The results of the “Just for Fun” Poll  linux.com community have just been released.  You may be wondering what some of those weird names actually mean, so here goes a short guide for those, like myself, who are not up to date with it all.

Best new Kernel Feature

1. Btrfs: is a new copy on write filesystem for Linux aimed at implementing advanced features while focusing on fault tolerance, repair and easy administration. Initially developed by Oracle, Btrfs is licensed under the GPL and open for contribution from anyone.

   Linux has a wealth of filesystems to choose from, but we are facing a number of challenges with scaling to the large storage subsystems that are becoming common in today’s data centers. Filesystems need to scale in their ability to address and manage large storage, and also in their ability to detect, repair and tolerate errors in the data stored on disk. [extracted from https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page ]

2. Dynamic Tracing: Dynamic event tracing is one of the newest feature on perf/ftrace. This allows users to dynamically add/remove additional trace-events with various arguments in the kernel. This feature consists of kprobe-based event tracer and ‘perf-probe’ user-space command which helps users to find probe points easily from source code by analyzing kernel debuginfo.  Extracted from http://events.linuxfoundation.org/lfcs2010/tracing
   
3. LogFS: is a Linux log-structured and scalable flash filesystem, intended for use on large devices of flash memory. It is written by Jörn Engel and in part sponsored by the CE Linux Forum. [extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LogFS ]
4. Ceph Filesystem: Ceph is a distributed network file system designed to provide excellent performance, reliability, and scalability. [ extracted from http://ceph.newdream.net/about/ ]

Favourite IT Operation Tools

1. Nagios: a powerful monitoring system that enables organizations to identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems before they affect critical business processes. http://www.nagios.org/about/overview
2. Snort: A free lightweight network intrusion detection system. http://www.snort.org
3. Bacula: an Open Source network backup and restore solution. http://www.bacula.org
4. OpenNMS: a network management application platform. http://www.opennms.org/about/
5. Zenoss: an open-source network monitoring and server monitoring product. http://www.zenoss.com/product/network-monitoring
6. Munin: a networked resource monitoring tool that can help analyze resource trends and “what just happened to kill our performance?” problems. It is designed to be very plug and play. A default installation provides a lot of graphs with almost no work. http://munin-monitoring.org/

Favourite Browser

1. Firefox (75%)
2. Chrome
3. Opera
4. Konqueror
5. Epiphany

Favourite Open Source Project

1. Apache: The world’s most popular Web Server. Most of the web runs on it. http://httpd.apache.org/ABOUT_APACHE.html
2. OpenOffice: A multi-platform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites. http://www.openoffice.org/
3. MySQL: MySQL is the world’s most popular open source database software, with
   over 100 million copies of its software downloaded or distributed
   throughout it’s history. With its superior speed, reliability, and ease
   of use, MySQL has become the preferred choice for Web, Web 2.0. http://www.mysql.com/about/
4. MeeGo: an open source, Linux project which brings together the Moblin
   project, headed up by Intel, and Maemo, by Nokia, into a single open
   source activity. http://meego.com/about
5. XBMC: an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub for digital media. http://xbmc.org/about/
6. WordPress: WordPress started as just a blogging systems, but has evolved to be used as full content management system. http://wordpress.org/about/
7. StatusNet: StatusNet is the open source microblogging platform that helps you share and connect in real-time within your own domain. http://status.net/
8. Hadoop: The Apache Hadoop project develops open-source software for reliable, scalable, distributed computing. http://hadoop.apache.org/
9. Drizzle: Drizzle is a community-driven project based on the popular MySQL DBMS
   that is focused on MySQL’s original goals of ease-of-use, reliability
   and performance. http://drizzle.org/

Best Linux Success Story

1. Overall enterprise Linux adoption
2. Android market presence
3. Red Hat Earnings
4. MeeGo Merger

Hall of shame: Biggest industry Disappointment

1. Playstation ditches Linux
2. Adobe v Apple Stand-off
3. Bilski Decision

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Microsoft has dominated the small enterprise market with its out of the box feature rich SBS (Small Business Server). Linux has always trailed behind it and although most of the technology to rival Microsoft has been in place, it has always been a mammoth task to setup a server from scratch  to do that.  ClearOS came to fill in this gap.

“ClearOS is a powerful network and gateway server designed for small organizations and distributed environments.  Though ClearOS comes with an extensive list of features  and integrated services, the solution is easy to configure thanks to the intuitive web-based interface.” (extracted from Clear Foundation website)
 
Take a look at how ClearOS’ features match the MS SBS:

Microsoft SBS Centralized Authentication (Active Directory) Mail, calendaring and instant messaging (Exchange) Webserver (IIS) Firewall (ISA) Content management system (Sharepoint) Antivirus (Forefront) Database (MS-SQL Premium version only) Remote Desktop Services Virtual Private Network (VPN)

ClearOS Linux Centralized Authentication (LDAP) Primary Domain Controller (Samba) File and Print Services (Samba and CUPS) Mail (SMTP, POP, IMAP, Webmail) Calendaring (Kolab groupware) Webserver (Apache) Firewall plus intrusion protection (iptables, Snort) Antimalware (Clam Antivirus, Antiphishing, Antispyware) Antispam (Spamassassin) Database (MySQL) Virtual Private Network (IPSec, OpenVPN, PPTP) Web Proxy (Squid)

The Linux Magazine published an in depth article comparing and explaining this “new” Linux distro. 

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