Editor’s Note: This is a guest blog post by Adam Jollans, Program Director of Linux and Open Virtualization Strategy at IBM. The key events of 2013 set up many of the changes in open computing that we can expect to see in 2014. This year, KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) will go cross-platform, Linux will increasingly be deployed…
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Evidence for soft bounds in Ubuntu package sizes and mammalian body masses
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , Vol. 110, No. 52. , pp. 21054-21058, doi:10.1073/pnas.1311124110 [Significance] Not unlike a big city, a large software project grows in a complex way, involving many developers and even more users, but a predictive framework to understand these temporal patterns is lacking. Source: Tech
Open Computing Accelerated Sharply in 2013
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Editor’s Note: This is a guest blog post by Adam Jollans, Program Director of Linux and Open Virtualization Strategy at IBM. Open computing has been steadily growing in enterprise acceptance and, in 2013, that trend accelerated sharply. Many factors contributed to the upward trajectory of open computing in the last year. However, there were three notable developments…
Red Hat, With Dell, Could Provide Much Needed OpenStack Direction
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While Red Hat is often lauded for its ability to support open source software and retain loyal subscribers to its support contracts, the company has also established itself as a strong leader and open source community booster. Source: Tech
zewde yeraswork The Red Pitaya project is truly a game changer in…
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The Red Pitaya project is truly a game changer in that introduces a new category of devices. Source: Tech
Security in 2014: What are the Experts Predicting?
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I get a lot of security predictions pitched at me and I was intrigued by quite a few this year. There’s good and bad news, and good and bad predictions. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
What a Successful Exploit of a Linux Server Looks Like
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Andre’ DiMino Like most mainstream operating systems these days, fully patched installations of Linux provide a level of security that requires a fair amount of malicious hacking to overcome. Those assurances can be completely undone by a single unpatched application, as Andre’ DiMino has demonstrated when he documented an Ubuntu machine in his lab being…
Fedora 20 is here — an early Linux Christmas present
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Many Linux users have been holding their breath in anticipation for the 20th version of Fedora Linux, codenamed Heisenbug. Source: Tech
Red Hat Pathway to IT Modernization
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Over time, every IT portfolio gets bogged down in the chaos of servers, platforms, and software that make up the current IT landscape. Legacy systems, disparate architectures, and aging technologies slowly eat away at returns, reduce your ability to respond to shifting demands, and limit how quickly you can scale to meet new market opportunities.…
Supercomputing on the cheap with Parallella
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Packing impressive supercomputing power inside a small credit card-sized board running Ubuntu, Adapteva ‘s $99 ARM-based Parallella system includes the unique Ephiphany numerical accelerator that promises to unleash industrial strength parallel processing on the desktop at a rock-bottom price. Source: Tech