Too many posts to handle? If you missed out on a great post from last month, here’s a quick digest of the top posts that you may want to check out:
  • 10 Reasons to Choose Linux in a Bad Economy
    Posted on Monday, December 8th, 2008 in Applications – Views: (180)
    From the article:Whether the ailing economy is real or imagined, you might be looking for ways to shed some pounds off your bloated IT budget. You should seriously consider Linux and Open Source software to put your 2009 financial appetite on a diet. Here are 10 reasons to choose Linux in a bad economy and none of them have to do with the fact that Linux is free.
  • Novell Takes Lead in Certified ISV Support for SUSE Linux Enterprise
    Posted on Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 in Appliance – Views: (150)
    From the Press Release:SUSE Linux Enterprise now has more than 2,500 software certified applications and is recommended as a preferred platform for leading ISVs including Microsoft and SAPWALTHAM, Mass., Nov. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Novell today announced more than 2,500 software applications are now certified on the latest versions of SUSE® Linux Enterprise, with an average of 140 new applications being added each month. Based on publicly available information, SUSE Linux Enterprise 9 and 10 have the most certified software applications when compared to the latest releases of all other commercial Linux* distributions.
  • TripIt simplifies assembling your travel itinerary
    Posted on Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 in OSS News – Views: (136)
    For any readers of this blog who have to travel periodically (there may be one or two), TripIt can be a valuable organizational tool.  Simply forward your various travel reservation emails over to plans@tripit.com (no registration needed to get started) and it will automatically cull out the pertinent information and organize it into an itinerary containing flight, hotel, and car reservation info.
  • Getting an education – despite the school…
    Posted on Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 in OSS News – Views: (126)
    Linux is “illegal” software?!?!?!  What?!?!  You gotta do yourself a huge favor and head over to Ken Starks blog to see what crazy antics are afoot in our education system today.  Just one example, I am certain, of how even a ludicrous perception of reality – impacts our nation.  If you ask my daughters what their favorite operating system is… they’ll say Linux.
  • Mojave Experiment: Lying to Your Customers
    Posted on Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 in Applications – Views: (150)
    What do you do when people associate the word Vista with buggy software, draconian hardware change policies, software activation nightmares, little value for a lot of cost and buggy virus-prone software?You fake a new version of an operating system, or in other words, you lie to your customers and tell them it’s called Mojave, when it’s really Windows Vista.What do people think of Windows Vista when they don’t know it’s Windows Vista?
  • The Register: Red Hat and Novell duke it out in real time
    Posted on Friday, December 12th, 2008 in Applications – Views: (103)
    As a follow on to Ross’ post about the latest STAC benchmark test featuring the performance of RMDS (Reuters Market Data System) 6.3 on SLERT (SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time) 10, The Register’s Timothy Morgan wrote a piece that picked up on this “arms race” of sorts.  Which vendor’s solution comes out on top?The two takeaways from the much smarter Novell tests are that InfiniBand can make a huge difference in raw throughput on the RMDS workload, and that SLERT plus InfiniBand managed to edge out Red Hat’s Enterprise MRG in the latency-optimized portions of the test.
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