VMware has released its ESXi hypervisor free of charge. The ESXi hypervisor is the ESX hypervisor without the Service Console which allows the hypervisor to drop to an astonishing 32MB in size. The ESX hypervisor allows guest virtual machines to access the hardware of the host at near bare-hardware speeds. …
The open source community was shocked today at the announcement that Microsoft has agreed to sponsor the Apache project. The sponsorship was announced at OSCON, an open source conference sponsored by O’Reilly. The move was a surprise since Apache has long been considered the most widely-used web server, a direct …
Ubuntu server offers a great bundling feature during the installation to install a DNS server, LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), and various other common packages for Linux servers. Often enough, administrators end up needing to either migrate a system to serve another purpose or add a service onto that server. …
For those who haven’t heard (not sure where you’ve been hanging out if you haven’t) there’s been a published flaw in DNS released in the last month. The flaw is a major problem since it’s a flaw in the design, rather than one specific implementation. In the last few days …