Smooth like btrfs: Inside Facebook’s Linux-Powered Infrastructure

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June 25, 2014

Facebook engineer Chris Mason is unequivocal about the primacy of Linux in Facebook’s storage infrastructure.

“If it runs on a computer, and it’s storing important data,” he said, “it’s running Linux.”

Mason, speaking at the Linux Enterprise End-User Summit on Monday in New York, joined Facebook just six months ago in order to spearhead the social network’s move to btrfs (usually pronounced “butter eff ess.”), the Linux-based file system that he created in 2008 while working at Oracle.

HDMI-Stick Runs Firefox OS, Acts Like Chromecast

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June 24, 2014

A Firefox OS developer evangelist tweeted a photo of a prototype HDMI stick that runs Firefox OS and offers DIAL-based, Chromecast-style media streaming. Mozilla developer evangelist Christian Heilmann posted the photo below to Twitter on June 19, and followed it up with a few sparse comments in answer to readers’ questions. Heilmann describes the device […]

OrangeFS: A Scalable, Parallel File System Whose Time Has Come

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insideHPC

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June 24, 2014

Many of the major advances in HPC have been the result of collaboration between academia and the big government labs. This has been the case with PVFS (Parallel Virtual File System) and its latest generation, the scale-out file system known as OrangeFS.

Jim Zemlin to Wall Street: Why Open Source Will Lead the Way

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ZDNet

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June 24, 2014

Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin talks to Wall Street about tomorrow’s technology and what role open source will play.

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Dell Launches Integrated Appliances, Midmarket Storage Arrays

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ZDNet

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June 24, 2014

Dell’s new products illustrate how hardware vendors are all rallying around converged systems as well as storage gear that increasingly incorporates solid state storage.

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Tizen Samsung Z Unpacked – Russia July 10, 2014

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The Linux Foundation

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June 24, 2014

The Tizen Developer Summit Russia is going to be a great place for developers to get introduced to the Tizen platform. As well as going through the technical details of Tizen there will also be a Tizen Samsung Z Unpacked event, officially launching Samsungâ€™s first Tizen Smartphone.

The Samsung Z was introduced earlier this month at the Tizen Developer Conference in San Francisco. Media are invited to attend this event, as well as technicians, mobile operators, vendors, developers of operating systems, applications, and all who are interested in the development of software for a completely different platform.

5 Free Tools for Compliance Management

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The Linux Foundation

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June 24, 2014

Most IT pros consider compliance a hassle. Yet the tools of compliance can empower security technologies and simplify risk management. Better yet, some of those tools are free.

Buying Interest Increases for Public Cloud, Says Survey

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ZDNet

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June 24, 2014

The survey by 2nd Watch highlights a more mature cloud buyer who is interested in saving money and simplifying management as well as agility.

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Makulu Linux 6.0 KDE: Guaranteed to Make You Smile

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ZDNet

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June 24, 2014

Another release in the Makulu Linux family, this the with the KDE desktop to join the Xfce desktop released a couple of weeks ago.

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Mir Display Server Picks Up Some New Features

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June 24, 2014

Now that Mir 0.3 is past, Canonical developers remain hard at work on introducing new functionality to the Mir Display Server for the Ubuntu 14.10 “Utopic Unicorn” release cycle…