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The Gelato Organisation said it gathered together 30 different members at the University of Illinois recently to meet and exchange research advances for Linux on the Itanium 2 microprocessor.

Other than Linux, all the other open-source projects move along at a rate best described as glacial. Even principals in the community are sometimes shocked at the slowness of open-source development. This probably is a function of how motivation and lack of fear work among open-source developers. Often they're motivated like hobbyists. And there is no fear to drive anyone to do anything — no fear of getting fired or yelled at by a mean boss.

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Face it, you can't become any kind of respectable administrator without knowing a decent bit about shell scripting. You don't have to be the "Bashmeister General" or anything, but having a firm grasp on the basics will get you out of a lot of jams, and provide a foundation for furthering your experience and your skill. In this article we'll cover some programming functionality of the bash shell.

Linux Journal's least technical editor reports on the road to Laptopia with his new ThinkPad T40.

According to a report by research and analysis firm Netcraft (netcraft.com), the fallout from a couple of recent controversies over free blogging services is leading some bloggers to consider shifting to paid services, while also generating interest in free and open-source blogging software.

Linux and AdvancedTCA (ATCA) are emerging as open industry standards that the telecom equipment industry will embrace as it migrates away from proprietary software and hardware architectures in its quest for faster time-to-market and reduced costs. Telecom equipment manufacturers (TEMs) RadiSys and Kontron are separately demonstrating ATCA hardware at this week's SuperComm trade show in Chicago, while telecom software vendor Ulticom is showing off signaling software for Linux/ATCA systems. Intel, meanwhile, reports that its modular, standards-based Linux platforms are being used by a large TEM and separately by a telco operator to develop new products and services.

Now is the time to begin implementing open source IP telephony. Here's why:

In theory, an open source IP telephony system will increase the demand for IP telephony, create better interoperability between IP phone systems and drive down the cost of IP telephony by putting price pressure on the traditional phone system vendors. An open source model for IP telephony might yield these results at some time in the distant future, but it will have no such effect in the short term, for a number of reasons.

Its time to get cracking for Linux geeks. Red Hat today announced a new master level program for its Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) course, specifically designed for experienced Linux system administrators who have already breezed past the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) examination.

In this week's Gentoo Weekly Newsletter we announce version 0.2 of Wasabi, the Gentoo-hosted log monitoring tool, and sound a call for new kernel developers. Don't miss the security announcements, community coverage, and other content either. Enjoy!

The software development platform Eclipse - is still something of a well-kept secret. In a way, this is not so surprising; whereas all computer users have an operating system, and most of them use the Internet in some way - and hence are likely to come across both GNU/Linux and Apache, even if tangentially - the only people who get really excited by programming tools are developers. But the rise of Eclipse is, in its own way, potentially just as important as that of GNU/Linux or Apache.