30 Days With Ubuntu Linux: Day 10
If you have been following along, then you know I have had my share of issues thus far in my 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux journey. One thing that stands out for me as a plus so far, though, for Linux–or at least for Ubuntu Linux–is the Ubuntu Software Center.
It seems that not a day has gone by without some comment on my 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux post extolling the virtues of the Ubuntu Software Center:
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June 13, 2011 at 7:15 am 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux: Day 11
Welcome back. For today’s 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux post, I am taking a look at LibreOffice–the open source suite of productivity tools that comes installed by default with Ubuntu Linux. I examine how it works, compared with Microsoft Office, or my experience last month spending 30 Days With Google Docs.
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Day 11: Weighing LibreOffice as a Microsoft Office Alternative
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June 12, 2011 at 7:18 pm As Aerohive ramps up its new cloud-based HiveOS and HiveManager 4.0 versions, the company continues to try to reach feature parity with WLAN market leaders and deliver functional innovation to differentiate itself from the pack.
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June 12, 2011 at 1:15 am With IPv6, everything from appliances to automobiles can be interconnected. But an increased number of IT addresses isn’t the only advantage of IPv6 over IPv4. In honor of World IPv6 Day, here are six more good reasons to make sure your hardware, software, and services support IPv6.
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June 11, 2011 at 7:15 pm Apparently, people who are able to put their money where their mouths are think that the market for PCIe attached flash memory is bigger than Fusion IO selling a couple of thousand cards to Facebook to speed up drunken frat-boy photo load times. Just this week, Texas Memory Systems and Micron released new high-end PCIe flash cards that push the performance and capacity envelopes for PCIe flash.
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June 11, 2011 at 1:13 pm This week’s announcements at the inaugural Dell Storage Forum, which has attracted more than 300 customers and almost 250 channel partners, are intended to demonstrate the company’s commitment to evolving from a storage reseller to a storage OEM, as well as how it plans to integrate its various storage acquisitions under the umbrella of its Fluid Data Architecture.
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June 11, 2011 at 7:23 am At its recent meeting for industry analysts, NetApp not only trumpeted its most recent successes in the market and demonstrated its current wares, but executives also revealed the vision and strategy that they believe will allow the company to continue on its yellow-brick road of growth.
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June 11, 2011 at 1:12 am Embotics has introduced a new version of its V-Commander virtualization software that provides additional management, policy-driven automation, wizard-driven rapid provisioning features and new cloud automation to its base platform.
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June 10, 2011 at 7:14 pm CloudBees, a Java-focused Platform-as-a-Service company, is now offering a version of its RUN@cloud PaaS offering specifically for those looking to build their own internal, private clouds. Closely related to the company’s new paid “Premium” version of its RUN@cloud PaaS offering, CloudBees is aiming to gain a foothold in both the private and public cloud markets.
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June 10, 2011 at 1:15 pm As this week’s inaugural Dell Storage Forum winds down, the gathering of analysts, customers, channel partners and executives offered compelling evidence that the company, once known for its direct sales focus and miniscule R&D budgets, really is changing. Only time will tell if the transformation takes, but if it doesn’t, it appears it won’t be for lack of effort.
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June 10, 2011 at 7:15 am