stacks

Here's how to use LVM Snapshots to replicate a LAMP stack from production to development and/or vice-versa.

ServerWatch: "Operating system makers may be forced to do some serious modifications to their TCP/IP stacks, thanks to the TCP sockstress vulnerability which has been hitting the news over the last few weeks."

Linux stacks such as Moblin and Maemo will dominate the mobile Internet device (MID) market, says a report by ABI Research.

The firm expects Moblin to take 42 percent of the market in 2013, when it expects 86 million Linux-enabled MIDs to ship.

Neuros Technology has started shipping its second open set-top box, which targets both consumers and product companies.

The high-definition capable "Open Source Device 2.0" (OSD 2.0) runs several open Linux stacks on a tiny TI Davinci-based CPU module delivered with a mini-ITX I/O board and enclosure.

Wind River announced it will acquire a Korean developer of Linux mobile GUI stacks. The $16 million acquisition of privately-held Mizi Research will bring Wind River "world-class mobile expertise" and will "accelerate its mobile services presence in Asia Pacific," says the company.

SpikeSource recently partnered with Intel to offer certified stacks. Another study recently claimed that community-supported Linux distros were doing as well as paid support-enabled ones.

Is certified open source going to thrive?

In May of this year, Sun's "Project Indiana" team released OpenSolaris 2008.05, a major milestone on the path to a community-developed Solaris distribution.

The release touted several new features: a live-cd, the ZFS filesystem and a completely new packaging interface.

I decided to give it a thorough test, to see how it stacks up...

If you are developing in one or more Rails web technologies you might want to look at using he easy to use BitNami RailsStack installers .

Bitnami MAPPStack is an easy to install software platform that greatly simplifies the deployment of Open Source web stacks on Mac OS X.

Bitnami MAPPStack includes ready-to-run versions of PostgreSQL, Apache, ...

Information Week: "Billed as "Instant Infrastructure", JumpBox delivers all-in-one packages of many common open source applications.

Instead of making them into self-installing or -unpacking stacks for specific OS platforms, they release them as self-contained virtual machines using Ubuntu 8.04 as the underlying platform."