June
Sub-archives
Jun 21, 2012
Shuttleworth on Ubuntu Linux, Fedora, and the UEFI problem
Windows 8 PCs and tablets will lock out all other operating systems by default, and trying to find a way around it isn’t easy as both Fedora and Ubuntu developers have discovered. Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu’s founder, shares his thoughts on what Linux should do next about Windows 8’s UEFI lock-in. read more...
Fast, Faster, Fastest: Linux rules supercomputing
Just as surely as Microsoft rules the desktop with Windows and Apple rules tablets with the iPad so Linux rules supercomputers of every type and sort. read more...
Jun 18, 2012
Microsoft unexpectedly ships a new version of Skype for Linux
Here’s a surprise! After years of neglect, Microsoft ships a new major version of Skype, the popular VoIP program, for Linux. read more...
openSUSE 12.2 delayed again, project looks to reorganize
openSUSE, the open source development project of the SUSE Linux distribution, will delay the release of version 12.2 again and top developers want to reorganize the effort to accommodate what they say is a growing community of developers since SUSE was bought from Novell by Attachmate and established as an independent unit. read more...
Jun 14, 2012
Red Hat carefully repositions CloudForms as open hybrid cloud management platform
Red Hat today announced general availability of its CloudForms platform, skillfully repositioning it as a hybrid cloud management platform as the company continues developing its own OpenStack IaaS distribution. read more...
Android already offers more than iOS 6, but...
Yes Android does offer more features than Apple’s iOS6 but let’s not forget Android has problems as well. read more...
Jun 12, 2012
Concurrent launches open source API to ease Hadoop development
Concurrent is promoting its open source data workflow API — an alternative to MapReduce — to ease Hadoop application development headaches. The open source API, now available under an Apache 2.0 license, is used by Twitter, Amazon and Razorfish. read more...
First Linux Mint PCs go on sale
The popular Linux Mint desktop distribution has just released its first official PCs. read more...
Jun 11, 2012
Revolution Analytics' big data platform built on open source R language
Revolution Analytics debuted today a major upgrade of its R Enterprise platform for handling big data. R Enterprise 6.0, which like its predecessor is based on the open source R statistics language, is designed to give enterprises better ways of handling big data and discover “hidden correlations” in data to transform businesses, the company said in a [...] read more...
Red Hat carefully repositions CloudForms as open hybrid cloud management platform
Red Hat today announced general availability of its CloudForms platform, skillfully repositioning it as a hybrid cloud management platform as the company continues developing its own OpenStack IaaS distribution. read more...
