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MIT Researchers' Open Source Tool Can Optimize Databases in the Cloud
OSTATIC: News comes from MIT that researchers are open sourcing software components for cloud-based database-driven applications that could reduce hardware requirements by 95 percent while improving performance.
GNOME Co-Founder Disses Linux
OSTATIC: The web is now abuzz with “man overoard” posts in the wake of Miguel de Icaza’s very public announcement that he has ditched desktop Linux in favor of Apple’s Mac platform.
Patching Dependencies
OSTATIC: You remember how Linux used to be, right? You’d dial up to the Internet with your 56k modem, find that awesome new music player you heard about and download the source code.
Enterprise Desktops and Linux
OSTATIC: Enterprise desktops are different from “personal computers”. They are, for the most part, special purpose machines, intended as tools to help the employee get their job done.
Drupal's Founder Sees Big Things Ahead for Version 8 of the CMS
OSTATIC: Version 8 of Drupal is slated to arrive by the end of this year. Speaking with Computerworld, Dries helped frame some of what is coming in the new version.
Mark Shuttleworth Steps In On Developers' Ubuntu Kerfuffle
OSTATIC: There is no question that times are changing for Canonical and Ubuntu.
Kanotix 2013 CeBIT Surprise
OSTATIC: Kanotix is a Debian-based desktop distribution originally designed to support a wider selection of hardware and provider newer packages than Debian.
Linux Lately: openSUSE 12.3, New Distro, OpenMandriva
OSTATIC: With Ubuntu sucking all the air lately, other distributions can’t seem to get mentioned.
Debian Developers Prefer Teams and Git
OSTATIC: In a blog post earlier today, Nussbaum posted graphs of some of the trends he’s seeing in Debian package development.
The Rise of the Rolling Release
OSTATIC: Rolling release are those systems which are updated in smaller increments over time usually from within the system with a software management client as opposed to the more traditional installation of a new system every so often.
openSUSE 12.3 in the Final Stretches
OSTATIC: Jos Poortvliet, openSUSE head cheerleader,announced the second release candidate for openSUSE 12.3. Major changes include PulseAudio, the kernel and Firefox.
A Guide to Identifying the Right Open Source CMS for You
Red Hat Fleshes Out Hadoop-focused Big Data Plans
OSTATIC: The company has announced that it will contribute its Red Hat Storage Hadoop plug-in to the Apache Hadoop open community to transform Red Hat Storage into a fully-supported, Hadoop-compatible file system for big data environments.
OpenMandriva Secretly Moving Forward
OSTATIC: From time to time we get a trickle of information from the Mandriva camp and a couple of days ago we found out that OpenMandriva Linux is cooking.
Porteus 2.0 Arrives, Replaces Trinity
OSTATIC: Porteus is a live distro based on Slackware, featuring a variety of desktop and software choices. Version 2 is based on Slackware 14 and offers of KDE 4, LXDE, Razor-qt and Xfce desktops.
The Key for Ubuntu for Tablets Will Be Apps
OSTATIC: The real key for Ubuntu tablets to succeed, though, will be rapid app development.
Debian 7 Progressing, Mageia 3 Delayed
OSTATIC: Debian 7.0 is progressing and testers were treated to Release Candidate 1 recently. On the other side of town Mageia has reported a change in the release schedule for upcoming version 3.
GNOME Classic Fights to Win Users Back
OSTATIC: A few months ago GNOME announced that they would be dropping the fallback mode, but met with a bit of resistance.
Patrick McGarry on Open Source Disruption
OSTATIC: The most recognizable example of this would be the introduction of Linux over the previous generation of prohibitively expensive Unix solutions, but there are many more recent examples as well.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Linux Today