Links 27/11/2008: GNU/Linux Climbs to Virtually 94% Market Share in Supercomputers, KDE 4.2 @ Beta
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-11-27 11:39:47 UTC
- Modified: 2008-11-27 11:39:47 UTC
GNU/Linux
- Cisco Offers $100,000 Bounty to Linux Application Developers
- Reducing IT Costs with Linux
- Obvious Mistakes [Too Much Demand] Caused Europeana Site Failure
Europeana is built on a Linux Debian open-source operating system. The programming language is Java, and it uses Apache Tomcat web applications software.
- Google claims MapReduce sets data-sorting record
- Updated Prey Demo For Linux Released
- Silex Technology Announces SDK Enabling USB Device Networking
- Linux shows staying power on Top500
The latest list indicates growing Linux dominance. Linux is used in the top nine supercomputer systems in the world. When considered as the primary OS or part of a mixed-OS supersystem, Linux is now present in 469 of the supercomputer sites, 93.8% of the Top500 list.
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Ubiquity
- A future so bright Tux needs shades
“Everyone uses Linux. It’s in the TV, it’s in your TiVo, it’s in all the settop boxes, it’s in your Sony camera. Make a trade on the NYSE and it’s there, search on Google and it’s Linux. Linux owns 85% of the supercomputer market. I’ve seen Linux in a milking machine.”
If Linux were a corporate effort its CEO would be into champagne wishes and caviar dreams. As it is, however, Zemlin is just looking for steady growth next year.
- Numbers, Downloads and Straws
Don’t open up the champagne, folks; this is just the beginning….
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- The Turkish Pardus Linux Distribution
Pardus provides a very important public good to be used by the whole FLOSS community, in Turkey and abroad. The Pardus GNU/Linux operating system is being deployed and used in many government and other public services including the Turkish military and defense sector, in radio and telecommunication, health and education, as well as private vendors. The use of Pardus in all these sectors and institutions will save several millions of Euro in taxpayers' money.
- Review: PC-BSD 7.0.1
Today’s distro has been described as the Ubuntu of the BSD world. PC-BSD is an easy to use version of FreeBSD. FreeBSD is the behemoth in the BSD world and would probably have a much larger desktop presence if the BSDs hadn’t run into copyright and other proprietary problems right around when most of the GNU toolset was complete and Linus was releasing the Linux kernel. At least, that’s what most people claim. However, given the animosity (although that’s almost too strong a word) between the Free Software Foundation and the supporters of the BSD license.
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GNOME
- Redesign Gnome for a better looking desktop
Gnome typically comes with a bar across the top of the screen with the clock, notification icons and menu items and a second at the base of the screen containing window lists, workplace switchers and, in the Ubuntu incarnation, a trash can/recycle bin.
- The GNOME Journal
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- it seems likely Red Hat layoffs are in the making
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- Lives are at stake
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