Source: OS Opinion
Almost anyone familiar with the high-tech industry -- except perhaps Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer -- will tell you that 2003 could be a big year for Linux. The OS is poised to continue spreading like wildfire in the server market next year, and some pundits are even saying it may overtake Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) OS X as the number two desktop operating system.
Source: Newsforge.com
One of Linux's supposed barriers in high performance computing is the "eight processor limit." SGI says their new Altix 3000 line, running a patched 2.4.19 kernel, handily breaks this barrier -- it can run up to 64 Intel Itanium 2 microprocessers -- and that "superclusters" built with SGI's Linux-based products can outperform generic Linux clusters in some applications by a large enough margin to justify their additional cost.
Source: CNet News
A revamped version of key disk drive management software in Linux will be based on a project from a start-up, spurring a retreat by IBM programmers who had been working on competing software.
Sistina Software's LVM 2.0 will be included in the coming 2.6 version of the Linux kernel, while IBM's programmers working on competing software have refocused their work on volume management administration tools.
Source: ZDNet
Source: Newsforge
You've seen a headline or two recently on NewsForge that said something like "Microsoft fights off Windows rival Linux." I say "headline or two" because we goofed up and and linked to this story at least twice, under different headlines. It was an easy mistake to make because this AP story has run in more newspapers and on more news Web sites than any other story I have ever seen with the word "Linux" in it.
Source: The Age
If one were to tell anyone acquainted with Rick Moen that the word self-effacing can actually be used in conjunction with him, it is very likely that one would be met with a disbelieving stare.
Spark is a powerful and general parser/compiler framework written in Python. In some respects, Spark offers more than SimpleParse or other Python parsers. Being pure Python, however, it is also slower. This article discusses the Spark module, with code samples, an explanation of its usage, and suggestions for its areas of application.
Source: Linux Devices
LinuxDevices.com is pleased to publish the proceedings from the Fourth Real-Time Linux Workshop held December 6-7, 2002 in Boston, MA at the Computer Science Department, Boston University. The conference was organized by the Real-Time Linux Foundation.
The links below will lead you to summaries of each talk and, in most cases, PDF file downloads of the full presentation. Enjoy . . .
IBM just released a free trial download of WebSphere Studio Site Developer version 5.0 for Linux. Speed the creation of your Java, Web, and Web Services applications with easy to use templates, wizards and built-in source editing and content assist to add HTML, JSP and JavaScript tags. Streamline application testing with built-in Java and JavaScript debuggers and a new Visual Editor for Java with two way synchronization.
Source: ZDNet Australia
We receive e-mail every week from sys admins fighting the open source cause (though often at the same time forced to work with Windows or Solaris, for example), or others who are happy with their Microsoft environments and telling everyone else to grow up.
