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There are many improvements that have taken place in PHP V5.2, and one critical area is that of memory management. To understand the implications of these new features, this article delves into memory management functions in PHP5.2, tweaking the memory manager, limiting memory usage and consides why allocation overhead and speed are a big deal.

We get it. You're slammed. You can't find the time to blink. Let alone make plans to attend the 2007 Red Hat Summit in San Diego, May 9-11. Stop for a second, OK? Find the time. You'll be rewarded.

The goal of Ubuntu's Easy Business Server is to provide a simple and clean web interface so that small business owners can easily setup an Ubuntu-powered server with little or no Linux/server administration experience.

Gone are the days when free software could blithely ignore what was happening in the world of proprietary code. The two approaches are now inextricably intertwined as more and more users and companies choose to run both. One paradoxical consequence of this is that as free software becomes more widely deployed, Microsoft's impact on it becomes greater. Against this background, a recent shift in Microsoft's public statements about open source assumes a particular importance.

Today sees the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5. Linux Format has an in-depth first look at the distro, and examines how Red Hat aims to become even more 'open' by using a shorter and clearer SLA, improving community involvement through its Knowledge Base, and providing the new Red Hat Exchange. And yes, it includes XGL...

The Wall Street Journal Tuesday published an informative article on how Linux is finally starting to get some real traction as the operating system of choice in business and personal desktops and laptops -- not just in servers in data centers.

Red Hat announces availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, the Company's most significant collaboration with customers to date; unveils plans to model services and partnerships using same open, collaborative philosophy.

PDFedit is not the first tool for editing PDF files on the GNU/Linux desktop, but it does have a strong claim to being the first truly practical one. Although only at version 0.2.5, PDFedit is already a practical solution for manipulating pages and text in PDF files, as well as for salvaging content in usable formats. It suffers only from an eccentric interface and some of the instability typical of an early release.

Red Hat hopes its latest release will lock in its position as the Linux leader as more companies vie for a piece of the competitive market.

Yankee Group's response to the Feb. 6th Linux Watch column "Weather alert: new Microsoft FUD storm expected." Mar. 12, 2007 The Yankee Group send us a rebuttal to a recent column by Steven J. Vaughan Nichols entitled, "Weather alert: new Microsoft FUD storm expected." Research fellow Laura Didio's response appears below, in an effort to allow our readers to hear both sides of the story and form their own judgments.

Crypto guru Phil Zimmermann speaks to us about the potential loss of our heritage to digital rights management. Tomorrow's archaeologists will have plenty of DVDs from our era, and no way of reading them.

My wife and I recently came back from a business trip from Paris, and even though we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves, it was a long week of living out of a suitcase, and when we boarded the plane after twelve security checks in the airport, we were both ready to try to relax and not think about the jetlag that would result from our long flight back home.

South Africa's first Open Tuesday was held on Tuesday night, drawing a mixed crowd of OSS developers and potential investors. The first of what should become an important monthly event on many people's calendars, it started people talking about the possibility for OSS in South Africa to reach its full potential.

I want to give the list of media players available for ubuntu users with installation instructions.

This guide is going to describe the steps to get the mod_dav_svn module to work on an Apache web server. First I will assume that we do not have Apache and Subversion installed on our FreeBSD box, in a second part I will explain how to add the module using our current installation.

Apple has given Windows and OS X users the joy of watching the kind of programming, with music and video, that has left many of us in the Linux world drooling with envy.

The “tech czar” for the City of Cleveland, Michael DeAloia, will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Notacon, April 27th-29th in downtown Cleveland.

Today marks the release of GNOME 2.18.0, and to commemorate today's release we have posted some screenshots from the Foresight LiveCD 2.17.92 GNOME Release Candidate, which is designed to be a demo GNOME LiveCD. This is also Foresight's first attempt at creating a bootable CD image.

Millions can now be set free of proprietary software and coldly calculated lock-in schemes. You...you accomplished this. And for these accomplishments, for these sacrifices and countless hours of mind-numbing coding and sweat, you are finally going to...

The OpenOffice.org community took Dell's to the word. John McCreesh, the lead of the Marketing Project, wrote an open letter to Michael Dell and invited Dell to work with OpenOffice.org in order to install OpenOffice.org on Dell's computers.