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These tutorials provide a solid base for each section of the exam, including: server management, data placement, database access, monitoring DB2 activity, DB2 utilities, Backup and recovery, and split mirroring and HADR.

In this issue, we have following articles:

1 FC6 Test2 Freeze Slip
2 End of Life times for FC1, FC2, RHL7.3 and RHL9
3 Introducing Fedora Women
4 Fedora at O'reilly OSCON 2006
5 Kernel Privilege Esclation Exploit for CVE-2006-3626
6 NewsForge: New Fedora test lead begins work
7 Fedora Weekly Reports 2006-07-17
8 Fedora Core 4 and 5 Updates
9 Contributing to Fedora Weekly News
10 Editor's Blog

Powered by SGI Altix, Researchers Simulate Merger of Black Holes, Shedding Light on the Most Powerful Event in the Universe

With digital music formats becoming ever more popular, the demand for different ways to play music files has also escalated.
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So what has this device got to do with Linux or Unix?

Linux Journal is updating its Linux Timeline to mark its 150th issue and 15 years of Linux. The timeline was created in 2002, and currently contains no African milestones. Tectonic suggests a few.

AMD has agreed to buy ATI Technologies for a $5.4 billion in cash and stock.

The purchase, which gets AMD into the market for high-end graphics chipsets, as well as chipsets for the mobile phone market, is expected to make AMD more competitive with Intel.

The deal has special interest to Linux supporters as AMD has long been a favorite of the Linux community while ATI has been a something of a pariah, even though it does offer binary Linux drivers

In light of recent stories about the price-performance superiority of Intel's upcoming Core 2 Duo processors, the following line seems especially interesting:

"A.M.D.'s overall gross profit margins, which fell in the latest quarter to 56.8 percent from 58.5 percent in the prior quarter."

Looks like AMD has a little room to maneuver on price.

The command line can tell you a lot, if you bother to ask it. Most of us learned the five Ws as a research rubric: who? what? where? when? why? (and usually, how?). By sheer coincidence, the five Ws can also illuminate important characteristics on your Linux system, its users, processes, and commands.

Portland conference - Software developers from around the globe will gather to share tips and war stories

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital's free software makes maintaining records easier. This could be vital in an emergency.
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"After Hurricane Isabel [in 2003], we had cancer patients who didn't know what chemotherapy drugs they were on," said Nancy Davenport-Ennis, chief executive officer of the Patient Advocate Foundation, a nonprofit based in Newport News, Va.

[It is not clear from the article whether this vital software is Free (Libre) or merely free (gratis). Could someone track this down, please? -- grouch]

Anyone who has used Linux will know that sometimes things don't always work as you expect and finding good help is not simple. Usually the problems are simple enough and have more to do with differences between the way operating systems work than with anything else but getting them sorted is important. Linux Annoyances for Geeks tries to solve as many of these problems as possible and makes for informative reading.

Every year in July, PC World Magazine issues a list of products and services of which they think are the créme de la créme. Tho I don’t really agree with them on most points, it’s an interesting read. I’ll give some examples on why I think it’s not *the* ultimate list IMHO:

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: KDevelop gets new configuration framework functionality. The start of a Satellite tracks feature in KStars. Support for PDF data extraction, and speed optimisations in Strigi. New features in KPhotoAlbum (KPhotoAlbum is the new name for KimDaBa). Perspective grid support in Krita, with the implementation of a Bezier tool becoming feature-complete. More work on unit conversions in KRecipes. Porting of KRDC to KDE 4.

The world's leading provider of open source to the enterprise , today announced that Venkatesh Hariharan, Head of Open Source Affairs in India, was honored as the "Indian Open Source Personality of the Year" at the LinuxAsia LFY Awards ceremony on February 9th, 2006 held in New Delhi. At Red Hat, Hariharan (popularly known as "Venky") is responsible for working with industry, academia, government and community to grow the open source ecosystem.

A subsidiary of Shanghai's stock exchange will use Turbolinux Inc.'s server software to provide information to the securities industry, the company said Monday.

Novell has unveiled the latest rendition of SUSE Linux Enterprise 10, a platform that includes SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop.

Smart Collaboration™ offers a cost-effective and reliable solution

Online research communities aim to unite scientists worldwide to find cures for neglected diseases

Scientists from Sydney to San Francisco have created an online research collaboration to develop cures for tropical diseases, using the "open source" programming model that produced freeware like Linux and Firefox, the award-winning Web browser.

Microsoft Corp. and XenSource Inc. will cooperate on the development of technology to provide interoperability between Xen-enabled Linux and the new Microsoft Windows hypervisor technology-based Windows Server virtualization.

# Pros: Achieves high-performance virtual machines as a result of acceptable flexibility compromises; Minimal disk usage per VPS because it uses links instead of copying code where possible; Attractive price; Superb GUI management tool
# Cons: Understanding and creating templates can be a bit tricky until you’ve understood how they work

[Add one more "Con": not FOSS. Only you can decide if that's a deal-breaker. -- grouch]

The latest German c’t magazine by Hannover-based publisher Heise (see also Heise Online, mostly in German) has a comparison of several dedicated and virtual hosting offers.