IBM has sold it's PC unit to Chinese computer maker Levono on Tuesday. The deal is valued at $1.75 billion. Here's the word from IBM itself. In a press release, IBM says this deal will create the world's third-largest PC business.

Top Dell executives disparaged the "big iron" approach of building large, powerful servers on Tuesday--a dig at rivals IBM, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard. Red Hat needs to lower its prices, or risk losing customers to free versions of the open-source operating system, the Dell executive who oversees the partnership with the Linux seller said Tuesday.

The ISO of NetBSD 2.0 is currently available here.

Microsoft said Tuesday that it has released a near-final test version of updates to its Windows and Windows Server operating systems. Also, Windows Server 2003 SP1 RC1 has RDP over SSL already included.

Dru Lavigne finally had a chance to upgrade her home systems to FreeBSD 5.3. Here are her working notes for both a fresh install and an upgrade from 5.2.1 to 5.3.

Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Release Candidate has been released in both 32bit and 64bit systems. Some release notes here.

Geek is defined by Dictionary.com as 'A person who is single-minded or accomplished in a scientific or technical pursuit'. Many of us either acknowledge ourselves as computer geeks or are labeled by Friends, Family, and/or Colleagues as the such. This is not a condescending statement and should not be taken in a negative connotative way. It is in fact an admiration of our technical skills and abilities.

Despite recent calls from customers and analysts, none of the security fixes built into Windows XP SP2 will be back-ported to Windows 2000, still in use by a majority of enterprises. But what about those organizations that can't afford to upgrade?

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Microsoft and Sun Microsystems last week issued a progress report on the technical truce the companies called this year but gave little indication of what specific fixes they would devise to address customers' problems.

LinuxJournal has a nifty article on how to build simple clusters with Ruby, based on real world experience from the National Geophysical Data Center. Article here

The articles are: Q&A with the Solaris 10 Engineers and Solaris 10 Privileges.

As you might already know, FreeSBIE is a LiveCD based on the FreeBSD Operating system, or even easier, a FreeBSD-based operating system that works directly from a CD, without touching your hard drive. Today, FreeSBIE 1.1 is released.

The guys at Novell have released a rather interesting article which helps businesses know whether they're ready to make the switch to Linux. It gives some steps to analyzing, evaluating, creating a road map, and putting a plan together when enterprises consider the switch.