Gerald Pfeifer, Author at SUSE Communities

March 3, 2021 3:40 pm

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Closing the Leap Gap

Tim Irnich, Developer Community Architect at SUSE, coauthored this post. Today the openSUSE project announced the start of the public beta phase for openSUSE Leap 15.3. This release is an important milestone for openSUSE and SUSE, our users and customers: Leap 15.3 is the first release where openSUSE Leap and SUSE Linux […]

Categories: Announcements, Featured Content, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE News

By: Gerald Pfeifer

June 29, 2012 11:50 pm

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OpenStack It Is!

This week has seen Red Hat Summit in Boston, and one message coming out of that loud and clear is a strong validation of OpenStack as the "Linux of Cloud". We are excited to see Red Hat follow our direction and join the OpenStack bandwaggon. As in many other areas our engineers and […]

Tags: OpenStack

Categories: Cloud Computing, Expert Views, News

By: Gerald Pfeifer

March 28, 2011 10:10 am

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The demise of the operating system. Film at 11.

A couple of weeks ago a colleague mused whether hardware will become the roadkill of cloud computing and came to the following conclusion: "Yes, server consolidation will continue to take place, but the need for highly available systems with the performance to handle greater workload intelligence will remain. You simply can't have the cloud […]

Tags: Open Source

Categories: Expert Views

By: Gerald Pfeifer

November 11, 2010 4:38 pm

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ext4: Still Not There Yet – And Not Worth It Anyway

When reading Ext4 Within Striking Distance of XFS the other day, I could not help virtually patting Matthias Eckermann, who owns the storage strategy for SUSE Linux Enterprise on my team, and our file system engineers led by Jeff Mahoney on their backs. This is a nice confirmation of us shipping XFS as a supported […]

Tags: BtrFS, XFS

Categories: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Technical Solutions

By: Gerald Pfeifer

August 23, 2010 4:53 pm

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From Gerald to Larry: One Down, Solaris to Go

So I hear you are killing OpenSolaris. Admittedly it never was all that successful as an Open Source project, unlike the Linux Kernel, Apache, Firefox, GCC, Samba, and hundreds/thousands of others that make up openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise. While I guess I can see your logic, I sympathize with those volunteers who had engaged. […]

Tags: Solaris, UNIX to Linux Migration

Categories: Expert Views, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for z Systems and LinuxONE