Linux Today - High Performance

Linux.com: Whatever you use – S3 Tools, Duplicity, Deja-Dup, or another tool – the important thing is to have backups and check them often

ZDnet: For the first time, in more than a decade, Microsoft's Internet Explorer has been kicked off its throne as the number one Web browser in a world.

NetworkWorld: Large Hadron Collider techie details enormous complexity of Java messaging at CamelOne conference

CIO Journal: Facebook’s recipe for building servers and data centers is not only providing a blueprint for CIOs to follow, but is changing the way hardware and software vendors bring products to market.

The VAR Guy: The fact that Inktank has chosen to cast an eye on the Ubuntu world first thus stands out as a mark of Ubuntu’s momentum in the server world.

MakeUseOff: Popular Linux distributions make it pretty easy to encrypt your home folder or even entire partitions if you’d like, without many issues.

The VAR Guy: Red Hat and IBM Corp. are countering VMware in the government market, promoting a secure virtualization platform on IBM x86 servers. But here's the twist: VMware has offered a similar level of security since at least 2010. Here's what you need to know.

Linux.org: This article will show you how to install the current Slackware 13.37 on XenServer assuming you have access to the XenCenter software.

SauceLabs: MySQL is better than CouchDB

 Talkin' Cloud: A whopping 85 percent of Citrix Systems VARs see an opportunity to build private clouds using CloudStack, the open source cloud computing alternative to OpenStack. Here are the details and implications.

InternetNews: Guess What? Big Data isn't about the size of the data set.

TechRadar: Linux brings with it many benefits, and we all have our favourites. For some, it's freedom from viruses, or virii, or even virus, if you're declining your Latin properly.

ServerWatch: Since the dawn of the computing age, data center servers have been 19 inches in width, fitting into racks that have an outer dimension of 24 inches.

 ITWorld: Oracle is touting a resurgence in Solaris on SPARC sales today. But is the venerable Unix platform making a comeback, or are there are other market forces at work?

Dedoimedo: Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Mint all share the same DNA. So in theory, they should all behave the same, including the overall time to boot into the desktop session. What do you think?

HowToGeek: There are several ways to use the command line to find files in any Linux desktop manager.

jebpages: The OpenShift Origin LiveCD will have you up and running with the code that backs Red Hat’s PaaS in a flash, but installing the LiveCD to your hard drive requires a few workaround steps.

InternetNews: The Linux Foundation rang the closing bell at the NYSE yesterday.

InternetNews: From the 'Open Source PaaS' files

Debian: These days, more and more computing is being moved away from user computers to the so-called'cloud' a vague term often used to refer to Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings.

InternetNews: SAP is betting big on Linux

RootzWiki: Time for a personal confession: I hate using Windows

IT World: "A new whitepaper from enterprise storage service provider Nasuni Corporation has portrayed parent company Rackspace as the worst data migrator between Rackspace Cloud Files, AWS's Simple Storage Service (S3), and Microsoft Window Azure storage."

The H Open: Oracle and SUSE already support Btrfs, even though the filesystem hasn't yet been proven in a proper field test and is officially still classified as experimental.

NASA: The use of open source software, cloud computing technologies, and an integrated approach to search, video, and social media seems almost common-place in industry these days.

EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet: Crystal Forest set to accelerate networking, and yeaah it's optimized for Linux.

Toms Hardware: With its classic desktop gone, Oneiric Ocelot is all Unity. The training wheels are off; no turning back now. Is Ubuntu ready for touchscreens? And how does it compare to Windows 7?

UnixMen:The first release of the KDE 4.8 series of Chakra has been released , codename Archimedes,

Linux.com: Arthur C. Clarke said "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Datamation: Google's speed-enhancing SPDY protocol lands in upcoming version of Mozilla's open source browser.

Phoronix: Btrfs, the quite promising next-generation Linux file-system that's been in-development for years by Chris Mason and others, is about to take on a big role within Oracle's Enterprise Linux distribution.

Linux.com Do you have what it takes for that Linux job with an HPC vendor you've got your eye on?

Medical Xpress: "Robotic surgery has the potential to enable new surgical procedures that are less invasive than existing techniques."

ServerWatch: The ability to do realtime replication to another box is very important to the workflows of many entities that do storage..

Phoronix: The EXT4 updates for this next kernel include the new online resize interface.

InfoWorld: Jane Silber believes there's plenty of room for a new player in tablets, TVs, and maybe even smartphones

Linux.com: The 3.0.x tree is the new longterm kernel release.

EnterpriseAppsToday: Oracle decides to partner for Hadoop-powered hardware instead of going it alone.

EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet: Networking vendor Mellanox is raising the bar on data center performance by lowering network latency for applications.

Linux.com: The Butter/Better/B-tree Filesystem, Btrfs, is supposedly destined to become the default Linux filesystem. What makes it special, and what's wrong with good old tried-and-true Ext2/3/4?