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Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst has issued a statement praising President Obama for bringing a culture of inclusion and transparency to the United States government. Whitehurst also takes the opportunity to encourage broader open source adoption.

Google Web Toolkit (GWT) applications, apart from connecting to servlets in time-honored Java™ fashion, can also use PHP Web services to send and receive data in XML. You'll explore methods to generate XML documents and process them, both in the Java language and in PHP.

Even though the ECMA standard allows the index of arrays to be a long, .NET on Windows64 does not support this and Java would require modifications to the bytecode format. Altering Mono became the natural choice for those looking to host very large arrays in an advanced and managed VM.

President Obama came to office with the promise of change. His administration has pledged to create an environment of openness and participation. Some have already called him the “open source president” such as consultant and CNN contributor Alex Castellanos. There’s no better time than now. Transparency builds trust. Participation solves problems. And we believe that open source provides an answer. Red Hat is excited that the Obama administration recognizes the value of open source beyond software. Open source principles are changing how we learn, how we share information, how developers create, and how companies do business. Now it has the opportunity to change our government.

Europe is opening up by leaps and bounds, from the Gendarme in France to German embassies around the world. There is one more to add to the score, as last week the Hungarian government announced it too will be going Open Source, in a big way.

PHP is one of the most popular languages for Web development and is a critical component of the LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) (define) stack. Now PHP is getting a stack of its own, thanks to the new Zend Server, which packages PHP for Web application deployment and monitoring. While Zend Server could be thought of as PHP middleware, in the same sense as Java middleware, Gutmans sees it a little differently. "I personally wouldn't call it middleware exactly -- but it is," Gutmans said. "PHP is the back end of the front end, and front end of the back end, depending on how you look at it. It can definitely be used and is used as middleware, but I typically just say Web application server because I think that's how people best understand it."

After almost a year of development, a new version 2.5 of the free Nexuiz open source action game has come out. What awaits users are some updated graphics and numerous fan-developed game levels.

What Microsoft really wants from TomTom isn't money, but building fear about Linux in other companies. Microsoft wants you to believe you need a Microsoft license to deploy Open Source software. Bruce Perens analyzes the unfortunate outcome of the TomTom/Microsoft patent settlement.

The other day I was speaking to a buddy of mine. I asked him how cool would it be, if you could just get the port on a switch that you are plugged into, in one line?? So since I thought about it... I figured why not.... I just finished writing the first revision ( I'm assuming more to come). I must say that I am quite pleased with it. Right now you can pass the switch you want to talk too, the community string, and either the MAC or IP address of the host device. In return you will get the MAC Address, IP Address, Port Description (VLAN), and Port you are plugged into.

A shell is a command interpreter which allows the user to interact with the computer. The way things work is simple: the user types in commands, the shell interprets them and performs the tasks it was asked to do, and finally it sends the result to the standard output (which is usually the screen). For example, the output of the ls command can be something like:

Back in November Intel had formally launched the Core i7 series, but Linux benchmarks were not to be found. However, in the weeks that followed, results began to emerge through the Phoronix Test Suite and Phoronix Global. Over time there were many more Linux test results from the Phoronix Test Suite community, but now we have posted some of our own Intel Core i7 numbers from Ubuntu Linux.

With Ubuntu 9.04, otherwise known as the Jaunty Jackalope, set to be released in less than three weeks, WorksWithU will be publishing some posts about what the latest and greatest version of Ubuntu will mean to different groups of users. WorksWithU begins a look at the new features that Jaunty brings to traditional desktops.

The RC2 release of Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring (code name Estephe) is now available. This RC2 version provides some updates on major desktop components of the distribution, including KDE 4.2.2, GNOME 2.26,X.org server 1.6, kernel 2.6.29. This RC2 version proposes also nearly all 2009 Spring design. This version will allow you also to dump in a very easy way All available One hybrid isos on a USB key and then install Mandriva Linux on netbooks. 6 One isos are now available to provide KDE and GNOME desktops in a very large set of languages.

This tutorial shows how to prepare an Ubuntu 8.10 server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, MyDNS nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more.

Well no matter what you try sometimes things break and inevitably when they do it happens at 3am just as your nodding off. Well in case you were not aware Nagios has a wonderful feature called event handlers. I have a great network I really do but its got a lot of crappy services on it for example CPanel and IIS servers. IIS has a great habit of dying and when it does all it requires is a restart to get it going again on the side of this we also happen to use Cygwin SSHd on our Windows servers, so in this article I am going to focus on getting Nagios to restart IIS for us to get it back to normal. To do this you will obviously need a server running Nagios and one running IIS on Windows with Cygwin SSHd installed.

[The same principle applies to Apache on Linux of course - Sander]

Wordpress is the most widely used content management system amongst bloggers for many reasons. Not only does it make site management seem like a walk in the park, but it also uses a type of shared hosting, which means that most users can afford it. It has plug-ins for any occasion and desire and finally, it has themes. For many Wordpress users, finding the right theme is a long process that often leads to endless tweaking in the code and stylesheets. However, only a few ever consider learning how to create their own. If you are one of them, this tutorial will help you learn how to built and start your own theme.

Quick: Name the biggest reseller of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The answer very likely is Dell. Now, the PC giant is striving to become the largest reseller of Red Hat’s JBoss open source middleware. Here’s how.

Sometimes, you have to respect someone for sticking to an opinion and a vision. Other times, you have to wonder if a consistent vision becomes a fatal flaw. I’m still undecided about whether Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst has the correct — or flawed — long term vision for desktop Linux. Here's why.

The Mandriva development team this morning made available the second release candidate for its Linux 2009 Spring release. Codenamed Estephe, RC2 includes a number of desktop enhancements including KDE 4.2.2, Gnome 2.26. kernel 2.6.29 and X.org server 1.6.

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