When Big Blue recently released the beta version of DB2 UDB 8.1, author Amit Asaravala jumped at the chance to put IBM's commitment to Linux to the test.
<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."
<b>The H Open:</b> "At this year's Google I/O developer conference, currently taking place in San Francisco, Google announced the availability of a collection of high quality open source fonts for the web."
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.
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.
<b>TuxRadar:</b> "Do you want to remove bloat from your Linux installation? Are you looking to enable extra features that aren't provided by your distro? Fancy trying some of the cutting-edge patches doing the rounds? You'll need to recompile your kernel, and while it might look like black magic if you've never done it before, it's actually pretty straightforward."
New report details the activities of the "Shadow network," a sophisticated group of cyber criminals traced back to China, prompting denial from a state official.
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>HowtoForge: </b>"CIITIX-WiFi is a turnkey solution to your WiFi hotspot needs. Built onto the rock solid stable debian linux, setting up a secure (TTLS) WiFi hotspot is just a minute away."
The fine people at Canonical are experts at keeping Ubuntu in the news, and keeping a lot of buzz going. That is a good thing; still, there is a whole world outside of Canonical, so here are some of my favorite Linuxes.
<b>The Open Road:</b> "If the future is cloud-based applications, we still have a long way to go to realize that vision. Ironically, we may actually be getting ever further away from it even as the cloud assumes central importance in the computing landscape."