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Kernel guru Greg Kroah-Hartman joins Linux Foundation

Greg Kroah-Hartman, one of the principle maintainers of the Linux kernel, has joined the Linux Foundation as a fellow, the same position held by Linux creator Linus Torvalds.
Dell PowerEdge servers upgrade to AMD 16-core Opteron chips

Dell has upgraded its PowerEdge servers with the recently-launched AMD 16-core Opteron processors.
Suse working on private OpenStack cloud

Attachmate's Suse division has announced plans to offer software based on the OpenStack platform for enterprises to build private clouds.
VMworld conference sees bevy of new products from HP, Dell and EMC

While VMware had no shortage of new and updated products to debut at its VMworld conference, being held this week in Las Vegas, many VMware partners and competitors introduced their own offerings at the show as well.
Microsoft plows £60 million into SUSE Linux

Extending a partnership established in 2006, Microsoft has renewed a working agreement to resell SUSE Linux and help develop new Windows interoperability tools for the OS, Microsoft announced Monday.
Attachmate readies SUSE Studio appliances for mainframes

In its first SUSE-related product offering since it acquired Novell earlier last year, Attachmate has expanded the reach of SUSE Studio-based virtual appliances to include mainframes.
Mono 2.12 update planned by Xamarin

Aimed at Windows developers, Mono 2.12 offers benefits for multi-core PCs and for creating mobile and web apps.
Microsoft Hyper-V now supports Linux CentOS

Microsoft has added support for another Linux server distribution with its Hyper-V virtualisation software, its latest move to compete better with virtualisation market leader VMware.
Dell plans four CPU socket blade server designed for virtualised data centres

Dell on Monday announced a four-socket blade server with up to 48 processor cores for deployment in virtualized environments.
Dell to launch PowerEdge microservers

Dell on Tuesday is set to announce low power PowerEdge servers that can quickly band together to execute transactions more efficiently than traditional servers, which use faster, but more power-hungry chips.

Latest Features

Four strange places to find open source

Open source is about more than code: it's about unlocking all possibilities. Here are four unusual projects made possible by open source.
Microsoft to support iPhone, Android, Windows and Linux

Steve Ballmer and crew aren't going to miss a moneymaking opportunity, even if that means managing iPhones, iPads, Androids and, yes, even Linux computers.
What next for Novell?

In an era of technology consolidation, the questions raised by Novell's sale to Attachmate for $2.2 billion ought to be a familiar: Users can only wonder what may happen to Novell's deep and extensive enterprise product lines.
Top 10 Linux distributions for business

One of the most confusing things for the newcomer to Linux is how many distributions, or versions, of the operating system there are. Ubuntu is the one most people have heard of, but there are hundreds of others as well, each offering some variant on the basic Linux theme.
Ten reasons to use Linux instead of Windows

Now is a particularly good time to ditch Windows for good, for workstations as well as servers. For instance, now that Microsoft stopped supporting Windows Server 2003 on July 13, you'll need to find something different to use for your servers.
The life and death of a virtual machine

If IT managers aren?t careful, the failure to manage virtual machines throughout their life cycles could erase virtualisation?s benefits.
New IBM mainframe won't end battle for big iron's soul

IBM is expected later this month to announce its next-generation System z mainframe, its first update since the release of the z9 three years ago.
Linus Torvalds in the hot seat

The Finnish creator of Linux says open-source software isn't really an anti-Microsoft movement; it's just a better model for getting the job done.
Will 2008 be the year of the open-source desktop?

When the open-source desktop becomes a more widely deployed end-user operating system, it becomes a product and not a project.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 release offers surprises

Linux admins have learned to live inside the Unix systems administration and security models. But can migration to RHEL5 stop things working if you?re not aware of the changes?

How-tos

Case Study: IWOOT: Using open source to give you what you want

Case Study: Open source unlocks options for many businesses

Tips for keeping networked Linux systems up to date (part 2)

Case Study: Supercomputer stays cool

The future of NetWare

Case Study: Linux makes inroads with Novell users

How to get your hands on SuSE Linux

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Discover the key features and benefits of the BL860c Server Blade. This versatile and expandable next-generation HP Integrity server offers improved utilization, continuous service levels, enhanced scalability and balanced performance, improved IT productivity and secured availability, allowing you to simplify operations by managing all infrastructure components as one system, through one console.
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