Dirk Hohndel gives Intel keynote at OSCON 2009

I just heard Dirk Hohndel give the OSCON 2009 Intel keynote for Imad Sousou. Dirk
is the chief open source technologist at Intel and this is the third year he has stepped in for Imad at the last minute at OSCON. Here are some notes I took from the Dirk&aposs talk:

Intel has gone from being a skeptic to being a major contributor to open source.

To show how this works, take the Netbook. It started out originally as a Linux product. Now there are products available from Windows, Linux and newly announced ChromeOS. It&aposs a hot category.

How are netbooks different and what Intel has done to enhance them:

• Fast – don&apost make the user wait. If it&aposs longer than 15 seconds, it&aposs taking too long. Fast boot is an early priority. We need to be done with booting as quickly as possible. "Done" means the CPU and disk are idle and ready to do work. Do slow things as early as possibe, initialize the DHCP services, probe HW that will take a long time. We have added an asynchronous scheduler
  for the kernel for I/O initialization. Disk tends to be slow, so bring up the disk as quickly as possible and start reading in the things which you need for bringing things up. So we need to bring up
  the user experience as soon as possible.
• Graphics presentation – things have not changed much in Linux graphics since the 80s. Kernel Mode Setting – don&apost want the screen to flip between graphics and text mode to get the X server to set the right mode. Instead, do it in the kernel. Graphics Execution Manager – kernel memory management in the kernel. Safety – X server can now run without running as the superuser, so now you can run things much safer.
  user interfaces – we acquired a company that provides for actors which behave with physics.
• Connected – there are a lot of things which need to be connected from wifi, blue tooth, wimax, etc. We started from scratch to create a place where everything can be plugged in and are easily extensible. Then, we are extending open source telephony by starting from scratch and created
  the ofono project with Nokia to achieve this.

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Pano Logic Releases Pano System 2.7

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Pano Logic, today announced the newest version of their desktop virtualization solution, Pano System 2.7.

The new release provides IT administrators with new policy-based installation and remote management capabilities, as well as increased scalability, making deploying and managing virtual desktops much easier.  This release also adds support for the new VMware’s vSphere 4 virtualization infrastructure.

Pano System 2.7 offers a number of new features which enhance or enable new capabilities for:

• Updates to supported VMware infrastructure:  added support for the new VMware vSphere 4 ESX, ESXi and vCenter Server 4 components along with continuing support VMware VI3 and VMware View Manager 3.1.
• Increased Scalability: making scalability easier to implement and twice as fast when using VMware vCenter to scale out virtual desktop architectures;
• Policy-based installs and updates: performing group policy installs and updates of the Pano Direct Service seamlessly and automatically, and allowing for Pano Manager to also be updated from within the administrator interface;
• Remote user logoff and disconnect commands: enabling administrators to use the Pano Manager interface to logoff and disconnect users accessing their desktop virtual machines (DVMs) via Pano Devices for one-console management; and,
• Expanded USB device support: broader support for USB devices using native Windows drivers.

Pano System 2.7, including the Pano Device and backend software, is available now with pricing starting at $329 per desktop for the current chrome finish Pano Device – it is also now available with the Pano Device in a black finish at just $319 per desktop   The optional Pano Remote USB key provides remote access to Pano virtual desktops and is priced at $35 per user.  The Pano System running on VMware’s new vSphere 4 Essentials editions can provide a complete virtual desktop offering for under $500 per desktop.

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Google: Give Chrome a Whirl

Google has engaged more than a dozen developers and designers, asking them to experiment and to find new and fun uses for JavaScript to add sparkle to its Chrome browser.

URL: http://www.crn.com/software/215901256?cid=topicalFeed