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Google Chrome OS Unveiled: Nothing But The Web

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:00:00 +0000

Today Google aired a webcast where they whipped the curtains all the way off Google Chrome OS for the first time. It's about what most people expected: Chrome OS running on top of a thin layer of Linux, designed for netbooks -- and designed for people whose sole computing experience is the web. It's Google's netbook answer to Android.

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Fedora 12 - it's a horse, not a camel

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:02:02 +0000

Design by committee makes good Review The Fedora Project has announced the latest version of its popular open source Linux distribution. Nicknamed Constantine , Fedora 12 has quite a few impressive new features and demonstrates that the project has gained a renewed sense of direction.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

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Toshiba Launches Unified Messaging For Small Businesses

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:17:25 +0000

The Linux appliance is designed to provide affordable messaging to small and medium-sized businesses, with 400 mailboxes and 300 hours of storage.

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Microsoft feeds Excel to supercomputer

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:02:02 +0000

Windows HPC chases Linux SC09 If the quants in financial services get tools for running their models more quickly, will the economy get better or worse? Who knows? But thanks to Microsoft, we're all going to find out.… What is your recession sales strategy?

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Opinion: The future of Linux is Google

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:25:00 +0000

I used to think Ubuntu was destined to lead Linux into the mainstream, but now it's looking much more like Google -- not Canonical -- will be the first Linux vendor to truly challenge Microsoft.

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Linux's Future: Google?

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:02:09 +0000

Laugh (or cry) if you want. But with each successive release of Android, and with each new iteration of Chrome -- soon to be ChromeOS -- it's looking more and more like Linux's future as any kind of mainstream product is in Google's hands. There's a lesson here.

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Top 500 supers - rise of the Linux quad-cores

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:02:02 +0000

Jaguar munches Roadrunner SC09 Looking at the bi-annual Top 500 list of supercomputers, you would never know the world was battling recession. Supercomputer centers keep chucking out old tech and rolling in new tech at the same feverish pace.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

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Acer Aspire One D250 with Android

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:02:01 +0000

The first netbook with Google's OS Review Installing a second operating system on a PC is nothing new. Plenty of manufacturers have done so before, building a slimline Linux distro into their machines to provide a much more rapid start-up than Windows can manage: full access to the internet within seconds of pressing on power key.…

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MS patent looks just like Unix command, critics howl

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:00:03 +0000

'Sudo for dummies' Microsoft has won a patent that covers functionality closely resembling security features that have been at the heart of Unix for more than two decades and recently been folded into the Linux and Mac operating systems.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

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Opinion: Linux desktop turns 10; world yawns

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:00:00 +0000

Sure, you could always use Linux as a desktop OS, but it wasn't until November 1999 that Corel introduced a Linux designed for ordinary users. It's been a long, strange trip since then.

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Platform clusters Windows HPC with Linux

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:02:02 +0000

Tetris with supercomputers Platform Computing has taken the beta off its Infrastructure Sharing Facility, a way of greasing the adoption of Windows HPC Server 2008 among the supercomputing folk.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

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