In this article we'll examine the range of choices available for Linux network file systems. While the choices are many, we'll see that Linux still faces significant innovation challenges; yesterday's network paradigm isn't necessarily the best approach to the network of tomorrow.

Gambas, designed by Benoît Minisini, is a new graphical development environment for Linux that aims to improve database development times. More here.

GTK+ 2.4.14 was released among stable and unstable versions of atk, glib, pango. This version includes some major speedups on the GtkUIManager code. You can rate the toolkit here. Update: GTK+ widget update in the documentation.

What are you looking for in a Linux distro? Ease of Installation? Great looking Desktop? Ability to download more apps as needed? Ability to run select Windows apps right on your Linux desktop? Read the review here.

Xen, an open-source project with growing ties to Red Hat, Novell and Hewlett-Packard, is emerging as the leading contender for providing open-source virtualization for the Linux environment.

A couple of days ago, I read an interesting article by Kevin Kostis about how complex computer systems are and how they have a long way to go. I have to partly agree with his assessment, however a lot of folks don’t take the time to learn about there own investment.

The $11.6-billion Sun Microsystems Inc, will soon unveil a brand new subscription-based pricing model for its Solaris 10 operating system (OS) in India. The Solaris 10 price plans will be determined based on the total number of CPUs (central processing units) at client locations and will be computed annually. Also, Solaris 10 ably equipped with fixes and features. Update: More on Solaris.

Yeah, why? Your typical modern Mac comes with all the Unixy goodness you could ever need, right? But there are a bunch of Linux PPC distributions that you can, if you feel the need, install on your Apple hardware.

Surfing the Web has never been more risky. Simply connecting to the Internet — and doing nothing else — exposes your PC to non-stop, automated break-in attempts by intruders looking to take control of your machine surreptitiously.

Open source stacks such as XAMPP from Apache Friends are simplifying open source development by making it easier to write and distribute applications in a stable and standardized environment. The trend of combining Apache, MySQL, PHP, and Perl into integrated middleware stacks promises to make open source development more competitive with J2EE application development, at least for low-end applications. Our Take: I use XAMPP nearly every day, at home and at work, as a testbed. It's one of my top three essential open source apps, and - by far - one of the easiest to use.

Follow the development of a native SkyOS application from the ground up in the first 5 chapters of Pig!. This tutorial is for both C++ beginners and experts, and illustrates a variety of design topics such as message dispatching, error handling via exceptions, and auto-destruct GUI widgets, all with source code examples. The Pig! application is based on the Humble Framework: a rapidly growing class library of C++ classes that is intended to help programmers get a 'head start' on creating native SkyOS applications; this framework is fully documented, open source, and currently contains over thirty unique classes, with more on the way.

Taking an intentionally cautious tone, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems executives said Wednesday that the first eight months of their 10-year partnership have yielded small, but significant progress.

The Mozilla foundation has released a new release candidate of Thunderbird 1.0 closely following the stable Firefox 1.0 release. A final version is expected within this month.

Microsoft is investigating a security flaw in Windows server software that could allow an attacker to gain complete control over systems running the software, the company says.