A group of developers has released open-source software that gives administrators a hand in making the Internet's addressing system less vulnerable to hackers. Read more...

Is Tom-Tom (TMOAF.PK) an open source company? Two separate blog posts—one on InfoWorld by respected tech journalist Bill Snyder and one by a self-proclaimed Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) zealot. Read more...

AMD (NYSE: AMD) and ATI (TSX: ATY, NASDAQ: ATYT) today announced plans to join forces in a transaction valued at approximately $5.4 billion. The combination will create a processing powerhouse by bringing AMD’s technology leadership in microprocessors together with ATI’s strengths in graphics, chipsets and consumer electronics. The result: A new and more formidable company, determined to drive growth, innovation and choice for its customers, particularly in the commercial and mobile computing segments and in the rapidly-growing consumer electronics market. Combining technologies, people, and complementary strengths, AMD plans to deliver in 2007 customer-centric platforms for the benefit of customers who want to collaborate in the development of differentiated solutions. Read more...

ProxMox is a bare metal (Type 1) hypervisor that comes with KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) and OpenVZ technology rolled into a single system. Read more...

Responding to “The Palm Pre/iPhone Multitasking Myth,” which described the history of multitasking in operating systems, reader Marc Dufresne offered some additional insight into how Microsoft obtained the basis of Windows NT from DEC. Read more...

Workflow is the definition, execution and automation of business processes where tasks, information or documents are passed from one participant to another for action, according to a set of procedural rules. Read more...

In a straight fight, which platform is better? Is it z/OS running on IBM's flagship Series z platform, or the ever popular UNIX operating system in all its flavours? Read more...

If you receive a text message on your iPhone any time after Thursday afternoon containing only a single square character, Charlie Miller would suggest you turn the device off. Quickly. Read more...

Virtual Bridges, IBM and Canonical announced today the immediate availability of the newest version of a Linux-server based virtual desktop with the release of Virtual Bridges' VERDE 2.0 software.
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* Addresses both private cloud and public cloud requirements.

* Meets both the needs of the connected user and the disconnected user.

* Simultaneously and seamlessly manages both Windows and Linux desktop sessions.

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Yahoo! and Microsoft announced an agreement that will improve the Web search experience for users and advertisers, and deliver sustained innovation to the industry. In simple terms, Microsoft will now power Yahoo! search while Yahoo! will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force for both companies’ premium search advertisers. Read more...

Intel's sales chief said Wednesday he expects Windows 7 to deploy at a faster pace than Vista did. Read more...

Researchers at the Sandia National Laboratories said on Tuesday that they have successfully run more than one million Linux kernels as virtual machines on a single high-performance cluster. Read more...

Content Management Systems help web developers create, manage and publish quickly blogs, portal or social collaboration websites.This list suggest you some interesting alternatives you have to try. Read more...

A place dedicated to the Linux user. Learn new Linux tips and tricks every day. Not only for the advanced but also for novice users who wish to learn how easy life with Linux can be and how customizable the operating system is. Read more...

The students at Lincoln College have been breaking the mould and testing Linux Operating Systems as part of their IT courses. Local IT support company, ForLinux Ltd, has been working with the college over the last 6 months to support and aid the learning of Lincoln College students and to open their minds to the potential of alternative operating systems. Read more...

A future Microsoft operating system may be entirely Web-based. Here are the pros and cons of Midori and the "cloud computing" concept. Read more...

Google announced that its operating system will be modest and lightweight, with most of the user experience taking place online. This description suggests something similar to the handful of OSs dedicated tocloud (that is, Web-based) computing that have emerged over the past few years. Read more...

Microsoft Corp. announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, the next versions of its flagship desktop and server operating systems. Read more...

Microsoft released 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community. The code, which includes three Linux device drivers, has been submitted to the Linux kernel community for inclusion in the Linux tree. The drivers will be available to the Linux community and customers alike, and will enhance the performance of the Linux operating system when virtualized on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V or Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V. Read more...

Good tips on how to create a fast windows boot option by having a new FastBoot account. Saves time over normal boot. Read more...

This article helps you in fixing the problem of you accidently removing a user who is set to windows for auto-logon. Moreover a short cut to user account management control panel. Read more...

A redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAID) allows high levels of storage reliability. RAID is not a backup solution. It is used to improve disk I/O (performance) and reliability of your server or workstation. A RAID can be deployed using both software and hardware. But the real question is whether you should use a hardware RAID solution or a software RAID solution. Read more...

Fedora Linux version 11 has been released and available for download ( jump to download link ). Fedora Linux is a community-based Linux distribution. Fedora is sponsored by Red Hat, Inc.

Construct an on-demand software build service using ooRexx that uses the Linux® Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) for better performance. KVM acts as the host for the guest operating systems that build the target software for the user. The Apache Web server controls the builds and stores the results for later retrieval by the user. Learn how to set up the build server and create guests, customize build requests, and organize and access build results. Read more...

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As cloud computing environments become more commonplace and complex, users will have a difficult time integrating the various cloud services and ensuring their integrity, according to Gartner. That will give rise to what Gartner is calling “cloud service brokerages,” which will essentially negotiate the relationship between the end users and providers and make it easier for businesses to manage their cloud services. Read more...

A hacker has reportedly obtained and distributed more than 300 confidential documents pertaining to Twitter's business affairs. The documents were reportedly stored on Google Apps.

The hacker apparently accessed documents with potentially sensitive information about Twitter employees, company finances, partner agreements, and other topics, and forwarded the documents to media outlets such as TechCrunch, which reported on the data breach Tuesday. Read more...

Construct an on-demand software build service using ooRexx that uses the Linux® Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) for better performance. KVM acts as the host for the guest operating systems that build the target software for the user. The Apache Web server controls the builds and stores the results for later retrieval by the user. Learn how to set up the build server and create guests, customize build requests, and organize and access build results. Read more...

Reading Steve Ballmer's comments about Google Chrome OS, I'm struck by how odd some of his ideas are. Like what constitutes a brand new operating system, for instance. He also appears to think One Size Fits All is a good way to develop software. Read more...

In 2007 Red Hat stood on top of the Linux kernel contributor list with room to spare. At 12.7 percent of the Linux kernel contributed by Red Hat (measured in terms of lines changed), IBM was the runner-up at a comparatively distant 5.9 percent. In 2008, Red Hat slipped a little but maintained the top spot (11.2 percent), with Novell making a burst into second place at 8.9 percent. Read more...

IT managers seeking management tools to complement their VMware environments should consider VMware itself, which rounded out its vCenter product family today with three new products: VMware vCenter AppSpeed, Chargeback and an updated version of Lab Manager.

AppSpeed, a tool for monitoring performance of virtualized applications, derives from VMware's acquisition of B-hive Networks last year. Chargeback was developed internally and provides cost accounting, reporting and billing for virtual machines. Finally, the updated Lab Manager 4.0 has been collapsed into Stage Manager. Read more...

The Microsoft Private Cloud enables:

• Management of the datacenter fabric as a single pool of resources
• Delivery of scalable applications and workloads
• Focus on the management of the datacenter service and it’s dependencies
• Federation of services across the full cloud continuum

Microsoft is enabling customers to build the foundation for a private cloud infrastructure using Windows Server® and System Center family of products with the Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Enterprises (availability scheduled in the first half of 2010).

The Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Enterprises is a free, partner-extensible toolkit that will enable datacenters to dynamically pool, allocate, and manage resources to enable IT as a service. Read more...

The race for the fastest Linux boot has been going on for about a year at this point and now we've got a new winner. Embedded Linux vendor MontaVista today is announcing the demonstration of a 1 second Linux boot. Read more...

G.ho.st , a free cloud solution from Ghost Inc founded by Zvi Schreiber which is developed in Openlaszlo. Check the guest account to get a feel of.

A nice article on top cloud computing solutions. Read more...

Addressing an audience of prominent academic researchers today at the 10th annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, Microsoft External Research Corporate Vice President Tony Hey announced that Microsoft Corp. has developed new software tools with the potential to transform the way much scientific research is done. Project Trident: A Scientific Workflow Workbench allows scientists to easily work with large volumes of data, and the specialized new programs Dryad and DryadLINQ facilitate the use of high-performance computing. Read more...

Cloud computing is "everything online". A style of computing, in which dynamically scalable and virtualized resources are provided as a service. Everything is a service from a BIG service provider. Like hardware is provided as a service, software is provided as service. No or less technical knowledge is required as end user is not directly handling any hardware. Read more...

Google followed up on Thursday's announcement of a Linux-based Chrome OS for netbooks by listing nine technology partners that are supporting the open-source platform. Read more...

The code and data portion of every program should be loaded to physical memory before execution. Virtual memory technique enables operating system to execute a program which is larger than the physical memory. Read more...

Sun HPC Software, Linux Edition (“Sun HPC Software”) is an integrated open-source software solution for Linux-based HPC clusters running on Sun hardware. It provides a framework of software components to simplify the process of deploying and managing large-scale Linux HPC clusters. Read more...

Look beyond the traditional open source OS of choice to other free options such BSD, OpenSolaris, HaikuOS, ReactOS, and PureDarwin. Read more...

"Like every pattern, this pattern needs a name, and our working title is "midlayer mistake". This makes it sounds more like an anti-pattern, as it appears to describe something that should be avoided. While that is valid, it is also very strongly a pattern with firm prescriptive guides. When you start seeing a "midlayer" you know you are in the target area for this pattern and it is time to see if this pattern applies and wants to guide you in a different direction. Read more...

Google isn’t the only company toying with the idea of a secure operating system based around a web browser. Back in February, researches at Microsoft revealed details about Gazelle. Gazelle claims to be “a multi-principal OS construction of a secure web browser. Gazelle’s Browser Kernel exclusively provides cross-principal protection and fair sharing of all system resources.” Read more...

Tomorrow's monthly Patch Tuesdayis garnering Microsoft a bit more attention than it's used to for its patch release schedule. One of the fixes, for a security vulnerability in an ActiveX controlaffecting Windows XP or Windows Server 2003, has been expected since early 2008. Read more...

Regular upgrade of the FreeBSD kernel and base system is a good way to follow the support schedule. It would mean that your server would have a longer life span in the production. Not because of some latest OS “GUI” release that demand higher RAM for the “processor hungry monster” lies beneath the OS “GUI” release. But rather, it fixes the bugs of the applications, gives you more new functions and make your hardware works harder & faster. Read more...

LinuxCertified, Inc. announced a two day, hands-on course that provides attendees with experience in creating Linux kernel source code within various subsystems of the Linux kernel. This course teaches attendees to acquaints developers with the fundamental subsystems, data structures, and API of the Linux kernel.

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Ksplice is an amazing new technology which allows patches to be applied directly into a running kernel, without needing a reboot. Linux Magazine talks with co-founder and Chief Operating Officer and discusses the origins of the project and what it has to offer. Read more...

Merge modules provide a standard method by which developers deliver shared Windows Installer components and setup logic to their applications. Merge modules are used to deliver shared code, files, resources, registry entries, and setup logic to applications as a single compound file. Developers authoring new merge modules or using existing merge modules should follow the standard outlined in this section.

A Good discussion article in Microsoft answers. Read here...

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we're already talking to partners about the project, and we'll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve. Read more...

A nice article on how to make your USB drive bootable with DSL. Read more...

Linux is famous for uptime, but even it has to reboot when a new kernel vulnerability is fixed. Or does it? Now there’s Ksplice, technology that applies patches directly into the running kernel. And thanks to their free Uptrack service it’s free for users of Ubuntu!. Read more...

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Microsoft Research has published a new article that explains in more layperson-like terms exactly what its “Gazelle” Web browser is and why the company’s researchers believe it’s needed. Read more...

A bevy of Windows blogs including Neowin.net, GeekSmack.net, and Wzor report that the final "gold" build ofWindows 7 will occur on July 10 and the OS will see a release-to-manufacturing on July 13. Read more...