The Register: “What’s this, war among the penguins? Red Hat is celebrating the rollout of Red Hat Linux 7.3 with a competitive upgrade scheme, offering a $20 rebate on 7.3 Professional and $10 on Personal for people upgrading from earlier versions of Red Hat or competiting operating systems.”
VMWare Workstation 3.1, Solid upgade to an already solid package
GonzoJohn writes “”As for what’s new in this release, you can rest assured that everything seems a little faster, and if possible even a little bit more stable that the 3.0 release. There have been many bug fixes as well, and if you were using the 3.1 beta, you should upgrade since much of the experimental code was streamlined for a little performance pop in the official 3.1 release.
There have been many improvements in performance and stability, but not many truly new features are in the 3.1 release. That’s good news for longtime VMWare users. However, there is one new feature that will interest learning and training institutions. VMWare 3.1 now allows repeatable suspend and resume functions for all guest operating systems.
What exactly does this mean?
Essentially, this feature enables you to shut down and save any guest operating system in a given state, with any applications you want running. You can then restart the guest OS virtual machine in exactly the same state as many times as you want. This will be a great feature for training institutions.
Category:
- Linux
U.S. Senate officials want only Microsoft
The U.S. government has decided Microsoft is an illegal monopoly but that doesn’t stop the people who control the Senate’s computer systems from supporting nothing but… Microsoft. That’s sort of a sad statement about our government, isn’t it? If they perefer the illegal over the legal, maybe next they’ll take out all the coffee machines and put in crack dispensers — if the crack dealers start making Microsoft-sized campaign donations. Wired talks about Macs being dissed, but so is Linux.
IBM touts new backup services
Tout it they do, in a PRish story at News.com that begins, ” IBM is introducing a new service that will allow companies to get their computer systems back up and running quickly in the case of a disaster, the company plans to announce Wednesday.”
Webcasters plan march on Washington
News.com tells it: “More than two dozen Web radio companies plan to speak to members of Congress on Thursday and Friday to protest proposed royalty rates they say could put many members of the industry out of business.
”
”
Using the Source, Issue III
Steven writes “In this article on LinuxGuru.net is the weekly news piece “Using the Source” Issue III. This issue describes last week’s distribution news, new newsletter publishings, new application releases, kernel news, plus much more.”
Interview with Cosmoe’s Bill Hayden
Eugenia writes “Over a month ago it was reported that a developer had forked the Athe(na) operating system and ported its GUI on top of Linux, without the use of XFree86. This combined OS, called Cosmoe, would support Linux, AtheOS, BeOS and even Macintosh’s Carbon APIs (without the use of GNUStep – his port of Carbon is wrapped around the Be API). OSNews today features an interview with the architect of the combined OS, Bill Hayden, where a lot of things are explained about his plans for Cosmoe.”
mod_log_mysql 1.15 released
Apache Today writes “Version 1.15 incorporates further improvements to the code, including an ‘offline’ capability whereby log entries are written to a local file if the
backend database is down for any reason.”
backend database is down for any reason.”