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Strongbolt – Introduction

Strongbolt is an operating system installation application based on the Linux Operating System written by James McLoughlin. The Strongbolt Operating System is specifically for Cobalt RaQ Appliance Servers. Sun Microsystems discontinued the popular Cobalt server appliances in 2004. Strongbolt was created in order to provide a new, actively developed operating system for these Server appliances. [...]

OpenVZ – Similar technologies

Other implementations of operating system-level virtualization technology are Solaris Containers, IBM AIX Workload Partitions, FreeBSD Jail, iCore Virtual Accounts in Windows, Virtuozzo in Windows and Linux, Linux’s Linux-VServer, and FreeVPS. sysjail in NetBSD and OpenBSD are no longer supported as of March 3, 2009. Adapted from the Wikipedia article OpenVZ, under the G. N. U. [...]

Video mail – Limitations

* Video mail length may be restricted from between 30 seconds to 10 minutes. * Video mail may not allow for additional attachments to a message. * Some services may charge additional fees for video mail. * Some services may restrict video mail to a specific operating system. * Video recording and playback quality are [...]

Just enough operating system – Introduction

JeOS is the abbreviation (pronounced “juice”) for Just Enough Operating System as it applies to a software appliance. JeOS refers to a customized operating system that fits the needs of a particular application. It is not a generic, one-size-fits-all operating system so it only needs to include the pieces of an operating system (e.g., Linux) [...]

3MX – Introduction

3MX operating system is a Linux based operating system designed specifically to run on small netbooks that use the following specifications: A seven inch, 800 by 480 pixel screen with a 400& MHz MIPS CPU and 128 Megabytes of RAM. Specifically developed for machines based around the Skytone Alpha-400 mini laptop. 3MX was created by [...]

OpenSUSE – Introduction

openSUSE is a general purpose operating system built on top of the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported openSUSE Project and sponsored by Novell. After acquiring SUSE Linux in January 2004, Novell decided to release the SUSE Linux Professional product as a 100% open source project, involving the community in the development process. The initial [...]

Ubuntu User – Introduction

Ubuntu User is a paper magazine that was launched by Linux New Media AG in May 2009. The publication is aimed at users of the Ubuntu operating system and focuses on reviews, community news, how to articles and troubleshooting tips. It also includes a ”Discovery Guide” aimed at beginners. Adapted from the Wikipedia article Ubuntu [...]

Ports collection – Introduction

Ports collections (or ”ports trees”, or just ”ports”) are the sets of makefiles and patches provided by the BSD-based operating systems, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD, as a simple method of installing software or creating binary packages. They are usually the base of a package management system, with ports handling package creation and additional tools managing [...]

Fiwix – Introduction

Fiwix or GNU/Fiwix is an operating system kernel based on the UNIX architecture and fully focused on being Linux compatible. It is designed and developed mainly for educational purposes, so the kernel code is kept as simple as possible for the benefit of students. It runs on the 32-bit x86 hardware platform, and is compatible [...]

Neowin – Audience and moderation

Neowin focuses its attention on advanced computer users and technology enthusiasts of all kinds, although it is aimed mainly of users of the Microsoft Windows operating system. However, it does regularly cover Linux (and Unix-based operating systems), Mac OS X, and other technology news. The site is strictly moderated, at least relative to some other [...]









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