<b>Linux Planet:</b> "OpenOffice is the best cross-platform office productivity suite, but it misses a few popular features like a clipart gallery, Google Docs integration, PDF import, and more than basic templates. But they're out there if you know where to look, and Eric Geier shows the way."
<b>Network World:</b> "In this first-of-its-kind test, we invited cloud vendors to provide us with 20 CPUs that would be used for five instances of Windows 2008 Server and five instances of Red Hat Enterprise Linux – two CPUs per instance. We also asked for a 40GB internal or SAN/iSCSI disk connection, and 1Mbps of bandwidth from our test site to the cloud provider."
<b>LinuxPR:</b> We have prepared an easy HowTo guiding you step-by-step through an openQRM Cloud setup on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx using the KVM Virtualization technology
<b>eSecurityPlanet:</b> "Botnets cranked out more spam and larger individual files containing spam in the first quarter of this year, according to the latest report from Postini, Google's e-mail filtering and security service."
Despite improved security software applications and greater consumer awareness, Google's Postini said total spam volume increased six percent in the first quarter of 2010.
<b>Free Software Magazine:</b> "Nina Paley is a cartoonist and animator who in recent years discovered the serious faults of our long-standing copyright and licensing system through her experiences in making and releasing “Sita Sings the Blues.” After considerable trouble involved in fulfilling all of the licensing obligations for the film, she became a serious advocate for both free culture and copyright..."
<b>LWN.net:</b> "The chief of the Unix side was Evi Nemeth. The first thing that struck most people about Evi was a general sense of distraction and disorganization; it's only later that one realized the she was one of those smart people who make things happen."
JavaScript's error-capturing mechanisms not advanced enough for your web applications? Here's a novel way to log JavaScript errors using an AJAX-driven web service.
<b>NexentaStor:</b> The NexentaStor project has released Community edition v3.0 of it's free storage appliance. The distribution is based on the Nexenta Core Platform - OpenSolaris kernel combined with Ubuntu userland.
Views can be an effective tool for speeding up your selects and simplifying complex queries. Learn what indexed views are, where you might want to use them, how to create them, and what constraints exist with their use.
<b>Handle With Linux: </b>"This is the prototype of the Kno a Linux based dual screen textbook replacement shown by Californian startup Kakai at at the 8th Annual Conference of D: All Things Digital, otherwise known as D8."
Expand Beyond Corp. on Monday announced the latest release of PocketDBA mobile software for database administration, which supports Oracle, SQL Server and DB2 UDB databases.
Mixing .NET and Java technologies with web services is often easy, but for many tasks web services are not the solution for Java/.NET interoperability.
<b>Datamation:</b> "Think you can scare Linux vendors into submission with a patent challenge? Think again. Linux vendors Novell and Red Hat have won a patent verdict in a Texas jury trial."