Bundle for tech-savvy consumers brings together several of the best-known Linux products plus resources for going beyond simple PC use.
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A dispute between a prominent open-source developer and the maker of the software used to manage Linux kernel development has forced Linux creator Linus Torvalds to embark on a new software project of his own, in addition to the Linux kernel. The new effort, called "git," was started last week after a licensing dispute forced Torvalds to abandon the proprietary BitKeeper software he had been using to manage Linux kernel development since 2002.
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MySQL has released a new beta version of a tool for customers migrating from competing products to its own open-source database, it announced on Tuesday.
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German court supports effort to enforce the GPL, which governs countless projects in the free and open-source software realms.
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Via and XGI say they hope to increase the number of Linux platforms that are compatible with their hardware.
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PHP can be more than just a scripting language used for constructing dynamic Web pages at request time. One application is to use PHP integration with the Web server to record — and potentially deal with — security issues. Ken Coar raises eyebrows with his thoughts on using PHP scripts instead of normally static files like robots.txt
This tutorial shows you how to configure Common Base Event logging in the Java language. Learn how to log Common Base Events through the Java Logging APIs for consumption by the Log and Trace Analyzer. The Log and Trace Analyzer can be used to log Common Base Events to detect and resolve configuration errors, performance degradation, exception states, resource starvation, security failures, communication delays, deadlocking, and other problems.
Phoronix is looking at the state of Linux NVIDIA Overclocking
A 64-bit environment and the ability to address more than 4 GB of memory can greatly enhance the scalability and performance of databases. With IDS v10, IBM has optimized native 64-bit editions for all major Linux platforms. This article contains information on all the new features of Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.0 that are unique on Linux platforms.
CoolTechZone has posted a new Linux article
When it comes to importing generic XML into OpenOffice, the user is on his own. This article offers a quick XSLT tool for this purpose and demonstrates the Calc import of records-oriented XML. In addition to learning a practical trick for working with Calc, you might also learn a few handy XSLT techniques for using dynamic criteria to transform XML.
IBM has released a preliminary alpha version of its History Flow Visualization Application that shows how collaboratively created documents evolve. The tool is written in Java and it's available for download. The application includes online help, as well as a plug-in for retrieving the history of a given page from any MoinMoin "wiki." ("Wikis" are Web sites that are freely editable by anyone who visits them.)
CoolTechZone look at Linux implementations in the Business and the Government sector.
While XQuery was designed for querying large document bases, it serves as a fine tool for transforming simple documents as well. This article shows how XQuery offers a fast and easy way to scrape HTML pages for the data you need. XQuery is the perfect tool for you if your goal is simplifying complex pages for display on small screens, or extracting elements from multiple pages to aggregate them together on a home-grown portal, or simply extracting data from Web pages because there is no other programmatic way to get the data.
Interested in learning how to build a highly available solution platform for J2EE? Follow along as this article explores the concept of delivering on the continuous computing promise. It shows you how to produce a complete scalable solution that offers high availability.
IBM has released a multi-platform policy-based autonomic management infrastructure that simplifies the automation of IT and business processes. It includes an autonomic manager, a component for policy storage, user libraries, and application programming interfaces (APIs). See tutorial to learn how to use the Autonomic Computing Expression Language (ACEL), an XML-based expression language, to create an expression, parse it, prepare input for it, and evaluate it.
There are several Rational software products based on the Eclipse platform. These products provide vital functionality for the software development lifecycle, including modeling and architecture, design and construction, and testing. This article provides a detailed overview of multiple Eclipse-based Rational software installation considerations, and offers guidance on the best approach to successfully completing such co-existence installs.
A download of the PDF reader update is out on the Web--but it's not the final version, Adobe says.
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GPL advocate believes Motorola, 12 other companies are using Linux in violation of license that governs the software.
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Here's a wide-ranging discussion with IBM's Ken King, vice president, Grid Computing, regarding the State of the Art Grid Computing and current activities, positions, and ideas on this front from IBM.
