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Red Hat brings JBoss middleware to PaaS cloud

Want a Java Enterprise Edition middleware stack for your PaaS cloud? Then Red Hat new JBoss PaaS services for OpenShift is for you.

Red Hat: Big bucks, big Linux

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Sep 24, 2013 1:30 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Red Hat
Red Hat's second quarter was another roaring success no matter by any standard.

Cyanogen: Helping to unify Android

Will Cyanogen, the newly minted commercial company behind the alternative CyanogenMod Android firmware, actually help fragment Android? Hmmm... Here's the one word answer: "No."

Penguins in Space! Asteroid mining and Linux

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Sep 23, 2013 4:08 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
No, Planetary Resource isn't kidding. It’s working on using Linux, open-source software, and commercial off-the-shelf hardware to build the first robotic asteroid miners.

Linus Torvalds doesn't want to be Microsoft's CEO and other Linuxcon ramblings

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Sep 19, 2013 5:18 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Kernel, Linux
In a free-wheeling Q&A session Linus Torvalds and other top Linux programmers, talked about Linux, scuba-diving, and other odds and ends of the developer life.

Intel: The year of the Linux desktop is here

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Sep 19, 2013 12:32 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Intel, Linux
Intel CTO Dirk Hohndel sees Linux as the leading end-user operating systems - thanks to smartphones, tablets, as well as the rise of Chromebooks.

CyanogenMod goes from hobby Android to business Android

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Sep 18, 2013 5:52 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Android
Want the latest Android but your device manufacturer or carrier won't give it to you or support it? CyanogenMod can help.

Quasar IV Cipherphone: The smartphone with encryption built in

Worried about the NSA and other online eavesdroppers? Then startup QSAlpha is working on the smartphone for you.

IBM and Linux: The next billion dollars

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Sep 17, 2013 10:30 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: IBM, Linux
IBM is renovating its Power computers by investing a billion dollars into making it a full-fledged Linux line for Big Data, cloud, data analytics, and the datacenter.

Valve CEO: Why Linux is the future of gaming

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Sep 17, 2013 1:20 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games, Linux
Gabe Newell, CEO of Valve declared that proprietary software and closed platforms are gaming's past, its future is open and on Linux.

Who writes Linux? Almost 10,000 developers

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Sep 16, 2013 5:27 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Kernel, Linux
n the latest report on who writes Linux, the answer comes to almost 10,000 programmers since 2005 and 1,100 in the last year alone.

Keeping your Red Hat Enterprise Linux current

If you want the newest of the new open-source software, you use Fedora Linux, but if you use Red Hat Enterprise Linux in your business, you had to wait for major releases… until now

Google quietly dumps Oracle MySQL for MariaDB

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Sep 14, 2013 2:44 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Despite being the most popular open-source database management system (DBMS), Oracle's MySQL has been sinking into trouble. Major Linux distributions like Red Hat and SUSE, are switching it out for its fork, MariaDB. Major Websites, such as Wikipedia, have also replaced MySQL with MariaDB. Now, adding insult to injury, Google is moving to MariaDB from MySQL.

OpenDaylight SDN opens the curtains on its initial release

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Sep 13, 2013 8:15 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
After several months of effort, OpenDaylight is ready for sunrise. “The OpenDaylight community is developing an SDN architecture that supports a wide range of protocols and can rapidly evolve in the direction SDN goes, not based on any one vendor’s purposes,” said David Meyer, the OpenDaylight Project's Technical Steering Committee chair, in a statement.

Red Hat releases new cloud-friendly Red Hat Storage

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Sep 11, 2013 8:05 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Red Hat
Need storage that can handle your business's leap from terabytes to petabytes? Red Hat want you to try its latest Red Hat Storage.

How to choose the best Linux server for your business

The right Linux server for your business just might be the one that offers your staff the level of support they need.

Apple's new iPhones are fine but Microsoft really profits from smartphones

I'm sure Apple's new iPhone will be exciting and wonderful, but it won't propel Apple back to the top over the true smartphone giant: Microsoft. Yes, you read that right: Microsoft.

Linux “HoT” bank Trojan: Failed malware

What? Another Linux vulnerability? Nope. Other operating systems may be easy malware marks, but Linux continues to resist malware.

PostgresSQL: The Other big open-source database has a new release

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Sep 9, 2013 3:02 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The PostgreSQL development team has announced the release of PostgreSQL 9.3, the latest version of the world's leading open source relational database system.

Linux Professional Institute puts Linux in the classrooms

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Sep 6, 2013 4:01 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Businesses really, really want trained Linux professionals, and the Linux Professional Institute wants to help by providing a new training program for middle-school students on up.

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