Red Hat, Amazon deliver Linux on demand

Linux & Open Source News Alert This newsletter is sponsored by NetApp ESG White Paper: Storage for Mid-Sized Enterprises Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) takes a close look at the storage landscape. Read this report on the challenges facing the mid-size enterprise companies as they evaluate implementing a storage network. Learn about the benefits and perceived inhibitors. LinuxWorld's Linux and Open Source News Alert, 11/09/07 LinuxWorld.com Feature Story Red Hat, Amazon deliver Linux on demand November 7, 2007 Red Hat Wednesday made its Enterprise Linux OS available on demand by releasing it for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service that hosts business applications. The move is part of Red Hat's so-called "automation" strategy, which aims to deliver a Linux and open-source infrastructure for simplifying how applications run and are managed. A private beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon EC2 is now available, with a public beta slated to be made available before the end of the year. The base prices for the service are $19 per month, per user, and $0.21, $0.53 or $0.94 for every computer hour used on the EC2 services, depending on the size, bandwidth and storage fees of the services purchased. EC2 is Amazon's Web-based service that hosts business applications for customers. (Read more) Enterprise WLAN Gear: From A to Z. From buying tips to peer discussions. From case studies to market trends. Network World's newly enhanced Enterprise WLAN Gear Buyer's Guide has everything you need to stay current, research technology, compare products and implement solutions - all in one convenient location. Click here to go to the Enterprise WLAN Gear Buyer's Guide now. More Linux news Google's Android just a press release, says Ballmer November 8, 2007 Google's plans to enter the mobile industry with a cell phone platform might have impressed many in the industry but not Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft and one of Google's biggest competitors. (Read more) BMC, Bomgar team to speed trouble-ticket resolution November 8, 2007 Bomgar has allied itself with BMC Software so their platforms can talk to each other and make it simpler to resolve trouble tickets. Bomgar makes Bomgar Box, a remote-control appliance designed for help desks to take over remote machines for maintenance or in response to help calls. (Read more) Purify lets you filter, trace, report spam November 6, 2007 Hendrickson Software Components has announced the release of Purify, a program that lets you filter, trace and report unsolicited commercial e-mail (spam). It costs $29.95. (Read more) Linux guru's life, and life's work, hang in balance November 6, 2007 The fate of a Linux visionary who is charged with murder will be decided in a trial starting Tuesday in Oakland, Calif. Meanwhile, the fate of the file system he created remains left in the hands of an open-source community rapidly losing interest in the technology. (Read more) Kernel space: experimental container support for 2.6.24 November 6, 2007 Faster than virtualization, but harder to implement, containers are a promising security technology for Linux. Watch the 2.6.24 kernel for experimental support for creating and managing containers. (Read more) Q&A: Google demands nonfragmentation pledge for Android November 6, 2007 After Google released on Monday an initial set of details about its plans to alter how mobile applications are created and distributed, industry watchers are compiling a long list of follow-up questions about the Android platform and the Open Handset Alliance. (Read more) Android just another Linux platform, says Symbian CEO November 6, 2007 Symbian CEO Nigel Clifford says he's already spoilt for choice with Linux-based cell phone platforms and that Google's Android software unveiled Monday appears to be another to add to the list. (Read more) The gPhone: Google’s software erector set November 6, 2007 After a frenzied build-up, Google did not announce the gPhone. Instead, the company announced there might be a gPhone in your future. (Read more) LinuxWorld Podcast New interfaces for mobile devices: Joe Carsanaro November 7, 2007 Buttons are nice, but some mobile applications work better when the user can scroll with a flick of the finger, or just by tilting the whole device. Joe Carsanaro demonstrates F-Origin's IRIS Motion Control SDK, which integrates with Qt to give developers a way to use whatever control method works best for the user. (11:20) (Read more) LinuxWorld Community Ron Paul is the new Linux? November 8, 2007 Linux freaks have a reputation for posting a bunch of crazy comments every time someone in the Media reports a problem with Linux, or posts something positive about a lock-in media format, or, of course, certain IT vendors. But now we have a new Internet freak threat: the Ron Paul commenters. (Read more)

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