Sitting at the heart of every Linux OS distribution is a Linux kernel. When it comes to the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 release, the issue of which kernel is being used is not a cut and dried answer, however.
<b>Tuxmachines:</b> "So this week we round out the Fedora 13 Test Day schedule, which has seen us run the gauntlet from NFS, through color management and SSSD, scale the heights of Graphics Test Week, and will see us come to a triumphant finish..."
The security software vendor's latest threat report provides plenty of disconcerting news for IT managers charged with safeguarding critical enterprise data.
<b>Phoronix:</b> "There's a last-minute X.Org Server update that's being looked at as a result of a "major memory leak" that has been found over the past week."
<b>Ubuntu User:</b> "Amidst reports that Ubuntu would ditch longtime default browser Firefox for Google's Chrome browser were put to rest with a resounding "sort of.""
<b>PC World:</b> "Kubuntu 10.4 ("Lucid Lynx") hit the servers late last week so I thought I'd upgrade. Plenty of people appear to have had a great upgrade experience. Mine was a nightmare. But few Linux disasters are unrecoverable. Here's how I got through mine ... albeit with a few outstanding issues."
At annual RSA security show, Big Blue unveils enterprise IT security suite that includes products to secure operations from application code all the way through deployment.
<b>Developer.com:</b> "The cloud isn't just for network administrators looking for scale, it's also a key development area for developers building applications with open source dynamic languages."
<b>Hardware Central:</b> "AMD has formally released the "Magny-Cours" line of eight- and 12-core Opteron server processors, disclosing the speeds and feeds and promising performance-per-watt that beats Intel's newest Xeon."
<b>Webopedia: </b>"Cupcake was the codename used for the first major release of the open source mobile operating system, Android. The codename was used when the release was bumped to version 1.5."
<b>Computer Weekly Blog: </b>"Grynzpan reckons that Brazil has to find a unique selling proposition and its vast pool of knowledge in open source software could be the real advantage of the local IT industry."
<b>Wired: </b>"TechRestore, an electronics repair shop, has taken apart the Incredible and then it put all back together. What's fascinating to watch in the video is how small and compact the components are and how well they pack into the circuit board."