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German Researchers Accelerate Hadoop
The addition of a kind of query planner speeds up execution of map/reduce functions in Hadoop. Because it hooks into the distributed framework like...
How to Install Linux from ISO to Installed
The first step of any journey is the hardest part. Clichéd, but true. The first step in using Linux is to install it, and...
KDE 4.5 Desktop Activities Bring New Meaning to Organization
KDE 4.5 brings to the table plenty of useful, functional, innovative features. One of those very features is the Desktop Activity. Although many scoffed...
Cairo 1.10.0 available
The 1.10.0 release of the Cairo graphics library has finally been released. "One of the more interesting departures for cairo for this release is...
Windows or Apple? My Personal Journey Into Linux
As far back as I can remember, I have been a Windows user. I can clearly recall using Windows 3.0 on one of...
GPU vs. CPU is a Win-Win
Peter Varhol has a nice piece on GPU vs. CPU computing in Desktop Engineering this week. Not surprisingly, he concludes that you need both...
The People Who Support Linux: At Work and at Home
This is an ongoing Linux.com series that profiles The Linux Foundation's individual members and begins to collectively illustrate a very important part of the...
Easy backup with RSync, windows client configuration
Now for the latest article of this first rsync saga I'd like to share with you my current Windows clients configuration, as I've...
Language agnostic web server Mongrel2 1.0 released
Mongrel2 is a language agnostic web server capable of routing web requests to applications written in any one of ten languages
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Eight great virtual appliances for VMware, free for the downloading
The combination of free open source and virtual machines is hard to beat; here are some of the handiest virtual appliances you'll find
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