This tutorial shows how to set up a two-node Apache web server cluster that provides high-availability. In front of the Apache cluster we create a load balancer that splits up incoming requests between the two Apache nodes. Because we do not want the load balancer to become another "Single Point Of Failure", we must provide high-availability for the load balancer, too.
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Mandriva Flash 2008 Spring released
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Mandriva today announces the release of Mandriva Flash 2008 Spring, the new release of its popular bootable distribution on a USB key. This new version uses the new Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring as its base, doubles the key's capacity to 8GB, introduces a new installer which allows you to install Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring to the system's hard disk, and comes in an attractive new white color scheme.
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Suncorp envisages Linux, ODF for 20,000 desktops
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Suncorp's CIO, Jeff Smith, says he would like the banking and insurance giant to use open source software for its 20,000 desktops, which currently run Windows XP.
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Canonical OEM Strategy Deserves Applause
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According to Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical, the company has been approached “by a number of OEM’s who want to sell netbooks (small, low-cost laptops with an emphasis on the web) based on Ubuntu.” That’s impressive. Here’s some more analysis on of the news.
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Chiron FS lets you set up RAID-1 over the network
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The Linux kernel includes support for performing RAID-1 in software. RAID-1 maintains the same filesystem on two or more disks, so that you can lose all but the last disk and still retain all of your data. This seems wonderful until you consider that an error in RAM, a power supply failure, or another hardware component in the machine can still potentially corrupt your precious data.
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The Choice Between Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Linux
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Lenovo only offers Novell's (and Microsoft's) SUSE now, having dropped the FreeDOS option and bumped up the price.
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Novell’s ‘Linux’ is Not Free Software
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Novell is building fences around the source code of its GNU/Linux distribution.
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Companies, Developers Contributing To The X Server
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This article provides information about the true people and companies behind the X server for the last nine years. All commits are analyzed regarding the amount of contribution and the person/company behind it.
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Neelie Kroes Dismisses Novell-type Intraoperability with Microsoft
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Trade secrets are not accepted as means of attaining interoperability.
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Advocating OpenDocument Format While OOXML is Under Fire
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OOXML comes under new pressures which may ease encouragement of ODF adoption.
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Novell a Member of Microsoft’s Virtualisation Validation Club
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Microsoft's Virtualization Validation program is used to push Novell at the expense of rivals like Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu.
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Red Hat Pays Intellectual Monopoly Money
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Switch to Evolution
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I’ve been using Mozilla Thunderbird for years now and found it the best email client available. Well, at least from the ones I knew. And Incredimail isn’t such a good competitor. ;)
But I did miss something. Some things just didn’t go really smooth and I wanted to integrate it more with GNOME.
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Open Enterprise Interview: Bernard Dalle, Index Ventures
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The pragmatic and ethically-rooted world of free software might seem about as far away as possible from the highly abstract and, at times, morally dubious world of high finance. But as Richard Stallman has frequently pointed out, free software is by no means antithetical to making money: it's just a question of how you make money.
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X Server 1.4.1 Is Released, No Joke
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X Server 1.4.1 was originally scheduled to be released on the first of November as a bug-fix release for X Server 1.4.0, which was released in conjunction with X.Org 7.3. However, a delay had pushed the planned X Server 1.4.1 release to November 11. When that date had come X Server 1.4.1 was far from being ready.
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