Entries tagged with 'Linux'

Once upon a time I let it be known that I’d done a fair bit of “playing” with Linux and as a result I attended a RedHat training course. As a result of this, I’ve been given the task of being one of the primary x86/x64 engineers in the UK solution centre. With this [...]

Links of interest for 9 May 2007 - 13 May 2007:

About Project Indiana - Oooo, so that’s what Project Indiana is all about. Pity we heard about it from the press first. That said, it sounds like Ian’s got his head screwed on right and this’ll really drive OpenSolaris adoption.
Experts scramble to quash IPv6 [...]

I stumbled upon a great article (via Ars Technica) by Jeff Bonwick, responding to Andrew Morton’s claim that ZFS is a “rampant layering violation” because it cuts across the traditionally separate worlds of the filesystem, volume manager, and RAID controller.
I think ZFS is a brilliant invention and believe it’ll go far. It removes complexity [...]

Links of interest for 9 April 2007 - 13 April 2007:

Google Summer of Code - Accepted student applications for Google Summer of Code have been announced! They’ve accepted over 900 student applicants from a pool of nearly 6,200 applications.
Sun Acquires Java-based Mobile Phone OS - Oooh, maybe Sun will be jumping on the iPhone clone [...]

A whole bunch of Linux people - developers, distributors and ISVs, got together recently to have a good ol’ chin-wag about the next step in Linux Standardisation (as part of the Portland Project).
It would seem the ISVs want…

It seems Microsoft is really getting into the swing of the “if you can’t beat em, join em” expression with the latest news that they’re going to be signing a new partnership with Novell. Could this be quite innocent and actually an attempt improve the interoperability between the two operating systems as advertised or could [...]