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Scyld Software today announced the immediate availability of the 29-series release of Scyld Beowulf for the Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron platforms. The 29-series significantly reduces the time necessary to develop and deploy a distributed parallel application by providing scientists and application developers with out-of-the-box integrated parallel programming code libraries, a scalable deployment architecture and cluster management interfaces.

Penguin Computing(R) today announced the immediate availability of turnkey Linux cluster systems based on the AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon architectures. Penguin Computing also announced that it will begin shipments of turnkey Linux cluster systems based on the Intel Itanium 2 architecture during the 3rd quarter of 2004. The Penguin Computing cluster systems are powered by Scyld Beowulf, the leading second generation Linux cluster operating system.

According to a new Yankee Group survey of 1,000 IT administrators and C-level executives worldwide, corporate customers report Linux provides businesses with excellent performance, reliability, ease of use and security. Hype notwithstanding, Linux's technical merits, while first-rate, are equivalent but not superior to Unix and Windows Server 2003, according to survey respondents.

ACML 2.0 provides an expanded feature set, optimization of existing features and improved performance. Developers using ACML 2.0 can achieve greater code accuracy and speed of delivery while maximizing performance and functionality of x86-based applications running on 32-bit Windows(R) and 32- and 64-bit Linux operating systems. ACML 2.0 also helps build the foundation for the Windows software developer in preparation for 64-bit capable Windows availability.

"If you think the market is small for Linux games," writes Jay Swackhamer, "you should take another look at what the needs are in the gaming community." There's more Linux-game-buying demand out there "than some people would like you to think," Swackhamer contends.

Gluecode Software this week announced a business automation server package that it's positioning as an open-source alternative to proprietary enterprise portal products such as IBM's WebSphere.

Open source software is playing an increasingly important role in the marketplace. It is, however, still subject to misunderstanding at both the lay and legal level. This article will attempt to clarify some of the uncertainty by addressing two fundamental issues—what open source software is, and how it works.

Several local root exploits have been discovered recently in the Linux kernel. This security advisory updates the PA-RISC kernel 2.4.18 for Debian GNU/Linux.

Which certification should I pursue and what should I use as preparation? [Editor's note: they forgot to mention LinTraining but a fine short roundup nevertheless.]

During the conference Friday, neither CEO mentioned open source or Linux specifically as motivating factors. But their continual emphasis on intellectual property (IP) and patent rights--fighting words to those who back Linux and the open--source movement--signaled the formation of a proprietary software army.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has upped the ante in the battle to win market share in the increasingly fraught Linux space. Last week the vendor announced that it has made Novell's SuSE Linux its standard for customers that want an open source operating system for business desktops and notebook PCs.

In a company-wide e-mail, Microsoft CEO characterizes Sun deal as 'a dramatic event in the industry.'

There were 27 security alerts issued last week:

• 4 from Conectiva
• 7 from Debian
• 9 from Gentoo
• 2 from Mandrake
• 1 from OpenPKG
• 2 from Red Hat
• 2 from Trustix

Government authorities have reached an agreement with counterparts in China and Japan to promote the development of open-source computer operating systems such as Linux. The agreement is seen as a possible guard against over-reliance on Microsoft's Windows.

A study from Forrester Research has concluded that the Linux operating system is not necessarily more secure than Windows, with Linux distributors taking longer than Microsoft to patch security holes, although Microsoft flaws tended to be more severe.

despite the fact that Linux is becoming more pervasive and has begun to move into the mainstream, particularly with the advent of blade servers to which Linux is well suited, the International Data Corporation (IDC) forecasts that Linux will not come near to replacing the Unix and Windows operating systems in the next three to four years.

The People Behind KDE is staying on base this week. The guy I'm interviewing is multi-talented and full of surprises, not only is he KDE-NL's own webmaster/translator/bug-submitter but also a musician and teacher. His favorite thing is his low-racer. You think a low racer is a kind of jeans style? Guess again... ;-] Get to know the person behind KDE-NL's website, Wilbert Berendsen!

Tuning your Linux server can mean many things to many people. A portion of tuning is about security, insuring the configurations of the ftp, mail, ssh and web servers are properly setup to enable access and interaction with your server while tightening the belt for those who may be browsing through for potential back doors.

Linux kernel version 2.6.5 has been released.

Steve Kemp and Jaguar discovered a number of buffer overflow vulnerabilities in vfte, a version of the fte editor which runs on the Linux console, found in the package fte-console. This program is setuid root in order to perform certain types of low-level operations on the console.