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Commercial Linux distributor Red Hat today kicked out the 1.2 release of its Enterprise MRG Linux variant for real-time, messaging, and grid computing. Enterprise MRG was launched as an idea in December 2007 in the wake of Novell's roll-out of its SUSE Linux Enterprise Real-Time variant of its SLES server Linux distro a month earlier. The initial 1.0 release, which was missing the Project Condor grid components, debuted in June 2008. It did have the real-time Linux kernel, which is important for military systems, financial trading systems, and other industrial controllers where you have to strip down the general purpose Linux kernel and make it provide a more consistent response time (with low latency) on transactions.

With over 20 million installations, Fedora is among the most world's popular Linux distributions. While that kind of success has been due to a rapid base of supporters, the distro originally launched by Red Hat as a community Linux project is having to bridge the divide between targeting a mass audience and keeping hardcore enthusiasts in the fold.

Five cloud-based businesses that you should know. Amazon Web Services (AWS) uses it. Elastichosts uses it. Google uses it. Yahoo uses it. Engine Yard uses it. Facebook uses it. "It" is Linux, of course. But what else do all these companies have in common? If you said "cloud technology," you're correct.

After becoming increasingly frustrated with Windows Vista, I began searching for an alternative operating system. An “upgrade” to Windows XP seemed like the only other option, but Skatter Tech’s senior editor, Sahas Katta, suggested I try Ubuntu 9.10: Karmic Koala. Naturally, after years and years of using Windows based systems, I hesitated to install Ubuntu. First off, I did not like using Linux. I never got into the habit of learning all the different commands and functions of a Linux OS and did not want to start now...

Fedora 12 LXDE spin available for download. LXDE, the 'Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment', is an extremely fast and energy-saving desktop environment. It is maintained by an international community of developers and comes with a beautiful interface, multi-language support, standard keyboard shortcuts and additional features like tabbed file browsing. LXDE is not designed to be powerful and bloated, but to be usable and slim. A main goal of LXDE is to keep computer resource usage low. It is especially designed for computers with low hardware specifications like netbooks, mobile devices (e.g. MIDs) or older computers.

With MRG 1.2, Red Hat is publishing new performance benchmarks. For Infiniband (define) users, the MRG 1.2 system has throughput of greater than 1.5 million reliable messages per second per system. "On both throughput and the latency results we're seeing somewhere on the order of a 50 percent increase in throughput and a reduction in latency compared to some of the previous benchmarks we've published," Bryan Che, product manager for Red Hat MRG, told InternetNews.com

Well, although there are repositories with the latest development verison of wine 1.1.33 at the date of writing, many of the latest games require some patches to the source. So, this is what this tutorial is about! Unlike other howtos ive seen elsewhere, I download and keep the sources up to date using git, and install wine with checkinstall.

A leaked HTC roadmap for 2010 has revealed that the majority of the company's smartphones for the first half of 2010 will run Google Android, not Windows Mobile.

Set up Sun xVM 3.4.2 on top of opensolaris 1002-128a via binary packages been built by Pascal Gienger at Index of /software/xvm/3.4.2. Been performing testing bellow my major concern was ability Sun xVM 3.4.2 to handle PV DomUs with boot file systems of ext4fs type. Actually, two guests have been tested : F12 and Ubuntu Karmic Server, in both cases boot partition has been converted to ext3fs to create DomUs manageable via virsh ( virt-manager).

It is an amazingly powerful business rig meant for serious developers, modelers, video production artists and designers, but it's also cheaper than most standard desktop computers…

Continuing my tour of Linux-based video editors this week I've profiled Cinelerra. Specifically I've reviewed the community-supported version produced by the CinelerraCV project.

For the month of November we ran the 2009 Linux Graphics Survey, which is a survey in regards to X.Org and the Linux graphics stack that we have been hosting annually for the past three years. This year there was 13,836 results submitted and we have now had the time to go over these results and are publishing all of the numbers today.

I interviewed Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier, who is community manager at openSUSE, about the latest version of the OS, how he keeps the community vibrant, and his increasing use of social media to promote his OS.

I have switched to OpenSUSE 11.2 recently. Although, I've enabled anti-aliasing option from System Settings panel, I notice that fonts aren't displayed smoothly and they are ugly.Two days ago, I found the solution for this problem. It is easy just upgrade the freetype2 packages to use subpixel hinting feature.

This post shouldn't raise the ire of most people though, because unlike many Ubuntu veterans and rookies alike, I have had very little, if any, problems with Karmic Koala, much to my delight.

rTorrent is a popular command line based bittorrent client. It provides very powerful features yet it is very light on the system - contrary to other bittorrent clients like Vuze. There are a couple of webinterfaces for it but they are not truly needed. SSH access combined with the "screen" program provide you all the tools you need. This howto works for Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala and for Debian 5 Lenny.

The Wine development release 1.1.34 is available now. With Wine it's possible to run Windows applications on top of Linux.

Enable/Disable write support for windows NTFS partition with simple click. If you are using Windows and ubuntu as dual boot and if you want to access your windows partition you need to follow this procedure.This tutorial will explain how to access your windows partition in simple way.ntfs-config program allow you to easily configure all of your NTFS devices to allow write support via a friendly gui. For that use, it will configure them to use the open source ntfs-3g driver. You’ll also be able to easily disable this feature.

Looking for an end to netbook frustration, exploring the life and death of censorship in the cloud (where behind every silver (or chrome) lining, there seems to be big scary cloud), and experiencing the joys of a lucky backup.

This tutorial shows how you can set up an OpenSUSE 11.2 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.