Linux is ideally suited as an enterprise-class operating
system for many reasons. One is its reliability. Linux
systems offer mainframe-class stability with reported
system uptimes of a year or more. Google, one of
the Internet’s foremost search engines, runs on
Linux servers and has run continuously for more
than one-and-a-half years without any downtime,
according to Google Chairman Eric Schmidt. Google’s operations also demonstrate another
significant benefit of Linux: its scalability. With Linux,
Google processes more than 200 million searches
and serves up 4 billion web pages a day, and it does
this on inexpensive Intel processors. A 232-node Linux cluster helped the Genome
Sciences Centre at Canada’s British Columbia Cancer
Agency to ecode the genetic sequence of the
coronavirus believed to be responsible for SARS in a
matter of days rather than months. Scientists report
that the cluster of inexpensive Linux systems made
this development possible. Linux is also about to
enable the creation of the world’s largest supercomputer,
IBM’s Blue Gene/L. At one petaflop, researchers
claim that it will be roughly three times more
powerful than the fastest computer in existence today. (1)
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Linux on U.S Tatical Satellite Linux was shot
into space Dec. 16, as part of a second-phase Air Force Research Laboratory program aimed at making space more "operationally responsive." The
TacSat-2 (tactical satellite) program aims to create "micro satellites" that can be launched quickly and cheaply, to support tactical military
operations. Todd Brackett, PTR Group president, explains, "Say the Marines are going to land on a beach, and you want a satellite's view of the
situation,
but you don't have access to one of the big national asset satellites. That kind of access is very difficult to get for tactical purposes. You want to
quickly
create a satellite and get it up in space, and over the space you're interested in. We're proving you can do that, leveraging COTS solutions, easy
solutions,
and free software." |
NASA tests Linux-based planetary surface exploration robotsThe Linux-based K-10 and Scout robots are being exercised this week by a NASA working group called "D-RATS" (desert research and technology studies). Comprised of both NASA and non-NASA scientists, D-RATS aims to give next-generation engineers, scientists, technicians, and astronauts hands-on experience expected to be of use in realizing the goals of NASA's Constellation Program, which is tasked with creating Crew Exploration Vehicles (CEV), Crew Launch Vehicles (CLV), and related exploration architecture systems for manned and unmanned planetary exploration. |
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Chinese miniPC giveaway targets Apple,
MicrosoftA
Chinese government-funded company reportedly has gifted 1,000 miniPCs to partners, developers, and fans. Lemote hopes to challenge Apple and Microsoft in
home-media and car-computing applications, and market the systems -- which run Debian Linux on a MIPS64-like processor -- to people in rural China. |
Tiny surveillance camera has Linux smarts
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Blackberry-style smartphone runs Linux
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Linux powers first software-defined cellular base stationThe first software-defined cellular base station to be certified by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission is on display at a communications conference in San Diego this week. The physical layer software of Vanu Inc.'s "Anywave" Base Station runs on Linux and commodity Intel hardware, for low cost and convenient upgrades, according to the company. |
Less than two weeks after
launching its Linux-based "single core"