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The shift to 64-bit computing on the desktop is nearly here, or so says Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates.

Welcome to this year's 18th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. The debian-devel list carried many discussions about releasing sarge in light of recent editorial changes to the social contract, leading to more general resolutions and much cross-talk.

Mandrakesoft today announced the availability of Mandrakelinux 10.0 Official for the AMD64 platform (Athlon64 and Opteron). Mandrakelinux 10.0 for AMD64 delivers all the features and robustness of Mandrakelinux 10.0 Official to the 64-bit platform from AMD, with an average performance gain of 20% compared to the IA32 version.

This article answers some basic questions about Grid Computing, such as: What is Grid Computing? Where to start? How do the pieces fit together? What comes next? This page provides an overview for readers who want to learn about grid computing but don't know where to start.

Geronimo, Apache's open source J2EE project, is quietly making a ton of progress. Late last week, after nine months of development work, Apache released its first set of code for Geronimo. Further, Geronimo devs say they will begin self-certification J2EE tests this month, with hopes they'll be fully compliant this summer.

The friendly folks over at LinuxCertified.com were very gracious to send us over their latest laptop, LC2210, loaded with Xandros Desktop 2.0. Here is what we think about the product and the integration between the hardware and software.

Last week two friends of mine from the local Linux Users Group were telling me that while they realize bringing in and helping new users is important, they're more interested in meetings that focus on enterprise-level tech presentations that will help them in their jobs. Is it possible for a LUG to serve everyone?

At a press conference in London today, Red Hat chairman and CEO Matthew Szulik unveiled the firm's latest plans for desktop/client Linux. Longtime followers of Red Hat's march to the desktop are probably already making book on how long it is before the company reverses its direction again.

A recent discussion on the lkml looked into a reproducable random file I/O regression in 2.6 compared to the 2.4 kernel. Alexey Kopytov posted the benchmark results, attempting to simulate the workload of a database under intensive load. The tests were tried with all I/O schedulers, including the anticipatory, deadline and CFQ, and in all cases 2.4 outperformed 2.6.

The following posting has been contributed by Mark Johnson, Debian's representative at OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards.

The Extensible Open Router Platform (XORP) is an open-source software project for creating production-level open-source router code. Like its predecessor the Linux Router Project (which ended in 2002) the goal of XORP is to create open-source routing code that can run on commodity hardware and become "the Linux of routing," according to the project's founders. The project is run by the International Computer Science Institute, which is affiliated with the University of California at Berkeley.

Delivering Technology Choice to Customers is Driving Force Behind Red Hat Client Strategy, Red Hat Desktop is First Deliverable

Opening a new chapter in its 10-year history and a new front in its war against Microsoft, leading Linux seller Red Hat on Tuesday plans to announce its first version of the open-source operating system for desktop computers.

While proprietary OSs have been blessed by an onslaught of competing audio players, the Free Software world has remained relatively stagnant since XMMS was released in 1997. Recently, however, there has been a lot of development work surrounding Free Software media players. I ran across several audio programs worth looking into, including mpd, muine, and musikcube, but the most promising program I found is Rhythmbox.

In this week's Gentoo Weekly Newsletter we say farewell to Chief Architect Daniel Robbins, who has retired. In the rest of the issue you'll find out about the success of the 10th Gentoo BugDay and read some security announcements and community coverage. Enjoy!

Of course readers of a book learn from it, but authors learn from writing it, too. One of the most surprising things I learned from writing the second edition of Advanced UNIX Programming was how good Linux really is.