<b>OpenSource.com:</b> "Red Hat and Novell stood up to a patent bully and got a favorable jury verdict in the IPI trial which invalidated some software patents that should never have been issued."
Among this week's developments in green data center management: myriad federal and state tax credits are now available for Green IT projects related to data centers; the EPA is finalizing its Energy Star program for data centers; and Numara Software has a way to help you better green your data center.
<b>Techdirt:</b> ""Particularly ironic is the fact that the director of the movie enjoys the clips himself -- but of course, since the producer holds the copyright to the movie, the director has no real say in the matter."
<b>Linux.com:</b> ""Zonker" picks up right where he left off yesterday. In this Spring's Linux Distro Scorecard, he provides brief reviews of Debian, Fedora, Linux Mint, Mandriva, openSUSE, Slackware and Ubuntu. Today, we get his take on the final three, and he delivers the payoff"
<b>PCLinuxOS Magazine:</b> "Good things just keep happening with PCLinuxOS. The month of May saw the much anticipated release of the PCLinuxOS OpenBox remaster"
Hard-Core Hardware: Fragmentation may not cut it as a big screen villain, but it remains a threat and handicap to optimal server performance. In this era of massive hard drives and virtualization, minimizing fragmentation is more critical than ever.
grep is a mighty search power tool that slices and dices your Linux searches as finely as you like. Today Juliet Kemp shows us how to speed up Linux searches by excluding directories in grep searches.
In his latest article, Marcin Policht demonstrates a variety of tools that can be employed to execute SQL Server Integration Services packages, focusing in particular on the method leveraging functionality available within the Business Intelligence Development Studio.
The business software makers are teaming up to give enterprise customers more flexibility to manage their virtual infrastructures on multiple operating systems.
Hard-Core Hardware: Fragmentation may not cut it as a big screen villain, but it remains a threat and handicap to optimal server performance. In this era of massive hard drives and virtualization, minimizing fragmentation is more critical than ever.
<b>IT World:</b> "Synaptics announced today the extension of its Gesture Suite to several Linux operating systems, which means that you can now zoom, flick, rotate, and ChiralScroll to your heart's content on your Linux box."
<b>Legal World and Childhood Dreams:</b> "Summary: The paper explains how computer software is protected and the relationship between open source software and copyright."
Web analysis firm Gomez ranks the big Super Bowl advertisers' post-game performance. The winner may be a sweet surprise, but GoDaddy and Hyundai can't be too happy.
In an address at the annual RSA show, FBI Director Robert Mueller outlines challenges the agency has in fighting cyber crime, seeks broader partnerships with private-sector firms.
Have you tried several different methods to drive traffic to your sites with limited or no success? Well today Marcia Gulesian is to show us this emerging approach that uses statistics and user input to help you achieve your goal.
<b>Packt Pub: </b>"You can use Audacity to import music into your project, convert different audio files from one format to another, bring in multiple files and convert them, and more."
<b>LWN.net:</b> "Element is a lightweight Linux distribution for use on a home theater PC (HTPC). It comes with most of the same video-playback applications one would find in a modern desktop distribution, but the development team has put considerable effort into wrapping the applications in an environment that is easy to navigate from across the room..."