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 | The highly-anticipated release of Fedora 9 is here! It has the new KDE4 desktop that I [URL="http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/6464/"]reviewed[/URL] on LinuxPlanet which makes some big improvements in user experience and speed. It also includes the hot new [URL="http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/6467/"]FireFox 3[/URL] web browser with some new security features that are sure to impress even … |
| | This is the first post in my new series called Crystal Ball Sunday. These Sunday posts are where I take out my Linux, and related technology, crystal ball and give you my predictions for the coming months. This week I am focusing on corporate conversion to Linux. I foresee companies … |
| | There is a recent trend amongst those who’ve implemented virtualization solutions: Complaints about the costs. Why, they wonder, have they spent more on virtualization when it's supposed to be cheaper? Virtualization is greener in terms of power consumption, space, and cooling but don’t look for a lot of green to … |
| | When he took the reins almost two years ago, new Novell President and CEO Ronald Hovsepian, was going to lead the charge in driving the Linux acceptance and conversion. Recently he said that the Desktop Linux market, in the next 3 to 5 years, is mainly enterprise-related and that the …  |
| | Businesses are snapping their wallets shut, at least when it comes to software spending - usually a good leading indicator of economic growth. One key benchmark, the ChangeWave corporate software spending survey, has seen a shift into negative territory for the first time in years. In its January, 2008 survey …  |
| | The security experts at [URL="http://www.avertlabs.com"]McAfee's Avert labs[/URL] have been consulting the Tarot card, rubbing their crystal balls and generally predicting what levels of IT doom and gloom we can expect to be experiencing during the course of 2008. Unsurprisingly, they expect to see an increase in web exploits and those … |
 | While there is no doubting that virtualization is not only a technology to watch, but one that will move into the mainstream real soon now, there remains a question of just how soon that will actually be. A new survey by [URL="http://www.emedia.co.uk"]emedia[/URL] suggests that the timescale for making that move, …  |
| | [FONT="]It seems that everyone and their uncle are doing a Linux deal at the moment, and the latest to hop into the same commercial bed are IBM and Red Hat. Today the companies have announced an initiative to encourage the dramatic growth of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM System … |
| | Add SuSE to the list of operating systems going to be offered by Dell as they ally with Novell and Microsoft to sell their server software. Planning on selling both SuSE SLES (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server) and Microsoft's Windows Server, Dell broadens their offering of solutions, hoping to increase their … |
| | IBM has today announced the availability of an [URL="http://ibm.com/systems/p/Linux/systempave.html"]open beta version[/URL] of its virtual Linux environment to enable x86 Linux applications to run without modification on POWER processor-based IBM System p servers. Designed to reduce power, cooling and space by consolidating x86 Linux workloads on System p servers, it will … |
| | VMWare has finally jumped on the Intel Mac virtualization bandwagon by releasing [URL="http://www.vmware.com/whatsnew/macsignupform.html"]VMWare Fusion[/URL], a program that competes with Parallels' previously released [URL="http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/"]Parallels Workstation for Mac[/URL]. VMWare has previously had virtulization products available for Linux and Windows, but this is the first time that they've released the workstation product for … |
 | VMware has bashed Microsofts partnership with XenSource and upcoming opensource virtualization software company. They are saying that is a "one way street" and that they are betraying their opensource roots. The deal allows better intergration for para-virtualization of Windows on the Xen software. I find this odd seeing as how … |
| | Hi all. I want to set up a small array of linux servers on a couple computers I have.. I'd like to use virtualization software and set up 2-3 VM's on each computer. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions as to what software and OS to use i.e. …  |
| | UltraVNC is an enhanced VNC distribution. It's based on RealVNC, features TightVNC smart cursor handling and encoding, almost all the special functionalities that can be found in eSVNC and Vdacc-VNC, and a lot more. Windows 2000/2003/9x/XP / Freeware / Size: 2035 kb [url="http://uploading.com/files/P63T2ZN9/UltraVNC_1.0.6.4_Setup.exe.html"]Download here[/url] or [URL=http://depositfiles.com/files/o3e8uccm0]Download here[/URL] Where Is It? … |
| | I have a C# remoting app that has 2 pieces. One runs in the current user context and is a Windows Application. The 2nd piece runs as a windows service and they communicate just fine with each other using Remoting. However, I cannot find a good solution to my problem. …  |
| | I did not find the perfect forum for this topic. Hence, I have posted this thread here in the windows servers forums. Please move it to the appropriate forums if there is any. Which virtualization technology is better? Hardware level or software level? My friend suggested me to go for … |
| | Hi I am new to perl programming, and have hit a bit of a snag. I have been editing the ghettoshutdown script for my own devices. What it does so far is shutdown or suspend all virtual machines on a host (using vmware for virtualization), but it does not shut … |
| | Hi I read that a vb.net application can make use of a .manifest file to allow the programs to get through the user account permissions when installing to ms Vista. I understand this code was offered for vb.net, does anyone know if the same thing can be applied to vb6, … |
 | Hi All, I am currently using Windows Vista ultimate as my primary (host) operating system. Due to a need to use legacy software I am running Windows XP Service Pack 3 as a guest operating system (by way of VMware Workstation 6 software). I have succesfully installed IIS into XP, … |
| | Hi, we are considering to buy a VMware Virtual Center. We have two servers running VMware Standard edition. Do you believe it will be worth it? Or do we have to upgrade our VMware licenses to Enterprise before upgrading virtual center to make it worth it. I had just read … |
| | Hi, I am fairly new to IT (i.e. graduate). I am looking to find out about virtualization and how it can be used etc... But i have no idea how it is implmentated or what use it would be? I currently work for an insurance brokers and the only servers … |
| | Hey Folks, I was wondering, in terms of pricing of various virtualization offering, have you seen any visible trends. I guess pricing may be coming down from every vendor including VMWare - any thoughts - Thanks for helping us |
| | Hey folks, I was wondering, how are your IT budgets till the end of the year and if you are able to get projects approved for funding, and what trick (if any) do you use to get projects funded. We are having tough time to get our projects off the … |
| | Hey Folks - We need your help. We were hoping, we could gain from your experience with implementing server virtualization. When should we be using Red Hat Virtualization, Citrix Virtualization, Xen Virtualization, Microsoft Virtualization, Oracle Virtualization and VMWare. I will be very interested in learning from your first hand experience. … |
| | Hi, Flexibility and manageability are drawing more enterprise users to look at the technology of Desktop Virtualization. Their goal is to create a more dynamic and efficient hardware environment. At the same time, a growing number of software vendors are rolling out desktop-virtualization offerings. In such a scenario, suggest a … |
 | Hi Guys... i'm sure the topic has given you a braod hint and if u've still been brave enough to open this just help me out... i have a dual boot system, windows XP and Ubuntu 7.1. i need to change this setup to a virtual machine setup, host xp … |
| | Hello Everyone, I am the newest blogger on the virtual block here at DaniWeb. I am the Linux Blogger and new regular contributer. I have been messing with Linux for about 13 years now and I feel like it's an old friend of sorts. I do a fair amount of …  |
| | Hey Folks - We need your help. We were hoping, we could gain from your experience with implementing server virtualization. When should we be using Red Hat Virtualization, Citrix Virtualization, Xen Virtualization, Microsoft Virtualization, Oracle Virtualization and VMWare. I will be very interested in learning from your first hand experince. … |
| | I was running FIFA 08. I right clicked it in and saw something called Vistualization. Whats this?? Here is an example show for Firefox [img]http://i23.tinypic.com/2zzrfao.jpg[/img] |
 | So here's the deal; I didn't get to take the Calc teacher I wanted and I got put in a class with the only teacher who is teaching it this semester. Turns out, I haven't learned much of anything other than deffinitions. I don't doubt I could pass the class, … |
| | Hey Guy and Girls, Not sure if this is in the right place but could find a thread for i want people to tell me what to do.. I am a final year computer systems and networking student with this comes my final year project. I have been trying to …  |
 | Depending on your perspective, [I]virtualization’s [/I]purpose is to afford divergence and convergence. It affords the division of logical objects that should be separated, and/or the consolidation of objects that should be grouped together. The technology’s recent explosion coincides with the trend of consolidating systems on to fewer, but more powerful … |
| | I've been looking at processors for sale recently, and I've noticed a spec I don't understand, "Virtualization Technology Support." The answer is always Yes or No, but no explanation is given. Could someone please explain how Virtualization is supported by the CPU and what determines whether or not that CPU … |
| | Hi all, I'm a IT technician busy building a firewall on Fedora Core 5. (iptables) I have done a few basic firewall, but struggling with this one. It has to have failover built into it. Otherwise I work with the best open-source mail & collaboration suite available (Zimbra) As well … |
| | Now Microsoft Virtual pc is free. VMWare server is free, and a whole lot more virtualization programs are available for pc's, but why not macs? I would really like to use VMWare on macs. there's parallels, but it's not the same. virtual pc costs money for macs, and i don't … |
| | [indent][color=navy]launched two Pentium 4 chips built with a technology that allows computers to run several operating systems and improve their multitasking abilities. [/color] [color=navy]The company is touting the Pentium 4 as the first desktop processors with so-called “virtualization |
| | [color=navy][QUOTE] [color=navy]Customers are using virtualization technologies more and more for a variety of reasons – as part of server consolidations, for test and development, to create a more agile infrastructure that allows them to move workloads from machine to machine regardless of hardware, to establish better business continuity and to … |
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