Archive for September, 2012
Monday, September 17th, 2012
HP Releases Two Beta Versions of Open-Source WebOS
Hewlett-Packard released two beta versions of its open source webOS on Friday: one for developers that runs on the Ubuntu Linux desktop, and one for the “OpenEmbedded” development environment, intended to help developers port webOS to new devices. The August Edition, as the webOS team calls the latest release on the project website, consists of […]
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Thursday, September 6th, 2012
If all insects on Earth disappeared, within 50 years all life on Earth would end
“If all insects on Earth disappeared, within 50 years all life on Earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the Earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish.†― Biologist Jonas Salk
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Wednesday, September 5th, 2012
Its official: Google uses Ubuntu
From the article: “You’d be a fool to use anything but Linux.†🙂 Most Linux people know that Google uses Linux on its desktops as well as its servers. Some know that Ubuntu Linux is Google’s desktop of choice and that it’s called Goobuntu. But almost no one outside of Google knew exactly what […]
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2012
VMware Joining OpenStack Delayed, For Now
The OpenStack Board of Directors met this week and on the agenda was a somewhat surprising action item: Vote on whether or not to accept VMware – once thought to be a competitor to the project – into the increasingly popular who’s-who club of cloud computing. VMware’s going to have to wait to see if […]
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Monday, September 3rd, 2012
What users are saying about open clouds
Market research firm IDC says that data from a new survey shows that “open cloud is key for 72 percent of customers.” Read More.
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Monday, September 3rd, 2012
The State Of Linux — How Even Apple Is Going Open Source
Apple — one of the most closed companies in the world — is actually using lot of open source and software. Licensing information in the Apple iPhone proves this. Go to the legal section on the iPhone and it cites Linux Kernel developer Ted Ts’o for his code. Linux Suse is there, too. Zemlin made […]
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Saturday, September 1st, 2012
Rackspace powered by OpenStack
Rackspace one of the key founders of OpenStack, has finally switched to OpenStack. These products will be provided to customers in limited amounts over a period of time to ensure a smooth ramp-up. – Cloud Servers, powered by OpenStack – based on the latest OpenStack compute release, this solution is fast, reliable, scalable and is […]
