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MUNI Community Vocabulary Ontology | A Community Instance of theOpen Semantic Framework

tags: community semanticweb opensource gov2.0 citizendan
Welcome to nova’s documentation! — nova v0.42 documentation

tags: iaas opensource nova amqp redis
Opscode

tags: automation opensource opscode chef
Puppet Labs: The Leading Open Source Data Center Automation Solution

tags: puppet automation opensource puppetmasterd
Parallel NFS: breaking the NFS performance bottleneck | Panasas

tags: filesystem distributed nfs opensource pnfs panasas
Ceph | open source distributed storage

tags: filesystem distributed storage ceph opensource
Gluster.org Community Website | GlusterFS is a cluster file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes.

tags: cluster filesystem gluster supercomputing opensource
Openfiler — Openfiler – Open Source Storage Management Appliance

tags: storage nas opensource openfiler
Main Page – KVM
KVM is a Linux-based hypervisor

tags: virtualization linux opensource hypervisor vtd
OpenStack Open Source Cloud Computing Software

tags: cloudcomputing openstack OpenSource rackspace
Eucalyptus | Your environment. Our industry leading cloud computing software.
Eucalyptus is an EC2 clone – elastic computing

tags: opensource eucalyptus virtualization cloudcomputing ec2
ganeti – Project Hosting on Google Code
“Ganeti is a cluster virtual server management software tool built on top of existing virtualization technologies such as Xen or KVM and other Open Source software.”

tags: xen virtualization cluster cloud kvm drbd

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August 21, 2010

I’ve read a bit of angst about cloud lock-in, a lot of weed pulling in the form of interoperability standards for the cloud, and a manifesto or two about ‘Open Cloud’. And in between, I’ve seen lots of interesting new tools for cloud computing, and lots of narratives about how the tools, combined with the formalization of use cases, pave the way for open clouds.

But what, exactly, does “Open Cloud” mean? And what role does open source play? Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation, likes to say that open source and the cloud go together like peanut butter and chocolate. But does open source necessarily mean open cloud, and vice-versa?

Read the complete article on OStatic.

April 14, 2010

Schneier Makes Uncorroborated Claims About Google Hack

Bruce Schneier has built a successful career as a computer security guru – one who gets it right most of the time and has a wonderful ability to translate security concerns to the layman. But sometimes an author’s great reputation makes him less likely to criticize his own work, and the editorial staff of whatever media organization he happens to be writing for, in this case CNN, lazy.So when Bruce Schneier asserts that Chinese hackers exploited a government-mandated backdoor to abscond with information on human rights activists, you kind of take it for granted that there is, in fact, a back door that they exploited. Except when there’s not. Or there might be, but Schneier unfortunately offers few facts and cites no sources, and I haven’t found any other report to corroborate his assertion.Read the article:

in reference to:

“Schneier Makes Uncorroborated Claims About Google Hack”- Schneier Makes Uncorroborated Claims About Google Hack (view on Google Sidewiki)

January 25, 2010

So VMware bought Zimbra: now what?

Many of you no doubt already know about VMware’s snagging of Zimbra away from the clutches of Yahoo! If I’m a Zimbra employee or executive, I might be breathing a sigh or relief, or I might be disappointed. But one thing’s for sure – I’m definitely wondering what’s next. Stand back, for I, John Mark Walker, have dared to gaze in the crystal ball. Zowie!The one great unknown has to do with developer communities and the open source projects that VMware currently stewards. How will VMware build an open source ecosystem and create a community environment necessary for future success?Click the link below to read the article:

http://ostatic.com/blog/so-vmware-bought-zimbra-now-what (view on Google Sidewiki)

January 18, 2010

Law Firm’s IT Director Discovers Open Source

If you’ve ever wondered how IT departments come across and adopt open source software, consider Lance Rae. Lance is an IT Director for a mid-sized law firm in New York City. We were chatting about his firm’s use of open source, and we decided it was worth recording our Q & A for posterity – and posting on OStatic.In this conversation, we discussed Nagios, the process of evaluating software, MonitoringForge, and how utilizing one open source tool can lead to a cascade effect, with others surely to follow.Click below for the full article:

in reference to: Law Firm IT Director Discovers Open Source (view on Google Sidewiki)

January 11, 2010

Linux and Your iPhone / iPod Touch

Not content with the roadblocks Apple had erected for users who wanted to connect to their digital devices (that they had paid for, natch), Apple decided to up the ante with its iPod Touch and iPhone series. This meant that a whole new round of reverse engineering was necessary just so that, and this bears repeating a thousand times, users could connect to a device that they paid for and actually access content they legally possess. Does that make sense to you? Me neither. Welcome to the 21st century.First the good news – with recent developments in the libgpod library, as well as ifuse and iphone libraries, it’s relatively simple to enable your Linux box for iPhone content syncing with gtkpod. The bad news is that things are still a bit rough around the edges, but I’ll demonstrate the workarounds.Click below to read the rest:

in reference to: Linux and Your iPhone / iPod Touch (view on Google Sidewiki)

January 8, 2010

Monty Responds

Michael “Monty” Widenius wrote a nicely-worded response to my previous post “Oracle, Mysql and the GPL: don’t take Monty’s word for it”, and I thought it deserves more visibility, so I’m quoting it below. For the record, I’m not an Oracle “fan” and am in agreement with Steven O’Grady, who wrote that Monty mostly just wants to get the band back together and is pursuing the shortest path to that destination. I can’t fault him for that. What I objected to was what I felt was a conflict of interest that hadn’t been seirously reported. That, and I really dislike how this brouhaha has resulted in unfair attacks on the GPL and dual-licensing in general.

Read his response in full.

December 21, 2009

Oracle, MySQL and the GPL: don’t take Monty’s word for it

In the continuing soap opera of Oracle’s battle against the European Commission for the right to acquire Sun, and with it, MySQL, we have had to rely on the bloggers and analysts to get it right, because the media surely has not. Before you read any further, stop right now and read Matthew Aslett’s excellent summary of Oracle-MySQL through last week, Pamela Jones’ excellent piece on the matter (and her later update), and Matt Asay’s highlighting of Monty Widenius’ conflict of interest in opposing the Sun acquisition.One of the more damaging consequences of this case is the opportunistic piling on against the GPL license. Every BSD Tom, Dick and Harry with an axe to grind about Richard Stallman, the GPL, and GNU has stepped up to the plate, on cue, to deliver unsubstantiated rants against the GPL. I suggest that readers follow the money and look into the reasons why each party takes the stance it does. Oracle’s bias and intent in all of this is pretty clear, but the opposition has not been so forthright.Read more below:

in reference to: Oracle, MySQL and the GPL: don’t take Monty’s word for it (view on Google Sidewiki)

December 17, 2009

Have an iPod? Use Windows? Get Songbird

Following up on my last article about using your iPod with Ubuntu, I decided to take a crack at what open source tools are available for those iPod owners who use Windows. As it turns out, there isn’t much. While a download of Amarok for Windows is available, good luck getting it to recognize or sync with your iPod.

But what I did find was the latest version of Songbird, and that might just be all you need. Songbird is built on the Mozilla platform and has an extensive list of community-contributed addons. The last time I checked out Songbird, it was probably still 2007, and while interesting, it didn’t strike me as particularly useful. That is, until I started using Windows. What seems rather mundane and just one of many options on Linux becomes a rock star on Windows.

Read the full article on ostatic.com

December 15, 2009

On CNET: The VA Linux Systems IPO Retrospective

I wrote a guest post on Matt Asay’s The Open Road blog, over at CNET. December 9, 2009 marked the 10 year anniversary of the VA Linux IPO, and I wrote a piece marking the anniversary and noting the significance, such that there is any, of the IPO and its aftermath.Read the piece here.

December 10, 2009

Author: johnmark