UPDATED: links at the bottom It has been YEARS in the making, but Sun has finally released a JRE browser plug-in with 64bit support. The first glimmer of hope I saw was in December when a current beta build worked OK on my 64bit Firefox. Now it is released for all. You can get it ...Read More
Category: Bitbud Blog
Open Nebula, an open source virtualization management system reached an important milestone today with the release of of Opennebula 1.2 (click for more info, however, it appears the new release has caused an increase in traffic, website is up and down today). It is good to see more work on Open platforms for supporting virtualization. ...Read More
Request Tracker is one of the better regarded Free Software systems available for tracking help desk tickets. Unfortunately, it is notoriously painful to install. However, that has changed today. The folks over at Proxmox have created an easy to install virtual appliance, using the latest version of RT. (BTW – Proxmox is a production ...Read More
Welcome to the new bitbud.com I have finally flipped the switch from Joomla to WordPress, and I have to admit the new WordPress 2.7 is sweet. This is by far THE platform to use for a Blog. I tried for several months each both Drupal and Joomla. They are good CMS systems, but for blogging, ...Read More
UPDATE: On 2009.01.13 – KVM-83 is released with support for AMD IOMMU – this means that PCI pass-through is now available on AMD systems as well – see post and comments below. I have been withholding my posts lately, as I am working on moving over to WordPress (should be done this week). However, this ...Read More
SAN for ALL! The paradigm has shifted (some time ago), and centralized storage is now a requirement for any organization to most efficiently run their infrastructure. The ability to pool your storage resources, especially as data storage requirements explode, is invaluable. No longer being tied to how many hard drives a single server can hold, ...Read More