About MariaDB :
MariaDB is based on MySQL and is available under the terms of the GPL v2 license.It's developed by the MariaDB community with Monty Program Ab as its main steward.MariaDB is kept up to date with the latest MySQL release from the same branch.In most respects MariaDB will work exactly as MySQL: all commands, interfaces, libraries and APIs that exist in MySQL also exist in MariaDB. There is no need to convert databases to switch to MariaDB. MariaDB is a true drop in replacement of MySQL.Additionally, MariaDB has a lot of nice new features that you can take advantage of.Below are download link for MariaDB, the stable released is 5.5.28a and latest alpha released 10.0.0.
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Tuesday 11 December 2012
Open Source Software : IPFire Linux firewall appliance software
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Open Source Software : OpenNebula virtualization data centre and private cloud
What is OpenNebula ?
OpenNebula is the open-source industry standard for data center virtualization, offering the most feature-rich, flexible solution for the comprehensive management of virtualized data centers to enable on-premise IaaS clouds. OpenNebula interoperability makes cloud an evolution by leveraging existing IT assets, protecting your investments, and avoiding vendor lock-in.
OpenNebula can be primarily used as a virtualization tool to manage your virtualized infrastructure in the data center or cluster, which is usually referred as Private Cloud. OpenNebula supports Hybrid Cloud to combine local infrastructure with public cloud-based infrastructure, enabling highly scalable hosting environments. OpenNebula also supports Public Clouds by providing Cloud interfaces to expose its functionality for virtual machine, storage and network management.
Benefit for using OpenNebula :
OpenNebula is the open-source industry standard for data center virtualization, offering the most feature-rich, flexible solution for the comprehensive management of virtualized data centers to enable on-premise IaaS clouds. OpenNebula interoperability makes cloud an evolution by leveraging existing IT assets, protecting your investments, and avoiding vendor lock-in.
OpenNebula can be primarily used as a virtualization tool to manage your virtualized infrastructure in the data center or cluster, which is usually referred as Private Cloud. OpenNebula supports Hybrid Cloud to combine local infrastructure with public cloud-based infrastructure, enabling highly scalable hosting environments. OpenNebula also supports Public Clouds by providing Cloud interfaces to expose its functionality for virtual machine, storage and network management.
Benefit for using OpenNebula :
- Powerful and Innovative: Most advanced and innovative enterprise-class functionality for the management of virtualized data centers to build private, public and hybrid clouds
- Infrastructure Agnostic: Fully platform independent with broad support for commodity and enterprise-grade hypervisor, storage and networking resources, allowing to leverage existing IT infrastructure, protecting your investments, and avoiding vendor lock-in
- Adaptable, Extensible and Integrable: Open, adaptable and extensible architecture, interfaces and components to build your customized cloud service or product
- Interoperable: Cloud interoperability and portability providing cloud consumers with choice across standards and most popular cloud interfaces
- Fully Open Source: OpenNebula is not a feature or performance limited edition of an Enterprise version, OpenNebula is truly open-source code, not open core, distributed under Apache license
- Very Light Solution: Despite its technical sophistication and advanced functionality, OpenNebula is easy to download, install and update
- Stable and Proven: Rigorously tested through an internal quality assurance process and by a large community with scalability, reliability and performance tested on many massive scalable production deployments
- Mature: Development driven by user needs and matured through many release cycles
- Enterprise-class Product: OpenNebula comprises all key functionalities for enterprise cloud computing, storage and networking in a single install, and ensures its long term stability and performance through a single integrated patching and updating process
- One-stop Support: Wide variety of community and commercial support from the developers of OpenNebula
Open Source Software : BURG new bootloader from GRUB
Definition :
Burg is brand-new universal loader from GRUB, is an alternative boot loader forked from GRUB2. It uses a new object format which allows it to be built in a wider range of OS's, including Linux/Windows/OSX/Solaris/FreeBSD, etc. Burg features superior theming and has a highly configurable menu system which works at boot time in both text and graphical mode.
Information Sources : wiki.archlinux.org
Burg is brand-new universal loader from GRUB, is an alternative boot loader forked from GRUB2. It uses a new object format which allows it to be built in a wider range of OS's, including Linux/Windows/OSX/Solaris/FreeBSD, etc. Burg features superior theming and has a highly configurable menu system which works at boot time in both text and graphical mode.
Information Sources : wiki.archlinux.org
News and Update : MySQL founders launch MariaDB Foundation at Oracle
MySQL’s co-founders are combining forces against Oracle with an independent organization to further the MariaDB fork started by Monty Widenius.The MariaDB Foundation has been announced by David Axmark, Allan Larsson and Widenius with founding members also including SkySQL chief executive Patrik Sallner, the co-founder of MySQL support specialist Percona Peter Zaitsev, and Dan Shearer of the OpenChange and Samba teams.
The Foundation, which has applied for non-profit status in the US, has received €1m in initial backing. The founders will appoint a board and confirm bylaws next February.Axmark said in a statement that MariaDB continues the work the trio started 18 years ago with MySQL, with code maintained by the same dedicated core team.“The time is right for an independent organization to safeguard the interests of MariaDB users and developers,” he said.The Foundation will review, merge, test and release changes to MariaDB and provide and infrastructure for the project and developer communities.The Foundation described its mission to:“Improve database technology, including standards implementation, interoperability with other databases, and building bridges to other types of database such as transactional and NoSQL.”
The Foundation didn’t mention Oracle specifically or in a competitive way, but it didn’t need to. Widenius has been a vocal critic of Oracle’s ownership of MySQL, speaking out against proprietary extensions that aren’t being added to the free code base, critical of what he claims is poor-quality MySQL code emanating from Oracle, and warning that Oracle will break promises it made to European regulators in 2009 over the future licensing and development of the database he helped start.
In an interview with The Reg last week, Widenius said he feared for the future of MySQL and for forks like MariaDB that he said are getting cut off by Oracle from the main code base. He fears a permanent, damaging split.Widenius left MySQL's previous owner Sun Microsystems in 2009 before the Oracle deal to buy the struggling server maker was closed. He founded MariaDB the same year and since then his MySQL has been largely maintained by his own company Widenius’ Monty Program, with companies like SkySQL supporting customers use of MariaDB and MySQL. Both hired large numbers of the MySQL engineering team who left Oracle after the Sun acquisition.
Now, however, there seems to be a determined effort to spin up MariaDB into something along the lines of an independent and broadly supported project that builds the kind of critical mass that can turn MariaDB into the new MySQL.Its path is well trodden in the open-source world against Oracle. Both the Jenkins project and the Document Foundation were created to run – respectively – forks of the Hudson continuous integration tool and the Open Office suite – Libre Office - after their new owner Oracle had claimed total ownership over their names and their development.
Oracle’s decision forced the majority of the Hudson community and Open Office members to walk out and to create their new projects, that were mirrors of the existing projects with different names and most of the same members.Stung by this, Oracle has since passed Hudson to Eclipse and Open Office to Apache. Both Jenkins and Libre Office, though, have continued to thrive, draining support and use from the original efforts.
Information Sources : www.theregister.co.uk
The Foundation, which has applied for non-profit status in the US, has received €1m in initial backing. The founders will appoint a board and confirm bylaws next February.Axmark said in a statement that MariaDB continues the work the trio started 18 years ago with MySQL, with code maintained by the same dedicated core team.“The time is right for an independent organization to safeguard the interests of MariaDB users and developers,” he said.The Foundation will review, merge, test and release changes to MariaDB and provide and infrastructure for the project and developer communities.The Foundation described its mission to:“Improve database technology, including standards implementation, interoperability with other databases, and building bridges to other types of database such as transactional and NoSQL.”
The Foundation didn’t mention Oracle specifically or in a competitive way, but it didn’t need to. Widenius has been a vocal critic of Oracle’s ownership of MySQL, speaking out against proprietary extensions that aren’t being added to the free code base, critical of what he claims is poor-quality MySQL code emanating from Oracle, and warning that Oracle will break promises it made to European regulators in 2009 over the future licensing and development of the database he helped start.
In an interview with The Reg last week, Widenius said he feared for the future of MySQL and for forks like MariaDB that he said are getting cut off by Oracle from the main code base. He fears a permanent, damaging split.Widenius left MySQL's previous owner Sun Microsystems in 2009 before the Oracle deal to buy the struggling server maker was closed. He founded MariaDB the same year and since then his MySQL has been largely maintained by his own company Widenius’ Monty Program, with companies like SkySQL supporting customers use of MariaDB and MySQL. Both hired large numbers of the MySQL engineering team who left Oracle after the Sun acquisition.
Now, however, there seems to be a determined effort to spin up MariaDB into something along the lines of an independent and broadly supported project that builds the kind of critical mass that can turn MariaDB into the new MySQL.Its path is well trodden in the open-source world against Oracle. Both the Jenkins project and the Document Foundation were created to run – respectively – forks of the Hudson continuous integration tool and the Open Office suite – Libre Office - after their new owner Oracle had claimed total ownership over their names and their development.
Oracle’s decision forced the majority of the Hudson community and Open Office members to walk out and to create their new projects, that were mirrors of the existing projects with different names and most of the same members.Stung by this, Oracle has since passed Hudson to Eclipse and Open Office to Apache. Both Jenkins and Libre Office, though, have continued to thrive, draining support and use from the original efforts.
Information Sources : www.theregister.co.uk
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