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10 interesting open source software forks and why they happened
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| Judging from these ten software forks, common causes of forks are
| disagreements (sometimes purely ideological) and personality clashes, though
| more practical reasons are also common (such as the Webkit and Firefox
| examples). It is also interesting to see that many times the forks have
| surpassed the original software in popularity.
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http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=391
Recent:
Drizzle, a MySQL fork for web applications
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| MySQL employees have announced a fork of the open source MySQL database,
| named "Drizzle", that focuses on what they see as the essential features for
| an online database. In his blog, Brian Aker suggests web applications,
| databases without integrated business processes, cloud environments and
| multi-core architectures as potential applications for this trimmed down
| version of MySQL server.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/113232/from/rss09
Running With Forks
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| On a Windows computer, there is no configurable limit to the number of
| processes you can run. So it is relatively trivial to create a batch file to
| launch the same application in an infinite loop until the system is unusable.
| Some Windows services provide protection, in particular IIS can be configured
| to restrict total number of threads and CPU being consumed. However, this is
| not system-wide and certainly leaves the door open for trojan applications
| that may want to take your computer away from you.
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| UNIX operating systems, however, have the concept of ULIMIT. This facility
| has evolved, and while most distributions don’t bother to configure any
| limits they are easily setup and can serve as a protective barrier between
| you and a poorly written application.
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http://www.micromux.com/2008/04/15/running-simultaneously/
Citrix strips XenSource of virtualization, open source...everything
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| Citrix either got completely snowed in the acquisition or, much more likely,
| it's getting pressure from its bosom-buddy, Microsoft. What it's not getting
| is much value for its $500 million.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9866973-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
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