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IBM has helped thousands of developers move their applications to Linux through its Linux Speed-start program.

Source: OS News

One year ago I wrote a review of Gnome 2. Some people thought I was harsh, others thought I was fair, point is, I always write what I think and surely Gnome 2.0 didn't have the polish or stability of a .0 release. But one year has passed. Gnome 2.2.1 is out, and I must say one thing: I am starting to get impressed by the effort and the clean interface Gnome 2 is now offering. Update: Screenshots inside.

Source: OS Opinion

In his sci-fi western tale The Dark Tower, Stephen King's gloomy hero Roland the Gunslinger utters the sage observation, "Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty."

The amount of biological data being created today is mind-boggling. As a biologist or bioinformaticist, you probably know of places around the network that provide very useful resources for your task at hand -- but remembering the different ways to access this information is often a productivity drain. This article takes you through a step-by-step approach to building a Java-based Life Sciences Identifier (LSID) authority from scratch.

Source: Linux World

I missed Ximian Desktop. I gave it up last fall when I installed Red Hat 8.0. It's not that I didn't like Bluecurve, the new desktop treatment for GNOME and KDE that Red Hat included with 8.0, but it just wasn't Ximian. The months went by and I began to wonder if Ximian would ever release a new version of its desktop. The real problem, of course, was not Red Hat's Bluecurve, but getting Ximian completely ported to GNOME 2.

Go here if you're looking for Lotus Notes/Domino Linux administrative resources. It's a new Lotus Developer Domain section just launched by IBM dedicated to developers and admins of Lotus Notes/Domino. It has all the latest Lotus administration tricks and tips you'll ever need.

KernelTrap has an interview with Nick Piggin, a college student living in Canberra Australia who has been working on an anticipatory I/O scheduler for the Linux kernel.

This tutorial shows how to combine Samba and GRUB to build a compact, highly adaptable, cross-platform test network, capable of booting and networking a large number of operating systems on a small number of machines. Though Samba and GRUB can manage many different operating systems, this tutorial focuses on Linux and Windows.

Source: The Inquirer

A PROJECT PUT TOGETHER by the NCSA has linked 65 Playstation 2s using the Sony Linux distribution for the console into a powerful cluster.

The distribution uses Linux 2.2.1 ported to the Playstation Emotion Engine microprocessor, but the full cluster includes code specifically built to support the "supercomputer".

Performance Inspector puts your finger on the pulse of your C/C++ and Java code, helping you nail down performance bottlenecks and problems with Linux kernel interaction. The suite of tools includes sample-based profiling, monitoring at the thread level, and more.