<b>Test-Announce:</b> " The Fedora 13 "Goddard" Alpha release is available! What's next for the free operating system that shows off the best new technology of tomorrow? You can see the future now..."
<b>Sourceforge:</b> "Scorched 3D is a modernization of the classic DOS game Scorched Earth. It's a simple turn-based artillery game and a real-time strategy game in which players can counter each other's weapons with creative accessories, shields, and tactics."
New research from the Ponemon Institute and Compuware details sloppy data practices that pervade the financial services sector and outlines the potential consequences of a breach.
<b>Tux Radar:</b> "There's a new version of Linux's grandest office suite, but is it a major step forward or just another humdrum release with little to show? And most importantly, does it finally get the startup time down to an acceptable level? Read on for all the gory details..."
<b>Tech Source:</b> "Since our collection of Free and Open Source finance/accounting software for Linux has been quite popular, I would like to add 7 more to that list."
<b>Experimenting with GNU/Linux:</b> "There are several graphical front ends for clam av which can make your life easy. The most popular among them are clamtk and Klamav."
<b>Linux.com:</b> "Slackware Linux is still going strong. The Slackware Linux Project released Slackware 13.1 on May 24th.This is just a little by shy of the 17th anniversary of Slackware 1.0 and not quite a year after Slackware 13.0. Delve back into yesteryear with me; you're in for a treat."
IBM is giving its DB2 database software a major upgrade, with new federated data-management and self-managing capabilities. IBM, which is in a tight database race with Oracle, says DB2 version 8 will be pushed particularly to midsize companies.
Emery Fletcher doesn't think much of all the overwrought iPad hype, nor the device itself, saying it is not a real computer, but a PAD-- "Passive Amusement Device."
Windows Server 2008 R2 includes a new Best Practices Analyzer for Active Directory Domain Services, which facilitates the implementation of best practices in your Active Directory Domain Services environment.
<b>Datamation:</b> "Though both GroundWork and Eucalyptus have open source versions of their products and the pair are now soliciting users to participate in a beta program, the cloud monitoring solution itself is not entirely open source."
With the introduction of SQL Server 2008 came Resource Governor. With this new feature, you can control resource allocations based on rules. Greg Larsen explains how to setup resource governor, how to use it and the limitations associated with this new resource allocation tool.
One of several non-security updates is causing system crashes for some Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 users. What does Microsoft have for a solution?
<b>Linux.com:</b> "Nokia's Vice President of MeeGo Devices, Ari Jaaksi, will kick off the afternoon at today's Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit with his keynote at 1:15 p.m. PT. He took a few minutes with us this morning to share what he'll be speaking about and how the MeeGo project is going."
<b>Datamation:</b> "Ubuntu’s Lucid Lynx (Ubuntu 10.04) is still six weeks away from release. However, on the eve of the first beta release, the daily builds and news releases suggest that Lucid will be one of the most innovative versions of Ubuntu for several years."