Enterprise / Open Source News

Tuesday, October 02 2007

Levanta 6.0 Brings Sophisticated Automation Capabilities to Linux-based Data Centers

http://www.linux.com/feed/119583 (20071002 22:00)

New policy-driven end-to-end automation functionality increases business agility and operational resiliency while reducing TCO.

Open Linux phone demo's open virtualization

http://www.linux.com/feed/119579 (20071002 20:30)

Open Kernel Labs is demonstrating its commercially supported open source processor virtualization technology at the ARM Developer's Conference this week in Santa Clara, Calif. The OKL4 microkernel is reportedly running on FIC's OpenMoko Neo1973 phone, allowing two instances of Linux to share the phone's ARM-based processor.

Pharmac publishes directly with open source

http://www.linux.com/feed/119577 (20071002 19:30)

The Pharmaceutical Management Agency of New Zealand (Pharmac) has developed an open source solution for publishing the Pharmaceutical Schedule online.

BIND 9 DNS Administration Reference Book

http://www.linux.com/feed/119574 (20071002 19:00)

This book comes to me in an unusual way. I received an email from the publisher and editor asking if I'd be willing to review BIND 9 DNS Administration Reference Book. Ok, that's not unusual. In fact, it happens to me all the time. What is unusual is that I'd never heard of Reed Media Services before. One reason is that they seem to be a smaller publishing house that was originally started to "print newsletter publishing, online publishing (including related software design), and providing related internet hosting services". The other reason is that they've only produced two books thus far (The OpenBSD PF Packet Filter Book is the other one).

Digium buys Switchvox

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/100207-digium-buys-switchvox.html?fsrc=netflash-rss (20071002 17:33)

Digium, whose open source Asterisk IP PBX spawned a host of start-ups that commercialize the software, has bought up one of them because it has a better user interface than Digium’s.

Linux Foundation establishes partnership with Japanese government

http://www.linux.com/feed/119572 (20071002 17:30)

The Linux Foundation has announced a new collaborative agreement with Japan's Information Technology Promotion Agency (IPA), a government research institute that promotes information technology development and broadly supports the use of open standards and open-source software.

Free embedded browser rev's up, goes FLTK2

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3405111195.html (20071002 17:22)

The Dillo project has achieved an alpha release of a next-generation version of its ultra-lightweight CGI forms-capable HTML browser for embedded systems. Dillo-f15f is built against FLTK2 (fast light toolkit, aka "full tick") rather than GTK, and adds support for anti-aliased international UTF-8 text, among other new features.

Damn Small Linux 3.4.3

http://www.linux.com/feed/119571 (20071002 17:00)

As the demands of all operating systems increase, Damn Small Linux (DSL) is a refreshing change and worth considering by anyone with an old computer. This latest version, 3.2, has some updated software and new drivers, while still keeping within the 50MB limit.

Torvalds dubs security people insane

http://www.linux.com/feed/119567 (20071002 15:30)

UBER geek Linus Torvalds is on track to win this year's Dr Spinola cudmugeon of the year award after dubbing people who disagreed with him as "wanking around".

How To Set Up VMware Tools On Various Linux Distributions

http://www.linux.com/feed/119565 (20071002 15:00)

This document explains how to set up the VMware Tools in the following guest operating systems: Ubuntu 7.04, Fedora 7, PCLinuxOS 2007 and Debian Etch. Installing VMware Tools in your guest operating systems will help maximize performance, provide mouse synchronization and copy & paste functionality. This article also shows a way of making VMware Tools start automatically when you start a guest operating system.

http://www.howtoforge.com/vmware_tools_on_linux

Linux Gazette #143 is out!

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/93527/index.html (20071002 14:53)

Linux Gazette...making Linux just a little more fun!

The Real Value of Ohio (GNU)LinuxFest

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93529 (20071002 13:56)

Saturday night, as I was leaving the Ohio LinuxFest after party, One of the organizers shared with me her aphrensions about the value of the event, and how the community resoundingly put those apprehensions to rest.

The Mono Project: You Might Expect the Unexpected

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93515 (20071002 12:24)

Back in February, Ralph Green asked me to speak at the North Texas Linux Users' Group. I discussed Linux administration and then took questions. Some one in the audience asked me about Mono. I gave a cavalier answer having a bias against it. Then someone else in the audience said that I needed to get my facts straight.

ShipIt will be distributing copies of Ubuntu 7.10 (free, as always)

http://digg.com/linux_unix/ShipIt_will_be_distributing_copies_of_Ubuntu_7_10_free_as_always (20071002 09:10)

Canonical's ShipIt service will be distributing free copies of Ubuntu's latest version, 7.10, when it becomes available later this month. You've got nothing to lose, why not try Ubuntu?

DataCore UpTempo Software Boosts Performance for Microsoft SQL, Exchange, Databases, Server Virtualization, Citrix, Oracle, SAP, VMware, VDI and Disk I/O Intensive Applications

http://prweb.com/releases/2007/10/prweb557096.htm (20071002 08:40)

UpTempo dramatically speeds up applications by making the computer system read and write data to its disk drives more efficiently. It does this by overcoming today's biggest performance barrier - data input/output (I/O) bottlenecks resulting from slow, mechanical, disk accesses - the most common cause of server and desktop application underperformance. Trial software is available for download at www.datacore.com/download.asp. Download UpTempo and take a free test drive; mileage may vary, however, the software can speed up I/O performance by a factor of 3 to 4x (and sometimes 10x or more). (PRWeb Oct 2, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/VGhpci1Db3VwLUVtcHQtVGhpci1UaGlyLVplcm8=

Alterpoint Extends Vyatta Ready Ecosystem with Network Management

http://prweb.com/releases/2007/10/prweb557885.htm (20071002 08:09)

AlterPoint has developed adapters that allow Vyatta customers to manage network configuration and change through a centralized interface. The adapters work with both the open-source ZipTie toolkit and AlterPoint's commercial NetworkAuthority solution. (PRWeb Oct 2, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/RmFsdS1QaWdnLVBpZ2ctVGhpci1UaGlyLVplcm8=

The Swedish National Police Move to an Open Source Infrastructure With MySQL Enterprise Unlimited

http://prweb.com/releases/2007/10/prweb557725.htm (20071002 08:09)

Government officials projects IT savings amounting to 50 percent within the next five years - approximately the cost of 400 fully-equipped police cars. (PRWeb Oct 2, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/RmFsdS1Mb3ZlLUNvdXAtVGhpci1UaGlyLVplcm8=

VM-Based Rootkits Proved Easily Detectable

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/164128398/article.pl (20071002 07:35)

paleshadows writes "A year and a half has passed since SubVirt, the first VMM (virtual machine monitor) based rootkit, was introduced (PDF), covered in the tech press, and discussed here. Later Joanna Rutkowska made news by claiming she had a VMM-based attack on Vista that was undetectable — a claim that was roundly challenged. Now in this year's HotOS workshop, researchers from Stanford, CMU, VMware, and XenSource have published a paper titled Compatibility Is Not Transparency: VMM Detection Myths and Realities (PDF) showing that VMM-based rootkits are actually easily detectable."

Calgary Open Source Systems Festival

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93511 (20071002 07:24)

COSSFEST 07 (Calgary Open Source Systems Festival) will bring together professionals, students and enthusiasts who share a common interest in Open Source software. This one-day conference and expo will be made up of speakers and hourly workshops. Booths featuring hardware vendors, software companies, services companies, and (of course) user groups will be on hand. This event is the largest free technology event in Calgary!

Build 'em Right, Build 'em Strong, Build 'em Linux

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=93501 (20071002 04:50)

This is presented to you as dictated from helios. Ken is away having medical needs met and this is being typed as I listen to the playback. I will assure you that I present it literally and without personal input. - perseis

Detailed Review Of The 16GB iPod touch

http://digg.com/apple/Detailed_Review_Of_The_16GB_iPod_touch (20071002 04:40)

Macguide takes a look at the latest touch enabled device from Apple, the iPod touch. They weight up its pros and cons in-depth in the 1500 word piece, complete with detailed pictures. The conclusion: If you're happy with "just" 16GB of storage and want to upgrade from a previous generation iPod, the iPod touch is perfectly suited.

Mobile the next AJAX frontier

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/10/02/mobile_ajax_alliance/ (20071002 02:38)

Ready or not

It may still be baking as a technology, but that hasn't stopped Silicon Valley's vanguard from trying to squeeze rich internet applications (RIAs) on to mobile devices.…

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