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Cloud Computing – A Really Poor Name

It’s official, but I said it long ago. (Perhaps I am somewhat like Nostradamus.) It will take on more weight now that the industry big shots are speaking out – cloud computing is a bad name. It always was.
The Information Week article speaks out on the bad name, and other things-
Sure, Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd [...]

The Other Release Today 10-22-09

While we are are buzzing about Windows 7 today, the good, the bad, the same old same old, there is another less funded, and less reported release, the Release Candidate of Ubuntu’s regular scheduled product, Ubuntu 9.10, or Karmic Koala.
I suppose it is a testament to quality that the Karmic Koala release was not sped [...]

Linux Browser Turns to Webkit for Relief

The boys at Mozilla have already taken notice, so you might as well also. The people who work on the Gnome environment have decided that perhaps it’s time for a change, and are dropping the Mozilla browser guts to make Epiphany.
Instead, the new versions will use Webkit, so speed will be increased, and it’s anyone’s [...]

Fedora 11 Released

The latest revision of the Fedora distribution, long one of my favorites, but recently overshadowed by Ubuntu and OpenSuSE, is available.
Boasting the possibility of a 20-second startup cycle (no mention of hardware needed for this) and improvements in speed everywhere, the distribution also has a way to do a more minimal setup, for either servers [...]

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