Enterprise Resource Planning Software Moving to Linux
Monday November 29, 2004
In a recent survey of companies and government agencies using PeopleSoft, SAP, or Oracle Corp. ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) applications is was found that a small but growing percentage of ... Read More
First Linux For The Cluster Technology
Thursday November 25, 2004
Orion Cluster Workstations are the first to offer a standard Linux platform the development community can use for building cluster applications.... Existing Linux cluster software runs on Orion Cluster Workstations ... Read More
Linux Powers Australian Power Provider
Friday November 19, 2004
Country Energy, one of Australia's largest electrical power providers, serves about 750,000 customers, operating more than 200,000 miles of power lines, and has about $1 billion in annual revenues. Country ... Read More
HP Provides Customer Support for JBoss
Friday November 19, 2004
Hewlett Packard (HP) announced that it would be offering first-call service for JBoss, the application server that implements a full J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) application programming interface. Businesses and ... Read More
Ucopia And Mandrakesoft To Extend The Boundaries Of Mobility
Thursday November 18, 2004
Paris, November 3rd 2004 : Ucopia, Mandrakesoft and the University of
Paris' LIP6 research laboratory have just been granted a 1 million
euro research grant to collaborate in advanced mobility research. The
project, ... Read More
Open Source Developers Use Lulu to Sell Software
Saturday November 13, 2004
Lulu.com has announced that it would provide publishing and distribution tools for independent software developers. The service is an extension of the company’s business based on giving independent publisher free ... Read More
Penguin Computing Raises $10M
Thursday November 11, 2004
Penguin Computing has announced that it closed a $10 million round of expansion financing, which it plans to use to take advantage of the increasing demand for Linux clustering solutions ... Read More
New Linux Supercomputer Reaches 42.7 Teraflops
Thursday November 11, 2004
Silicon Graphics and Nasa developed a new supercomputer cluster containing 10,240 Itanium 2 processors running on 20 SGI Altrix server platforms. Each box accommodates 512 processors. Using 16 of its ... Read More
How Do I Run a Program Under Linux?
Saturday November 6, 2004
"Typing the name of the executable on the command line doesn't help? There are three possibilities."
"The first possibility: I did not type the name of the executable correctly. The second ... Read More
GUI vs. Command Line: Join the Discussion
Saturday November 6, 2004
"It sort of irks me when people suggest that a command-line interface is somehow better and having a GUI interface means the OS is "dumbed down". The graphical user interface ... Read More
Linux / Unix Commands and Shell Commands
Saturday November 6, 2004
Many people do not know the differences between built-in shell commands and other Linux / Unix commands and are not sure why they should care. One practical reason for ... Read More