Archive for December, 2012

Monday, December 17th, 2012

Samba 4 brings comlete replacement for Active Directory

The team behind the Samba file, print, and authentication server suite for Microsoft Windows clients announced the release of Samba version 4 yesterday. This version includes significant new capabilities that offer an open source replacement for many enterprise infrastructure roles currently delivered exclusively by Microsoft software, including acting as a domain controller, providing SMB2.1 protocol […]

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Saturday, December 15th, 2012

Linux 3.7 brings a single kernel to ARM

While ARM is gaining a lot of momentum, the challenge with ARM until now was that every architecture is very different from different vendors and requires a separate kernel and entire OS stack. With Linux Kernel 3.7, this has changed for the better. ARM’s problem was that, unlike the x86 architecture, where one Linux kernel […]

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