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High-performance software developers may be getting a leg up on the latest hardware advances with a new set of open source software tools for developing scientific libraries created by U.S. university researchers. They claim the "new breed" of software they've created, dubbed "SPIRAL," could revolutionize how computer code is written, particularly in light of the latest advances in high-performance hardware that is often, as in the case of IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer, running Linux. The automatic code generator, which provides a broad range of solutions to identify optimal signal processing and math functions, spits out high-quality code that is less buggy, saving testing and time, Carnegie Mellon University professor and researcher Jose Moura told NewsForge/ITMJ in a recent interview.

Customers can download a release candidate of the latest version of the company's Carrier-Grade Linux Edition, the first to use version 2.6 of the Linux kernel.

IBM will offer services designed to help customers migrate from Sun's Solaris to Red Hat's Linux.

The FPC team is pleased to announce the availability of version 2.0.0 of the Free Pascal Compiler. This is the new stable version of the compiler. Versions numbered 1.0.X and 1.9.Y are now considered obsolete and will no longer be maintained.

Oracle and PHP tools maker Zend Technologies are working on an open source development tool for Oracle databases.

Increasingly, corporations are turning to Linux servers to support important business applications such as customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning, ecommerce, supply chain management, and Web sites. As the operating system becomes the foundation for these vital applications, administrators need system management tools that outline how well the servers are performing and pinpoint the source of any performance problem.

Birmingham City Council is to carry out large-scale trials to evaluate the viability of open source software on its desktop PCs.

A couple of excellent open source Outlook alternatives are available which provide similar and additional features, such as Novell Evolution and KDE Kontact. If you're afraid you won't have Outlook to keep you organized in a Linux environment, you need not fear. The following screen shots show how far the open source alternatives have come.

Muslim Adel Abu Taha wrote that he created Arabian Linux using knoppix and kurumin ( Brazilian distro based on knoppix created by Carlos Eduardo Morimoto). The aim of this distro is to be a simply distro and solve all Arab users problems, such as Arabic language support and the most dramatic problem "Fax Modems drivers".

The rural Spanish region of Extremadura has seized on the potential of open-source software to improve the lot of its citizens and kick start the local economy.

Novell last week said it has acquired Immunix, a 7-year-old company founded in part with money from the Department of Defense's central R&D organization to develop security software for Linux.

Dell chairman Michael Dell has cast doubt on the potential of Linux on the desktop, and also distanced himself from his own investment company's $99.5m investment in Linux distributor Red Hat. Click here to find out more!

Australia's peak open source body has fresh faces on its board and a renewed focus: the public sector.

The Saugus Union School District reached the Network World Renovator Award finals for a wide-ranging network overhaul that involved laying a foundation of 100/1000M bit/sec Ethernet, installing IP-based telephony, delivering on-demand video and migrating

Printer ink maker Hewlett-Packard is to flog notebooks to its European customers using a customised version of Linux. While HP has been selling Linux as an option for quite a while, it has only been a generic service through its "Factory Express" site in America.

The role of system administrator is a role of details. Heavily used and updated servers are filled with details, from new tables in a database to root password changes. These details need to be documented. When you are managing three servers, these details can be easy enough to remember. However, when you have 30 or 50 or 100 servers, the details become impossible to keep track of without documenting them. When it matters, you don't want to think that the IP address of that old accounting server is 192.168.10.55, you want to know it.

LinuxQuestions.org is proud to announce the official release of LQ Radio. The first installment of the LQ Radio Show has been posted. The LQ Radio Show will feature LinuxQuestions.org founder Jeremy Garcia, along with a rotating panel of LQ mods, discussing the latest in Linux and Open Source. Moving forward, the show will also feature live guests from the Linux and Open Source Community. The LQ Radio site is also home to the LQ Radio interview series and the LinuxQuestions.org Podcasts.

A dispute between the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and OpenOffice.org (OOo) over the increased use of Java in the upcoming version 2.0 release of OOo is over -- at least for now. The two groups have found a short-term solution, and are working together on ways to keep the dispute from happening again.

IBM has bought open source vendor Gluecode and plans to offer its wares as a low-end alternative to its own WebSphere middleware.

A new series offering tips and tweaks to speed up your Linux desktop performance.