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China Central Television (CCTV) Increases Efficiency of Animation Production With Intel Platforms Running Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating System (OS)
White Papers Intel architecture is also certified by Red Hat for stability on its Linux Operating System (OS). Animation as an art form has been in China since the 1920s. A large population, including some 200 million teenagers, is still fascinated with...
[April 19, 2007, 1:00]
Hardening Practices of the Linux Operating System Within Avaya Communication Manager
White Papers The Linux Operating System has grown in popularity over the last decade with promises of an "open-source" alternative other operating systems. This paper outlines the steps Avaya is taking to harden the Linux operating system for use in its media...
[February 3, 2005, 2:00]
Linux as a Real-Time Operating System
White Papers The main handicap to considering Linux as a real-time system is that the kernel is not preemptable; that is, while the processor executes kernel code, no other process or event can preempt kernel execution.
[April 3, 2007, 1:00]
Predictable Management of System Resources for Linux
White Papers This paper tries to investigate how this model fits into a Linux framework, especially, in the soft real time context. This paper also provides a framework in Linux which allows privileged users to have their own schedulers for scheduling a group...
[April 18, 2007, 1:00]
SGI has powerful Linux system in pipeline
News Silicon Graphics plans to bump the computing muscle in its large Linux system up to 128 processors. SGI has focused recently on designing single, large computers with one shared memory bank, for corporate customers with jobs that require that kind...
[August 7, 2003, 11:40]
New Linux kernel adds file-system support
News The Linux kernel is the core used by GNU/Linux operating system distributions from Red Hat, Novell Suse and others. Developers have released the Linux kernel version 2.6.30, adding support for new file systems as well as performance improvements...
[June 15, 2009, 13:06]
MandrakeSoft packs new Linux distribution with goodies
News European Linux distributor MandrakeSoft released the latest major edition of its operating system, Mandrake Linux 8.0, on Thursday. MandrakeSoft, a French-based company, describes its version of the popular Unix-based operating system as "a user...
[April 19, 2001, 15:40]
Nokia N900 operating system gets official Qt port
News Applications created for Nokia's N900 smartphone will be easier to port to future versions of the company's Maemo Linux operating system as well as to Symbian and Windows Mobile, after Nokia officially ported its Qt graphical toolkit to Maemo 5.
[October 9, 2009, 17:16]
A Performance Comparison of Linux and a Lightweight Kernel
White Papers This paper compares running the Linux operating system on the compute nodes of ASCI Red hardware to running a specialized, highly-optimized LightWeight Kernel (LWK) operating system. To the knowledge, this is the first direct comparison on...
[April 1, 2007, 1:00]
Red Hat Linux arrives for Alpha, Itanium
News Linux vendor Red Hat has released the latest version of its Linux operating system for two 64-bit platforms: Compaq's Alpha and Intel's Itanium. The software uses the 2.4.9 Linux kernel and the ext3 file system and includes improved USB support.
[January 9, 2002, 13:20]
SuSE's 64-bit Linux seeks unhappy Windows users
News SuSE is targeting disgruntled Windows users with the latest update of its Linux operating system, which includes support for AMD's 64-bit Athlon processor. Established more than ten years ago, SuSE is one of the oldest commercial Linux vendors and...
[October 1, 2003, 15:35]
Linux kernel rewrite claims denied
News Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), which promotes the adoption of the Linux operating system, has denied that it plans to rewrite the Linux kernel to combat claims that it infringes some software patents.
[January 18, 2005, 12:25]
A Year Ago: The Linux story
News The tale of Linux is -- to those in the know -- a story of one man's effort to create an operating system with a little help from, well the whole world. On the downside, almost all of Linux distributions are lacking in a single interface to do...
[June 9, 1999, 6:41]
Red Hat pushes Linux as a service model
News In a sprawling series of announcements on Wednesday, the Linux operating system vendor updated its virtualisation abilities in a new release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It costs a lot of money to do this for different versions of Windows...
[November 8, 2007, 15:39]
Red Hat, 3G Lab design wireless OS
News The companies will jointly develop an open-source operating system, but Linux won't be part of the deal, Red Hat and 3G Lab plan to announce on Tuesday. Instead, the companies will use Red Hat's eCos operating system, which is designed to work in...
[July 31, 2001, 10:22]
Indian adoption of Linux surges
News Linux is reaching further into government offices, with several state and private organisations in India adopting the open-source operating system. Seven government and private entities in India plan to use the Linux operating system to run Oracle...
[February 13, 2004, 9:10]
Ten reasons Linux is the best choice for netbooks
Comment Those who believe Windows is the best netbook operating system are plain wrong, because Linux is a much better fit, says Jack Wallen. Because of the cost of the Linux operating system, the cost of netbooks can continue to fall.
[September 18, 2009, 13:48]
Torvalds: Next Linux due by June
News The next version of the heart of the Linux operating system is expected by June, project founder and leader Linus Torvalds predicted on Thursday. The more formal process makes it easier for companies such as IBM or Red Hat to plan products such as...
[October 28, 2002, 9:01]
Lindows to hit retail shelves
News LindowsOS, the Linux-based operating system designed to attract non-technical Windows desktop users, could soon be hitting retail shelves. However, Linux is expected to continue doing well in the server market: analysts recently predicted that it...
[December 16, 2002, 16:15]
Wind River adds embedded Linux support
News Wind River Systems, the largest provider of software for embedded devices, has added its first official support for the Linux operating system, underscoring the momentum of Linux in devices outside the PC realm.
[October 3, 2003, 11:00]
