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We are standing on the cusp of a real sea change in commodity hardware architectures—the move away from individual processing units that run at high speeds and temperatures to a team of connected units that individually (now at least) are less powerful, but make up for that several times over in sheer numbers. This shift is pervasive, from Unix servers to game consoles.

[While Mr. Sheil is talking mainly to Java programmers, the information provided applies to all languages. -- grouch]

The beta release of Firefox 2.0 is not due until July 11, but a release candidate is currently available for download by curious (and careful) testers, PCMag.com reports. Key new features being introduced in the beta reportedly include an integrated spell checker and an anti-phishing tool.

Software Freedom Day is proud to announce a fantastic competition to get those creative juices going! With Software Freedom Day only a few months away, on September 16th, we have some excellent prizes to help inspire you to create the best Software Freedom Day ever!

A lot of people want to know if it is possible to build an enterprise grade open source VoIP solution and if there are any benefits to it. The answer is that it is not only possible, but there are special features that are exclusive Asterisk which is an open source IP telephony platform. Asterisk not only serves as an IP call signaling server (sometimes referred to as an IP PBX), but it also serves as a tradition TDM/analog PBX and seamlessly bridges the gap between the two worlds.

Welcome to this year's 27th issue of DistroWatch Weekly! As the Debian Weekly News celebrates its five years of existence, some of our readers will be pleased to learn about a renewed effort to port the world's largest Linux distribution to the MINIX kernel. On the not so positive side, the Debian/Ubuntu world was rocked by a Debian developer's revelation that there is still much tension between the two projects. Good reviews continue to follow the recent development release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, while a new FreeBSD-based live CD project should cause some welcome excitement among the BSD geeks. In the First Looks section, we'll evaluate a commercial Linux distribution from Japan - Turbolinux 11 "Fuji" International edition. Happy reading!

LinuxQuestions.org is proud to announce the addition of the "LQ Job Marketplace", which will allow employers to post available positions for Linux, Open Source and programming related jobs.

KOffice 1.5 saw the addition of Kross, a framework to allow for scripting plugins in a number of languages. Krita and Kexi come with a number of plugins with more available for download at KDE-Files.org. To find out more about this intriguing technology and how it came about KDE Dot News interviewed the author Sebastian Sauer. Read on to discover how you can use Kross.

EnterpriseDB, an open source database company, announced that it is establishing a fund to sponsor further development of PostgreSQL. The company will launch the fund at PostgreSQL Anniversary Summit in Toronto with an initial contribution of $25,000. The fund will be used at the discretion of the PostgreSQL leadership team to sponsor development of PostgreSQL features and enhancements. The company also announced that noted PostgreSQL developer and best-selling author Korry Douglas has joined EnterpriseDB and that EnterpriseDB's Bruce Momjian will deliver the Anniversary Summit's keynote address.

The subversion version control system is a (relatively) new source control system. The subversion book is very thorough, however, to get a quick repository up and running (even for just testing) have a read.

Flashback to 2002. Open source software is hot. It's the future. It's what everyone is writing and talking about. Projects and their related Web sites are popping up all over. And it wasn't just the Linux and PC folks doing the talking either. There were all kinds of open source projects for systems and application software--tens of thousands of projects, many of which called SourceForge home.

It is a case of a David and Goliath face-off, with Melbourne and Hobart competing for the right to stage for one of Australia's leading open source software technical conferences in 2008. Linux Australia President Jon Oxer, today announced the two teams bidding for the opportunity to host Free and Open Source Software conference linux.conf.au in 2008.

Freedom of choice is an ideal. It’s also increasingly obvious that it’s almost always the most pragmatic approach, whether involving economic issues that affect billions of people or comparison shopping for a pair of jeans. Unfortunately, the people who voluntarily give up their own are the ones who can least afford to do so.

This tutorial shows how to install and configure BASE (Basic Analysis and Security Engine) and the Snort intrusion detection system (IDS) on a Debian Sarge system. BASE provides a web front-end to query and analyze the alerts coming from a Snort IDS system. With BASE you can perform analysis of intrusions that Snort has detected on your network.

I googled around and haven't seen anyone else even ATTEMPTING to boot Linux on this thing (even though the Japanese had the UX50/90 already)...why is that? I don't know. So I decided to give it a shot. And it was surprisingly easy. Everything works just fine, the UX180P is just an ultra-mini-micro PC. Since it runs the full version of Windows XP Pro, it shouldn't have too much trouble with most current Linux distro's.

Larry Ellison, Oracle's President, claimed the software giant is targeting Red Hat support: specifically providing support services for Red Hat Linux users.

The browser wars are heating up, as the first beta of Firefox 2.0 is due on Tuesday July 11th, and Internet Explorer version 7.0 is now on it's third beta release.

The French Parliament has passed what the anti-Digital Rights Management (DRM) group EUCD.INFO calls "the worst copyright law in Europe." Popularly known as DADVSI (Loi sur le Droit d'Auteur et des Droits Voisins dans la Société de l'Information, or Law on Author's Rights and Related Rights in the Information Society), the bill now goes to President Jacques Chirac to be signed into law. However, opponents of the bill hope that alleged unconstitutional maneuvering by the government and possibly unconstitutional aspects of the law itself can still be used to prevent at least some aspects of DADVSI from coming into effect.

Solegy LLC has adopted support for encryption of SIP messages among service providers using its ServicePDQ™ managed platform. The news is timely as it addresses the recent disruptions to VoIP service caused by attempts to block SIP messages and media by network operators around the world.

Phipps, Sun's chief open source officer, said the transition to open source Java would come in a matter of months, not years. What he meant was that it would happen within the next 10 or 11 months. However, what attendees quickly trumpeted to the blogosphere was that the move was imminent. So Phipps had to go back to the press to clarify that it wouldn't be happening quite that soon. So began a fresh round of concerns about whether Sun was dragging its heels on open-sourcing Java.

Squiz today announced that leading community review forum, CMS Matrix, has voted MySource Matrix as the world's best supported open source CMS application.