Living with Linux, Log #2

underthewizardhat: Now that I’ve officially stepped into the mysterious world of Manjaro, I wanted to discuss the pacman package manager. This package manager seems particularly powerful, and the few commands I’m aware of really ease the installation process of packages as well as getting rid of orphaned packages and looking up dependencies.  The installation process … Leer más

Living with Linux, Log #1

underthewizardhat: This log will denote a comparison between Linux Mint 17.3 and Manjaro 15.12 From a Facebook status update I wrote:  “This is an interesting comparison considering these are two rather different operating systems from two different “lineages”. Manjaro is a derivative of Arch Linux, whereas Linux Mint is derived from Ubuntu (and Ubuntu is … Leer más

GlusterFS or Ceph: Who Will Win the Open Source Cloud Storage Wars?

GlusterFS or Ceph: Who Will Win the Open Source Cloud Storage Wars?

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The open source cloud storage wars are here, and show no sign of stopping soon, as GlusterFS and Ceph vie to become the distributed scale-out storage software of choice for OpenStack. The latest volley was fired this month by Red Hat (RHT), which commissioned a benchmarking test that reports more than 300 percent better performance with GlusterFS-based storage.