most complicated of these require you to be a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE). Many of them require you to do more than download a distro, burn a CD, and install and boot up your new bare-bones ...
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PC World - There's been plenty of excitement surrounding Firefox OS ever since Mozilla announced its first hardware partners earlier this year, but now it looks like there's yet another open-source operating system entering the scene. Now ...
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Early prototype 64-bit ARM servers could be available for testing purposes by the end of this year or possibly at the latest by the middle of next year, ARM said on Monday. ARM will try to make inexpensive 64-bit server hardware available ...
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Eyeing greater use of the open source Postgres database in the cloud,hosting provider Open Hosting has launched a service that allows users to run an automated cluster of PostGres databases on the company's own servers. The company has ...
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After a number of delays, the beta of the Fedora 18 Linux-based distribution has been released. The beta release date had been extended six times over the past two months, mostly due to an underestimation of the amount of work required to ...
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Anticipating greater usage of Ubuntu within the enterprise, Canonical has released a significant update to its Landscape Ubuntu system management tool. “We have really been cranking up the level of effort with Landscape over the ...
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