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CentOS 4.3 Multi-Platform Release 172

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday March 21, 2006 @09:24PM from the with-that-new-os-cent dept.

hughesjr writes "The CentOS development team has announced the availability of CentOS-4.3 for the i386, x86_64, and ia64 architectures. Major changes in this version of CentOS include: upgraded update system - this new system provides more that 100 total mirrors for updates and picks geographically close and non-stale mirrors based on our master server's content; Frysk, InfiniBand Architecture (IBA), and z/VM hypervisor added; see the release announcement for more information. ISO's are also available for download on their site."

Comment Finallly QOS becomes a selling point to the masses (Score 1) 325

by zaphod31 on Thursday March 02, 2006 @11:34AM (#14834807) Attached to: Comcast Accused of Blocking VoIP

This was bound to happend someday.
Maybe we can get a end to end QOS solution. I for one 'd be happy to pay for my bits arriving in time.

Xen Hacker Interviewed 95

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Sunday February 19, 2006 @05:54PM from the under-the-hood dept.

Drawoc Suomynona writes "The Xen virtual monitor is a new generation virtualization software that enable running multiple OSes at the same time with unprecedented level of performances. Manuel Bouyer was recently interviewed about his work porting Xen to the NetBSD operating system. The interview touches on why some consider Xen to be so good, how hard it is to integrate such a software package into an OS, and more."

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