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
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
Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin talks to Wall Street about tomorrow’s technology and what role open source will play.
Dell Launches Integrated Appliances, Midmarket Storage Arrays
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.
Tizen Samsung Z Unpacked – Russia July 10, 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 Samsung’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
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
The survey by 2nd Watch highlights a more mature cloud buyer who is interested in saving money and simplifying management as well as agility.
Makulu Linux 6.0 KDE: Guaranteed to Make You Smile
Another release in the Makulu Linux family, this the with the KDE desktop to join the Xfce desktop released a couple of weeks ago.
Mir Display Server Picks Up Some New Features
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…
How to Configure a Tomcat Cluster on Ubuntu
Apache Tomcat is the most popular open-source Java web server. If your web site is expecting more traffic as your business grows, a single instance of Tomcat will probably not scale with the growing traffic. In that case, you might be thinking to run Tomcat in a “clustered” environment, where web server workload is distributed […]
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