http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com A SearchEnterpriseLinux.com blog Tue, 13 May 2008 01:39:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ubuntu fans debunk Windows win of power test Our recent power story reporting that Windows Server 2008 eked out a narrow two-watt power savings over Ubuntu 8.04 Long Term Support has emitted some sparks of protest from Ubuntu fans. The latest is from Fred Marsico, the chief ... http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/12/ubuntu-fans-debunk-windows-win-of-power-test/ If a Linux distribution is not named after a Red Hat, does it still exist? Do sports teams improve their chances with Linux-inspired monikers? Do Linux administrators need to learn fencing to keep up with the tech industry? No, I'm not trying to throw you back into the fog that was ... http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/09/ubuntu-smells-like-team-spirit/ Ubuntu may not be a household word, but the increasingly popular Linux operating system is no stranger at Fox News. A Ubuntu blogger who complained that he couldn't view video on FoxNews.com got a personal response from David Denis, Fox News Digital's director of development. Denis not only went to ... http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/05/07/ubuntus-hardy-heron-nests-at-fox-news/ It must be the warmer weather. Ubuntu happenings are springing up everywhere in Boston. Just five days after Boston fans gathered at an upscale downtown nightspot to celebrate the release of Hardy Heron, Ubuntu's latest operating system, a local school technologist kicked off a new organization to promote open source ... http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/04/30/open-source-events-are-popping-up-in-beantown/ Ubuntu fans may be passionate geeks when it comes to free software, but last night's happy love fest at the Globe Bar & Grill in Copley Place was more about enjoying the moment and being together than serial computer installs. Nearly two dozen members of the Massachusetts Ubuntu LoCo (Local ... http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/04/25/hardy-herons-party-in-boston-with-london-bigwigs/ You have to run pretty fast to keep up with Red Hat these days. The leading open source vendor just broke two speed records for the financial industry. First, it broke the gold standard for real-time status by processing updates in less than one millisecond, completing a single transaction in ... http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/04/23/red-hat-out-marathons-the-pack-in-financial-services/ Sun Microsystems Inc. just did a smart about-face. According to well-known open source analyst and blogger Bill Weinberg, a few years ago Sun quit the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) Carrier- Grade Linux working group when OSDL declined to grant Solaris equal status with Linux for Carrier-Grade networking applications. (For those ... http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/04/18/sun-kisses-and-makes-up/ The thought of moving to Microsoft Vista has put many Windows users into a panic, writes Ubuntu Linux user and IT pro Fred Marsico, the chief technology officer of Quantum Mechanics R&D in Corvallis, Ore., in this guest blog post. In trade mags and blogs, I have read about the Vista-versus-Linux ... http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/04/17/microsoft-vista-versus-linux-desktops-an-it-pro-sounds-off/ At the MySQL conference in Santa Clara, Calif., Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Rich Green, Sun's senior vice president of software, dropped in unexpectedly in an informal dinner organized by the open source community and spent several hours chatting up the crowd. Beyond the photo op and blogging opportunity, the ... http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/04/17/vips-drop-ins-delight-mysql-dinner-guests/ Don't read Red Hat's latest blog on its desktop policy unless you've just chugged a few bottles of Red Bull. In a blog update on its desktop product direction, it says, " We have no plans to create a traditional desktop product for the consumer market in the foreseeable ... http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/04/17/red-hat-blog-caffeine-needed/