Btrfs Free Tutorial

New Btrfs Free Tutorial and Request for End User Feedback on Btrfs

“Those who follow Linux have certainly heard of Btrfs, a relatively new high performance file system that has a lot of people excited about its potential. Two months ago during LinuxCon Japan, we were pleased to sit down with lead developer Chris Mason [...]

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Cloudy with a Chance of Pain: IT Security in the Cloud

By Brian Proffitt

The promise of cloud computing is very compelling. Just listen to the pitch for hybrid clouds: “If your organization needs more computing resources, why purchase extra hardware? Just set up a connection to a public cloud, use the extra machines to your heart’s content, and stop using them when your needs are satisfied.”

Sounds [...]

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Tracking Weekly Enterprise Linux News: Sun and Rain Clouds Dominate

While Ububtu 10.10 doesn’t officially “come out” until Sunday, previews galore have been running everywhere this week. Of interest to readers of this weekly Enterprise Linux blog is NetworkWorld’s review of the server edition. Julie Bort reports on the new release’s tight integration with Amazon and makes the following comment: “One of the more interesting [...]

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Are Corporations Co-opting Open Source?

The recent announcements by Adobe and Microsoft of source code releases under FOSS licenses are attempts to co-opt free software.

Microsoft announced this week that they are releasing source code for Linux drivers that allow it to interact better with Windows, where Windows is the host OS and Linux is running as a guest OS. This [...]

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The Linux operating system as a managed object

Summary: Organizations today face two major challenges: deployment of an increasingly rich service mix and managing the associated massive base of computing platforms. In this article, discover a new(ish) means of viewing a key component of the organizational architecture—treating operating systems themselves as individual managed objects.

Few can argue with the success of modern computing [...]

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