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Fraunhofer’s new H.266 codec promises to cut the cost of streaming 4K video in half

The Verge

But Fraunhofer says VVC could be a path forward for the industry, as almost every major hardware and software company is currently tied up in a messy patent royalty system that dictates how much various stakeholders must pay to use different compression and transmission standards for devices, websites, and apps.

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Scott Lowe

Michael Kashin has a good post on source IP address selection in Linux. Servers/Hardware I must admit that I always wanted to have a Sun workstation, and I’ve had an interest in SunOS/Solaris for years (check out this link if you don’t believe me). Here are some design considerations for Wi-Fi 6E (6GHz) networks.

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what every open source project needs

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In the last few years open source has transformed the software industry. From Android to Wikipedia, open source is everywhere, but how does one succeed in it? What Every Successful Open Source Project Needs. Open Source Companies • Redhat $13B • Cloudera $3B • MongoDB $1.6B • Docker $.5B

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Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers » Data Center Knowledge

Data Center Knowledge

Even Facebook, which has open sourced much of its designs for its data center hardware but remains vague about its server count, saying only that it operates “hundreds of thousands” of machines. wow microsoft should be paying more than $1 billion for licensing then. Ruchira Sahan. Posted July 23rd, 2013.

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DataStax Raises $45 million for Big Databases » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

Cloudera announced Sentry – a new Apache licensed open source project that delivers the industry’s first fine-grained authorization framework for Hadoop. Amazon has cut prices for dedicated EC2 instances – an instance on single-tenant hardware that is particularly attractive to enterprise customers.

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Should the OpenStack Community Embrace Amazon & Google?

Data Center Knowledge

Should the OpenStack community focus on creating an open source alternative to Amazon and Google? Dubbed in the media as “the cloud wars,” there are a handful of open source frameworks competing (or not, depending on who you ask). Cloud Wars. Think of the format wars between Beta and VHS. Contact Us.

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IDF 2014 Day 1 Keynote

Scott Lowe

One would assume that Apple is #1.) He shows off a demo of Skylake as well as a hardware reference platform for Skylake playing full 4K video. Intel is, in fact, delivering open source code (under the Apache 2.0 license) and contributing relevant patents to the OIC. General Hardware IDF2014 Intel'

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