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Ever wanted to try Gentoo, but you didn't want to spend hours compiling to get a working installation? Kororaa may be the answer. It's a great tool to get a working Gentoo installation, rather than a distinct distro in its own right. It takes some of the complexity out of installing Gentoo, but still provides the advantages of Gentoo's Portage system and extensive package availability.

2006, is going to be a banner year for Web services in general, and for Java Web services in particular. New third-generation frameworks are being unveiled, which offer much better support for doc/lit SOAP as well as potential performance improvements. This article looks at both the state of Web services today and the major changes coming in 2006, and get an overview of how the new frameworks and technologies relate and interact.

Supercomputing Veterans From SGI, Cray Research, Sun Microsystems, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Maui High Performance Computing Center Enhance Executive Leadership Team

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On a lot of locations, you are forced you to use Windows, but you are not allowed to install anything on your networked PC. Probably, you think this also forces you to use other MS software; like MS Office and Windows Messenger when using the MSN IM-protocol. Well, think again, because It is possible to put 'portable' apps like Firefox, OpenOffice and Gaim on an USB stick, and use it in Windows without installing anything.

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A concise article explaining the basic setup of MySQL in GNU/Linux

As open source software becomes more and more prevalent in the everyday life or more and more people, many are quick to point to it as evidence of the success of a new way of developing software. However, before there even was an open source community, there was the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the Free Software movement. Today, the FSF is as active as ever, promoting their ideals and goals. One group has formed itself around these Free Software ideals, and expanded to include the idea of Free Culture as well. This group has found a home at Libervis.com and the associated Libervis Network, founded by Daniel Orsolic. Recently Daniel took some time to sit down with us and discuss his group's history, future, and share some of his own views and opinions on free Software and Free Culture.

Open source: Although it is still merely rumor, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison explains why buying JBoss would make sense. "Rather than fight this open source trend, we think it's important to figure out ways to make it work to our advantage," Ellison says. That doesn't end with JBoss; Oracle reportedly is in talks to purchase Zend Technologies and Sleepycat Software, too.

Salesforce.com mashes it up on the AppExchange

Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and member company Levanta today announced the free availability of an Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) study titled "Get the Truth on Linux Management." The study re-examines previously reported, anti-Linux management claims -- deriving updated analysis from in-depth research with more than 200 end users. The "Get the Truth on Linux Management" report is available in its entirety, for free download, at: http://www.levanta.com/linuxstudy/.

My preaching the joys of Mac to all my coworkers has claimed another victim; John, who I share my office with, purchase a shiny new 20" iMac G5 two days ago. John asked me for a way to get some files off his old Windows PC without booting Windows, because his Windows install is very flaky, and doesn't like to boot anymore. I developed the following procedure using a Ubuntu Live CD.

Survey of 200 organizations by analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates shows recent gains in Linux management outpacing Windows

The Competence Centers Electronic Business and Business Integration of the Fraunhofer IAO releases a report entitled "Open Source Software: Potential for Use and Economic Efficiency," a very comprehensive, objective, and systematic review of Open Source Software and its potential for use in business.

Welcome to our issue number 33 of Fedora Weekly News.

DoD Procurement Includes Two Linux Supercomputing Systems Expected to Be Among the Top Twenty Most Powerful Supercomputers in the World

Using more than one hard drive to achieve better performance and fault tolerance is very common. Less well known is that it's also possible to aggregate more than one network interface into a single logical interface. In Linux, this is handled by the bonding driver. Benefits of doing this are much the same as the benefits of aggregating discs using RAID: if one device dies, your server carries on working and by using two devices in parallel, performance can be improved.

Even as the hype and hoopla surrounding the release of Internet Explorer 7.0 continues to circulate online, it is Firefox, which is quietly doing a great job and is in fact generating more interest that anything that is on the anvil from Redmond at the moment.

The Second World War has come and gone and most of the people alive during it have died. But, the BSA has continued a practice used by the Hitler Youth Organizations to turn in their parents for being against the Fuehrer.

Now you to can sing songs from "The Producers" and turn in someone you know. And for the first time in the United States, BSA is offering rewards of up to $50,000 for qualifying reports received via its hotline or online reporting form before midnight (PST) on Tuesday, February 28, 2006.

People new to the Linux community may not understand the controversy created in comment sections, mailing lists, etc. At first, I never did understand it myself. As a writer I learned that the craft has two jobs or functions: Interpret events so the reader can better understand them and challenge people to think in different ways. Let's take Pamela Jones as an example.

Monitoring human rights abuses around the world can be a risky proposition with data collectors, reporters and community members at constant risk of discovery. The Martus project pits the best of the open source software world against abusers to create a safe and secure environment in which human rights activists can record and store data on abuses without fear.

Two major Linux advocates have published a report aimed at rebutting Microsoft's"Get the Facts" research campaign claiming that Linux has a higher total cost of ownership than Windows.