Firefox 11 Gets SPDY
(Feb 6, 2012, 23:00 UTC) (2130 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Datamation: Google's speed-enhancing SPDY protocol lands in upcoming version of Mozilla's open source browser.

Btrfs To Go Production-Ready In Oracle Linux
(Jan 28, 2012, 14:00 UTC) (5292 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
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.

Are Your Linux Skills Right for HPC Jobs?
(Jan 17, 2012, 23:00 UTC) (4090 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com Do you have what it takes for that Linux job with an HPC vendor you've got your eye on?

Open-source robotic surgery platform going to top medical research labs
(Jan 17, 2012, 17:03 UTC) (2528 reads) (4 talkbacks) (feedback)
Medical Xpress: "Robotic surgery has the potential to enable new surgical procedures that are less invasive than existing techniques."

FreeBSD 9.0 Delivers More Power to Serve
(Jan 13, 2012, 23:00 UTC) (3548 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
ServerWatch: The ability to do realtime replication to another box is very important to the workflows of many entities that do storage..

EXT4 Gains New Online Resize Support In Linux 3.3
(Jan 12, 2012, 23:00 UTC) (4150 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Phoronix: The EXT4 updates for this next kernel include the new online resize interface.

Canonical CEO: Ubuntu tablet OS will battle Android, iOS
(Jan 12, 2012, 18:00 UTC) (4057 reads) (5 talkbacks) (feedback)
InfoWorld: Jane Silber believes there's plenty of room for a new player in tablets, TVs, and maybe even smartphones

Updates on the Stable and Longterm Kernel Trees
(Jan 12, 2012, 17:00 UTC) (1774 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: The 3.0.x tree is the new longterm kernel release.

Oracle's Big Data Powered by Cloudera's Hadoop
(Jan 11, 2012, 17:00 UTC) (2092 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
EnterpriseAppsToday: Oracle decides to partner for Hadoop-powered hardware instead of going it alone.

Mellanox Accelerates Low-Latency Networking for Linux
(Jan 10, 2012, 17:00 UTC) (2295 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet: Networking vendor Mellanox is raising the bar on data center performance by lowering network latency for applications.

Get to Know Btrfs
(Jan 8, 2012, 17:38 UTC) (8361 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
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?

One small step: NASA launches open source portal, aims to open more code
(Jan 7, 2012, 11:01 UTC) (3954 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Ars Technica: "The open source software projects that are listed in the new code.nasa.gov directory at launch include a lunar mapper and an orbit determination toolbox."

Hadoop Secures 1.0 Release
(Jan 4, 2012, 22:00 UTC) (2674 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
EnterpriseAppsToday: Big Data gets a big release, providing improved security and full support for HBase.

Improving the Multi-Monitor Experience in Ubuntu
(Dec 24, 2011, 10:00 UTC) (6764 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Canonical Design: Over the past few months we have been working on improving the multi-monitor experience in Ubuntu.

tcpdump fu
(Dec 21, 2011, 13:00 UTC) (3537 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Journal: Packet capture is one of the most fundamental and powerful ways to do network analysis.

CentOS vs. Oracle vs. Scientific Linux 6.1 Performance
(Dec 15, 2011, 14:00 UTC) (6289 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Phoronix: While CentOS, Scientific Linux, and Oracle Linux Server are all derived from the same upstream source (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), how does the system performance compare between these RHEL derivatives

Cloudera Expands Hadoop Management for the Enterprise
(Dec 9, 2011, 21:00 UTC) (2891 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
ServerWatch: The Apache Hadoop project has generated a lot of hype as being the poster child for the phenomenon known as Big Data.

Red Hat moves into Big Data with Storage Software Appliance
(Dec 9, 2011, 16:00 UTC) (3261 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
ZDnet: Red Hat thinks that big data management and Linux can go together like peanut-butter and jelly with its release of Red Hat Storage Software Appliance.

JasperSoft Advances Business Intelligence for Big Data
(Dec 8, 2011, 12:00 UTC) (2346 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
EnterpriseAppsToday: Using HBase instead of Hive to connect to Hadoop can make a big difference.

Facebook shares some secrets on making MySQL scale
(Dec 8, 2011, 10:00 UTC) (4710 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
GigaOm: When you’re storing every transaction for 800 million users and handling more than 60 million queries per second, your database environment had better be something special.

Embiggen Your KVM Virtual Machines
(Dec 6, 2011, 15:00 UTC) (2842 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com:If you have KVM machines that need more space, we can up their storage with tools you already have handy

Run Your Own Q&A Site with Coordino
(Dec 3, 2011, 22:00 UTC) (4531 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: The concept of a user-driven FAQ or question-and-answer service has been around for years already, but it has really taken off recently with the success of commercial sites like StackOverflow and Quora.

Ensure High Availability with CentOS 6 Clustering
(Dec 1, 2011, 16:00 UTC) (3651 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Wazi: CentOS's sophisticated HA suite provides all the packages you need for reliable and secure internode communication.

Netflix Benchmarks Cassandra on AWS
(Dec 1, 2011, 13:00 UTC) (2802 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
ReadWriteWeb: Remember when you were doing math problems in school, and the teacher required you to show your work?

Why Supercomputing Matters
(Nov 30, 2011, 13:03 UTC) (3508 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
ServerWatch: "Progress at the high-end impacts the low-end and midrange. It wasn't that long ago that the capabilities of today's smartphone equalled those of a supercomputer."

The Lustre Distributed Filesystem
(Nov 30, 2011, 07:00 UTC) (3074 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxJournal: There comes a time in a network or storage administrator's career when a large collection of storage volumes needs to be pooled together and distributed within a clustered or multiple client network

Cloud Traffic Growing Fast Inside the Data Center
(Nov 29, 2011, 23:00 UTC) (2831 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet: New stats from Cisco show a surprising result, cloud generates less traffic for the network and more for the data center.

Building A Highly Available Linux Cluster Using Wackamole
(Nov 29, 2011, 22:00 UTC) (3570 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Looking for the Source: Wackamole is an application which manages a bunch of IPs which should be accessible from outside all the time.

Where Linux crushes Windows likes a bug: Supercomputers
(Nov 16, 2011, 11:00 UTC) (17790 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
ZDnet: Linux is tiny on desktops, powerful on servers, mighty on Web servers, and rules over all on supercomputers.

Apache Mahout: Scalable machine learning for everyone
(Nov 15, 2011, 10:00 UTC) (2557 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
developerWorks: Catch up on Mahout enhancements, and find out how to scale Mahout in the cloud

SGI UV Achieves Largest Certified Configuration for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
(Nov 14, 2011, 20:00 UTC) (3069 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Red Hat: Red Hat and SGI raise the bar in reliable performance for mission-critical, large-scale computing environments

Oracle Affirms Unix Commitment with Solaris 11 Release
(Nov 11, 2011, 01:00 UTC) (4089 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Datamation: Just in case you were wondering, Oracle claims that Solaris isn't a 'toy'

Pentaho Business Analytics Gets an In-Memory Boost
(Nov 4, 2011, 13:00 UTC) (2444 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
EnterpriseAppsToday: New release of business analytics suite delivers a new type of hybrid in-memory/on-disk analytics.

Calxeda EnergyCore ARMs the Server Market
(Nov 4, 2011, 06:00 UTC) (3319 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
ServerWatch: To date, ARM-based microprocessors have been used mostly in consumer electronics. Thanks to a new push from ARM vendor Calxeda, ARM will soon find a home in data center servers, too.

Cloudy prognosis for mainframes
(Oct 24, 2011, 16:00 UTC) (3507 reads) (5 talkbacks) (feedback)
Mark Shuttleworth: The death of the mainframe is about as elusive as the year of the Linux desktop.

ICANN rescues time zone database
(Oct 17, 2011, 22:00 UTC) (3982 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Register: Chaos averted

Monitor Network Bandwidth Usage In Ubuntu Linux With NTM
(Oct 17, 2011, 19:00 UTC) (3931 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
AddictiveTips: NTM (Network Traffic Monitor) an open source network traffic monitoring application for Linux-based operating systems, which displays network bandwidth usage by integrating with the default Network Monitor.

IBM Evolves from On Demand to SmartCloud - with a little help from Linux
(Oct 13, 2011, 16:00 UTC) (3144 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
EnterpriseAppsToday: IBM is rolling out a new set of SmartCloud services and software, providing new opportunities for enterprises to move their applications to a cloud model.

Watch Large Hadron Collider Collisions with an Android App
(Oct 12, 2011, 10:00 UTC) (3355 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Network World: The Department of Physics at the University of Oxford releases super-cool, free Large Hadron Collider Google Android app.

NGINX Goes Open Core
(Oct 12, 2011, 01:00 UTC) (9678 reads) (4 talkbacks) (feedback)
ServerWatch: Nginx announced Tuesday that is has raised $3 million in series A funding

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