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Antonio Cangiano posted aRuby Implementation Shootout on his blog last week. While it's an interesting piece (and will likely be more interesting over time), it's still very premature.

On Friday Japan's Turbolinux begins dispatching the first batch of its Wizpy handhelds to people who ordered them from its Web site. The flash-based multimedia player contains a version of Linux, so it can be used to boot a PC into the operating system, allowing users to access their files in their own working environment on almost any PC.

Fedora 7 Test 2 is being pushed out the door this Tuesday (February 27), but thanks to the excellence of Pungi we decided to run our own spin. New in Fedora 7 Test 2 is the artwork along with quite a few other changes that we commented on in our Fedora 7 Preview earlier this year. In this article we have some of the first screenshots from Fedora 7 Test 2. To say the least, Fedora 7 is shaping up extremely well!

Last week, I had the privilege to address the North Texas Linux Users Group. Ralph Green asked me to present information on my upcoming book called"Linux System Administration" by O'Reilly. I only had the cover and the gallies, since production goes to press in early March. So, I showed those.

Database heavyweight Solid has contributed a new database benchmark suite to the open source community, providing an effective means to evaluate real-world database performance for nix.

HP is making $25 million by supporting the free Debian GNU/Linux distribution in what may ultimately turn out to be a challenge to commercial distributions from Novell and Red Hat.

Overview A rootkit is a group of software tools which an attacker can use to hide their tracks. A rootkit can also contain software which allows the attacker to get root access and steal or remove files on a system. Another goal for a rootki...

TI will bundle VirtualLogix's Linux distribution and platform virtualization layer with a DSP development kit that targets multimedia applications. TI's TMS320DM6437 Digital Video Development Platform (DVDP) for DaVinci technology will include a trial version of VLX-DM (digital multimedia) v2.0, along with a no-cost, royalty free Linux BSP (board support package).

Pierre Alain Joye, in a new post over his blog talks about which Zip suits your PHP versions. He tries to clarify incessant queries by users about which zip version to use whether the bundled version of PHP4 or in 5.2+ or always rely on PECL.

Turbolinux last week began shipping its new, portable Wizpy device, which allows users to plug into nearly any USB 2.0-enabled PC and boot up using the Linux operating system. The device is sold in 2 GB and 4 GB versions and comes preloaded with Firefox, Thunderbird, Skype, OpenOffice 2.1 and the Fuji OS.

Last week we downloaded and installed SipX, and logged into both the Web interface and the Linux command shell. Today we'll learn how to recover lost passwords, and then spend some quality time getting DNS (Domain Name Services) done right. DNS mistakes are among the most common problems SipX admins trip over, so we're aiming to eliminate the trip hazards.

Dion Almaer in the Ajaxian web site informs you about the PQuery. For the uninitiated, PQuery is a set of helper classes for JQuery, the JavaScript library. This library allows you to integrate AJAX, Effects and other JQuery functionality into your PHP scripts. He says it has a small footprint and is compatible with PHP4 and PHP 5 versions.

In a bid to improve online efficiency with a handy note taking tool, James Archibald tries out the Clipmarks Firefox extension. Several hours later , after absorbing useless trivia from around the internet, he realises Clipmarks is a slick little extension.

If I held Microsoft stock (which I don’t) I would be furious. Here is Steve Balmer focusing on Linux, making the tired claim that there is so-called Intellectual Property in Linux that violates patents held by Microsoft. Meanwhile Microsoft gets hit with a hefty patent violation of its own; 1.5 billion (yes, that is a “B”) for the use of the mp3 patent without payment of royalties. It appears that patent obligations are for others, not for Microsoft to worry about.

One of the most common questions I hear new Linux users ask is "What program should I use for virus protection?" Many of them lose faith in me as a source of security information when I reply, "None." But you really don't need to fear malware on your new platform, thanks to the way Linux is built.

1&1 Internet plans vast expansion of services using open-source software from a tiny newcomer. Can it really compete with Microsoft's Exchange?

The national value of Europe’s investment in free/libre or open source software today is €22bn, representing 20.5pc of the region’s total software investment, a senior UN researcher will tell an intelligence briefing on open source in Dublin later this week. Rishab Ghosh, a senior researcher at the UN University in Maastricht, will tell the Open Ireland conference in Dublin that the spend in the US on free/libre or open source software (FLOSS) stands at €36bn and accounts for 20pc of software spend in the US.

Oracle today makes its Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) Assistant available for free download. ILM Assistant is Oracle database-specific and will help database administrators (DBAs) plan and automate storage of data in email, content management systems and corporate applications. Previously, DBAs had to implement policies manually.

Mr. Stephen Walli has joined the Open Tuesday team as an ''Open Source Strategist in Residence''.

"I've been fortunate to have spent time developing standards, developing products to standards, and using open source software to rapidly bring such standards conforming products to market. I look forward to being able to share my experience through Open Tuesday", says Stephen Walli.

There's nothing like free software to save some drain on your storage management or data protection budget -- if that free software works, of course. Here are 10 storage utilities you can download and start using to manage your storage-area network (SAN), deploy network-attached storage (NAS) or monitor and assess the privacy of your network.