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[Editor's note: I use siege on my own servers before deploying them. It is an excellent piece of software!] One of the great fears for many Web developers, and even more so for Web server admins, is watching their sites brought down by an avalanche of traffic. The traffic may be from a DoS attack, or maybe the site just got slash-dotted. Bottom line: It just isn’t available. Do you know at what point your own site will collapse? That’s what load/stress testing is all about, and there are a number of great tools to help you do it. A proprietary tool called WAPT was previously reviewed here at Builder.com. But I’m an open source kinda guy and always prefer to use tools that are freely available. One of the most prevalent and well-maintained open source tools for stress testing is aptly called Siege.

Sysgo ELinOS v2.2 was selected as the top embedded Linux development system for 2003 by readers of the German magazine Elektronik in an annual reader survey. Sysgo claims that ELinOS is the "best selling" embedded Linux development environment in Europe.

PHP developer Zend Technologies has just raised $6 million, and is still keeping its money raising options, as well as its code, open.

HP and Novell today announced a joint agreement to certify and support the Novell SUSE LINUX operating system on select HP Compaq client systems. Today's announcement expands HP's multi-OS strategy across servers and PCs, offering customers unprecedented choice to run alternative applications with global support, training and consulting from HP.

now some more fixes with 2.2.27-pre1. Please test. Have fun :)

SpectSoft, LLC has released the next generation of video disk recorder software running on Linux. RaveHD is the second generation of video disk recording software geared towards high end visual effects and post production workflows. By utilizing an open source model, the Linux operating system, and commodity PC hardware, RaveHD allows its users to leverage the entire gamut of Linux based tools as well as minimizing total cost of ownership.

LDAP software vendors seem to spend most of their efforts focusing on the functionality of the server. As a result, some client platforms leave a lot to be desired in terms of functionality and ease of use. Luckily, Linux doesn't suffer from many of the deficiencies of other operating systems where LDAP is concerned. In this article, we'll discuss how to make effective use of an LDAP server from your Linux desktop.

Although Red Hat's legal bills are beginning to mount, admitted chairman Matthew Szulik during Tuesday's earnings conference, the SCO cloud hanging over Linux has not stopped the software-subscription side of RH's business from rising 72% as compared to last year. Indeed Red Hat was able to reported a profit, for the fiscal year just closed, of $14 million. (Last year that figure was a $6.6 million loss.)

Turner told BrainShare attendees that organizations he's worked with have experienced a "payback" or return on their investment in Linux five to six times faster by migrating business applications to the popular open-source operating system over other common server technology. Turner said the key contributors to this savings are proper strategic planning and the advantages of implementing an open source network environment.

Red Hat Inc., the North Carolina-based Linux company, plans to make its Westford office its Linux programming hub with a planned 20 percent increase in the number of programmers this year, a company spokesman said this week.

The current stars of the open source movement are five packages, four of which so often go together that they have their own acronym - LAMP. That stands for Linux (operating system), Apache (Web server), MySQL (database server) and PHP (scripting language).

Real Software, Inc. recently announced the availability of REALbasic 5.5, a RAD development environment for Windows and Mac OS X that can compile GTK-based native Linux applications. I wanted to ask Real Software a few questions about the new software. Since I'm German, the company pointed me to its German partner, Application Systems GmbH from Heidelberg. I spoke with CEO Volker Ritzhaupt.

Software giant Microsoft must pay a fine of 497m euros ($613m; £331m) for abusing its dominant market position, the EU has ordered.

What do Xtreme Programming and open source have in common and what can they learn from each other?

PCQuest Linux 2004 is a new version of a Linux distro from the publishers of PCQuest, a popular 15-year-old computer magazine published in India. PCQuest distributed Slackware on CDs in 1996 and Red Hat in 1997. Later, PCQuest started making its own distribution, based on Red Hat, now Fedora. The three CDs that make up the distro came with the March 2004 issue of the magazine. I have been using the new distro for a week now, with some interesting results.

Analyst Sameer Nadkarni of WR Hambrecht reiterates his "buy" rating on Ret Hat [sic], while raising his estimates for the company. The target price has been raised to $26. Shares of Red Hat, a leading provider of open source Linux software, are currently trading at $19.41.

I'm very happy to announce a new document for inspiring KDE hackers, entitled "Common Programming Mistakes". The document aims to combine the experience of many of the top KDE developers about the Qt and KDE frameworks dos and don'ts. The way they were usually passed on to the next generation was by letting the youngsters make the mistakes and then yell at them in public. We will go over things, which are not necessarily bugs, but which make the code either slower or less readable. The document will be expanding as we see the need for it.

This release is a major event, marking the end of a three year development cycle by a group of volunteers and enthusiasts who have made this the most professional release of the GIMP ever. It is the first stable release that is officially supported not only on Unix-based operating systems, but also on Microsoft Windows and Macintosh OS X.

I am sure that everyone is aware of the controversial license changes that occurred with the new release of XFree. My take on the changes is that it makes it difficult for the major vendors to patch or include third party drivers.

Use the open source Java game APIs - designed to meet the requirements of Linux and OS X, among other OS's - and you could be a winner in the Java Technology Game Development contest announced by Sun this week at the GDC.