Why Red Hat should fear Amazon Linux
Last Updated on Saturday, 18 September 2010 04:01 Written by External Post Saturday, 18 September 2010 04:01
While Red Hat’s leadership in the enterprise Linux market is without question, the cloud tells a different story altogether.
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Oracle, Amazon help users remotely run Linux
Last Updated on Saturday, 14 August 2010 03:20 Written by External Post Saturday, 14 August 2010 03:20
Organizations hoping to streamline their deployments of Linux got two new options this week for running the open source OS remotely. In the new version of its VDI (Virtual Desk Infrastructure) software, Oracle has included the ability to run various
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Novell puts SuSE in the Amazon EC2 cloud
Last Updated on Friday, 13 August 2010 10:20 Written by External Post Friday, 13 August 2010 10:20
Novell is offering its SuSE Linux Enterprise Server as a cloud service on Amazon’s Elastic Compute (EC2) cloud services.Charged at an hourly rate, SuSE Enterprise Linux will be supported on Amazon EC2. Novell said users will be able to purchase
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Chrome extension forces secure Google searches
Last Updated on Tuesday, 10 August 2010 12:40 Written by External Post Tuesday, 10 August 2010 12:40
Google now offers an extension for Chrome that automates the process of adding the as a search engine to the Chrome 6.x branch. is an extension, still in beta, that works with Chrome 6.0.419.0 and later on Windows and Linux computers. First released in
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Dell “temporarily’ cuts online Ubuntu offerings
Last Updated on Tuesday, 27 July 2010 01:40 Written by External Post Tuesday, 27 July 2010 01:40
Dell has cut the online shopping choices it provides to users searching for a laptop pre-installed with Ubuntu. The company now only offers one laptop with pre-installed Linux through its online store – the Dell Latitude 2100, which comes pre-installed
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Google Releases Chrome 5.0 For Win/Mac/Linux
Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 May 2010 10:40 Written by External Post Tuesday, 25 May 2010 10:40
ddfall writes ‘Four months after the release of version 4.0 for Windows, Google has announced the availability of Chrome 5.0 for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux the first stable release to be available on all three major platforms. Chrome 5.0.375.55 is
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Why Google Needs To Pull the Plug On Chrome OS
Last Updated on Tuesday, 11 May 2010 08:20 Written by External Post Tuesday, 11 May 2010 08:20
judeancodersfront writes ‘It’s time for Google to realize that it is way too early to be pushing an OS that only provides a browser. If Chrome OS fails on netbooks it will just make OEMs even more hesitant to use a Linux-based OS instead of Windows.
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Torvalds gives thumbs-up to Google’s Nexus One
Last Updated on Monday, 8 February 2010 07:00 Written by External Post Monday, 8 February 2010 07:00
Nexus One , Linus Torvalds , Linus Torvalds, leader of the Linux kernel programming project, has said not only that he likes the Nexus One, but that the Google phone is good enough to convert him into a mobile-phone believer. ‘I generally hate phones —
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Google considering speech-to-speech tr…
Last Updated on Monday, 8 February 2010 04:00 Written by External Post Monday, 8 February 2010 04:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman, a Linux kernel developer, has posted a blog explaining the decision to excise Google’s Android code from the kernel. Kroah-Hartman removed the code in December, noting that Android drivers ‘are no longer being developed and the
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Google Chrome Displaces Safari As Third In Survey
Last Updated on Saturday, 2 January 2010 09:45 Written by External Post Saturday, 2 January 2010 09:45
Azureflare writes ‘According to a Net Applications survey, Google Chrome has replaced Apple’s Safari as the number-three browser. This may be partially explained by the release of the Chrome beta on Mac and Linux, but may also be due to users jumping
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