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Crystal Ball Sunday #3: Distributed Computing in the Workplace
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| You may be asking how Linux will fit into this corporate distributed
| computing scenario. Linux, most likely, will be the platform of choice to
| manage the LAN resource cloud. Linux is used for the large compute clusters
| in research laboratories worldwide and has a long history in this area. Linux
| will also most likely be the Desktop platform due to its more efficient use
| of resources even when a window manager like GNOME or KDE is used.
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http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry2541.html
Don't buy any download accelerator
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| In any case, if you didn't know what a download accelerator is, now you know.
| But after the Vista fiasco, plenty of people are moving to Linux, specially
| since there has been a plethora of consumer-friendly distros lately, like the
| popular Ubuntu.
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| [...]
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| Downloading OpenOffice in a handful of minutes instead of half an hour and
| saturating your 5Mbit ADSL link? Great. Doing so without having to spend a
| dime. Priceless!.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/05/31/download-accelerator-for-linux
Days ago:
Linux Nightlife Wants You to Come Out and Play
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| Linux not only wants to dominate the Data Center and your Desktop but now it
| wants your unused CPU power as well. Nightlife is a grid-based computing
| effort that is Fedora Linux-specific.
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http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry2530.html
Recent:
Microsoft underscores the fallacies of Microsoft's distributed computing
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| The fundamental difference between Microsoft and Linux in general is due to
| motivation. Microsoft's was draconian, while Linux was honorable. Microsoft
| was intent on tightening the screws in their system making sure that you have
| rendered unto Microsoft your tax (the price) of their software, while the
| Linux problem was an honest (though very unfortunate) mistake where the
| developers were trying to improve the software, but failed. I don't know how
| you feel, but I take no great comfort in the fact that because of Microsoft's
| greed the full operation of my paid-for copy of Microsoft software is at the
| mercy of a less than perfect vendor on the other end of a less than reliable
| network. I can fix a bug like the xorg bug, but I can't fix a bug like the
| Microsoft bug unless I just replace it with an alternative and remove all
| those negative critical dependencies.
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http://blogbeebe.blogspot.com/2007/08/microsoft-underscores-fallacies-of.html
Related:
Cleversafe Launches DSGrid File System
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| The Cleversafe project, developers of the world's first open source
| Dispersed Storage software, has launched a new open source project, called
| the DSGrid File System (dsgfs), to allow a dispersed storage grid to appear
| as a mountable file system for Linux-based software applications.
|
| [...]
|
| ...Using the dsgfs, users will be able to seamlessly store data on
| the Cleversafe Research Storage Grid, on a commercial grid or on a grid
| they build themselves. dsgfs initially will support various versions
| of Linux, including Debian, Fedora and CentOS.
|
| "This new project means that most Linux-based applications will now be
| able to seamlessly take advantage of the benefits of dispersed storage,
| which include security, reliability and privacy,? said John Quigley,
| dsgfs project lead. "Cleversafe is inviting organizations and individualst
| o freely participate in the project."
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http://www.gridtoday.com/grid/875634.html
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