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- Diminutive green server for those with Linux leaning
- Considering how crowded many Japanese cities are, it's not surprising that local vendors like Plat'Home are increasingly eco-conscious. Smaller systems just make business sense. Last quarter, Plat'Home began shipping one of those lines in the United States. The OpenBlockS server series support Power over Ethernet and has...
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- R-Studio for Mac (dmg)
- R-Studio for Mac is powerful and cost-effective data recovery software for Apple lovers. R-Studio for Mac is specially designed for Mac OS environment and recovers files from HFS/HFS+ Macintosh, FAT/NTFS Windows, UFS1/UFS2 (FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD/Solaris) and Ext2FS/Ext3FS Linux partitions. It also recovers data on disks, even if their partitions are formatted, damaged...
- Software downloads 2008-07-15
- Developers criticize Nvidia, other holdouts for hindering Linux desktop
- Developers criticize Nvidia, other holdouts for hindering Linux desktopInteresting[i]We have repeatedly found them to be detrimental to Linux users, businesses and the greater Linux ecosystem,” the letter stated. “Such modules negate the openness, stability, flexibility and maintainability of the Linux development model and shut their users off from the expertise...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows up
- What would Ubuntu be like if it were an OS for grown-ups? This week at its CommunityOne event in San Francisco, Sun will release its May 2008 build of OpenSolaris (2008.05) the Open Source operating system based on the source code of the...
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- Does any open source media player stand a chance?
- Gnash certainly hopes so. Gnash is an open source Flash player, being developed under the GPL. Currently available only for Linux versions such as embedded GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, they're working on a Windows port. They recently made it to Verison 0.8.2, which...
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- UNIX - Let's get together and feel all right
- UNIX - Let's get together and feel all rightEric may be right, it ttmight just be too much legal work, but, Sun couldGPL important parts that could be mixed with Linux. Of course that would mean they would have to move to Linux at some point and give up the...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-18
- Linux in schools - what's worked and what hasn't
- Linux in schools - what's worked and what hasn'tWe are starting to use linux as wellWe are starting to use linux as well in our private school in Miami. One computer in the teacher loungue and two in the library run Ubuntu 7.10 and Kubuntu 7.10 because the computers hardware...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-10
- Microsoft+courts+open-source+vendors+to+support+Win+Server+2008
- Microsoft+courts+open-source+vendors+to+support+Win+Server+2008I just can NOT stop laughing. Like save all that money on the otherapplications so you can turn it over to MS for a server that does not work as good as Linux????? I mean, like, who is THAT stupid???? Stevie and Billy are dreaming.Of all the open source projects,...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-26
- Simple DirectMedia Layer (zip)
- Simple DirectMedia Layer was designed to be a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer. It is used by MPEG playback software, emulators, and many popular games, including the award winning Linux port of "Civilization:...
- Software downloads 2008-01-24
- From Interop, video of Plat' Home's Linux Server that fits in the palm of your hand
- Within minutes of arriving on the Interop show floor this morning and beginning my search for something cool to videotape for publication here on ZDNet, we found Plat' Home's booth in the back of the exhibitor's area with two very cool products -- both of them tiny Linux servers, one...
- Blog posts 2007-10-25
- Is Linux innovative?
- Is Linux innovative?"innovation" - bah!Just what IS innovation? I always thought that innovation is the poor stepchild to invention - i.e. If you aren't good enough to invent something new, maybe you can fiddle with something existing to "improve" it. Henry Ford had his "campouts" with Thomas Edison (and other...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-28
- Real Stateful TCP Packet Filtering in IP Filter
- IP Filter is an Open Source packet filtering engine that is available for a number of operating systems, including Solaris and FreeBSD, Open-BSD and NetBSD. IP Filter comes with so-called stateful packet filtering. In the case of TCP, the state engine not only inspects the presence of ACK flags, or...
- White papers 2007-09-26
- Advanced Host Monitor (exe)
- Advanced Host Monitor is a network monitoring software that continuously monitors servers availability and performance. It checks network servers at regular intervals and takes pre-defined actions as soon as a device does not respond. HostMonitor has 58 test methods, 30 alert methods, highly flexible report and log manager. Package also...
- Software downloads 2007-08-28
- Cross-platform Microsoft
- Cross-platform MicrosoftPerhaps MS has learned thatit does not need to control the kernel or window manager to control the desktop space. If anything, having to deal with those two things has become more of a liability to MS than an asset. At least from a public relations point of view....
- Discussion threads 2007-08-13
- Why are there so many open source processing virtualization projects?
- The virtualization community has been hearing quite a bit about KVM or Kernel-based Virtual Machine since it was included in Version 2.6.20 of the Linux kernel. It was interesting that this technology was included in the kernel relatively shorty after it first emerged while Xen still has not been...
- Blog posts 2007-07-19
- The state of Unix
- The state of UnixHistory strikes once againThe problem seems to me to be the fact that Solaris has primarily been a server OS running on dedicated hardware. Linux has, for some years now, been available as a desktop OS running on general hardware.That difference is enough to explain the difference...
- Discussion threads 2007-06-18
- Wasabi Certified BSD Board Support Package: Marvell Orion - Quick Reference
- Wasabi Certified BSD WCB is a full-featured, modern operating system that extends open-source NetBSD with improved compiler technology, more capable device drivers, and thorough platform testing. The Marvell Orion is a high-performance system-on-chip optimized for consumer storage and multi-media appliances. The Wasabi Certified BSD Board Support Package BSP for the...
- White papers 2007-06-07
- Wasabi Certified BSD Board Support Package: Intel IXP425 - Quick Reference
- Wasabi Certified BSD WCB is a full-featured, modern operating system that extends open-source NetBSD with improved compiler technology, more capable device drivers, and thorough platform testing. Development platforms based on the Intel IXP425 can be used to prototype a wide variety of networking products. The Wasabi Certified BSD Board Support...
- White papers 2007-06-07
- Wasabi Certified BSD Board Support Package: Freescale MPC8349E-mITX - Quick Reference
- Wasabi Certified BSD WCB is a full-featured, modern operating system that extends open-source NetBSD with improved compiler technology, more capable device drivers, and thorough platform testing. Freescale designed the MPC8349E-mITX reference board to enable developers to minimize hardware development and speed time to market. Available in the 170mm x 170mm...
- White papers 2007-06-07
- Wasabi Certified BSD Board Support Package: Freescale MPC8349EMDS - Quick Reference
- Wasabi Certified BSD WCB is a full-featured, modern operating system that extends open-source NetBSD with improved compiler technology, more capable device drivers, and thorough platform testing. The Freescale MPC8349E processors are designed to provide a cost-effective, highly integrated control processing solution that addresses the needs of networking, communications, and pervasive...
- White papers 2007-06-07
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