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At first glance, you'd think an operating system like GNU/Linux that installs in less hard drive space and requires a less-beefy computer than Windows Vista would be an automatic sales superstar. Not so! If anything, Linux needs to become more hardware-hungry in order to compete effectively with Vista.

Nagios provides an advanced server and device monitoring solution. It has become the de facto standard among other service monitoring applications, and is highly competitive with the non-free ones. This article will explain why Nagios is useful, and then cover some installation concepts to help get you started.

This article introduces some of the relevant functional programming concepts, and provides examples to use those concepts effectively. The author explains how to write elegant code with JavaScript, which can import constructs and features from functional programming.

When I first used Wine to try to install Windows software on my Linux machine, I found it less than user-friendly. Fortunately there was an application called WineTools to help smooth out the process. WineTools helps you download essential Windows add-ons like DLLs and Internet Explorer -- a necessity for most users, since a great many third-party Windows apps rely on IE's low-level system integrating to implement essential services. But WineTools has not aged well, and using it increasingly causes problems for other Wine applications. Luckily a new project called Wine Doors is picking up where WineTools left off.

IBM and BEA Systems command more than half of the red-hot application integration and middleware (AIM) market combined. Embracing open source will not only help them keep fast-charging rivals like Microsoft at bay, but may even help them widen the gap.

The collaboration tools are simple but effective. Click a link at the bottom of the page to add a comment and Writeboard adds the comments with the user's name. If you select two versions of the document and click the Compare button, it shows all the edits made in the newer version. Deleted text is grayed out and new text is highlighted green.

Join us while we explore the details of Cell Broadband Engine (Cell BE) programming. This Tech briefing provides a comprehensive technical overview of the Cell BE architecture, programming models, and software development environment. You will learn all about Cell BE standards like the application binary interface specifications, SPE C/C++ language extensions, SPE assembly language specification, system-level simulator, Cell BE simulator debugging environment, and Cell BE extensions to Linux.

A Linux specialist who declined to be named, said recently that of all the Linux kernel codes, none are developed by Chinese. The situation has been acknowledged by Ni Guangnan, an academic with the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a strong advocate of Linux in China.

When your UNIX system runs slow, it is vital that you discover what the problem is as quickly as possible so you can get your system back into the normal operating mode. There are many causes for a slow system, but actually identifying the problem can be exceedingly difficult. In this article, study examples of how to identify and diagnose the cause of your slow running UNIX system to get your machine running properly again.

Prepare for the Linux certification exams and build fundamental skills on Linux systems administration. This tutorial, the sixth in a series of seven on LPIC-2 exam 202 topics shows you how to configure a router, secure FTP servers, teaches you about secure shell (SSH) and TCP_wrappers, and how to find authoritative resources for security topics.

Expand a basic FreeBSD e-mail server with virus protection, spam detection, and Webmail access.

A few weeks ago, supercomputer maker Cray said that the next quarter or two might be a little bumpy, but that it was pretty confident that it would make its numbers for the year. And, apparently, with good reason. Yesterday, the company announced that it had landed a whopping $200 million deal to build an Opteron-based parallel supercomputer that runs a hyped-up version of Linux for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

WikiCalc allows users to collaborate on spreadsheets over the Internet using a browser. Bricklin wrote the first PC spreadsheet, VisiCalc.

Inter-Tel has added a new, high-end model to its line of Linux-based voice-over-IP communications servers for small- and medium-sized businesses. The CS-5600 supports up to 250 IP devices, and offers trunk expansion through a "digital expansion interface" (DEI) supporting up to 96 analog and digital phones, according to the company.

HP Rolls Out Latest Systems, IBM Maintains Market Share Lead

JBoss is Open Sourcing the Core Systems Management Agent in ON

In this UpFront podcast, Red Hat Chairman, president and CEO Matthew Szulik talks with eWeek Editorial Director Eric Lundquist about Red Hat's purchase of JBoss, the future of open source and Szulik's interest in reviving the U.S. education system.

[It's an audio recording in mp3 format. -- grouch]

Availigent, with its high-availability software for Linux, says that its Duration 2.1 software is now available for HP XC System Software V2.1, which HP puts on its XP clusters.

The Spring of 2006 will certainly be remembered as a banner season for desktop Linux.

Too much hyperbole? Well, perhaps.