Archive for July, 2009

Phoronix: “This new development release of Ubuntu carries the latest kernel, Mesa, and Intel driver packages as we see how the graphics performance is with an Intel 945 and G43 chipsets.”
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Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have laid the groundwork for an unprecedented simulation of a large-scale botnet after booting up 1 million Linux kernels as virtual machines. They now are waiting for completion of a new, faster and more capable supercomputer on which they hope to run 10 million kernels in a simulation of the open Internet.
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Cyber Cynic: “Well, in either case, you’re going to want to check out Canonical, Ubuntu Linux’s parent company, latest desktop support offerings: Starter, Advanced and Professional.”
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PC Magazine – Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha said in an analyst call Thursday that many of next year’s Motorola phones will run the Google Android OS, continuing a big bet on the Linux-based system.
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Programmers behind the Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone demand that its founder share project control–or maybe they’ll leave.
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