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It can be tempting to throw hardware at MySQL performance problems, but there are ways to tune your SQL database so that it doesn't always need more power. Sean Hull gives some excellent tips on simplifying, strengthening, and speeding up your MySQL database.

OpenSUSE 11.2 tugs at Karmic Koala's fur Novell has released openSUSE 11.2, just a few short weeks after Ubuntu 9.10 - aka Karmic Koala - landed.…Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

Google has launched Go, a new systems programming language born with concurrency, simplicity, and performance in mind. Go is open source and its syntax is similar to C, C++ and Python. It uses an expressive language with pointer but no pointer arithmetic. It is type safe and memory safe.

The Moblin project released the first beta of Moblin 2.1, fixing numerous bugs while adding support for a 3G modem. Other touted improvements to the netbook-focused Moblin 2.1 include a faster browser with plugin support, Bluetooth discovery support, higher screen resolution support, and an enhanced ConnMan.

Nokia N900 runs on the new Maemo 5 Linux open source software. The N900 lets users open multiple application windows and run simultaneously while taking advantage of its cellular features. The N900 offers a high-res WVGA touch screen, QWERTY keyboard and a Mozilla powered browser. The device runs on an ARM Cortex-A8 processor, with up to 1GB of application memory and OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics acceleration.

Two whirlwinds blew into Buenos Aires this week: the hundreds of Wikipedia supporters, editors and administrators here for their annual Wikimania conference, and the free-software activist Richard Stallman, who was in town as part of his never-ending tour of the globe to promote his cause. The two are set to meet Wednesday, when Mr. Stallman gives the keynote address at Wikimania in a theater across the street large enough to accommodate the expected crowd. But they don’t exactly blow in the same direction.

A paper with code has been released outlining an "invisible exploit" involving Intel SMM cpu cache poisoning. Intel has not yet commented.

Google has revealed its goal for releasing Mac OS X and Linux versions of its browser. Also, cutting-edge Chrome sports early work to enable extensions.

Why doesn't free trump expensive? Every Microsoft product has a free, open source counterpart created by dedicated programmers who loathe everything the company stands for. The free stuff is darn good. Yet companies and individuals continue to buy billions of dollars worth of Microsoft products.

ABI Research releases new report showing Linux OS gaining momentum following LiMo Foundation initiative, Google's Android solution and Nokia's support of Maemo solution and purchase of Trolltech.

Yahoo!'s Board of Directors issued a letter to Microsoft stating "we have continued to make clear that we are not opposed to a transaction with Microsoft if it is in the best interests of our stockholders."

The new Purple Magic Linux 3G Linux reference feature phone offers video telephony, music playback, high-speed Internet browsing and video streaming ...

It's close to midnight and something cool is coming through the "tubes"
It's looking real tight, a distro for the experts and the n00bs
With Live CDs so you can try it out before installing
Or DVDs so you can have the packages you choose
No way to lose

LXer Announcement: 21-Jun-2007

Scott Ruecker will begin serving as LXer's new Editor-in-Chief effective immediately.

Hi, its me again, remember me? I was the guy who told you we would probably release on Thursday of this week. Yeah, about that...

... we decided to respin the release candidate tree and push the release date out another couple of days... We're planning to release on Thursday Oct 19th.

He walks briskly down the street. He balances a laptop computer in one hand. The other hand holds a little plastic box that's plugged into the laptop. It's an antenna...

Red Hat has integrated JBoss, which it acquired 90 days ago, into Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and put the resulting Red Hat Application Stack (RHAS) up for sale as a new subscription possibility...