Later this month in Copenhagen at the developer summit for Ubuntu 13.04, getting rid of the GNOME fallback code is a likely discussion item.
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Open Source Cloud News Roundup: Week of Oct. 8
This week’s open source cloud news shows more signs that open source adoption and the open source mindset are gaining momentum in the cloud. VMware, for example, this week announced new support for Amazon EC2. Meanwhile, OpenNebula has become more widely used by business than academia and Red Hat has a new partnership with Zend to support PHP applications in the cloud.
VMware Realizes It Doesn’t Rule the Cloud, Boosts Support for Amazon
ArsTechnica
In another sign that VMware is opening up to interoperability, the company has announced that updates to two of its cloud management products will support porting to Amazon EC2.
Open vs. Closed: The Cloud Wars
NYTimes Bits Blog
Quentin Hardy contrasts the cloud strategies of Oracle and HP with those of upstarts such as Box to explain the advantages and disadvantages of vendor lock-in. Will the open model or the closed model ultimately prevail in the cloud?
OpenNebula Survey Shows Industry Use Dominating
The H
A survey of OpenNebula users over the past two quarters reveals that the user base for the open source IaaS has shifted from academic to commercial.
Red Hat OpenShift Now Offers Zend PHP Support
Network World
Red Hat’s open source PaaS has a new partnership with Zend to provide developers with a server for managing PHP applications.
OpenStack Summit Approaching, Stacked with Good Sessions
OStatic
The OpenStack Summit is next week in San Diego with speakers from Red Hat, Piston Cloud, VMware, Yahoo, Dell, Rackspace and more. GigaOM’s top 8 questions for the OpenStack Summit presents some interesting issues to pay attention to.
Distribution Release: Parted Magic 2012_10_10
Patrick Verner has announced the release of Parted Magic 2012_10_10, a specialist Linux live CD providing utilities for disk management and data rescue tasks: “Parted Magic 2012_10_10. This version of Parted Magic includes GParted 0.14.0 with LVM support and X.Org Server 1.13.0 with the latest drivers.
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HP May Still Be The King Of PCs, But Lenovo Will Usurp The Throne Next Quarter
Depending who you ask, Lenovo topped HP in 2012′s third quarter to become the top worldwide PC supplier. Research firm Gartner reports Lenovo shipped just slightly more PCs than HP to hit a 15.7% marketshare, besting HP’s 15.5% marketshare. But IDC reports an additional segment and therefore different numbers; HP is still on top per IDC.
But arguing the minutiae is silly here. The time is near. HP’s reign on the top of the PC hill is about to come to a close. HP is crashing while Lenovo is rapidly growing.
This story is about two computer giants, one faltering under its own weight and the other one rising to the top, fueled by gumption and ambition. HP lost its way over the last 10 years thanks to a dizzying amount of executive turnover. But Lenovo seized a massive opportunity and charged forward.
Read more at TechCrunch