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How do you get mainframe performance on an embedded budget? Just learn the secrets of the mainframe gurus and apply them in your own designs. Architectural decisions define the ultimate feasible performance of any product. This article covers features that can help you improve your system's performance.

Company that sells Linux for unconventional devices brings new software foundation--and more-traditional sales model--to product line.

Almost everyone who agrees that technology training would benefit African society, also presumes that success is predicated upon significant funding. Linux helps overcome many major barriers including funding. This article introduces the key principles necessary for successful national IT education, using Linux.

SUSE LINUX, With the AMD Opteron* Processor, Lowers Hardware Costs and Provides High Availability and High-Performance Computing for Mission-Critical Databases

We're doing Readers' Choice Awards a little differently this year, to try to make them more fair.

The code examples in these tutorials are in Python and C, but translate well to other languages. Part 1 covers the basics, such as an echo server and client, which connect over TCP/IP, fundamental network, layer, and protocol concepts. Part 2 is an intermediate level tutorial that demonstrates how to write UDP sockets applications.

It has been 14 years since the first 64-bit processor -- the MIPS R4000 -- found its way into a workstation. 64-bit workstations once cost thousands or tens of thousands of dollars, but the introduction of high-performance, low-cost 64-bit CPUs from AMD and Intel has changed the industry's attitude toward workstation design. New architectures are forcing old hardware into obsolescence, but free software can extend those old systems' useful life.

We had a visit from Red Hat's EMEA folk recently. We tend to think of French Mandriva (née MandrakeSoft) and Novell's German SuSE operation as carrying the torch for Linux in Europe, but in fact Red Hat is not doing badly in Europe at all.

Foresight Desktop Linux is a distribution which showcases some of the latest and greatest from GNOME. With a great focus on usability, yet still up to date. Some of the more innovative things are included, like mono, beagle, f-spot, howl, hal, and oversite systems management. All of this plus some nice, clean default themes and artwork. FDL 0.8 includes many updates to existing packages, great hardware detection using hal/udev/gnome-volume-manager, and a new bootsplash.

No article or series of articles could cover anything as big as the OpenOffice.org 2.0 release, and this article won't try. Instead, this article is going to look at one narrow theme, albeit an important one: The increased role that Java plays in this new OOo 2.0 release. Mad Penguin interviews Sun Microsystem's Simon Phipps to get some insight...

Pulling the plug on an ambitious open-source FPGA hardware and software project, ST Microelectronics confirmed Tuesday (April 26) it will stop development of its Generalized Open Source Programmable Logic (GOSPL) technology and pursue further programmable logic development through third-party partnerships.

The Open-Xchange Server 5 eases the shift to open source for IT admins.

Novell is continuing its embrace of the open-source community with new hires and the promise of even greater integration with key open-source projects.

Getting the free and open source message to users, particularly school-going youths and their teachers in a vast country like Namibia, is not the easiest task. SchoolNet, however, has come up with an innovative approach to the challenge and has produced the first in a new series of comic strips promoting FOSS.

Ututo-e is a Gentoo-based distribution developed in Argentina. Of all the x86 distributions listed on DistroWatch, Ututo-e is the only distribution endorsed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). Since he first noticed Ututo-e while visiting Argentina last August, Richard Stallman has described it as "the only free GNU/Linux distro I know of" -- an endorsement that promises to boost its user base the way that John F. Kennedy's endorsement of the James Bond books boosted their sales. In addition, the FSF hosts Ututo-e on its FTP site.

Jeremy Allison, a lead developer on the Samba project, has left his job at Hewlett-Packard Co. in order to go to work for Novell, effective this morning.

Software company adds another open-source luminary to its staff. Jeremy Allison says, "These guys know a lot about file sharing."

If you live in or near the Pacific Northwest, you should be in Bellingham, Washington, this Saturday.

Widespread dissatisfaction with current e-mail systems, particularly Microsoft Exchange and Outlook is spurring platform and e-mail server changes, according to Julie Hanna Farris, an electronic messaging innovator and founder of Scalix Inc., a messaging system vendor. In this setting, e-mail on Linux is shaping up to become the killer app in the enterprise application stack, said Farris in this interview about current and future e-mail trends. Also, e-mail client software (think Outlook) may be on the way out, pushed aside by Web-based e-mail systems, or Webmail. Farris has honed her e-mail trend intelligence gathering and prediction skills over 17 years in messaging. Besides Scalix, she was a founding executive for onebox.com, which was acquired by Openwave, and companies whose enterprise portal software was acquired to became Sun JavaMail. She was a marketing executive at IBM/Lotus and began her career at BellSouth.

OpenLaszlo 3.0 provides two ways to deploy applications and features Unicode support and a new drawing API to support charting and graphing.