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Red Hat undercuts Microsoft on high-performance OS pricing

Red Hat Thursday released a Linux software stack for compute-intensive IT environments that it said costs less than Microsoft's price for its comparable Windows offering.

| News | Open Source | Operating systems | 10/02/08 at 4:04 pm |


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Installing Linux apps: A few good tips

Under Linux, installing new applications isn't a particularly hard task, but installations do come in several different varieties, so it's worth understanding the differences and what you'll need to know to make them work.

| How-to | Open Source | 10/02/08 at 9:21 am |


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Backing up Lotus Domino with Tar and Rsync

A couple of months ago we upgraded our Lotus Domino server to the latest code from IBM. We’re running Domino 8 on Linux. We’ve been running on Red Hat Linux for nearly four years now and it’s been a good move. We’ve even survived hardware failure twice in the last three yearss thanks to good backups.



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Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed?

Linux is enjoying growth, with a contingent of devotees too large to be called a cult following at this point. Solaris, meanwhile, has thrived as a longstanding, primary Unix platform geared to enterprises. But with Linux the object of all the buzz in the industry, can Sun's rival Solaris Unix OS hang on, or is it destined to be displaced by Linux altogether?

| Feature | Open Source | Operating systems | 09/24/08 at 3:09 pm |


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