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Whitepaper: Cloud Computing – The Sky’s the Limit

Cloud Computing is actually a modern version of an old IT solution. Essentially it is the organising of an IT network into one large, central mainframe into which all the local portals are linked. The ‘cloud’ is the metaphorical name for the central mainframe. It is where all the complex computing is carried out, where the data is stored and where the main processing software applications are run.

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JOB SCHEDULER À LA CARTE Open Source Job Scheduler

Planning and scheduling jobs can mean a lot of work, especially if they are spread across multiple machines. Here’s a tool to make that task a lot easier.

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WINDOW KIT Investigating Windows systems with Linux

A forensics expert explains how to extract interesting details from a confiscated Windows hard disk using standard Linux tools.

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High Availability: Linbit Merges DRBD+ with DRDB into Open Source

Austrian company Linbit has announced that it is merging its DRBD+ commercial high availability (HA) software with the open source version DRBD to make a free software solution.

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Patent Dispute Forces Openmoko Housecleaning

The Openmoko project, developers of an open source mobile phone platform, has recently pulled its download site offline due to a patent dispute.

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Canonical Ports Ubuntu on ARM Platform

End of last week ARM Ltd and Canonical Ltd announced that they would port Linux to the ARMv7 processor architecture. If all goes well, the two collaborating firms should provide further hardware manufacturers with the basis to develop new, energy-efficient mobile devices, especially for the popular netbooks and so-called hybrid computers.

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Issue #97 / Dec 2008

Cover Theme: Seamless Integration

DVD: Mandriva 2009

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Even open source enthusiasts live in a world full of Windows, so this month we examine some expert techniques for better and more seamless integration with Windows environments. We look at cro... more »

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Anti-spam and Anti-virus Mail Processing

by Charly Kuhnast, Linux systems manager for the Lower Rhine Municipal Data Center
Building an email system at the enterprise level requires careful planning and special attention to management structures. Linux columnist and enterprise admin Charly Kuhnast shows how to integrate advanced anti-span and anti-virus techniques with an email infrastructure.
 

 

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