<b>Test-Announce:</b> " The Fedora 13 "Goddard" Alpha release is available! What's next for the free operating system that shows off the best new technology of tomorrow? You can see the future now..."
<b>Xen Virtualization on Linux and Solaris:</b> "Install Xen 4.0 and Libvirt like on F12 ( [1] ). Via my experience xend will hang for 5-7 min at startup and xen managed bridging will fail as well. This behavior stays the same under either 2.6.31.13 or 2.6.32.13 pvops kernel"
For developers who have to live with an enterprise that has legacy and component architecture-based applications, here is a way to introduce SOA in a manner that is not too disruptive. SOA can be leveraged to preserve business logic investments made within component architecture-based systems while incorporating a better and more standards-based infrastructure.
<b>Datamation:</b> "Though both GroundWork and Eucalyptus have open source versions of their products and the pair are now soliciting users to participate in a beta program, the cloud monitoring solution itself is not entirely open source."
<b>The Register:</b> "The BBC has tried to draw a line under its decision to bar open source implementations of RTMP (real-time messaging protocol) streaming in the iPlayer, after The Register revealed the Corporation's quiet switcheroo last week."
From usual suspects like Apache, Google and Sun and some lesser-known players, January 2010 brought a steady stream of code releases for Java and open source developers' toolboxes.
It's no surprise that the concept of a proxy has made its way into the database arena. The MySQL Proxy sits between your application and your MySQL database. Future articles will discuss the myriad of uses for this technology.
With the introduction of SQL Server 2008 came Resource Governor. With this new feature, you can control resource allocations based on rules. Greg Larsen explains how to setup resource governor, how to use it and the limitations associated with this new resource allocation tool.
<b>KDE.news:</b> "The Plasma Javascript Jam Session is a friendly competition that aims to reward creators of original, interesting and beautiful Plasma widgets written in Javascript with some great prizes and community recognition."
Your notebook computer budget's tight, but that doesn't mean you want a piece of…well, you know. Critics across the Web weigh in to help you buy the best notebook PC for less than $800.
From usual suspects like Apache, Google and Sun and some lesser-known players, January 2010 brought a steady stream of code releases for Java and open source developers' toolboxes.
<b>The H Open:</b> "The KDE developers have released version 4.4.2 of the KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC), the latest bug fix release for the popular Linux desktop. In addition to several translation updates and stability improvements, the second KDE 4.4 update addresses a number of issues found in the previous 4.4.1 release."
DRBD is a Linux project that provides a real-time distributed filesystem. Sean Hull demonstrates how to use Sun's virtualbox software to create a pair of VMs, then configure those VMs with DRBD, and finally install and test MySQL running on volumes sitting on DRBD.