Really Big Things
(Aug 28, 2008, 09:01 UTC) (483 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Magazine: "How does one manage really big clusters? Perhaps nature can give us a clue."

Nominum Solves Kaminsky Attack
(Aug 27, 2008, 18:01 UTC) (786 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
ISP Planet: "Redwood City, Calif.-based Nominum, the DNS company singled out for praise by Dan Kaminsky in his DNS threat presentation to the Black Hat conference... has modified its Vantio DNS product to defeat the Kaminsky attack."

Moving LVM Volumes to a Different Volume Group
(Aug 26, 2008, 18:31 UTC) (843 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Lone Wolves: "Ubuntu was just as unsuccessful. While it did see my ethernet card, various kernel modules needed for mdadm and LVM are left out of the Live CD kernel..."

CentOS / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 Poor NFS Performance and Solution
(Aug 26, 2008, 01:03 UTC) (1792 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
nixCraft: "A few days ago I noticed that NFS performance between a web server node and NFS server went down by 50%."

The Mainframe Isn't Dead After All
(Aug 22, 2008, 00:02 UTC) (1771 reads) (6 talkbacks) (feedback)
Interop Systems: "Schwarzenegger has ordered Chiang to slash salaries of California state workers in order to conserve cash until the bitterly divided State Assembly gets around to approving a new budget. But Chiang is saying he can’t do it because the state’s payroll program is written in Cobol and would – according to Chiang – take months to modify."

AMD OverDrive On Linux
(Aug 20, 2008, 21:34 UTC) (1146 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Phoronix: "When it comes to ATI hardware, one of the features we have been after for the longest time on Linux has been any overclocking support...Today though with the release of the Catalyst 8.8 Linux driver there is finally ATI OverDrive 5 support on Linux."

Open Virtual Machine Tools with Ubuntu Hardy
(Aug 20, 2008, 20:34 UTC) (1402 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Haxor: "...where the nice folks at VMware open sourced their Virtual Machine Tools late last year, the OSS community has been quietly building in compatibility for newer Linux distributions at the Sourceforge hosted openvmtools project."

Java Run-time Monitoring, Part 2: Postcompilation Instrumentation and Performance Monitoring
(Aug 20, 2008, 08:04 UTC) (941 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IBM Developerworks: "Part 1 of this three-part series on run-time monitoring of Java™ applications focuses on the JVM's health and ways to instrument source code to capture performance metrics. This second installment presents techniques for instrumenting Java classes and constructs without modifying the original source code."

Installing And Using OpenVZ On Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server
(Aug 19, 2008, 09:04 UTC) (879 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
HowtoForge: "OpenVZ is the open-source branch of Virtuozzo, a commercial virtualization solution used by many providers that offer virtual servers. The OpenVZ kernel patch is licensed under the GPL license, and the user-level tools are under the QPL license."

Install Ubuntu With Software RAID 10
(Aug 19, 2008, 08:04 UTC) (1168 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
HowtoForge: "The Ubuntu Live CD installer doesn't support software RAID, and the server and alternate CDs only allow you to do RAID levels 0, 1, and 5. Raid 10 is the fastest RAID level that also has good redundancy too. So I was disappointed that Ubuntu didn't have it as a option for my new file server. I didn't want shell out lots of money for a RAID controller, especially since benchmarks show little performance benefit using a Hardware controller configured for RAID 10 in a file server."

Ed Boyajian, President and CEO, EnterpriseDB
(Aug 15, 2008, 11:02 UTC) (944 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Internet News: "Along the way, the company developed a very deep competency in PostgreSQL, and we discovered that there are a lot of companies that need those capabilities and needed help. The myth about the company is that it's an Oracle compatibility company. In fact, what we're intent on promoting is our role in helping enterprises to adopt PostgreSQL."

Linux RAID Smackdown: Crush RAID 5 with RAID 10
(Aug 14, 2008, 23:02 UTC) (2568 reads) (8 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxPlanet: "RAID 10 is a worthy RAID level with many advantages. RAID 10 is shorthand for RAID1+0, a mirrored striped array. Linux RAID 10 needs a minimum of two disks, and you don't have to use pairs, but can have odd numbers (Haha! Unlike many commercial implementations, which are less flexible and more annoying)."

Inside Dell's 'BlackTop' Laptop Linux OS
(Aug 14, 2008, 14:34 UTC) (2996 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
APC mag: "Dell may be one of Microsoft’s largest customers, but the hardware heavyweight has decided that Windows simply isn’t good enough for today’s fast-paced and ‘instant on’ world."

gOS 3 Beta, Netbooks, and Linux: An Interview with David Liu, Founder of Good OS
(Aug 13, 2008, 13:34 UTC) (1239 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Laptop: "With the recent release of gOS 3 Beta, we thought it was prime time to take a closer look at the company responsible for creating the OS that powered the ill-fated Everex Cloudbook, and the gorgeous (and Mac OS X Leopard-inspired) gOS Space."

IBM Says 99.8% of Mainframe Market Not Enough, We Want it All
(Aug 13, 2008, 13:04 UTC) (1762 reads) (6 talkbacks) (feedback)
Interop Systems: "Personally I’m a little taken aback by the ferocity of IBM’s assault on such tiny and seemingly insignificant competitors as PSI, T3 and Fundamental Software (and really it would be more accurate to call them “coopetitors” because they were all paying royalties or commissions of some kind or another to IBM). What accounts for such overkill?"

Open Source and the Poor Man's Supercomputer
(Aug 11, 2008, 22:34 UTC) (1729 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
OStatic: "IBM made a slew of announcements and predictions on open source topics at this week's LinuxWorld conference, but one of the least talked about and written about announcements was this one (Matt Asay did single it out). IBM released its HPC Open Software Stack as open source, aiming at cheaper-to-deploy, simpler supercomputers."

NFS Enters a Parallel Universe
(Aug 11, 2008, 13:04 UTC) (1899 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Enterprise Storage: "Version 4.1 of NFS, developed by a team of veterans from various storage interests, promises to unlock new performance and security capabilities, particularly for enterprise data centers."

From a Pile of Components to Ubuntu Linux in 25 Minutes
(Aug 8, 2008, 21:30 UTC) (2013 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
ZTrek: "When my teenager learned that I was heading to LinuxWorld this week, he said, "I'd like to try Linux." Good for him; he's already bilingual, with a MacBook for schoolwork and a buffed-up Dell desktop for gaming. Why not Linux too?"

Lessons Learned, Again
(Aug 8, 2008, 14:00 UTC) (1584 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Magazine: "For example, consider an GigE switch. They all do the same thing right? You just plug in the cables and everything just works. That is unless you bought the switch that makes a carrier pigeon network look fast when all the ports are running at full speed. I often make the statement, “You can’t build a cluster by consulting those glossy data sheets..."

Drizzle Plans to Wash Away DBMS Past
(Aug 5, 2008, 20:30 UTC) (1142 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Register: "Drizzle -- unveiled recently at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) by MySQL director of architecture Brian Aker - is described as a "slimmed down version of MySQL" and defined as much by what it doesn't do as by what it does. It will have no unnecessary features, won't support Windows or be compatible with MySQL, and neither will it be "SQL relational compliant"."

Enterprise Router Runs Open Linux OS
(Aug 5, 2008, 12:30 UTC) (1565 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Devices: "Vyatta has spun a branded hardware "appliance" version of its dual-licensed Linux and open source software-based router and firewall stack. The first in a "Series 2500" line of "Open Networking Appliances," the Vyatta 2501 targets data centers requiring up to 10Gbps of throughput."

Does Cloud Computing Change the Open Source Rules?
(Aug 4, 2008, 12:30 UTC) (1352 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
OStatic: "But it's an essay from the ever-interesting Tim O'Reilly that brings together the cloud and the future of open source - and some of his conclusions may distress those who are firmly convinced that open source licenses are the only way forward."

Eight Ways VARs Can Profit From Linux and Open Source
(Jul 31, 2008, 11:00 UTC) (1488 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The VAR Guy: "During a meeting earlier this week in New Orleans, a solution provider told The VAR Guy he just didn’t understand how to profit from open source. Didn’t we put this issue to rest a long ago? Perhaps not. Here are eight ways VARs can profit from Linux and Open Source."

Howto Install VirtualBox 1.6 in Ubuntu 8.04(Hardy Heron) including USB Support
(Jul 31, 2008, 08:00 UTC) (3572 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Ubuntugeek: "VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL)."

Cloud Computing With Amazon Web Services, Part 1: Introduction
(Jul 31, 2008, 06:30 UTC) (1929 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IBM Developerworks: "Cloud computing can be loosely defined as using scalable computing resources provided as a service from outside your environment on a pay-per-use basis. You use only what you need, and pay for only what you use. You can access any of the resources that live in the "cloud" at any time, and from anywhere across the Internet. You don't have to care about how things are being maintained behind the scenes in the cloud."

Can AMQP break IBM's MOM monopoly?
(Jul 29, 2008, 21:30 UTC) (1620 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Interop Systems: "IBM and Tibco between them control a whopping 93% of the MOM market, which the research firm estimates will be worth around $725 million this year. With a market share like that, IBM and Tibco can pretty much charge whatever they like (using IBM’s arcane “processor value unit” pricing scheme, WebSphere MQ will cost you tens of thousands of dollars per processor)."

A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Disks (SSDs) and Linux
(Jul 28, 2008, 14:00 UTC) (1933 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Tech Broiler: "SSDs perform exceedingly well for things like MySQL databases, provided you tweak your kernel, BIOS, and filesystems accordingly. Veteran Linux hacker Geoff “Mandrake” Harrison was happy to provide me with some insight from a recent O’Reilly MySQL conference in which he and his colleagues presented on how to make your MySQL machines fly using SSDs."

Traversing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on System p
(Jul 28, 2008, 10:00 UTC) (1411 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
IBM Developerworks: "So you've been the IBM® AIX® guru on your team for years now and your bosses have determined that they want to try Linux® on System p™. You can fight the change, or you can embrace it and learn Linux, if not learn to love it. The purpose of this article is to introduce Linux to AIX administrators. It will show you what you need to know to make the transition to Linux simpler."

Final Thoughts on SSD and MySQL
(Jul 25, 2008, 13:00 UTC) (2266 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Kevin Burton’s NEW FeedBlog: "I need to give it a bit more thought but it looks like we’re going forward with deploying Spinn3r on SSD. Specifically, machines with 3 SSDs on Linux software RAID. The performance of SSDs is nothing short of astounding..."
This has some great tips on performance-tuning Linux on SSD drives -- ed.

What Happens When Open Source Turns Out to be Better? Much Better?
(Jul 24, 2008, 13:00 UTC) (2844 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Open Road: "This is the future of open source. Not code that just happens to be free, but code that just so happens to be better."

OpenDomain.org owner: Selfless FOSS helper or domain squatter?
(Jul 17, 2008, 12:00 UTC) (1929 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "OpenDomain.org is an organization that offers to provide free use of certain domain names to worthwhile open source projects. Ric Johnson, the leader of OpenDomain.org and the owner of dozens of domain names, says he has spent thousands of dollars registering those domains in order to prevent "squatters and phishers" from snapping them up. He's keeping them safe so you can have a chance to use them. However, to some people, based on Johnson's past practices, it's not clear how OpenDomain.org differs from other organizations that buy up domain names in the hopes of future gains."

Event aims to bring Lindependence to one California town
(Jul 16, 2008, 14:15 UTC) (1951 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "An enterprising group has taken on a radical approach in attracting users to Linux: switch a whole town! Dubbed "Lindependence 2008" (a.k.a. LIN08), this event strives to switch citizens in Felton, Calif., for at least a week from Microsoft Windows to Linux. The initiative, loosely led by Ken Starks in Austin, Texas, and Larry Cafiero in Felton, has taken the idea of introducing normal computer users to Linux to screaming heights. By July 28, those in Felton who decide to take the plunge will go Microsoft-free for a week or more."

Blender 3D: Interview with Allan Brito
(Jul 16, 2008, 03:30 UTC) (2550 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Packt Publishing: "Blender is an open source, cross platform suite of tools for 3D creation, capable of modeling, rendering, and animating 3D environments. Since Blender is completely free, everyone can download and use it immediately in commercial projects. It's not a shareware with limited tools, or time constraints; you can use it freely. In the past few years, the Blender user base has grown significantly. One of the positive aspects of Blender is its size—it is only 10 MB and we can even run it directly from a portable drive. Another great aspect of Blender is that we can use various Operating Systems such as Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X, leaving us the choice of which one to use."

Benchmarking Hardware RAID vs. Linux Kernel Software RAID
(Jul 15, 2008, 22:45 UTC) (4411 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "Want to get an idea of what speed advantage adding an expensive hardware RAID card to your new server is likely to give you? You can benchmark the performance difference between running a RAID using the Linux kernel software RAID and a hardware RAID card. My own tests of the two alternatives yielded some interesting results."

VMware Makes Linux Fan New CEO
(Jul 11, 2008, 16:30 UTC) (4855 reads) (3 talkbacks) (feedback)
Computer Business Review: "Virtualisation specialist VMware's CEO and co-founder Diane Greene was ousted by the firm's board this week. The word is that VMware chairman (and EMC CEO) Joe Tucci didn't exactly see eye to eye with Greene..."

Looking for Landmarks--Out There On the Grid
(Jul 8, 2008, 10:30 UTC) (2405 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
OStatic: "Recently, OStatic covered Eucalyptus, an open source infrastructure for cloud computing on clusters that duplicates the functionality of Amazon's EC2, using the Amazon command-line tools directly..."

ProxMox: The High-Performance Virtualization Server for the Rest of Us
(Jun 24, 2008, 22:30 UTC) (3542 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Between the Lines: "What sounds like a cross between a Ferengi mating practice and an OREO cookie clone, but is actually the latest and greatest in Open Source turnkey virtualization servers...?"

Can You Feel It?
(Jun 20, 2008, 12:00 UTC) (3739 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Magazine: ""Back in late 90's there was a time when clustering was the rage. A few boxes, a fast Ethernet switch, some Linux software and presto, you had a cluster. Like every new technology there are misconceptions, hype and detractors..."

Virtualization and Linux: Red Hat Unveils New Vision
(Jun 19, 2008, 22:30 UTC) (3780 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
CIO: "What makes this more interesting than just another virtualization announcement: you will be able to carry oVirt-customized VMs from PC to server to what-have-you in your pocket on a USB key drive, Red Hat says..."

Microsoft Scrapes Into Top 500 Supercomputer List, But IBM Rules Supreme
(Jun 19, 2008, 21:45 UTC) (4481 reads) (4 talkbacks) (feedback)
iTWire: "But the real news isn't about Microsoft, it's about IBM's stunning top 10 wipeout of the competition, starting with IBM's super speedy RoadRunner and its PETAflop of performance..."

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