LINUX

Nokia Siemens Networks is now member of the Linux Foundation. It seems that Nokia Siemens Neworks is interested in collaborating with the Linux Foundation, and the other member companies, in order to provide better support and to improve the Carrier Grade Linux.
Nokia Siemens Networks officials claimed that the membership with the Linux Foundation implies, apart [...]

The U.S. Department of Defense will be holding the third Department of Defense Open IT Conference from 11th to 12th December in Washington, D.C. This demonstrates how widespread the adoption of open source software is and points out how to get the best results using this type of software.
The main goal of the conference is [...]

Before reading the post firstly a question? which linux distribution boot faster?if you dont know the answer check it out!!
Linux device designers looking for faster boot/reset times should consider alternative BIOSes, suggests Peter Seebach in a technical introduction to open BIOSes published on IBM’s DeveloperWorks website. Among other benefits, open BIOSes can save the time [...]

The Linux kernel accepts boot time parameters as it starts to boot system. This is used to inform kernel about various hardware parameter. You need boot time parameters:
* Troubleshoot system
* Hardware parameters that the kernel would not able to determine on its own
* Force kernel to override the default hardware parameters in order to increase [...]