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Is Linux a Safe Operating System?
Posted by: | CommentsLinux is a widely ported operating system kernel. It is an operating-system which is mostly available free of cost but undoubtedly a secure and safe os. It is as much the phenomenon as it is a good operating system. It is a widely used open-source operating system, which has several distributions to meet different kinds of needs.
Linux is an open source operating system, which is trusted by home as well as professional computer users. It is an advanced operating system well as over the years, it has granted more ease of utilization. It is one of the most accommodating operating systems on the market today. It can be a family of operating systems that is certainly based off of the Linux system kernel.
Linux is free software . It has a software collection called WINE the windows emulator. It has several benefits over Microsoft Windows. It is easier than it used to be, but it is not Windows.
Linux system may be obtained in 2 different ways. It is not impervious to viruses… It has popped up previously in vehicles including Mavizen’s award-winning TTX02 electric motorcycle . It helps a lot in someone’s business.
Linux is changing the dynamics with the computer business. It is really a trademark of Linus Torvalds. It can be a prominent name inside the software market. It is more complicated, and it is dependent upon the kind of person you are.
A linux system unix is perfectly worthy of students, developers and just about anyone who would like to try something other than the norm. It was ceased because it favored organization opportunities.
Registration Open for Gelato ICE: Itanium
Posted by: | CommentsRegistration Open for Gelato ICE: Itanium® Conference & Expo 2006
CHAMPAIGN, IL (PRWEB) February 15, 2006
The Gelato Federation (www.gelato.org) announced today the opening of registration for the Gelato ICE: Itanium® Conference & Expo to be held on April 23-26, 2006 in San Jose, California, USA. Gelato ICE is the world’s only conference dedicated specifically to Linux® on the Intel® Itanium architecture. The conference will be hosted by the Gelato Federation and sponsored by HP, Intel, and Itanium Solutions Alliance. Space is limited. An Early Bird discount is in effect until March 25, 2006. Registration information is available at www.gelato.org/meeting.
Gelato ICE is the conference for technical users, application and tool developers, system researchers and vendors, and ISVs looking to extend the impact of Linux on Itanium architecture. The event will address current high-performance computing issues and collaborative solutions specific to Linux on the Itanium processor, and will feature presentations, poster sessions, and the exchange of information in formal and informal settings. Attendees can network with key researchers, system vendors, industrial users, and ISVs. Participants will learn how to maximize the performance of their systems and discover which tools to use and how to use them.
“We are looking forward to this being our best conference to date with outstanding speakers from a variety of Itanium community participants as well as record attendance. The depth and breath of the technical program are impressive,” stated Mark K. Smith, Gelato managing director. “We are also very excited about partnering with the Itanium Solutions Alliance on the collocated Developer Days event that immediately follows Gelato ICE.”
Gelato ICE 2006 will feature three full days and 40+ technical presentations spotlighting Linux on Itanium-based platforms. Presenters will include international experts working on this architecture and speaking on topics such as: virtualization, scalability, compilers, and memory management. New for Gelato ICE 2006 are an exhibition area and a program track targeting corporate developers and IT decision makers. An expanded technical program will include enterprise-specific topics like database/data mining and hardware reliability.
Also new for Gelato ICE 2006 is integrated technical content to complement the collocated Itanium Solutions Alliance Developer Days to be held on April 26-28. Developer Days are Alliance-organized events established to facilitate porting of targeted applications to Itanium platforms. Software developers receive training, technical assistance, and industry-leading tools from Alliance Founding Sponsors and members. Registration for Developer Days is separate from Gelato ICE registration. Space at Developer Days is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Details can be found at www.itaniumsolutionsalliance.org/events/developer_days/.
“The Itanium Solutions Alliance is thrilled to be collaborating with Gelato at the Gelato ICE 2006 and Alliance Developer Days events,” said Bruce Toal, director of marketing and solutions for Hewlett Packard’s High Performance Computing Division. “The combined knowledge and resources of these two industry-leading groups ensures that attendees of both events will receive the best training and information on Linux on Itanium architecture available.”
The week-long combination—Gelato ICE 2006 and the collocated Itanium Solutions Alliance Developer Days—will be the year’s highpoint for those wanting to learn more about using and developing Linux on Itanium architecture. Anyone working with this platform—or thinking about working with the platform—should attend.
About Gelato
The Gelato Federation is the global technical community dedicated to advancing Linux on the Intel Itanium platform through collaboration, education, and leadership. Gelato members are suppliers and users of Linux/Itanium processor technology with a shared goal of producing open-source solutions for academic, government, and industrial high-performance computing users. The Gelato portal (http://www.gelato.org) serves as the primary channel for Federation business and collaborations. Information about Gelato members’ software and solutions are available through the portal, and the community is welcome to participate and contribute.
Intel and Itanium are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in several countries. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.
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New e-book Focuses on Open Source and Linux Applications for Businesses
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(PRWEB) June 21, 2005
Linux has been a mainstream contender for server applications. Connect Computing has put together a complete how-to guide for several applications as well as a CD-ROM that saves people time finding and downloading these applications.
Also, the downloads have been “Extracted” on the CD so anyone can quickly find the readme files or other information that is usually available only after people have downloaded the application.
Applications on the CD include:
OSCommerce (MS2Max version 1.7)
Mambo Server (Content management)
DotProject (version 2)
SQL-Ledger (version 2.4.7)
SugarCRM
XRMS (CRM)
Also on the CD are Microsoft Windows and Linux versions of Open Office and The Gimp (An Open Source alternative to PhotoShop).
An Extra CD-ROM of Konnipx 3.7 is also included. This CD let’s users try a Linux desktop running from only the CD, without installing anything to their hard drive.
“For the IT professional, we’ve tried to give them a hands-on approach to Open Source. The manual is full of screen shots and commentary about each application”, stated Roy Hoobler of Connect Computing
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LynuxWorks Introduces New Linux Point of Sale (Pos) Solution for Worldwide Retail Market
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(PRWEB) January 24, 2005
LynuxWorks Inc. today introduced a new embedded Linux point-of-sale (POS) solution targeting the worldwide retail market. LynuxWorks BlueCat® Linux POS enables retailers to take advantage of the flexibility, cost and time-to-market benefits of open source software with a uniquely constructed commercial embedded Linux operating system (OS). LynuxWorks BlueCat Linux POS marks the companyÂs first product offering targeting the retail industry and entry into this growing market.
The BlueCat Linux POS provides an implementation of the Linux model enhanced and scalable across a variety of POS system platforms, configurations and retailer environments to meet customer needs, from small console-based systems to larger, feature-rich and browser-capable systems. Retail POS vendors can easily migrate to a stable and reliable Linux environment. This coupled with long-term support from LynuxWorks, gives retailers confidence to begin realising immediate productivity and optimised performance through the BlueCat Linux POS.
ÂWe continue to see tremendous growth of Linux as it is quickly becoming the embedded standard in a number of industries, including the telecommunications and military/aerospace, said Dr. Inder Singh, chairman and CEO of LynuxWorks. ÂWithin the highly competitive retail market, there is significant opportunity as POS vendors and retailers turn to open source software to help reduce costs and complexity of POS systems. With more than 17 years of experience in embedded software, we are poised to meet this growing demand with our BlueCat Linux POS and provide significant value-add to POS retail customers.Â
POS systems are critical to the retail business infrastructure and facilitating business processes and retail efficiencies, including real-time product tracking, payment and profiling. These efficiencies make or break companies which often have razor thin margins. Linux is heavily being considered for POS systems to alleviate the costs of current OS infrastructures as retailers move beyond DOS and legacy POS systems and licensing fees for other embedded OSes. The BlueCat Linux POS helps facilitate the seamless migration to Linux by offering the smallest memory footprint among any other POS OSes currently available on the market, enabling the BlueCat Linux POS to operate on older memory confined POS terminals.
ÂOur BlueCat Linux POS gives vendors the flexibility of a standards-based, hardened Linux offering that will help lower the costs and risks of in-house or roll-your own Linux OSes, said Bob Morris, vice president of sales and marketing, LynuxWorks. ÂIn addition, vendors are looking for long-term support from a reliable OS provider. With our extensive experience in embedded software, customers can not only be confident to receive the level of support they need, but also implement a Linux distribution we believe will quickly become the industry standard for the POS retail market just as it has in several other industries.Â
Availability
The BlueCat Linux POS is available immediately directly through LynuxWorks. Also available with the BlueCat Linux POS is a comprehensive set of tools for deploying Linux into embedded POS environments. For more information about the BlueCat Linux POS, as well as LynuxWorks family of products, including their development and programming tools, please visit: www.lynuxworks.com.
About LynuxWorks
LynuxWorks is a world leader in the embedded software market, providing operating systems, software development products and consulting services for the world’s most successful communications, aerospace/defence, and consumer products companies. Established in 1988, the company is a technology leader in the real-time operating systems (RTOS) industry, and a founding member of the Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC). LynuxWorks’ headquarters are located in San José, California. For more information, please visit: www.lynuxworks.com.
LynuxWorks is a trademark and LynxOS is a registered trademark of LynuxWorks, Inc.
Other brand or product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of the respective holders.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
Please forward reader enquiries to:
Gerry Winckler
LynuxWorks
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Tel: +33 1 30 85 06 00
Fax: +33 1 30 85 06 06
Email: gwinckler@lnxw.com
Web: http://www.lnxw.com
Allan Edwards
Neesham Public Relations
Tel: +44 (0) 1442 879222
Email: allane@neesham.co.uk
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Proprietary Research from CloudLinux Demonstrates How Web Hosting Providers Can Improve Server Stability and Double The Density of Shared Servers
Princeton, NJ (PRWEB) March 25, 2010
CloudLinux Inc., an innovative software company dedicated to serving the needs of hosting service providers, today releases a technical white paper, “How to Squeeze More Efficiency Out of Your Infrastructure.” The paper details current inadequacies in the hosting arena and how the CloudLinux Operating System (OS) effectively addresses these issues. In particular, with CloudLinux technology, the study proceeds to explain how web hosts can double the density of their shared hosting servers while simultaneously improving server stability.
The proprietary research conducted by CloudLinux was meant to provide evidence of the inadequacies of existing server management techniques. Included is a detailed analysis of the two research methodologies used: a statistical analysis of server log activity and a survey of the experiences of real world hosting providers.
The study details the impact on hosting providers who, today, lack the ability to optimize the number of clients on a server due to risk of increased instability. Key findings include:
46.6% of web hosts reported they experienced downtime due to a lone site at least a few times a month
Frequently a single site or a very small number of sites utilize a disproportionate amount of resources:
Top 1% of sites are responsible for 39% of the static requests (on average) to the server
Top 5% of sites are responsible for 65% of static requests (on average) to the server
On 25% of the servers analyzed, top 1% of the sites are responsible for 50% or more of dynamic requests to the server
Reasons for server spikes which can bring down an entire server can include:
One badly executed script on one site
New software introduced to a site
To mitigate some of these risks, many hosting providers keep server capacity at 60% or below in order to maintain stability, but they sacrifice optimizing their infrastructure in the process. This is the problem that CloudLinux solves with its new Lightweight Virtual Environment™ (LVE) technology. It has the capability to vastly improve the density of shared hosting servers, often enabling hosting providers to double server density without sacrificing stability. The benefits of this approach include:
Properly manage hundreds or thousands of websites simultaneously on one server without risking server stability
Prevent one site from affecting the performance of other sites on a server
Gain control and manage server resources down to an individual site level, versus a server level
More quickly identify sites which are not functioning properly without running the risk of a single site slowing or taking down a whole server
The release of this white paper comes at a critical time. With the growing demand by websites to run a new array of rich applications and cloud services in a stable server environment, data centers and hosting providers are challenged to provide the quality service these customers require, cost effectively. With the CloudLinux LVE technology, hosting providers can introduce a new level of flexibility that optimizes their infrastructure. “Based on my many years of experience in the hosting arena, I am thrilled to show how CloudLinux LVE technology closes the market gap that exists in the web hosting environment by outperforming the standard OS,” states Igor Seletskiy, CEO and Founder of CloudLinux. “As our white paper outlines, it is now possible to achieve a balanced, stable server environment along with improving density of shared hosting servers through a well-supported Linux version specifically optimized for web hosters.”
CloudLinux OS is an innovative cost-effective solution designed to improve control in the shared hosting and data center arena, while simultaneously increasing control and stability, as well as improving overall performance. For a free copy of the white paper, go to http://www.cloudlinux.com/whitepaper. For more information, please visit http://www.cloudlinux.com.
About CloudLinux, Inc.
Founded in Princeton, NJ, CloudLinux is a privately funded company that combines unique expertise in the service provider business with in-depth technical knowledge of hosting, kernel development and open source.
CloudLinux provides hosting companies and datacenters with the only commercially supported Linux operating system (OS) optimized for their needs. The new technology behind CloudLinux has been proven to increase density; stability and performance helping customers realize reduced operating costs and increased profitability. For more information, please visit http://www.cloudlinux.com.
Judy Shapiro
CloudLinux
Chief Brand Strategist
(917) 617-3917
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Texas Memory Systems Joins Linux Foundation
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San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) August 16, 2010
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that Texas Memory Systems has become its newest member.
Texas Memory Systems designs and builds solid state storage systems for accelerating enterprise applications. It uses the industry’s leading storage technology, PCI-e Solid State Drives (SSDs), to provide solutions to the IT industry that allow for scalable, low latency messaging with high throughput. These requirements are found today in financial services, social networking and other High Performance Computing (HPC) environments.
Instead of a rotating mechanical disk, SSD uses memory chips (typically DDR RAM or Flash Memory) to read and write data. These drives eliminate the mechanical limitations and latency of hard disk drives and allow storage speeds to catch up with the speed of today’s processors, thereby improving performance and productivity. With SSD, applications can accommodate more concurrent users and simultaneous transactions and can be more economical than adding monolithic RAID, servers, RAM, or constant application tuning.
Texas Memory Systems will work with The Linux Foundation and the Linux kernel community to help ensure that its SSDs are supported in the mainline kernel, which benefits Texas Memory Systems’ customers using Linux who will have support for their drives “out-of-the-box.” The company’s efforts to upstream the Linux driver for supporting PCI-e SSD drives are part of an industry effort it is leading to ensure all storage manufacturers have support for new storage devices in the mainline Linux kernel.
“Linux is key to our long-term success,” said Jamon Bowen, Director of Sales Engineering, and Texas Memory Systems. “There is an enormous amount of innovation within the open source community, primarily driven through collaborative development. Texas Memory Systems wants to help accelerate that work in order to meet both the needs of the community and customers who need advanced high-performance SSDs in a variety of IT environments.”
“Texas Memory Systems is pushing the limits on enterprise storage and support,” said Amanda McPherson, vice president of marketing and developer programs, The Linux Foundation. “Solid State Drives are the future of data storage, and The Linux Foundation is eager to work with leaders like Texas Memory Systems to optimize this technology for Linux.”
The Linux Foundation’s membership is made up of thousands of individual and corporate members, as well as affiliates: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members. The aggregate contributions from these members advance the operating system to compete in the enterprise and on next-generation computing devices.
About Texas Memory Systems
Texas Memory Systems (www.texmemsys.com) designs and builds solid state storage systems for accelerating essential enterprise applications. The award-winning RamSan product line, known as The World’s Fastest Storage®, delivers fast, reliable, and economical solutions to a broad base of enterprise and government clients worldwide. Founded in 1978, Texas Memory Systems continues to architect and engineer the future of solid state storage.
About the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux and open source companies and developers from around the world. The Linux Foundation promotes, protects and standardizes Linux by hosting important workgroups, events such as LinuxCon, and online resources such as Linux.com (http://www.linux.com). For more information, please visit www.linuxfoundation.org (http://www.linuxfoundation.org) or follow the organization on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/linuxfoundation.
Trademarks: The Linux Foundation, Linux Standard Base and MeeGo are trademarks of The Linux Foundation. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.
Texas Memory Systems, The World’s Fastest Storage, and RamSan are trademarks or registered trademarks of Texas Memory Systems. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners.
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How do you install linux from a USB onto a laptop with no OS?
Posted by: | CommentsQuestion by John R: How do you install linux from a USB onto a laptop with no OS?
The Laptop has no CD Drive, and it has windows on it, however, windows is missing some partitioner and cannot boot up. So is their a way to install linux without using windows first?
Best answer:
Answer by Brendon Pihl
Download and install the files onto the flash drive with the computer you’re on, then boot off the flash drive on your laptop.
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FREE Technical Support For Gentoo Linux During the Testing Phase
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LOS ANGELES, CA (PRWEB) October 6, 2005
GenUX (http://www.gen-ux.com) is making it easier for all users and businesses to obtain technical support for one of the most popular Linux distributions with the release of GenUX’s new technical support program. During the initial release of this program, GenUX will be in a testing phase, and will be offering free support during this time. Historically, Gentoo Linux has been one of the most stable and popular Linux distributions for power Linux users due to its unique nature: instead of installing applications in their binary form, Gentoo Linux users compile the components of the operating system from the original source code. The end result was a Linux distribution perfectly matched to the machine’s and its user’s needs. But the trade-off was that technical expertise was required to install and maintain Gentoo Linux with no professional technical support available.
GenUX is now offering a new service to help lower the bar to installing Gentoo Linux and make it easier for any user to obtain the power and functionality of the community-based distribution.
Initially, GenUX will be testing its technical support services, during this time, users will be able to get support through their support chat and call in phone support for free. Users who choose to purchase one of our support plans will be able to purchase those plans at a discount during this time.
With the Technical support service, the free GenUX Installer CD and the Compiled Binary Packages currently under development, GenUX focuses on giving maximum flexibility, reliability, and power to the Gentoo user, while making it easier to use and maintain advanced computing systems. The GenUX Installer, Technical Support and the Compiled Binary Packages Service are a major step forward for the Gentoo community and users wishing to try Gentoo Linux.
GenUX is not part of the Gentoo project, and are not directed by the Gentoo Foundation.
GenUX is a venture by CodeUX. GenUX is dedicated to providing new solutions for Gentoo Linux users and others wishing to experience these cutting edge options available only with Gentoo Linux.
CONTACT:
Deedra Waters
GenUX Inc.
Phone: 13106227301
Ext: 1003
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plz plz tell how to install a video player in red hat linux?
Posted by: | CommentsQuestion by turef: plz plz tell how to install a video player in red hat linux?
i have downloaded a video player for red hat linux, but thing is that i feel completely different from windows,
what’s the whole procedure to install it,
when i double-click the setup it does’nt get installed , it gives the option openwith.
what to do to run video files in red hat linux.
Best answer:
Answer by Funky G
Open up a terminal ( system -> terminal )
or if its not there, look around teh menus for it.
you will get a small DOS like box come up.
type in
/bin/su -
Hit enter, and type your admin password
now type.
yum install vlc
Once its finished, you should see vlc in your apps -> media section.
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