High Availability Clustering 45
Christopher
Cashell writes "Everyone knows about Beowulf High
Performance clusters, but it's often remarked that these are
impracticle for most business uses, and that High Availability
Clustering is still lacking. It looks like the guys at
TurboLinux are working on fixing that. First
seen on freshmeat"
Linux in China
diakka writes
"Pacific HiTech
believes that there is a
large Linux market in China to be
tapped. They plan on market their TurboLinux, which already
has tools to handle the different character sets. Since
Linux can run on low end hardware, and is easy to obtain a
little or no cost, It seems likely that Chinese computer
users may make up a much larger portion of the Linux
community in the near future." What tools are available
out there that allow the use of Chinese in Linux or X?
Linux at Comdex
Nick Moffitt from
SuSE has written in with pre-show report from the Linux
Pavillion at this the falls Comdex. Things are almost ready
to go out there. Hit the link below to read what he has to say.
Update: 11/16 07:59 by CT :
Kit Cosper of Linux-hw
wrote in to send us a link to a page of Pictures
from the show.
Pacific HiTech to enter US Linux Market
Pacific HiTech is to enter the US market. Currently it
has has more than 50 percent of the Japanese Linux market,
making it the second largest Linux distribution worldwide.
Interestingly Pacific HiTech has been successful in the
chip corporate market, and includes as customers the
Japanese Broadcasting Corp., HSBC Securities Japan Ltd.,
and the Otsuka Shokai group, one of Japan's largest office
supplies and systems integration firms. I'm also
guessing
that TurboLinux 3.0 is to be released soon. Any Japanese
capable readers care to confirm? The first link was found
in LWN.
TurboLinux outsells MacOS in Japanese Retail
Pacific HiTech report a
recent independent OS survey by as saying they were number two
in retail sales of operating system software capturing 7.35% of the
unit sales, behind market leader Microsoft with 69.99% and edging out
Apple with 6.12%. Pacific HiTech also do TurboLinux
in English. Marketshare like this is
presumably why they were named as one of the four participating
distributions in the Oracle announcement,
something which caused quite a few queries on /. Update PHT sent in more
details on the survey.
More Vendors Join The LSB
It's definately been a hot topic lately, no doubt about it.
But Daniel Quinlan
wrote in to send us a press release from the LSB stating
that the Debian/Red Hat standards project (LCS) will be
working with the LSB. Daniel has also been named as
Bruce Perens replacement as the head of LSB. Besides
having an @transmeta.com email address, Daniel has
been the head of the
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.
I'm really glad to see this come together. Anyway,
I've attached the announcement- click below if you want
to read it.
LinuxPPC plus MkLinux in one distribution
Florian Cramer writes
"Pacific HiTech yesterday announced a
PowerPC release of its TurboLinux Distribution. The highlight: It comes with both the Mach-based MkLinux kernel and the monolithic (faster) LinuxPPC kernel.
PowerMac owners will be happy to hear that, finally, there's a Linux distribution for their machines which is neither outdated (such as the current official MkLinux CD), nor hard to obtain (such as the LinuxPPC CD). Also, the choice between both Kernels IMHO is an idea that should be adopted by
such forthcoming Linux/PPC distributions as Debian. "
Feature:The Linux Standard Base System
Bruce Perens sent us
a bunch of info about the status of the Linux Standard
Base System. I'm running it as a feature to get some
feedback on it. The LSB is definately one of the
most important issues facing Linux these days; especially
if we want it to continue to grow.
Bruce also says
"We would like to discuss the following proposal in
BOF sessions at both Linux Expo and Linux Kongress. Nothing
about the proposal is cast in concrete until after those
meetings."
New Distributions
Both TurboLinux and
Stampede have announced new versions. Proof
positive that Linux is growing and thriving. If the 'Big 3' don't do it for ya, give one of these
a shot. Thanks to
maskatron and
Ola Hakansson for the links.