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A few months back we had looked at the Abit AW9D i975X motherboard, which was one of the first motherboards to come out of the Universal Abit camp. We had found this Intel flagship motherboard to be very competitive and offer a great deal of features even though it was not able to pack the equivalent punch of the legendary IC7-MAX3 or NF7-S v2.0. What we have on the table to look at today is the Abit NF-M2 nView. The NF-M2 nView is an AM2 motherboard that is powered by the NVIDIA GeForce 6150 with nForce 430 that offers both onboard DVI and VGA support along with 7.1 channel HD audio, Abit Silent OTES, and IEEE-1394a Firewire.

Rumors have been rampant in recent days that Fleury had decided to quit Red Hat. The Linux software developer bought JBoss, which was based in Atlanta, last year for $350 million. JBoss, a developer of middleware, operates as a Red Hat subsidiary. Fleury reports directly to Matthew Szulik, Red Hat’s chairman and chief executive officer. His title is senior vice president and general manager of the JBoss division.

On January 11th, I received an email to my Yahoo! account with the subject "Activate Your Account Now". The sender was "service@paypal.com".

Can I be honest with you? The Linux desktop isn't always the right desktop. It is the right one for me 99 percent of the time, but even for me, there are times when I turn to another desktop. Still, for me, Linux is head and shoulders above any variety of Windows, and still a head above Mac OS X. For others, though, it's a different story. One such story is told by a gentleman named Andy in our articles section.

Oracle recently issued the first upgrade to its free SQL Developer tool, a step it hopes will win further adherents to its easiest-to-use tool. Last March, Oracle supplemented its command line tools with the new offering to introduce a more graphical environment for developing Oracle applications.

A mobile device design specialist in Bangalore, India has announced one of the first hardware reference designs based on Freescale's currently-sampling i.MX27 processor. IWave's "iW-Rainbow-G3" design supports Linux 2.6, and targets video-centric mobile devices such as hard drive-equipped, D1-capable portable media players.

The book begins with several chapters about creating, using and managing a relational database. Westman focuses on using the open source database software MySQL, although he discusses using PostgreSQL as an alternative. For those with database experience -- even a library catalog database -- this won't be totally foreign. Many tables and drawings in the book illustrate the MySQL database structure.

Avi Kivity suggested that combining KVM, the Kernel-based Virtual Machine, with the dyntick patch could improve overall KVM performance. He noted that it would likely improve performance of both the host by"avoiding expensive vmexits due to useless timer interrupts," as well as on the guest by"reducing the load on the host when the guest is idling (currently an idle guest consumes a few percent cpu)". Ingo Molnar pointed out that KVM with his -rt kernel already works with dynticks enabled on both the host and the guest,"using the dynticks code from the -rt kernel makes the overhead of an idle guest go down by a factor of 10-15". Ingo added that he hopes the dyntick patch will be ready to be merged into the upcoming mainline 2.6.21 kernel.

This articles shows you how Java can provide a simple way to submit z/OS batch jobs to run. In addition, extending the Commons Net Library allows the specific JES file attributes to be encapsulated in Java objects.

When disruptive technologies come along, standards need to evolve in parallel, so that they are there when new products hit the shelf. The result can be standards "swarms" that provide multiple, overlapping solutions to choose from. Ultimately, the fittest survive and things settle back into a more stable (and limited) ecosystem.

This workshop describes how to install VMware server 1.0.1 on Mandriva 2007 64-bit systems. Additionally you will get information how to install Linux and Windows clients to access the VMWare Server. With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux, Windows, BSD, etc. under a host operating system.

Competition between Yahoo and its competitors has been pretty fierce at times, and any number of onlookers have compared it to a war or a fight. Now it appears as if Yahoo has thrown the cyber equivalent of a "low blow": The company may be trying to trick users into abandoning Firefox and Google.

Two talkfests for your diary, Here's a long range heads-up on a couple of conferences that should tickle the interest of many developers.

One of the many virtualization options for Linux is OpenVZ, the free software component of SWsoft's Virtuozzo. OpenVZ, and Virtuozzo, are OS-level virtualization solutions that allow you to partition servers into multiple virtual private servers (VPS). Plowing through the OpenVZ documentation can be a bit intimidating, so let's walk through the easy way of getting started with OpenVZ on a Debian Etch system.

Samsung Electronics used Linux and a MIPS-based SoC (system-on-chip) to build a portable digital TV. The LMD10A-51W mobile Digital Multimedia Broadcast TV (DMB-TV) has a 10-inch WVGA (800x480) screen, and supports T-DMB broadcasts as well as DivX, XviD, WMV, and MPEG files.

In a statement, MEPIS founder and chief maintainer Warren Woodford said, "We've received lots of feedback and suggestions. So development is taking longer than I expected. On the other hand, every day SimplyMEPIS is getting better than it has ever been before. I expect to finish the improvements to the MEPIS utilities and the SimplyMEPIS Assistant for OSX during the next week.

How will embracing non-Free code will result in more Free code? It could be that filling Linux with proprietary bling could be a winning strategy for Free software, though I think it will result it hordes of folks who just want a free ride. But instead of arguing endlessly about it, which is entertaining and fun, I decided to see if it was possible to have a 100% Free Linux desktop with all the multimedia goodies. And I learned that yes, it is.

Linux is just one application in the vast open source ecosystem that companies are increasingly turning to for a lower-cost alternative to many of their IT needs

Clustered grid computing is increasingly available to the masses. Thanks to developer Doug Cutting, a Yahoo employee and prominent open source developer, aspiring programmers have access to the Lucene search engine library, an open source Web search crawler called Nutch, and Hadoop, an open source implementation of Google's MapReduce algorithm for processing large data sets. U.K.-based software developer Tom White calls Nutch "Google in a jar."

Het is alweer een tijdje geleden dat de Linux Kernel in onze meuktracker voorbij kwam, maar gelukkig hebben de ontwikkelaars onlangs versie 2.6.19.2 uitgebracht die we bij deze dus kunnen vermelden.

[Mixed Dutch and English - dcparris]