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Redhat and Cisco team up to deliver unified computing solution

Today Redhat and Cisco announced they will work together to deliver Red Hat Enterprise Linux software with the Cisco Unified Computing System.  The Cisco Unified Computing System is touted as a ground breaking data center platform that will help streamline operations.

Some of the benefits that are talked about are:

• Superior performance and reliability at lower costs
• Better server utilization and power/cooling efficiencies
• Support for a broad range of hardware and software
• Evolving a modernized IT infrastructure

Redhat is already known as a leader of Open Source Soltuions and the independent software vendor (ISV) ecosystem, including more than 3,000 certified applications, will enable customers to run thousands of Red Hat-certified applications on the Cisco Unified Computing System upon availability.

To read more about the two read Cisco Unified Computing Sytem and Redhat Enterprise Linux.

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Turning off IE

Now according to the msdn blog, IE, among other features can be turned off in Windows 7.  This is a big step for Microsoft due to the fact that IE has been packaged as the browser of choice for Windows.  This gives users some actual flexibility and choice!  What?  Choice in Windows?

I personally use Firefox as my browser of choice but, it should be noted that certain websites and developers still require you to use IE.  I don’t like to call people out but, Netflix play now feature only works with Internet Explorer.  So while removing the browser all together may not be a great idea, the choice and flexibility to do so, is a step in the right direction.  IE Tab, is a handy little add-on for Firefox that allows you Read the rest of this entry »

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Linux.com now being hosted by the Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation and Sourceforge announced that The Linux Foundation will now host Linux.com and hopefully spur more growth and collaboration.  They hope to work together to create a Linux Community for users and developers which is updated and driven by the community.   In the months to come the Linux.com website should take on a new role and a new look.

If you head on over to Ideaforge you can provide your input and hopefully help foster a new community of Linux users and developers.

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Redhat and Microsoft working to improve virtualization interopibility

It seems RedHat and Microsoft have come to an understanding that there is enough business out there for everyone.  Through this new agreement they will work on each others virtualization validation/certification programto improve the functionality of each others guest operating system.  This simply means that Redhat is validated to run on Microsoft Hyper V platforms and Windows 2000, 2003, and 2008 will work on Redhat’s xen based virtualization platform.

Customers of each company benefit from cooperative troubleshooting and support.  They also make a point Read the rest of this entry »

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Windows Live ID Sign-In Assitant 6.5 Beta

For all you Microsoft lovers out there that have been diligently testing and filing bug reports on Windows 7 there is now a beta release of the Windows Live ID Sign-In Assitant.  This download basically installs the online provider for Windows 7 so that applications can link to your Windows Live ID.

Straight from the horses mouth, “Through the online provider, the Sign-in Assistant helps a Windows 7 application running on one computer identify and communicate with other computers that are associated with the same Windows Live ID. Just by linking your Windows Live ID to the user account on each Windows 7 computer you own, you enable those computers to identify each other and work together more easily than has been possible in the past.”  This opens up good ol Microsoft to enable things such as document sharing with access controls.  You can now specify who you wold like to access certain items by linking their Windows Live ID to that item.

So for all you testers out there, go have a look and download if you’d like.  Then give us a comment!

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