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Symantec Tackles Mobile Security

Security software firm unveils prototype system designed to help carriers weed out malware and other security vulnerabilities on mobile devices.

VMware Takes Virtualization To The Streets

VMware Express is an 18-wheeler with a functioning datacenter inside that's embarking on a 15-city tour of the U.S. and Canada to show off the company's virtualization technologies.

10 Things CIOs Need to Know About the Cloud

Serdar Yegulalp takes a closer look at the top 10 challenges and issues facing enterprises as they begin to embrace the cloud and Software-as-a-Service model.

Haiku OS Hopes For New 3D Stack

Haiku OS, the nine year old project to develop an open-source BeOS-compatible operating system, is hoping it will receive a new OpenGL stack this year. The Haiku project, like X.Org, will be participating in this year's Google Summer of Code project where the search engine giant pays many student developers to work on code for various open-source projects. There's a long list of ideas for where Haiku OS could use some help, and one of them includes a hardware 3D acceleration stack...

Report: The 7 Attractions of Gnome and KDE

GNOME and KDE have long had features that Windows lacked. In the last few years, both major free desktops have added features that show not only an interest in usability, but, at times, an effort to anticipate what users might actually want.

Networking appliance taps Freescale’s QorIQ processor

Portwell announced a network appliance using Freescale's PowerPC-based, 45nm-fabricated QorIQ system-on-chip. The Linux-ready, 1U rackmount & CAK-2000& offers a dual-core QorIQ P2020, clocked to 1.2 GHz and equipped with an integrated security engine, and also provides up to 4GB DDR3 RAM and six gigabit Ethernet ports....

Tutorial: Automated Linux Server Backup Tips and Tricks

This tutorial walks us step-by-step through creating a custom server backup script with some nifty features like bandwith throttling to avoid bogging down the server being backed up, how to exclude files, and how to synchronize deleted files.

AsiaBSDCon 2010

AsiaBSDCon 2010 will be held from 11-14 March in Tokyo AsiaBSDCon is a conference for users and developers on BSD based systems. The next conference will be held in Tokyo, in 11-14 March, 2010. The conference is for anyone developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Darwin and MacOS X. AsiaBSDCon is [...]

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FreeBSD, Building a Computing Cluster (meetbsd 2007)

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Phoronix Test Suite 2.6 “Lyngen” Alpha 1

It's been just a month since releasing Phoronix Test Suite 2.4 and that was followed by the release of our PTS Desktop Live 2010.1 operating system, but since then work has been flowing into the next release of the Phoronix Test Suite and related benchmarking technologies. The next release, Phoronix Test Suite 2.6, is codenamed Lyngen and will be officially available in May. Today the first alpha release for Phoronix Test Suite 2.6 is available...