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DWR simplifies your work by hiding almost all the details of Ajax and allows you to concentrate on the task at hand instead of the nuts and bolts of Ajax development.

Feast your eyes on the following collection of free tools, ad-blockers, performance tuners, and tabbed-browsing enhancers.

[Even ABC has heard of Firefox? -- grouch]

Open source software will gain momentum faster within the government sector than it will in other markets, according to Government Insights, an IDC company. Government Insights estimates a 30 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of open source software as part of total IT spending through 2009. The analysts predict an accompanying paradigm shift in how governments develop and buy enterprise solutions.

OSNews reports - Since yesterday (July 16, 2006), .iso downloads for SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop/Server 10 have been available from Novell's download page. After seeking confirmation from Novell's Nat Friedman, we can confirm these are indeed the final releases. SLED 10 is available for x86 and x86-64, while SLES 10 can be obtained for x86, AMD64/EM64T, PPC, IBM Power, Itanium, and IBM's zSeries. OSDir has some sweet shots of SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop 10 in the SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop 10 Screenshot Tour.

Coinciding with its local roadshow, Novell today announced the woldwide release of Suse Linux Enterprise 10, the company's latest release of its operating system that it is hoping will win over big market share in both the desktop and server sectors.

With the movement towards Open Source platforms, how would one go about sharing or suggesting it to a friend or boss at work? Scott Morris provides his take on how this could be done.

LXer Feature: 18-Jul-2006

LXer's Editor-in-Chief, Don Parris, continues his guided tour of LXer, focusing on searching, discussing the news, and customizing LXer.

IBM’s low-end servers and middleware for the first time will support XenSource’s open-source Xen virtualization technology, since it’s included in Novell’s new Suse Linux distribution, IBM announced Monday.

Alternative Ruby implementations seem to be on the move throughout the Ruby community.JRuby is the furthest along at this point, so I decided to talk to Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo, two of the principal programmers on the project. Read on to hear what they have to say about Ruby, JRuby, and the art of re-implementing Ruby.

Wellingborough, UK – The use of Linux as a mobile operating system (OS) has been steadily growing, with an increasing number of companies announcing plans to develop Linux platforms.

Linux World is hosting a Health Care day organized by OSDL.org on August 15. This is shaping up to be a key event on open source and health care -- a focused opportunity to absorb the latest info on this wave of the future, a less expensive and safer way to go. See CC730223

Jigsaw Data Corp., the online global marketplace for buying and trading business contact information, announced that it has selected MySQL, the world's most popular open source database software, to power its popular online user-generated database of over 3.3 million business contacts at more than 360,000 companies.

[I'm sure the PostgreSQL folks will find plenty to groan about on this one. - dpcarris]

Start-up Hyperic launched an open-source project on Monday around its namesake software, looking to shake up enterprise management software with a low-cost product and an open-source business model.

Emerson Network Power, a division of Emerson Electric, will demonstrate MontaVista's Carrier Grade Linux distribution at the Freescale Technology Forum next week in Orlando Fla. MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition (CGE) will be shown running on Emerson's KatanaQP ATCA blades and PmPPC7448 ProcessorPMC modules.

Both developers and business managers need to know open-source options and limitations.

New central open source business intelligence site offers free collaboration tools to enterprise developers, open source developers, and partners

Smart Collaboration™ improves Ketchikan Gateway Borough’s efficiency

The strength of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is its openness and transparency, and community support. Anyone can contribute, not just elite coders with lush geekbeards and ratty sandals. So what can a non-coder do?

Serendipity is a PHP-based content management system (CMS) for powering blogs and other sites, and has a feature set that should make any blogger happy. After several years in development, the Serendipity team hit the 1.0 mark on June 15. Let's see how the 1.0 release shakes out.

[Let's see, just because it uses the BSD license, it's supposed to be better for "commercial" sites? Bartender! I would like to try whatever these guys have been drinking. - dcparris]

The question of if and when Reiser4 will be merged into the mainline Linux kernel has been an on-going debate for a couple of years [story]. The filesystem was described as being "fairly stable for average users" by Hans Reiser [interview] over two years ago, in March of 2004 [story]. It has been merged into Andrew Morton [interview]'s -mm kernel [story], though issues such as Reiser4 plugins [story] and coding style [story] caused lengthy discussions last year. Two recent threads on thelkml raised the question again, asking at a non-technical level why Reiser 4 has not been included in the Linux kernel. Some have offered theories that Reiser4 is being blocked for political reasons, others because of concerns that once Reiser4 is included Namesys might forget it and move onto another filesystem. Responses to these theories point out that in reality there are technical issues that must be resolved before the filesystem will be merged, and that much progress has been made toward this end. Additional discussion can be found on a relevant and recently createdkernel newbies wiki page.Hans Reiser posted a "short term task list for Reiser4" to address the remaining technical issues. The todo list included getting batch_write merged into the -mm kernel [story], getting read optimization code merged into the -mm kernel, documenting everything in theNamesys wiki, exploring and addressing reports of system pauses when using Reiser4, a complete review of the crypt-compress code, a large effort in optimizing fsync, a review of installation instructions, and a review of the kernel documentation. Hans explains, "unfortunately, our code stability is going to decrease for a bit due to all these changes to the read and write code --- no way to cure that but passage of time. On the other hand, our CPU usage went way down. Reiser4's only performance weakness now is fsync. Once the crypt-compress code is ready, we will release Reiser4.1-beta (with plugins, releasing a beta means telling users that if they mount -o reiser4.1-beta then cryptcompress will be their default plugin, and if they don't, then they are using Reiser4.0 still). Doubling our performance and halving our disk usage is going to be fun."