What is FreeSBIE? Simply: It's a live system on compact disk (CD), or an operating system that is able to load directly from a bootable CD, without any installation process, without any hard disk. It's based on the FreeBSD operating system. Here's how to build a cluster using it.

Microsoft junkies have been waiting and waiting for Windows XP Service Pack 2, but it seems the end is finally in sight.

Here is a nifty comparison of three of the top Linux distro's, Fedora, Mandrake and Suse. The article covers everything from installation and boot times to configuring and software bundling.

While many of our team members are hard at work, coding and working on updating their team pages and adding all of the official site content, there are some other things that need to be done. We are going to need some Newbie Help Files and some "Developer Tutorials to be written in order to fill some large blank spots on our new site. I posted more information in our forums. If you would like to help out with either of these, please see either the Newbie Help Files thread or the Developer Tutorials thread."

The issue of GNU/Linux as a desktop operating system is hot these days. You can hear here and there about someone switching their proprietary desktops, or considering doing such a thing, to GNU/Linux. Most of these stories refer to some desktop-oriented or mainstream distribution, such as Mandrake, Red Hat/Fedora, or SUSE. However, there is one distribution you would seldom hear about and yet, it is uniquely qualified for heavy-duty desktop usage, Slackware.

The Libranet development team has released Libranet 2.8.1 as a free download for trial purposes.

Many seems to have miss this release: Open Carpet 0.3 was released a few weeks ago.

There's a good tips and tricks article about CodeRuler on developerworks. The game has a simple premise: You are the imperial ruler of your very own medieval kingdom. Your peasants and knights depend on your brilliant strategic thinking, agile adaptability, and superior Java programming skill to survive, increase, and prosper. Your objective as a player is to write Java code that simulates this ruler. CodRuler is a game that helps you build upon your Java programming skills. CodeRuler is free.

For those who think that GNOME's aesthetics are less than great, this article might get you to change your mind, especially if you're using mostly GTK-based applications.

Millan has released a LiveCD of GNU/kFreeBSD. You can try it out directly booting the CD. The software can also be very easily installed to harddisk. You can find more about the GNU C Library with FreeBSD kernel here. Please read the 00README and INSTALL for additional notes. If you have questions, suggestions or any feedback, please direct it to the [email protected] mailing list or through IRC (#gnu-kbsd).

Security and the way windowing is handled remain two of the diminishing differences between Linux and Windows, according to one of the main speakers at Microsoft's developer conference.

As part of its push to boost Java on personal computers, Sun Microsystems has licensed software called Watson that's used to find and present information from the Internet.

Here is a nice utility helping you catalog your VHS or DVD video disks, DVDpedia. The application is written for Mac OS X and it sports a metal interface. Let's dive in for some more info on it.

A programming error in the handling of some Linux system calls may result in memory locations being accessed without proper validation. This bugs affect all 4.x and 5.x lines of FreeBSD. Source is the german computer site, Heise, for more info about this bug here.