Dell wants to help admins spend less time keeping x86 servers running. A new crop of Westmere-processor-based, self-healing machines are designed for to be deployed and ignored.
<b>Linux.com:</b> "Mozilla has launched a contest to spur on development of add-ons for its recently-released Firefox for Mobile browser. Between now and April 12, developers are encouraged to create extensions or other add-ons tailored for the mobile browser."
<b>Venture Beat:</b> "Encouraged by early results on Windows, Intel said today it will add a beta test version of popular Intel AppUp Center for Linux"
Sun traditionally offered both AMD and Intel processors in its x86 server lineup. Now, it's looking like AMD's Opteron won't make the cut under Oracle's ownership.
<b>IT World: </b>"Taking the results at face value, the likely respondent from the 1696 total is a male programmer who works for a high-tech company with fewer than 100 employees. Oh, and their favorite IDE is some flavor of Eclipse."
<b>Technology & Life Integration:</b> "One thing I have noticed on just about all windows installed computers outside of my strict control is that they are full of viruses, spyware and there are more programs installed than they know what to do with."
Tying all of your various channels of communication together makes running your small business ecommerce site -- from anywhere -- easier and more effective.
<b>Linux Magazine:</b> "In the last article we looked at using strace to examine the IO patterns of simple serial applications. In the High Performance Computing (HPC) world, applications use MPI (Message Passing Interface) to create parallel applications. This time around we discuss how to attack parallel applications using strace."
<b>Wine-Reviews:</b> "The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.4 for Linux today. Bordeaux 2.0.4 is a maintenance release that fixes a number of small bugs. With this release we have changed the Bordeux UI from a GTKDialog to a GTKWindow, the "OK" button has also been re-named to "Install"."
<b>nixCraft:</b> "My xorg.conf file is missing as I deleted accidentally for some reason. Now, Xorg try to probe my hardware on every startup. How do I configure Xorg under Debian or any Linux distro / operating systems?"
<b>Softpedia:</b> "Yesterday night, May 19th, Françs Dupoux announced version 1.5.4 of the SystemRescueCd Linux-based operating system. The new SystemRescueCd 1.5.4 includes the alternative Linux kernel 2.6.33.04 (includes altker32 and altker64), and the standard 2.6.32.13 Linux kernel."
<b>IT Pro:</b> "Wireless Linux group LiMo expects three major operators to offer handsets using its platform this year, to compete with news rivals Google and Apple, its executive director said."
Sure, Intel is inside the box, but did you know sometimes Intel is the box? Here are five servers that the company best known for its chips sells to OEMs and other resellers. Is one of these right for you?
Microsoft's newest desktop command center combines an ergonomically friendly curved keyboard layout with the company's go-anywhere BlueTrack mouse technology and a battery of customizable keys and buttons.
The first major update to Windows Home Server is entering beta release more than two years after the server's initial release, but questions still remain about its long-term survival prospects.
Sure, Intel is inside the box, but did you know sometimes Intel is the box? Here are five servers that the company best known for its chips sells to OEMs and other resellers. Is one of these right for you?
<b>MakeTechEasier:</b> "Such is the case with GDM2, the login manager in newer Ubuntu releases. Many users find the current config tool to be rather lacking."
<b>Cyber Cynic:</b> "One constant complaint about the Linux desktop is that it doesn't have enough games. That's actually not true. Linux has plenty of games. What these people usually mean is that it doesn't have their favorite Windows games. That's changing now. "
<b>IT Wire:</b> "The new IPFire distribution seeks to take security to the highest level while also making things a breeze for the less experienced to set up."
<b>The Register:</b> "If businesses want to run Microsoft Office's new web-based apps on Linux machines, they'll need a buy a full Office license for each user - even though the suite's desktop apps don't run on Linux."