Linux Top 5: Heads Up for the Linux Desktop LinuxPlanet: It's beginning to look a whole lot like 2012 will be the year of the Linux Desktop on the Linux Planet. Well, if not the year, then at least this past week, which saw tremendous activity on desktop efforts new and old. (Feb 1, 2012)
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Google is killing Free Software Swfblag: Google is the greatest danger to the Free Software movement at the current time. Feb 2, 2012
Firefox 11 Gets SPDY (Feb 6, 2012, 23:00 UTC) (2130 reads)
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(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)
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(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.
FreeBSD 9.0 Delivers More Power to Serve (Jan 13, 2012, 23:00 UTC) (3548 reads)
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(feedback) ServerWatch: The ability to do realtime replication to another box is very important to the workflows of many entities that do storage..
Get to Know Btrfs (Jan 8, 2012, 17:38 UTC) (8361 reads)
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(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?
Hadoop Secures 1.0 Release (Jan 4, 2012, 22:00 UTC) (2674 reads)
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(feedback) EnterpriseAppsToday: Big Data gets a big release, providing improved security and full support for HBase.
tcpdump fu (Dec 21, 2011, 13:00 UTC) (3537 reads)
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(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)
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(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
Facebook shares some secrets on making MySQL scale (Dec 8, 2011, 10:00 UTC) (4710 reads)
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(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)
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(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)
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(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.
Why Supercomputing Matters (Nov 30, 2011, 13:03 UTC) (3508 reads)
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(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)
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(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
Calxeda EnergyCore ARMs the Server Market (Nov 4, 2011, 06:00 UTC) (3319 reads)
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(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.
Monitor Network Bandwidth Usage In Ubuntu Linux With NTM (Oct 17, 2011, 19:00 UTC) (3931 reads)
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(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.
NGINX Goes Open Core (Oct 12, 2011, 01:00 UTC) (9678 reads)
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(feedback) ServerWatch: Nginx announced Tuesday that is has raised $3 million in series A funding