Manageability Services for Linux are grid services that provide manageability functions for system resources. (Globus Toolkit 3.0 is included.) These services take advantage of self-describing and on-demand features of grid services to control resources in autonomic and/or grid environments. Manageability Services for Linux is a prototype for such a manageability framework for managing Linux resources.
Reaper: a nice little how to
I came to Linux just a couple of months ago (as of the time of this review), and in that time, I have gone distro-crazy. I must have installed/run (or tried to, at least) 10 distros on my box by now; big and small. Damn Small Linux (or DSL for short) is a knoppix-based live CD distro. I know, I know; line starts to the left. But unlike most live CD distros, this one is made for those tiny business card CDs. Weighing in at a sporty 50MBs, DSL manages to squeeze in some handy - and fun - programs the other business card CD distros miss.
Now feature-locked, the Linux kernel 2.6, which went to beta testing on July 14, includes patches that cater to the mass market and the massively scalable. Server-app developers can look forward to 64-way processing, enormous block-size support and a hyperthreading-aware scheduler. Also incorporated are kernel pre-emption and uClinux patches, the latter giving embedded developers a mainstream method of running Linux on low-cost processors that lack a memory management unit.
Somewhere in Redmond a highly-skilled network technician flips the Big Red Switch (BRS) marked 'Do not touch this switch,' the Blaster attack is foiled, and the 'Linux to the rescue' urban legend is born. As all you paranoid conspiracy-theorists can see here, on the eve of the onslaught windowsupdate.microsoft.com ceased to be a Windows Server 2003 site minding its own business and running Microsoft IIS, and instead became a Linux site running (hint) Microsoft IIS.
How?
Make it so users can't tell (and don't care) it's not Windows, and make it so admins can manage thousands of Linux desktops as easily as Windows.
Nugent thinks there are a lot of buyers, and they're ready to spend money today: government and education markets are two, but the really interesting space is large enterprises. He, and Novell, are so convinced of the inevitability of the Linux desktop that they bought Ximian, arguably the leader in providing a user-, and admin-, friendly face for Linux.
The technology exists today to create and manage reasonably secure environments for Linux enterprises. In the hands of a competent administrator, Linux is roughly as secure as the other operating systems. That's not to say that improvements aren't needed. [In] the next version of the kernel, we'll have significant security enhancements, particularly in the area of policies. So enterprise Linux security continues to improve. It's good, but it will continue to improve.
The next key battle for Linux may not be legal but practical, as the open-source operating system tries to make itself more user-friendly
Linux, having just won the fight for mainstream respectability, has moved on to a challenge that's less glamorous but just as important: making itself attractive to the information technology industry.
LinuxWorld: SuSE and IBM have achieved a crucial security certification that will let the US government and military choose the operating system
Linux seller SuSE and server maker IBM have obtained a crucial security certification that will make the operating system an option for demanding military and government customers, the companies are expected to announce on Tuesday.
With the arrival of the AMD Opteron and Intel Itanium, commodity servers built on these processors have joined proprietary RISC systems from IBM, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, and others in the 64-bit landscape. With prices starting at just over $2,000, Opteron and Itanium systems — running Linux or Windows — are already carving out a niche in high-performance computing clusters, where they are used to run compute-intensive scientific- and financial-modeling applications.
