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The New York Timessuggeststhat Sun's Solaris operating system may be falling out of favor."Sun officials believe the 16-year-old Solaris platform remains a pivotal, innovative platform. But at the Linux Foundation, there is a no-conciliatory stance; the attitude there is to tell Solaris and Sun to move out of the way. "The future is Linux and Microsoft Windows," says foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin. "It is not Unix or Solaris."Solaris, he said, has almost no new deployments and is a legacy operating environment offered by a company with financial difficulties."
Novell: Free SLES while the fire is hot
My "Free Enterprise OSes" post got a lot of attention and a lot of positive feedback, particularly from those who are now actually considering using some of these in order to reduce license costs. Still, while I am glad people are now considering these OSes as real enterprise computing solutions, a nagging feeling remains along the lines of the Cookie Monster's famous platinum hit, "One of these things is not like the other. One of these things does not belong." And that thing is openSUSE, particularly when included in the list with CentOS/Scientific, Solaris and BSD. Look, I like openSUSE. A lot. I fought to get SuSE Linux Professional released into Open Source when the idea wasn't even a twinkle in Novell's ...
From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
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It’s Time to Hack the Economy
The Hacker Underground is dead. Long live the Hacker Underground! In the most recent issue of Phrack Magazine, I read an article titled "The Underground Myth," that makes a number of astute points about the demise of the hacking scene of the last few decades. The author describes a technical landscape in which the technology security industry and a diminishing number of obvious exploits conspired to destroy the scene.
BalanceNG 2.196 (Default branch)
BalanceNG is a modern software IP load balancingsolution. It is small, fast, and easy to use andsetup. It offers session persistence, differentdistribution methods (Round Robin, Random,Weighted Random, Least Session, Least Bandwidth,Hash, Agent, and Randomized Agent) and acustomizable UDP health check agent in sourcecode. It supports VRRP to set up high availabilityconfigurations on multiple nodes. It supportsSNMP, integrating the BALANCENG-MIB withNet-SNMPD. It implements a very fast in-memoryIP-to-location database, allowing powerfullocation-based server load-balancing.License: Other/Proprietary License with Free TrialChanges:A general problem with NAT and multiple instanceson the same machine has been fixed; upgrading isrecommended if multiple instances are being usedin conjunction with NAT. A problem with packetprocessing and multiple instances on Solaris basedmachines has been fixed and a new controllingparameter has been added (bngfilter). Upgrading isrecommended if multiple instances are being usedon Solaris. Both fixes have also been applied tothe 1.x branch, resulting in release 1.934. Themanuals have been updated accordingly. The UbuntuJeOS VMware virtual appliance has been updatedaccordingly.
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