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Linux kernel news

Author: JT Smith

Linux Weekly News has all the important information about kernel development, for your reading enjoyment.

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  • Linux

Linux cluster overkill – NCSA and IBM get together

Author: JT Smith

Paradox writes “Chris Ball talks to Dan Reed (head of the NCSA) and Dave Gilardi (Director of Linux Clusters at IBM) about their new Linux clustering project.

Link: http://www.binaryfreedom.com/content.php?content_i d=12

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  • Linux

Transmeta-based servers boast power-saving chips

Author: JT Smith

CNET is reporting that it’s not only RLX that’s coming out with Transmeta-based servers. And the reason for that is… to save power and resources in Silicon Valley.

Category:

  • Unix

Java fight hurts developers most

Author: JT Smith

MSNBC is whining about Microsoft having to pay $20 million to Sun. They say, “Just because Microsoft ended up paying Sun
Microsystems $20 million to settle their 4-year-old suit over
the Java programming language doesn’t mean Microsoft was the
real loser in the spat.” Wah.

Category:

  • Linux

New operating system is a chameleon

Author: JT Smith

From Wired: “A new operating system can be customized to appear however you want it to. Athena will run on Macs, Windows or Linux, and uses XML components to change its appearance.” Can it be all things to all people? Supposedly, developers can write one source code base that will work on all those kernels, without modifications. Sounds like a tall order.

Linux distributions news

Author: JT Smith

Linux Weekly News knows what’s going on in the distro arena. This week’s edition is posted.

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  • Linux

VA Linux unveils thin server

Author: JT Smith

Network World Fusion tells us that “VA Linux Systems joined the swelling ranks of vendors jumping into the thin-server appliance market with a single-processor server aimed at users with Web and e-commerce sites.” We thought they were going to say someone had filed suit. (ed. note: VA Linux owns Newsforge).

MS blaming its own techs for site problems

Author: JT Smith

ZDNET reports: Hey, it’s just a little router configuration error, folks. Go back home. Nothing to see here.

Linux development news

Author: JT Smith

Linux Weekly News’ latest edition is up, and here you’ll find out all about what’s happening with development.

Category:

  • Linux

mnoGoSearch 3.1.9 released

Author: JT Smith

Dmitry Tkachenko writes “We would like to announce 3.1.9 development release of mnoGoSearch, an advanced search engine for intranet and internet servers, distributed under the GNU GPL. This release includes numerous updates and fixes, which you can review in detail at the mnoGoSearch website.
We hope you enjoy using mnoGoSearch!”

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  • Open Source