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Interview: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong, Open Source Virtualization Expert

By Dawn M. Foster (47 posts) on November 5, 2009 at 8:00 am
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Yaozu (Eddie) Dong is a technical lead in the Open Source Technology Center in Shanghai, PRC. He joined Intel in 1998 and had been involved in various embedded system projects from PalmOS to Windows CE to Linux, and several virtualization projects. He received his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, [...]

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Cloud Computing on Ubuntu

By Dawn M. Foster (47 posts) on November 3, 2009 at 8:00 am
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Last week, I talked about Red Hat's and Novell's cloud computing strategies, and now Ubuntu's latest server release is focused on cloud computing. Canonical announced the availability of Ubuntu 9.10 Server Edition, which includes Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) powered by software from Eucalyptus Systems. What makes this particularly interesting is that the technology is based on [...]

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Open Source and Government

By Dawn M. Foster (47 posts) on November 2, 2009 at 9:58 am
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Over the past week or two, there have been several announcements about open source use within the United States Government. The one getting the most attention is the announcement about whitehouse.gov moving to Drupal; however, I think that the memo from the Department of Defense (DoD): Clarifying Guidance on Open Source Software is a much [...]

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Chris Lord Talking about the Moblin Web Browser

By Dawn M. Foster (47 posts) on October 29, 2009 at 8:37 am
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In this video from the Intel booth at OSCON, Chris Lord, Intel Engineer for Moblin, talks about the Moblin web browser and some of the decisions and steps required to get the technologies used in Moblin (Clutter, etc.) to work with Mozilla browser technologies and applications for Moblin. You may have already watched some of the [...]

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Interview: Paul Cooper, Moblin Apps and UI Engineering Manager

By Dawn M. Foster (47 posts) on October 27, 2009 at 8:37 am
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Paul Cooper has worked as a developer and advocate for open source software for over 10 years. Currently he manages the Moblin Netbook UX Engineering team, part of the Open Source Technology Center at Intel. Prior to their acquisition by Intel, Paul was the Business Development Manager at OpenedHand. In 2003 Paul and former colleague Scott [...]

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Cloud Computing at Red Hat and Novell

By Dawn M. Foster (47 posts) on October 26, 2009 at 8:37 am
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I just ran across a blog post from Red Hat outlining some of the recent cloud computing developments at Red Hat, and it reminded me that Jeff Jaffe, Novell's CTO, had written a series of blog posts over the past couple of months about Novell's approach to cloud computing. I thought it might be interesting [...]

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Robert Kasten on OpenSolaris Collaboration

By Dawn M. Foster (47 posts) on October 22, 2009 at 8:00 am
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In this video from the Intel booth at OSCON, Robert Kasten, Senior Engineering Manager at Intel, talks about the collaboration between Intel and Sun in the OpenSolaris community to improve system performance, energy efficiency, driver support for desktops and mobile platforms used primarily by developers, virtualization capabilities, reliability, and more. If you want to learn more [...]

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Interview: H. Peter Anvin, Linux and Microprocessor Architecture Geek

By Dawn M. Foster (47 posts) on October 20, 2009 at 8:00 am
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H. Peter Anvin has been working on Linux since 1992, specializing in low level hardware. He is currently co-maintainer of the unified x86/x86-64 Linux kernel tree. Peter has contributed to numerous Linux kernel subsystems, and is the author and/or maintainer of several Open Source projects, including the Syslinux boot loader suite, the Netwide [...]

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Cloud Computing, Virtualization and Open Source on Intel

By Dawn M. Foster (47 posts) on October 19, 2009 at 8:16 am
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In an earlier post, I mentioned that the Open Source at Intel website was going to have several focused topics about the intersection of Cloud Computing, Virtualization and Open Source. I wanted to highlight a few of those new topics here in this blog post. Cloud Computing Spotlight: Virtualization's Next Frontier "Because of its strengths in collaborative, [...]

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David Stewart talking about Moblin

By Dawn M. Foster (47 posts) on October 15, 2009 at 8:00 am
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We have been releasing several videos that were recorded in the Intel booth at OSCON, so if you are just catching up, you can still watch all of the earlier videos: Ken Drachnik from Canonical on Landscape for Ubuntu Systems Management Sven Dummer from Wind River on Developing Open Source Mobile Applications Joseph Hill from Novell talking about [...]

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Interview: Wilfred Yu, Open Source Virtualization Engineering Manager

By Dawn M. Foster (47 posts) on October 14, 2009 at 8:00 am
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Wilfred Yu is an engineering manager in the Intel Open Source Technology Center in Santa Clara, California. He joined Intel in 1983 and had been involved in a series of operating system projects for Intel® processors. He currently manages the team that is adding Intel Virtualization Technology to Open source VMMs. He received his Bachelors [...]

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Round and Round, In and Out

By Judy Hartley (Intel) (11 posts) on October 13, 2009 at 1:30 pm
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If you have been following my blogs, you know that I am porting a DirectX-based demo application to OpenGL as the first phase in the project to play the app on a netbook with an Atom processor. If you’ve missed a few or would like to read all of my blogs pertaining to this [...]

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Category: Gaming, Mobility, Open Source, Software Engineering, Uncategorized, Visual Computing

Red Hat and Microsoft Partner on Virtualization

By Dawn M. Foster (47 posts) on October 13, 2009 at 8:00 am
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Red Hat recently announced that customers can deploy supported server virtualization environments that combine Microsoft and Red Hat server operating systems. This partnership has been in the works since February when they announced their agreement to collaborate on virtualization solutions for customers using both Microsoft and Red Hat operating systems. This virtualization partnership announcement came out [...]

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Hadoop and Cloudera: Open Source for the Cloud

By Dawn M. Foster (47 posts) on October 12, 2009 at 8:10 am
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With the recent Hadoop World event hosted by Cloudera on October 2, 2009, Cloudera and Hadoop have been getting quite a bit of attention from the media, and the visibility for open source software in the cloud has increased along with them. I didn't attend the Hadoop World event, but I heard that it was [...]

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By Rita Turkowski (Intel) (14 posts) on October 9, 2009 at 2:22 pm
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