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Top 10 most popular Linux server distributions

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Top 10 most popular Linux server distributions

Top 10 Linux server distributions are listed here

Everyone knows that many data center servers are running Linux, this can save a lot of license fees and maintenance costs. There are numerous Linux distributions now available and the problem is how to chose the best ? Here are the top 10 most popular Linux server distributions, perhaps we have included few which you probably have not heard of.

In the following list there is no particular ranking , We have written the list based on the main criteria: ease of use, with commercial support and have the data center reliability.

Ubuntu: Linux-related products, as almost the entire list, based on Debian to Ubuntu very special and unique. From its easy installation to excellent hardware recovery, to the level of world-class commercial support, regardless of where on the one hand, Ubuntu is beyond all other versions, and let them catch up.

Red Hat: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) from the shouting of “almost no Linux company can do” to the current search for the data center has become a major force storage shelf areas. Linux is the darling of large enterprises around the world, Red Hat’s spirit of innovation and continuous support for it won lot many repeated customers.

SUSE: Novell’s SUSE is known for its stability and ease of maintenance . In addition, it is designed for those who do not have time and patience to wait for a long troubleshooting telephone customers to support Novell’s all-weather rapid response. Moreover, Novell’s consulting team will help you a to chieve your service level agreements.

Mandriva: The structure is reasonable to incredible Linux distributions received good response from France ,Europe and South America w. As its website claims, it is a worldwide Linux vendors. The name and structure from Mandriva Mandrake Linux and Connectiva Linux.

Xandros: If you prefer Microsoft-related Linux version, then Xandros would be a good choice. Aside rumors did not say, Xandros and Microsoft did during the so-called insiders in technology cooperation. This means that they are to compete at the same time also give cooperation. If you want a unique perspective on the depth of understanding, please visit the website of Xandros.

Slackware: Although it is not having the relationship with the commercial version of big, but it is provided with several support has been paid to maintain relations of cooperation. As one of the earliest available version, Slackware has a broad and loyal fan base. It’s developers regularly release new versions.

Debian: Debian do not think I listed here are pieces of strange things. Indeed, Debian offers no formal business support, but you can consult it in the world to connect Debian consultants page. The mother than other Linux versions such as Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and Vyatta is concerned, Debian is more developed sub-version.

Vyatta: PC operating system compared to, Vyatta is more in the family of router and firewall. But if you want a commercial driver version to support these applications, Vyatta can guarantee your communications needs.
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Red Hat executive to lead Meridian

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Red Hat executive to lead Meridian

The new CEO of a Moore County company that makes touch-screen kiosks is a former top executive at Linux software company Red Hat.

Nick Van Wyk left Raleigh-based Red Hat to become CEO of Meridian Kiosk, a 40-employee company based in Aberdeen. At Red Hat, he was senior transformation executive and vice president of global operations and reported directly to Charlie Peters, the company’s chief financial officer.

“We’d be hard-pressed to find a better fit for Meridian than Nick,” Meridian’s founder and former CEO, Chris Gilder, said in a prepared statement. “His vast experience in creating channels and business operations will help take us to the next level.”

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ParaScale releases open private cloud storage platform

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

ParaScale releases open private cloud storage platform

Offers integration capabilities into virtualised environments and web services

ParaScale, a provider of cloud storage offerings, has unveiled ParaScale Cloud Storage software R2.0, which leverages any commodity hardware running Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS or CentOS, and integrates applications directly onto storage nodes. It provides integration capabilities into virtualised environments and web services.

The company said that the new software provides integration capabilities into virtualised environments and web services. It enables ParaScale to function as a back-up for virtual machines and their respective data. In the event of a failure, the virtual machines can be booted directly from the company and be up and running.

According to ParaScale, the software platform comes with features such as web service API expansion through SOAP and REST to provide configuration, administration, and provisioning support. It allows enterprises and service providers to provide self service options through the web and integrate ParaScale functionality into third-party dashboards, control panels and workflows.

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latform buys HP’s message passing interface

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

latform buys HP’s message passing interface

Platform Computing, which has carved out a niche for itself managing supercomputer clusters and dispatching applications on HPC gear, has been expanding up the stack. It continued this process today when it acquired the HP-MPI stack created by HP for its own servers, as well as others used in HPC clusters.

MPI, short for message passing interface, is the protocol used to parse-up jobs and spread around data as a cluster runs a parallelised application. It’s the backbone of the cluster and is therefore a key component of any application. There are plenty of MPI stacks available, some of them open source, some of them not, and all are tuned for different architectures or spanning multiple types of platforms and network interconnects.

To help build up its business – which got its start with the Load Sharing Facility (LSF) tool for managing gridded applications decades ago – Platform has open-sourced its software and contributed to key open source cluster-management projects, while at the same time buying up MPI stacks and adding other goodies into its tools.

Platform Cluster Manager – formerly known as the Open Cluster Stack and in its fifth release – includes an open source implementation of the LSF job-scheduling tool called Lava and developed under a project called Kusu. OCS also includes Nagios for system monitoring, Cacti for node and cluster monitoring, Ganglia for workload monitoring, and other software that’s needed to run an x64-based supercomputer cluster based on Linux.

HP started reselling its own bundle of the Platform cluster tools, called Platform HPC for Insight Control Environment for Linux, in March. This followed Red Hat’s own Red Hat HPC Solution, which debuted in October 2008, and Dell’s own twist on the Platform stack, called OCS Del Edition, which came out two weeks later. Companies can also download the Cluster Manager tools from Platform directly and pay for support contracts if they want to build their own HPC setups.

To make its cluster tools more useful and relevant, Platform bought the HPC management software stack from Scali in October 2007. Then in August 2008 it acquired the Scali-MPI stack to weave it into its cluster tools.

Just last week, Platform inked a deal with nVidia that will see the CUDA programming environment for Tesla GPU co-processors incorporated into its cluster management tools. This means that both Cluster Manager and LSF can seamlessly dispatch work to Tesla engines, just as it can dispatch work to x64 processor cores inside a cluster.

While the Scali-MPI stack that Platform acquired last year was tuned for Linux, it had some limitations in that it was only supported by a half-dozen independent software vendors. According to Tripp Purvis, VP of business development at Platform, the company had only done a little work making Scali-MPI work with Windows and had done no work porting it to various flavours of Unix.

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Google’s 64-bit Chrome starts emerging–on Linux

Friday, August 21st, 2009

Google’s 64-bit Chrome starts emerging–on Linux

Google has begun work on a 64-bit version of Chrome for Linux, a move likely to whip Linux loyalists into a lather of excitement.

“The V8 team did some amazing work this quarter building a working 64-bit port. After a handful of changes on the Chromium side, I’ve had Chromium Linux building on 64-bit for the last few weeks,” said Chrome engineer Dean McNamee in a mailing list message Thursday.

V8 is Chrome’s engine for running programs written in the JavaScript language common on the Web. Chromium is the open-source project behind Google’s branded and supported Chrome browser, and McNamee shared instructions for programmers to build 64-bit Chromium.

Virtually all PCs today come with 64-bit processors from Intel or Advanced Micro Devices, but for desktop computing, 32-bit operating systems and software are common. The transition to 64-bit software is well under way–notably with Linux and Mac OS X–but the change isn’t simple. In the browser world, for example, it can be problematic running a 64-bit browser with a 32-bit plug-in such as Adobe Systems’ Flash, Microsoft’s Silverlight, or Sun Microsystems’ Java.

In 64-bit versions, programs can take advantage of larger amounts of memory, performance can benefit from extra storage spaces called registers on processors, and some mathematically intense computing tasks can run faster. But along with issues such as broken plug-ins, 64-bit software can hog more disk space, complicate programmers’ testing and support chores, and often doesn’t really run appreciably faster, so the transition isn’t necessarily a top priority.

For example, Mac OS X already is most of the way through its 64-bit transition, but 64-bit Safari won’t arrive until Mac OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard, which is due in coming weeks. Apple, by the way, says that JavaScript will run much faster on the 64-bit version of Safari.

But Linux fans, who offset their smaller numbers with higher technical proficiency and a fondness for programming, are champions of 64-bit software. They hammered Adobe until it released a 64-bit version of Flash Player for Linux, and now they’re agitating for 64-bit browsers.

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