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Submission + - LightSquared Satellite Disabled by Last Week's Solar Storm (issi-us.net)

Submitted by volts on Thursday March 15, 2012 @02:50PM

volts writes: Troubled LightSquared's primary Skyterra 1 satellite has been out of service since the solar storm on March 7. The company says it is 'working through the rebuild of the satellite tapping into the resources that were involved in the original program '. This development follows a stream of bad news including layoffs, default on payments, the resignation of CEO Sanjiv Ahuja and FCC rejection of a scheme to repurpose satellite frquencies for cellular data due to interference with GPS. Another kick in the teeth as company needs struggles to avoid bankruptcy.

Submission + - MySQL Quietly Drops Support for Debian Linux

Submitted by volts on Wednesday December 13, 2006 @10:14AM

volts writes: MySQL quietly deprecated support for most Linux distributions on October 16, when its "MySQL Network" support plan was replaced by "MySQL Enterprise". MySQL now supports only two Linux distibutions — Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. We learned of this when MySQL declined to sell us support for some new Debian-based servers. Our sales rep "found out from engineering that the current Enterprise offering is no longer supported on Debian OS". We were told that "Generic Linux" in MySQL's list of supported platforms means "generic versions of the implementations listed above"; not support for Linux in general.

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