<b>Daniweb:</b> "No one has given his life for Linux but certainly there have been sacrifices. But, like their armed soldier counterparts, it isn't about the sacrifice, it's the freedom you big dummy."
<b>Tux Radar:</b> "And with Linux and free software making a name for itself in the world of big business, many more people are testing the feasibility of switching small and home office software to their open source equivalents."
While Microsoft's Silverlight 4 won't be officially released until next month, an almost-ready-for-primetime "release candidate" version is now available for download.
<b>Datamation:</b> ""All video codecs are covered by patents," Jobs said in the e-mail, according to Roy. "A patent pool is being assembled to go after Theora and other 'open source' codecs now"
Solving ASP.NET web application problems can sometimes be difficult even if you are sitting next to Visual Studio. Luckily, IIS 7 and later contain features to help you uncover the troublemakers.
<b>OSNews:</b> "Software patents, however, are only valid in some parts of the world, so an enterprising developer has started a project that was sure to come eventually: Firefox builds with H264 support."
<b>Linux Beacon:</b> "While there are quite a few services that offer free blog hosting, there are situations when you’d want to run a blog on your own server. This approach has its advantages, but setting up a server and then installing and configuring a blog system can be a daunting proposition – unless you choose to use Tonido, that is. This solution offers everything you need in one neat , easy-to-install package."
<b>Phoronix:</b> "David's goals with Prime are to allow a second GPU to render 3D applications onto the screen of the first GPU, with it being configurable by the client, and just to handle the rendering side."
<b>Ghacks:</b> "Linux is such a strong operating system for two primary reasons – by design and with the help of security systems like AppArmor and SELinux."
A new report from the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General says the government is making a big mistake by not making ID theft prevention and prosecution a top priority.
<b>HowtoForge: </b>"Nexenta is a project developing a debian user-land for the OpenSolaris kernel. This provides all of the advantages of apt as a package respoitory (based on the Ubuntu LTS apt repository, currently using 8.04) as well as the advantages of the ZFS filesystem."
An alleged e-mail from Apple's Steve Jobs suggests big-name vendor may be pooling their support around H.264 for Web video, while Microsoft backs H.264 as well -- and joins in some Flash-bashing for good measure.
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A load test gives the database administrator quite a lot of valuable information and may make the difference between poor and acceptable application performance. Here are some proactive tips to make your IBM DB2 production implementation a success.
<b>Howtoforge:</b> "This tutorial shows how to set up a standalone storage server on CentOS 5.4. Instead of NFS, I will use GlusterFS here. The client system will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem."