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Data Flood Feeds Need for Speed (Wired)

Wired covers an international team of physicists who set a world record for the amount and speed of data transferred over a broadband network. "Data was transmitted by packets called jumbo frames, which are 9,000 bytes -- six times as big as the packets normally sent over the Internet. The team used PCs running Debian GNU/Linux in Amsterdam and RedHat Linux in Sunnyvale."

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Asian Open Source Centre launched (Bioinformatics.org)

Bioinformatics.org has an announcement for a new Asian open-source software site. "Asian Open Source Centre is promoting free software and open source use in Asia, especially related to the locale. The centre focuses on open source issues specific to Asia, such as localization of software, open source for creating local content, and the use of open source to bridge the 'digital divide'. AsiaOSC also has a Wiki on open source."

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Xbox Linux group seeks Microsoft seal (News.com)

News.com reports on an open letter to Microsoft from the Xbox Linux Project. "'Because of Microsoft's deliberate design choices in terms of restricting the software that may run on an unmodified Xbox to 'Microsoft approved only,' coming to ask Microsoft, and presumably paying Microsoft, is currently the only way we can get our port of the GNU/Linux OS to interoperate with an unmodified box,' the letter says."

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It's Time for CodeCon 2.0 (Linux Journal)

Linux Journal plugs CodeCon 2.0. "CodeCon is back. CodeCon 2.0, brought to you by San Francisco Bay Area technologists Bram Cohen and Len Sassaman, is a unique conference that showcases active, working software development projects, presented by the actual code developers at the very sensible hour of 12 noon."

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About Fosdem (Linux Journal)

Here is Linux Journal's wrap-up of FOSDEM. "The event itself typically is developer-centric. People speak about the innerworkings of their software, offer a presentation on how to use it in other products or sit behind a table all day answering thousands of questions from the crowd. For this reason, I wouldn't recommend complete newbies come to Fosdem, as the technical level is quite high. Most of the sessions, though, are fairly comprehensible even by non-developers."

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IBM taps suite for Linux PDA designs (News.com)

News.com reports that IBM has licensed Trolltech's Qtopia software suite for use in a new Linux PDA design kit due next month. "The design kit will include the blueprints and software necessary to help individuals or companies create several different kinds of personal digital assistants based on the Linux operating system. The kit can also be used by software makers interested in creating applications for the PDAs. It will be available for $1,000 from IBM Microelectronics and a few partners in March, the company has said."

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Linux Backers To Put OS Through Security Certification (TechWeb)

TechWeb looks at security certification plans. "Oracle, Red Hat, and IBM have all announced plans to put Linux through its security paces -- specifically through the Common Criteria certification process -- in an effort to win approval for using Linux among both government and private-sector clients." Here is IBM's press release.

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Ten Good Reasons for a DBMS Strategy Re-Think (Open)

Open gives ten good reasons to consider using open-source database systems. "In a go-slow economy, CIOs are under pressure to leave no old assumptions unexamined, including their choice of database systems. As ubiquitous, 24 x7 e-business and demand for instantly updated information only heighten the focus on good database planning, CEOs and CFOs are questioning if it's worth paying steep licensing fees and support costs."

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Grid guru: An interview with Argonne's Steve Tuecke (IBM developerWorks)

IBM's developerWorks features an interview with Steve Tuecke on the topic of grid computing. "Although scientists have been using Grid technologies since the Condor project began scavenging up idle computer cycles at the University of Wisconsin in the mid-1980s, the really exciting vision of Grid computing -- a set of open and ubiquitous standards that real world developers will use for distributed computing -- remains a vision of the future. One of the people most actively involved in making that vision a reality is Steve Tuecke, lead software architect in the Distributed Systems Laboratory at Argonne National Laboratory and lead architect of the Globus Toolkit, the popular implementation of the OGSA (Open Grid Services Architecture) middleware standards that are the basis of Grid computing."

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Jay Beale - Linux Guru (Information Security Magazine)

Jay Beale has a new column called Linux Guru in Information Security Magazine. The first one attempts to answer the questions, "How can I determine if my Linux server has been hacked? How can I be sure that I haven't been hacked?" "Really, the secret is to avoid compromise. Harden systems before deployment, keep up with patches, and design a strong host and network architecture. Then start building your own digital and human baselines to make intrusion detection easier. It's a bit of upfront work, but it's less hassle than recovering from a bad compromise later."

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BASIC programming with Unix (LinuxFocus)

Linux Focus looks at BASIC programming. "If we try to make an inventory of the number of BASIC available for Linux, we can find about half a dozen of projects, more or less advanced. There is a "Basic Foundry" in sourceforge to give a classification on the number of downloads..." Thanks to Ashwin N

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Colorful KDE 3.1 Performance On Low-End Hardware (LinuxPlanet)

LinuxPlanet reviews KDE 3.1, using a very old computer. "People have become accustomed to the convenience and beauty of the modern desktop. However, some people shy away from packages like KDE 3.1 because they think it's going to run like frozen molasses on their six-year-old Pentium machine. Let me put your fears at ease and tell you how it works on ancient iron."

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Dave Stutz is a free man (Doc Searls' blog)

Doc Searls looks at the retirement of Microsoft employee Dave Stutz. "This is a serious development. Dave has been the bearded open source community insider at Microsoft for a long time: a good and honorable man who for years did an amazing job of bridging two worlds -- commercial and noncommercial, Microsoft and everybody else." Thanks to Jay R. Ashworth

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