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LinuxCon Europe – Day 2 (Part 3 of 4)

May 11, 2012 by Dan F.

Providing High Performance

The second half of the second day at LinuxCon continued with a keynote by a panel moderated by Nils Brauckman, President and General Manager of SUSE, with the participation of representatives from some of Suse’s enterprise customers, especially Andreas Poeschl from BMW, Dr. Udo Seidel from Amadeus Data Processing GmbH, and Ludek Safar, Senior Advisor for the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic. Topics covered the experience that the above mentioned companies had related to the use of Linux, and how it influenced their respective businesses. Continue reading…
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Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS: OS with Long Term Support launched for 1&1 customers

April 30, 2012 by 1&1 Team.

we are 1and1Coinciding with its official release date, starting last week 1&1 offers its customers the new LTS version of Ubuntu Server. The new Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS (Codename “Precise Pangolin”) is offered for customers operating a 1&1 Dedicated Server or 1&1 Dynamic Cloud Server.

LTS in the OS’s name means it is a long time supported version.  Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS offers the user updates for an extended period of five years, which is much longer than the standard 18 months offered by previous versions. This way, 1&1 server customers who choose the new Ubuntu version benefit from its Continue reading…
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1&1 Internet AG receives the Document Freedom Award 2012

March 28, 2012 by 1&1 Team.

Currently, there are a lot of discussions, from Acta to SOPA, about the copyright and freedom on the Internet within politics, media and on the blogs. In the end, the access to software decides who can become part of the digital society. The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) pleads for the promotion of free software and the availability of open internet standards. It is four years since the organization together with the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) has been awarding the Document Freedom Award for making the open standards available in the network. Among the previous winners were Tagesschau.de and the Foreign Office (Auswärtige Amt). This year the award goes for the first Continue reading…
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Job Applications in the Social Era – 5 Tips for Applicants

February 28, 2012 by 1&1 Team.

This post originally appeared on 1&1 Blog, written by Alexander Thieme

Hardly can we imagine our life without the social networks today. Facebook has more than 800 million users – many smaller specialized networks, or networks that are successful only in certain regions of the world, also gain popularity. Many people spend a lot of time on Facebook and Co, not only the leisure time, but as part of their jobs (like we do, the 1&1 Social Media Team). Even personnel officers or heads of department look nowadays at how candidates present themselves in the social networks. In this article we want to help you with some tips on how to make the best possible start to your application in times of Continue reading…
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LinuxCon Europe – Day 2 (Part 1 of 4)

February 21, 2012 by Dan F.

The second day at LinuxCon 2011 started with a heavy Continental Breakfast. Heavy as in “not for the faint of heart”, or “if you thought your cholesterol was fine, think again” or as to emphasize/enforce that “breakfast is the most important meal of the day”. Everyone sure needed their strenghts back after the “marathon” from Day 1, so packed with eggs, sausages and a slight indigestion, Day 2 at LinuxCon 2011 began.

20 Years of Linux – A Somewhat Different Retrospective

We all see Linux in its current state of development probably without realizing that it took 20 years to mature and get to this level. One person hasn’t forgotten this, as he was one of the early adopters of Linux. His name is Dirk Hohndel, and he is currently working as Chief Linux Continue reading…
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LinuxCon Europe – Day 1 (Part 4 of 4)

January 24, 2012 by Dan F.

Creating a Carrier Grade Platform with Linux

The presentation of Ulrich Kleber, from Huawei, intended to showcase what is needed for a GNU/Linux distribution to be called Carrier Grade Linux.

Briefly:

- in order to be “carrier grade” you have to meet a number of requirements

- these requirements concern the carrier grade applications all the way down to having carrier grade hardware and networking

- GNU/Linux is appropriate for most of the carrier grade situations Continue reading…
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LinuxCon Europe – Day 1 (Part 3 of 4)

January 24, 2012 by Dan F.

The keynote and the Kernel Developer Panel were followed by a short break and further presentations.

Building Linux Workloads For the Public Cloud Using SUSE Studio

This presentation was held by Gerard Pfeifer and Michal Svec from SUSE, and was concentrated around SUSE Studio, a web interface to the KIWI Imaging System that allows easy access to the functions provided by KIWI via a graphical UI.

Michal Svec, Senior Product Manager at SUSEThe SUSE Studio frontend is freely available for everyone, but you need to create an account in order to access its functions. It has many characteristics, such as:

- it can automate the installation process of (physical or virtual) machines by using a graphical frontend

- it can completely customize the environment for a new installation, ranging from packages to specific post-installation scripts

- it can create images for physical installations (CD, USB Stick) as well as Continue reading…
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LinuxCon Europe – Day 1 (Part 2 of 4)

January 24, 2012 by Dan F.

Kernel Developer Panel

The Kernel Developer Panel followed at LinuxCon. Lennart Poettering was the moderator, and the participants to the event were Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, Thomas Gleixner and Paul McKenney.

Kernel Developer Panel, Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, Thomas Gleixner and Paul McKenney, moderated by Lennart Poettering Although most may believe that a Kernel Developer Panel discussion would be restricted only to a highly technical audience, it was not the case as some of the discussion topics included subjects with a more personal touch. Lennart Poettering is known for many projects, including his work on systemd, a new init system that many call revolutionary, and most of his questions towards the panel speakers seemed to be pointing more to issues that himself has had in conjunction with the development of the Linux kernel and how changes in it made the systemd project fail to build at times. When he wasn’t pointing fingers to Continue reading…
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LinuxCon Europe – Day 1 (Part 1 of 4)

January 24, 2012 by Dan F.

Last year I’ve had the amazing opportunity and privilege to participate in LinuxCon Europe 2011. I would like to start off by thanking my superiors for making this possible and for giving me the chance to be a part of such an important event.

With an already proven track record of being the “premiere Linux conference” in North America, South America and Asia, the Linux Foundation extends its reach by organizing the first edition of LinuxCon in Europe. The event took place Continue reading…
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The Language We Speak

January 11, 2012 by Mihaela C.

1&1 Internet Romania is one of the few companies in Romania having a Technical Editing Department.
Thus, we received the invitation from TEKOM – The German Professional Association for Technical Communication and Information-Development – to give a new presentation to the students from the Technical University Bucharest. It is our second participation to an event organized by TEKOM.
This time our topic was Language Handling in Industry and Engineering with special focus on Software Localization for a Global Market. The students learned about the presence in Romania of Continue reading…
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