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This tutorial shows how to configure a MySQL 5 cluster with three nodes: two storage nodes and one management node. This cluster is load-balanced by a high-availability load balancer.

AMD apparently wants to set up a research group in Dresden not only to optimize Linux for its own processors, but also to integrate the requirements of the open operating system in the development process for future processor generations. At least, that's what three ads for the Fab 36 would seem to suggest: the company is looking for a Linux kernel developer, a developer for the virtualization of operating systems, and a developer of operating system tools for the "Operating System Research Center" in Dresden.

Red Hat (Nasdaq: RHAT) was a fairly harmless company, insofar as Oracle was concerned. Its Linux operating system was mostly a threat to Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT).

Tonight the People Behind KDE interview series brings to you a half-interview with Frans Englich, only half because he could not find a photo to submit. This man is a KDE developer whose most recent work is on KDOM and XSLT. Because the Commit Digest is back at the weekend, People Behind KDE will be moving to a new mid-week slot from now on.

When you go to any hotbed of free software development in Latin America, such as the Fórum Internacional Software Livre (international free software forum) I attended this week in Brazil, it’s clear that Richard Stallman is the hero and the flagship personality. Quotes from his speeches turn up first on every web site discussing the conference, stereotyped likenesses of his signature hair style appear on posters, and supporters line up to pay five reais–a bargain compared to what he charges in Europe!–to get their photo taken with the real article. (The money all goes directly to the Free Software Foundation, so the charge is meant as a fund-raiser, and also–I suspect–to cut down on tiresome time-wasting.)

ZK is an open source Web development framework that enables Web applications to have both rich user experiences and low development cost. ZK includes an Ajax-based event-driven engine, rich sets of XUL and XHTML components, and a markup language. Live demo is available at http://www.potix.com/zkdemo/userguide/ .

Monday at 1:00, at theDesktop Linux Summit in San Diego, I'm going to give a talk titledPlug'n' Pray to Plug'n' Play: What's it Going to Take? If you follow that last link, you'll find no details. I'm looking for your help with that, fellow Linux Journalistas.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – (NASDAQ:SUNW) Sun has announced new benchmark results involving the performance of the open source MySQL database running online transaction processing (OLTP) workload on 8-way Sun Fire™ V40z servers. The testing, which measured the performance of both read/write and read-only operations, showed that MySQL 5.0.18 running on the Solaris™ 10 Operating System (OS) executed the same functions up to 64 percent faster in read/write mode and up to 91 percent faster in read-only mode than when it ran on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Advanced Server Edition OS.

Cupertino, California - (The Hosting News) - April 21, 2006 - Data management platform company, Solid Information Technology (Solid), has released a new open source strategy. Solid is adapting its transaction processing (OLTP) storage engine to work with MySQL Server, in order to allow businesses to adopt open source relational databases for mission-critical applications.

Opinion: If you think I'm hard on Microsoft, just wait until you see what Microsoft's employees and friends have to say about it!

Greg Gianforte Encourages Next Generation of Software Entrepreneurs to Start and Grow Market-Driven Businesses Without Venture Capital

Protecting non-technical users from the Linux file system tree and simplifying their ability to find and access their network, disks, drives, and documents is a primary concern. So too, is increasing their perception of knowing where they are at all times. A simplified method of achieving these goals on all GNU/Linux based systems is suggested in this article (w/screenshots).

Scottsdale, Arizona - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - April 21, 2006 - GoDaddy.com, the No. 1 registrar of domain names worldwide, now supports open source framework, Ruby on Rails.

We're thrilled to announce that free software movement/GNU project founder Richard Stallman will be giving the Friday keynote at HOPE Number Six, scheduled for July 21-23 at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City. To register for the conference, head over to our registration page.

Last issue we began to explore the issues involved in moving from a Windows-based desktop with Microsoft proprietary apps to a Linux desktop with open source apps. Novell had announced a project to do that internally back in March 2004, and has now moved all of its employees to a Linux desktop - albeit for the majority of them one that can dual boot to Windows. One reason could be the unavailability of open source apps that include all of the functionality of the Microsoft apps they would replace, and we talked about that in the last issue.

Accessibility is crucial for FOSS to succeed. Here is a practical proposal for all FOSS supporters worldwide.

"Hi, my name is Oracle and I'll be your Linux company today." In this Cyber Cynic podcast, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols asks, will Oracle really try to become a Linux power?

Mozilla announced yestreday that it has received over 280 community-created videos promoting Firefox as entries to the Firefox Flicks marketing campaign. Firefox is the award-winning, free Web browser from Mozilla that has been downloaded over 160 million times.

Open source software and development can push governments of developing nations ahead in the world, but only if they participate as producers of the technology themselves, United Nations University (UNU) researchers say. While they say developing regions such as China, East Asia, India, and South America are among the biggest markets for open source software, UNU officials worry that there may be too few open source developers in those regions.

[Sure. Let's keep the proprietary software vendors in there so we can keep them in a state of dependence. Let's teach them now to depend on vendors who break promises and fail to solve problems. Throw some money at them to placate them in the meanwhile. Free Software is a reaction against proprietary software. To miss that is to miss the whole point. - dcparris]

What would you do if you found someone who was violating the GNU GPL? Would you report them? I should probably tell the story first.

[This guy wants to bring about a peacful resolution to a violation of the GPL. Click the Read More Link to see what LXer says. - DC Parris]