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OpenStack Founding Engineers From NASA And Rackspace Join Nebula
Nebula, the cloud systems company dedicated to enabling all enterprises to easily, securely and inexpensively deploy on-premise private cloud computing infrastructures, has recruited top NASA founding engineers of OpenStack, the open source cloud operating system, and fastest growing open source project in history. Read More »
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Project Floodlight Grows To The World’s Largest SDN Ecosystem; Global Users, Contributors And Partners Innovating Using Open Source SDN
Big Switch Networks today announced that Project Floodlight has grown to be the world’s largest open source SDN community, already encompassing over 200,000 lines of code, 15,000 downloads of the Floodlight controller, and contains contributions from more than 10 ecosystem institutions and vendors around the world. Read More »
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Review: Innovations Abound Beyond iOS And Android
Gartner says 94 percent of smartphones sales last year were either iPhones or Android devices; Windows Phone and BlackBerry devices made up another 5 percent combined. What about the remaining 1 percent? They are the wannabes such as Firefox, Sailfish and Ubuntu, and these alternative contenders boast some features you just may envy. Read More »
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Ubuntu Kylin: a Linux distribution for China
The British Linux company Canonical is teaming with the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to create Ubuntu Kylin, a Linux distribution specifically for China. Read More »
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Ubuntu Launches OpenStack Interoperability Lab
Canonical and its partners will certify Ubuntu OpenStack cloud compliant hardware and software. Read More »
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Ubuntu Linux Enters The Smartphone Wars
Instead of going after both the tablet and smartphone market, Canonical is bravely starting 2013 by trying to become a major player in the smartphone market with an upcoming version of Ubuntu Linux. Read More »
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Ubuntu Superphone Fundraiser Rakes In $1M On Debut
Canonical — makers of the Ubuntu distribution of Linux — is asking geeks to collectively cough up $32 million dollars in the next month to crowdfund a smartphone that could serve as a laptop replacement. Supporters have already pledged over $1 million in the first five hours of the fundraiser. Read More »
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VMware Brings Suse Linux To New Cloud Service
Users of Suse Linux can purchase a fully supported version of the OS directly from VMware by year's end Read More »
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What On Earth Is OpenStack?
Explained: Your guide to the Linux of cloud computing
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Where Have All the MacBooks Gone at Linux Conferences?
Back in 2007, I went to O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON). That particular year Canonical had a mini-summit, which happened in the two days before OSCON, called Ubuntu Live. I honestly don't remember much about any of the sessions I attended all those years ago. But one memory stands out like a spotlight pointed straight at my face: almost every single laptop I saw in use at Ubuntu Live was a MacBook. Nearly every single one. Row after row of little glowing Apple logos filling every conference room...
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Who Writes Linux? Corporations, More Than Ever
Linux Foundation report shows for-profit companies provide 80-plus percent of kernel patches, with big role for mobile hardware developers Read More »
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Why Businesses Can’t Ignore The Growing Linux Trend
It used to be a clear sign of geekiness. People who were into Linux would rave about its benefits and flexibility…as long as you knew how to install your own OS, dig around for the hardware drivers you needed, and be a master of command-line instructions. For a world building technical literacy through more user-friendly front-end systems, Linux was a niche reserved for technology enthusiasts...
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Why The Operating System Still (Kind Of) Matters
Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth has been beating the Linux drum for years — particularly around the Ubuntu distribution that Canonical develops and supports — but his message, and that of much of the Linux community, has taken more of an OpenStack tone lately. Shuttleworth came on the Structure Show podcast this week to tell us when Linux still matters and when it’s the cloud — OpenStack, Amazon Web Services or otherwise — that’s driving the ship in IT.
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Will Ubuntu's OpenStack Dominance Turn Into Cash?
Ubuntu dominates the cloud, but that's not the same as dominating cloud revenue. Yet early signs suggest it's on the right track. Read More »
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With Ubuntu In The Mix, 2014 Is The Year Of The Open Source Phone
We've only hit February, and it already looks like 2014 is going to be the year of the open source phone. Not only is Android continuing to dominate the smartphone space in terms of market share, but Mozilla is widening its Firefox OS phone strategy and Canonical announced this week that Spain's bq and China's Meizu will be the first companies to bring Ubuntu smartphones to global users. Read More »
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