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After more than five years of participating in the OpenSource community here in New Zealand, it is not surprising that OpenSource solutions have grown substantially. When I first started working in an OSS centric company in Wellington, NZ, there were still very few government departments, and fewer organizations that chose to move away from proprietary solutions.

There are far too many small to mid-sized businesses still relying exclusively on proprietary software and costly hardware solutions to drive antiquated technology.

The desktop is not going to disappear suddenly because there is a movement to include mobile devices. On the contrary, I see years in which a business will adopt a multitude of new devices, and the infrastructure needed to make them all work coherently.

The battle to position Linux on the desktop has always been tenuous. Because the OEM relationships, discussed by Walter (read Why Linux on the Desktop is Wrong) and marketing dollars will always promote the proprietary solutions.

Originally we would use Squid for this caching tier, however for recent deployments we have used Varnish instead, as we find it is far more flexible.

I had naively believed for years that Microsoft was balancing between the demands of shareholders and OEM relationships and its user base. Somehow the balance teetered one way or another, but in the end I assumed I would benefit from purchasing their expensive licenses. Using my laptop which was running Vista, I finally got around to taking my DVD minidisc movie of our summer vacation and trying to properly burn it as a DVD movie we could watch on our big screen.

If you're looking for a useful tool to facilitate the administration of your Linux-based server-client-system, m23 may be just the right tool. It is intentionally designed for use by an administrator with basic Linux knowledge, making it a perfect tool for businesses and organizations transitioning to Linux.

Perhaps as important as the ability to properly and effectively scale hybrid clustered CPU environment (in this case over 6144 Intel Xeon CPUs and 5120 AMD GPUs), is the fact that the underlying operating system is entirely Linux.

All of this results in hundreds of decent and skilled people being snubbed without cause simply because the ad writer, or the position, sucked. I believe every Linux job seeker can avoid pitfalls of a job hunt by keeping in mind three key facts about job ads.

An article headline declares, "This is the year of the death of Linux on the desktop." These stories scroll along on the same news websites on the same day. To top it off, squeezed in between these headlines are even more predictions about things I thought were really dead… SCO for instance.

In the United States, Monster.com reveals 4,981 job listings for Linux (at the time I am writing this article), with 1,722 new postings placed this week. Removing more vague "Linux" jobs postings and explicitly finding "Linux server" roles, I find that currently there are 2,068 job listings with 722 posted this week. Although software development remains one of the main roles for Linux experienced technical staff, there is an increase in the number of Engineering specific roles. These numbers have been nearly consistent over the past year.

The fact is that if you run a business website, you need to perform proper backups, and not just the stuff that gets put on a tape and thrown in a closet each evening.

If we want to see 2010 as a major movement year for desktop Linux deployments, we need to stop talking about it as if it "has not been ready" but "could now be ready." ... No one is willing to give up their favorite applications, or key tools, to move to a new environment -- even if it is far superior in quality, stability and cost. People are open to change when presented with a barrier (such as required upgrades or new purchases) and an easier alternative.

But then I realize the significant absence of credit for the underlying operating system that made these extreme and complex computer generated graphics possible.

The Problem with Linux is that it is forthright, open and honest. Now I know how much the editors here hate when I anthropomorphize an operating system, but it is fundamentally true. Linux, in my view, remains almost too honest and too open.

Almost 100 articles and blogs on the topic of “ubuntu sucks” were published in the past month alone, and about as many were published that unequivocally state Windows is better than Ubuntu. But upon closer examination, I found that a substantial portion of these negative reactions to Ubuntu stem from unrealistic comparisons.

To what extent is Linux serving in mission critical environments today? There are still IT leaders that consider Linux a non-contender in such environments. Despite a steady stream of research verifying the use of Linux in the enterprise, there are lingering doubts as to the prevalence of Linux in mission critical environments.

There are plenty of general server admin articles available on the internet. Unfortunately, few of them delve into the subject of performance administration, especially from an introductory Linux perspective. Yet, it is exactly this kind of information that new Linux administrators require to ensure they are effective at their job.