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Backup & Restore Linux and AIX Images without Identical Hardware Requirements

Friday, January 12th, 2007

storixStorix Inc [here] has introduced a new software that lets customers back up, migrate and provision new Linux and AIX systems. Storix System Backup Administrator (SBAdmin) is a feature-rich AIX and Linux based Backup and Disaster Recovery application, which provides an easy to use graphical user interface for centralized management of system and data backup. SBAdmin is available for standalone systems, or as a network administrator used to manage backups and restores across the network.

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Second Life Goes FOSS!

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

secondlifeFor those who don’t know, Second Life [here] is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents made open to the public in 2003 and today is inhabited by a total of 2,466,151 people from around the world. This virtual world is comprises of digital content including people, entertainment, experiences and opportunity where one can find land to build their house or business as well as surrounded by the creations of fellow residents. All the residents retain the rights to their digital creations thus they can buy, sell and trade with other residents through a Marketplace supporting millions of US dollars in monthly transactions handled with the in-world currency, the Linden dollar, that can also be converted to US dollars at various online currency exchanges. Linden comes from the creator of the Second Life software, Linden Labs [here] that has now released a viewer software for Second Life under the General Public License (GPL).

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Google Invests In Linux - Sponsors Linux and FOSS Notebooks for Fijian Schools

Friday, January 5th, 2007

googlelinuxSearch engine giant Google Inc., is extending its corporate social responsibility to the developing world community through making significant grants for computer hardware equipped with Linux and various other FOSS applications. According to a post on Google’s official coding Blog [here], Google has made a grant that enables notebook computers running Linux and a variety of FOSS to be rolled out at rural schools in Fiji.

Google’s Open Source Program Office has extended the donation via the Imara Project at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The project aims to

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Microvell Deal - The Largest Tech Blooper of 2006?

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

2006 winners land losers

TuxWatch.com Exclusive: I have been continuously analysing the various deals, new product launches and set backs of the Proprietary and FOSS industries globally and from my standpoint, the largest blooper for the year 2006 in corporate deals was the Microvell (Microsoft and Novell) deal whereas the grand winners of the corporate world deals are both Oracle’s Unbreakable Linux Support Programme and RedHat Linux.

Microvell Deal: The Microsoft and Novell deal has done a couple of things for both the Proprietary and FOSS worlds. First it shocked both the

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“Next Big Thing For 2007″ - CIO Study finds Linux ready for Prime-Time!

Monday, January 1st, 2007

linux2007My earlier predications about Linux for year 2007 [here] seem to be catching on quickly (grinning). It may seem a bit unbelievable but according to thisTechworld news article [here], nearly half of all enterprises will be running mission-critical business applications on Linux in five years’ time. That’s according to survey of IT directors, VPs and CIOs carried out by Saugatuck Research, which questioned 133 businesses worldwide.

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CIO’s The Great OS Experiment - Are Red Hat & Fedora really that troublesome?

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

cio dec

The December 2006 issue of CIO magazine carries an interesting story titled, “The Great OS Experiment” initiated and carried out by 44-year-old John Halamka CIO of the Harvard Medical School and CareGroup renowned for his adventurous experiments with medical and genetic technology. The experiment emerged out of interruptions caused due to updates, virus scans and much more when Halamka’s laptop was running Windows XP. This motivated him to

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Jeremy Allison SAMBA Project Lead resigns from Novell on its deal with Microsoft

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

Microvell

The recent news about Jeremy Allison has rocked both the Linux/FOSS & Proprietary Source world. Jeremy is the co-founder and developer of the SAMBA Project, a software that bridges Windows desktop networks to Linux Servers, has quit Novell in protest over their deal with Microsoft. Go Jeremy, we love you Jeremy! This protest has revived the spirits of all those feeling that maybe a certain portion of the FOSS world was giving in to the Microvell (short for Microsoft + Novell partnership) deal.

According to Linux Insider [here] Jeremy announced last week that

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Linux 2007 Predictions - 35 predictions about future of Linux

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

linux2007Linux has been part of mainstream technological advancements worldwide with the momentum continuously increasing everyday especially when Linux enemies like Microsoft too are digging their way into the FOSS movement through partnerships with Novell. The Information Technology industry is vast and spans globally thus anything happening in the industry in one region also affects the other. After observing the overall Linux industry trends [you can read the year 2006 reflections by at Matt at InfoWorld here], I would like to make the following predictions that will drive the next year:

  • Linux will continue to be the leading and preferred server-side operating system in 2007 worldwide.

  • 80% of all US based Venture Capital investments will be targeted at

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Free online “Plone CMS Training” by IOSN at #IOSN Freenode IRC channel

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

Who said you don’t get great news at my Tux Watch Blog? Here is a treat for all of you. The International Open Source Network (IOSN) will conduct an online training on PLONE CMS on December 15, 2006 at 10:00 AM NST, #IOSN channel on Freenode. Interested to join the online training are welcome by joining the irc.freenode.net server and join #IOSN channel. A round of applause to IOSN!

Getting Crazy with Linux at Google Linux

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

Have you ever tried searching for content information through the Linux search facility at Google Linux? Google Linux allows you to search the web’s Linux resources using this specialized version of Google. Enter any keyword related to FOSS or Linux and you get tons of relevant search results making your life very easy. It even brings out my name and all that I have been doing related to Linux from around the world and thus (more…)

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