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A project to bring one of the most advanced features of Sun Microsystems' Solaris operating system to the FreeBSD platform has started bearing fruit.

Penguin Computing announced its new Relion 1600 and 2600 servers offering the option of up to two of Intel's new Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 5000 per server and featuring the latest Intel server technologies for significantly improved performance. The new Relion servers will give Linux high-performance computing (HPC) customers with CPU-intensive code performance up to twice the speed as previous designs within the same power and space parameters.

Welcome to this year's 22nd issue of DistroWatch Weekly. The new Ubuntu "Dapper Drake" with long-term support will be finally unveiled later this week; before that happens, however, enjoy the latest DistroWatch Weekly! The highlight of this issue is an interview with Andreas Jaeger, SUSE Linux project manager and release coordinator, who reveals the secrets of developing a complex operating system and gives us some hints about what we can look forward to in version 10.2. Also in this issue: Freespire presents its first release roadmap, Debian continues work on a graphical installer, FreeBSD seeks volunteers to maintain the Ports Collection, and Gentoo and PCLinuxOS release new documentation. Finally, a note on Picasa and a reminder about the DistroWatch IRC channel. Happy reading!

The office of the CIO for the Federal Emergency Management Agency has made several changes in the past year to better communicate with state and local officials, support citizens who need assistance, and keep better track of assets such as food and water.

We developed the Interwiki module to make it easy to link from PRWatch.org to articles on our other website, SourceWatch, and we developed the Epublish module to organize content from our quarterly newsletter.

A government committee identified government security, business analysis, management and open source support as the most affected areas.

One of the great things about open source is that it heightens product permeability - you can see what you're getting before you come to the decision point: buy or don't buy. As in a strong-trust society, the barriers to enter into contracts, associations, etc. are diminished.

CollabNet, a leading provider of collaborative software development solution, headquartered in California, US, announced its plans in Chennai on May 27, 2006, of expanding its business into the Indian market by strengthening its customer base and operations.

It is a revolution in the making as SMEs port their core enterprise applications onto Open Source platforms

UK-based Canonical Ltd. will introduce all-new versions of its popular Debian-based Linuxes -- Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Edubuntu -- along with its first enterprise server edition on June 1, a company spokesman told DesktopLinux.com May 25.

Mac developers and power users no longer have the freedom to alter, rebuild and replace the OS X kernel from source code. Stripped of openness, it no longer possesses the quality that elevated Linux to its status as the second most popular commercial operating system.

[Be glad that GNU/Linux cannot be made non-free at the whim of a vendor. -- grouch]

Out of the box, the system does very little. There are almost no official games and nothing comes installed on the system except the Linux OS. The draw is that it's completely open.

Multiserver clusters are the new supercomputer stand-in. Here’s how storage has adapted to its important new supporting role

Most 2.6 Linux kernel releases have contained a unique name that is only visible within the top level makefile. Some examples, 2.6.17 was named "Lori Rules", 2.6.16 was named "Sliding Snow Leopard", 2.6.14 was named Affluent Albatross, and 2.6.13 was named "Woozy Numbat"

Kyle McMartin recently posted a patch to thelkml with the intention of making the kernel name visible, leading Linux creator Linus Torvalds to explain, "well, part of the charm of the name is that it's totally meaningless. I can pick names out of my *ss, and they don't matter in the least, and nobody will ever see it except in the kernel diffs."

After only nine weeks of operation, the open source Xara Xtreme project -- which is building a commercial-standard vector graphics program -- has reached a 0.5 version status with Xara LX for Linux. All tools are fully functional, and users can now save and export files as bitmaps, according to the project team.

Richard Green, the Sun Microsystems executive who will lead the company’s effort to open-source Java, says a major issue with any such move is the longstanding fear that Java will fracture and follow a path similar to Linux.

The spirit of the RISC OS desktop can now be easily installed on Debian GNU/Linux systems, after the ROX desktop collection was released in a Debian package. The package came about after Dennis Tomas decided pull the suite into one place for users to download and install.

The Federal Aviation Administration Latest News about Federal Aviation Administration has saved US$15 million by migrating computers that manage air traffic flow to Linux, according to an announcement issued earlier this month. The upgrade is part of a broader service-oriented architecture initiative that will replace proprietary traffic management systems with applications using Java.

The HRP-2m Choromet can lay down and stand-up by itself. The 35cm tall robot can also stand on one leg. The HRP-2m Choromet runs real-time Linux on a 240Mhz CPU (SH-4). This robot has 20 degrees of freedom, a gyro sensor, acceleration sensor and an Ethernet port.

Spamcop is pretty much dependant on user input. If no one submits and verifies spam, then they will have no blacklist. However that whole submission and verification process is a bit annoying. Why should I bother to actually submit spam to Spamcop and have it verified? If I just delete it, that will take less time... This tutorial shows how to automate this submission and verfication process.