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Part 1 of this series provides an overview of memory on AIX, including a discussion of virtual memory and the Virtual Memory Manager (VMM).

After more than a year of active design and development ClearHealth 2.0 is about to lift off. A developer preview demonstration is available atdemo.clear-health.com but please note that it is a BETA pre-release edition of CH 2.0 undoubtedly with some rough edges remaining to be fixed. There will be a June 14th webex call to walk through the new features so please stay tuned for that information on ourforums. More details on new features in body.

May 14, 2007 -- Bellevue, WA -- ITTIA is further strengthening its ITTIA Database management software for embedded systems and devices with the release of version 2.0. ITTIA previews this new release at one of Japan’s largest embedded gatherings, ESEC -- Embedded Systems Expo and Conference. ESEC provides embedded developers with an opportunity to learn about exciting new technologies, such as ITTIA Database.

Yesterday, Microsoft voted to approve ODF as an American National Standard. Uh, that's a good thing, right? Yeah, well...

Two weeks ago, I heard that Progeny Linux Systems of Indianapolis had closed its doors for the last time. The end was a long-time coming – in fact, six years longer than I predicted. All the same, I paused last week for a bit of nostalgia. Working for the company in 2000-01 gave me my first sense of my potential and gave me a sense of self-worth at a time when I badly needed it.

Technalign on May 16 released the final version of Pioneer Stagecoach, a combined workstation and server Linux distribution based on Kubuntu. The distro sports a 2.6.17 kernel, the KDE 3.5.4 desktop, extensive support for multimedia, and Automatix, which simplifies installation and uninstallation of many popular applications.

Storage manufacturers are getting ready to start shipping solid state disks, and Linux-based devices like One Laptop per Child's XO and Intel's Classmate don't contain standard hard disks. To improve performance on the wide array of flash memory storage devices now available, project leader Jërn Engel has announced LogFS, a scalable filesystem specifically for flash devices.

For the next interview in the fortnightly People Behind KDE series we travel to North America for the first time this series to talk to an IRC veteran and the author of ground-shaking, in-depth promotional articles on the interesting road towards KDE 4 - tonight's star of People Behind KDE is Troy Unrau.

When my trusty google alert popped this up, you just know I had to let my fingers do the walking and go take a look. The title itself promised wonderful and special things. I've only been leading this project for a few weeks, but I have learned quickly how to spot a hit piece...I can almost smell them. I am happy to say that my intuition didn't let me down one bit. Let's take a look at these "Pure Facts", shall we. Let's discover this Pulitzer contender together.

The rPath Linux project team this week announced updated release 1.0.6 of its rPath series, based on the groundbreaking Conary software management system. rPath Version 1.0.6 of the Xen-oriented distribution features a 2.6.19.7 kernel, along with the GNOME 2.12 desktop environment.

The bash shell is available on many Linux and UNIX systems today, and is a common default shell on Linux. In this tip you will learn how to handle parameters and options in your bash scripts and how to use the shell's parameter expansions to check or modify parameters.

I just got off the phone with Ted Woerner of Acceleration Marketing, and I'm floored. Stephan suffered a broken vertebra in his crash this afternoon. This is a very sad day.

In this article, the IBM Java Support on AIX Technical Team provides short, simple, and complete instructions for collecting an AIX core file and other files for analyzing process exceptions with Java applications running on AIX.

The Free Software Foundation and Open Invention Network are ready to take on Microsoft if it acts against open-source.

All Three of China's Top Oil Production Companies Now Utilize Panasas Storage Clusters

[The storage solution is designed to complement GNU/Linux servers. - dcparris]

If you were hoping to use a Creative X-Fi series sound card under Linux in the near future, think again. As according to Creative Labs, it was harder for them to make Microsoft Vista drivers than expected thus it took longer for them to complete. Now the X-Fi Linux drivers with EAX support have been delayed until at least the end of the year.

Stephan Gregoire, driver of the Linux-sponsored car in this year's Indianapolis 500, climbed from the car under his own power this afternoon, after hitting the wall in the short chute between turns 1 and 2. The rear end of the car appeared to get loose and swing around as he entered turn 1, and although he was nearly able to save it, the rear of the car made contact and slid down the wall.

Local open source developers and companies do not seem particularly concerned by the recent threats made by Microsoft. "A storm in an American teacup," is how Obsidian Systems' CTO Anton De Wet described it.

In its ongoing battle against software patents, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has launched PlayOGG.org, a campaign to promote the use of the OGG Vorbis standard for compressed audio. The patent-free and licence-free standard is being punted as an ethically, legally and technically superior audio alternative to the proprietary MP3 format. The most common music format is currently MP3, but what most people don't realise is that any time a distributor sells or gives away music encoded as an MP3, they are responsible for paying a fee to the owners of the MP3 patents. Any software that runs MP3s is also affected by this. The OGG Vorbis specification, being in the public domain, is free from such restrictions and anyone can use the format or write software to use it without needing permission from a patent holder.

About ten years ago, the first DVD players shipped to the United States. After a slow start, the DVD has almost completely replaced video tapes and has become the de facto standard for the movie industry. Creating DVDs on a Linux machine can be a complex task, but can be made much easier by using 'Q' DVD-Author.