<b>GNU.org:</b> "The GNU project and the GCC developers are pleased to announce the release of GCC 4.5.0. This release is a major release, containing new features (as well as many other improvements) relative to GCC 4.4.x."
<b>FOSS Patents:</b> "After a landmark court ruling, the German perspective on the validity of software patents is now closer than ever to that of the US."
<b>Focus:</b> "Linux is far more than just a fringe OS. In fact, it's running in quite a few more places than you probably suspect. Below are fifty places Linux is running today in place of Windows or Mac."
<b>Datamation:</b> "A Chinese official has blasted Google's decision to offer unfiltered Web content to its citizens on the mainland, calling the move "totally wrong" and saying it violates Google's written agreement to abide by Chinese laws."
Emery Fletcher wonders if Microsoft has not emulated the IBM of old a bit too well, becoming a slow, bloated engine of intimidation, rather than a lean mean innovator.
<b>Kotaku:</b> "On April 1, Sony removed one of the PlayStation 3’s original features, the option to install an alternate operating system such as Linux, with its latest firmware (version 3.21). Today, one man claims to have reinstated that feature."
Discover what happens within SQL Server during and after configuring Oracle as a data source. Quite a few objects are created, including a system-level database, numerous jobs running under the SQL Server agent, and flat files created on the file system. Read on to learn more.
The real test of how heavily an Oracle database will tax its underlying I/O subsystem and related infrastructure is to actually tax that infrastructure using representative database application workloads. Jim Czuprynski tells you how to choose appropriate database schema(s) for realistic testing, how to create example TPC-E and TPC-H database schemas and how to perform initial loading of these schemas using Quest Benchmark Factory.
<b>Linux Pro Magazine:</b> "We take a peek at how to create your own plasmoids for the latest KDE desktop, giving you the power to build the perfect active desktop environment."
<b>Datamation:</b> "Mozilla is out this week with Firefox 3.5.9 and 3.0.19 updates, fixing multiple security vulnerabilities in the open source Web browser's two branches, while announcing that the older of the two branches is being phased out."
The benefits of using an MVC Framework is that it helps enforce a clean separation between the models, views, and controllers within a Web application.
The benefits of using an MVC Framework is that it helps enforce a clean separation between the models, views, and controllers within a Web application.