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Readers' Choice Awards 2011

By Shawn Powers 

The votes are in, the tallies are counted, the hanging chads have been evaluated, and we have our winners. This year holds a few surprises, a couple dominant players and as much open source as you can handle. We don't encourage gambling here at Linux Journal, but if you had an office pool going for pizza money, it's officially too late to make your wager.

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Dropbox Tips and Tricks

By Shawn Powers 

Dropbox, or one of the alternatives like Ubuntu One or SparkleShare, are great tools for keeping computers in sync. They offer some unique abilities as well. Here are a few of our favorites:

Keep config folders, like Pidgin's .purple directory in your Dropbox, and symlink to it in your home directory. It saves entering the same information on your computers. more>>

Webian Shell: Prototype Web-Based Shell

By Michael Reed 

Webian Shell is a web-based shell that is designed to run full-screen and function as the primary user interface for your computer. At the moment, it's still at the proof of concept stage, but 0.1 is runnable without making any modifications to your system. As it features some interesting ideas, it's worth having a play around with. more>>

Drop Your Dropbox and SparkleShare Instead!

By Shawn Powers 

We love Dropbox here at Linux Journal. It's cross-platform, offers a decent free offering and generally "just works". It has some problems though. Dropbox is proprietary. Dropbox stores a copy of your data in its own data repositories. Dropbox is limited in size, especially with its free accounts. more>>

Open Source Cloud Computing with Hadoop

By Bernardo David 

Have you ever wondered how Google, Facebook and other Internet giants process their massive workloads? Billions of requests are served every day by the biggest players on the Internet, resulting in background processing involving datasets in the petabyte scale. Of course they rely on Linux and cloud computing for obtaining the necessary scalability and performance. more>>

Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat in Amazon EC2

Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat in Amazon EC2

By Bill Childers 
Don't be afraid of the cloud! Let Canonical and Amazon pick up the tab. more>>
Cloud Wheels

Behind the Cloud Redux

By David Lane 

Cloud computing is the hot buzz phrase. more>>

There's Drupal in my Acquia, No there's Acquia in my Drupal

Behind the Cloud It's Still Just Computers

By Shawn Powers 

I had the pleasure of joining a video conference with our local Drupal expert, Katherine Druckman, and Barry Jaspan, one of the system architects from Acquia. Acquia is a company that specializes in Drupal. While their company does many things for clients interested in using Drupal, we were specifically talking about cloud computing. more>>

Jolicloud: Cloud enabled and not just for netbooks

By Michael Reed 

There’s a Linux distribution for every occasion and the main purpose of Jolicloud is to present a web enabled GUI for netbooks and similar devices. I’m going to take a look at a preview release of the forthcoming 1.1 version. more>>

Observation: Cloud computing is nothing new

By Michael Reed 

Cloud computing is not only the latest buzz term, it might well be the model of computing that powers the 21st century. However, it’s easy to forget that personal computing, in which each user has a standalone system that can operate without a network, is itself a relatively new approach. more>>

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Jolicloud's Jolibook Netbook Hitting Stores

By Katherine Druckman 

Jolicloud, the self-proclaimed "perfect OS for netbooks," has been making headlines for a while with their consumer-focused, and frankly very cute Jolibook netbook.  Word all around the web is that it is available today in the UK. more>>

eyeOS Web-based Desktop OS

By Michael Reed 

eyeOS is a web based desktop operating system. Despite its unusual deployment orientation, in many ways, it's a full desktop operating system, complete with file management and full applications that operate within draggable, resizable windows. more>>

The Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud

By Mitch Frazier 

Everybody likes talking about the weather. In the computer world that seems to mean talking about cloud computing. The latest cloud on the horizon is the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, announced yesterday (Sept 19th) at Oracle OpenWorld 2010. more>>

fiber optic cable

Getting the Twain to Meet

By Doc Searls 

I was riding around with Scott Bradner the other day when he uttered a piece of wisdom that brought great clarity to the black-hole argument-sink that network neutrality has become — and which had been depressing me for so long that I had all but given up trying to get past it. more>>

Ubuntu Cloud

Build Your Own Cloud with Eucalyptus

By Bill Childers 
Got lots of systems? Make them into a cloud computing cluster with Eucalyptus! more>>
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