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The rise of Alfresco: ECM that people will really use – LinuxWorld, 04/27/07
Alfresco is an enterprise content management system that, according to some users, is beating legacy content management systems in speed, quality and ease of use.
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New Linux kernel version pumps up virtualization – LinuxWorld, 05/02/07
Linus Torvalds signed off on the latest Linux kernel version last week – 2.6.21 – with several virtualization- and networking-focused improvements in the mix.
Proposed Microsoft, IBM identity protocol standard spawns controversy – LinuxWorld, 05/02/07
A protocol developed by IBM and Microsoft for standardizing the sharing of user identities between companies was turned over to a standards body on Wednesday amid controversy that it overlaps with similar protocols already recognized as standards.
Sun’s Rock rolls further along – LinuxWorld, 05/02/07
Sun is reporting another step in the development of its 16-core Rock microprocessor after successfully booting up its own Solaris 10 operating system on a computer with Rock installed.
Dell to offer preinstalled Ubuntu on laptops, desktops – LinuxWorld, 05/01/07
In a response to user comments on a new Dell discussion site, the company is announcing today that it will offer some desktop and laptop models preloaded with the Ubuntu Linux distribution, and seek certification for those models from Canonical Ltd.
Kernel space: Chunkfs and reiser4 – LinuxWorld, 05/01/07
As disks continue to get bigger faster than data transfer rates improve, we will need better filesystem software to prevent an fsck crisis.
School system taps Novell to control network identity – LinuxWorld, 05/01/07
The Fairfax County School District in Virginia, with more than 200 schools and 164,000 students, this week announced it will begin upgrading its legacy network provisioning and password management system with Novell’s Identity Manager.
Search Wikia hires Jabber founder, expands concept – LinuxWorld, 05/01/07
Jabber creator Jeremie Miller is joining Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia and Wikia, in building an open source, community-driven search service.
Oracle’s Linux initiative continues to build momentum against Red Hat – LinuxWorld, 04/30/07
Oracle continued its enterprise Linux power play last week, this time bringing a host of big-name enterprise IT partners into the fold of its Unbreakable Linux and Oracle Enterprise Linux efforts, and possibly marginalizing Red Hat.
Spring Java framework gets a Java 6 upgrade – LinuxWorld, 04/30/07
Improvements to the open-source Spring Java framework and a companion Web technology focus on annotations, scripting, and Java (Java Platform Standard Edition) 6, developers of the framework said. The upgrades are being unveiled on Monday.
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Three problems (or opportunities) in Linux
Linux developer Andrew Morton, best known for maintaining the “-mm” test kernels, pointed out three deficiencies in Linux: storage, power management, and instrumentation.
