Twitter Joins the Linux FoundationTwitter being the most popular social networking site is now joining the Linux Foundation. Twitter uses and builds a fair amount of open-source software and therefore, this news wasn't too shocking for Twitter fans. According to Linux Foundation, Twitter is built on Linux and also open source software is core to its technology strategy. Twitter is also investing highly in Linux now, as the company develops and positions itself for the future.

Linux EXT4 File System Showing Impressive Speeds

More and more articles have been appearing regarding the speed of using EXT4 on flash media. The standards submitted rates of speed associated with EXT4, showing this doing your best more than document systems like FAT32 as well as NTFS by huge amounts. Because this article above says, many flash hard disks come with Windows FAT32 that is nice because of match ups. The majority of operating systems can read/write FAT32. But, Microsoft has recently began to bring up obvious threats against using FAT32, that is 1 cause people started to drive from it. Also, it features a 2 GB restrict upon file sizes.

Future seems to be bright for enterprise linux server platforms

Companies like Novell and Red Hat who are vendors of enterprise linux server operating systems could be headed towards a growth in sales in the coming 12 months. As much as 40 percent businesses are thinking about switching workloads that are critical for the business to open source software. Accenture, the mega-consulting firm, asked around 300 public and private sector companies having revenues exceeding $500 million about their future plans for deploying open source software. The results were announced recently upon which, Accenture's chief technology architect, Paul Daugherty said that, "What we are seeing is a coming of age of open source."

The popularity of Ubuntu Server OS among enterprises is increasing

The most extensively used server OS in data centers is the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform. But, the adoption of Ubuntu Server operating system is on the rise and it could be at SUSE Linux’s expense.

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