In the last decade alone, IBM scientists have announced one semiconductor breakthrough after another:

This paper provides detailed discussion regarding the algorithm, implementation, kernel tunables, and messages you are likely to see on a system running the appropriate kernel updates.

Are you a Java or a .NET/Mono/Portable.NET developer? Then you might be interested in this competition that could help you win a prize that's worth over $3000 US.

Dan Gilmor writes for the Mercury News: "It looks like I'm going to have to reconsider something I'd been taking for granted -- that Linux on the desktop, and especially the laptop, was a non-starter in the operating systems race. While I wasn't paying sufficient attention, the proverbial tortoise has been playing some serious catch-up. One reason I'm rethinking this long-held conviction is in my lap. I'm writing this column on a nearly 4-year-old IBM ThinkPad, a computer that was a marvel of technology in its time but is now fairly old stuff. Linux has rejuvenated this machine."

Curt Brune writes: "Inside are the gems I discovered at this year's Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco, including current directions in embedded Linux development, progressive silicon art, robots for science and entertainment, public transportation and the relentless drive of the economy."

The Zero Install system makes software installation not merely easy, but unnecessary. Users run their applications directly from the Internet from the software author's pages. Caching makes this as fast as running a normal application after the first time, and allows off-line use.

Linux kernel 2.6.5 has been released. Get it from a mirror or read the changelog.

Now the C# compiler will properly flag errors in CLS-compliance while it gets Basic support. Marek Safar has been working for a few months on adding support to the C# Mono compiler to support the various checks required by the Common Language Specification (CLS).

The SuSE Linux Standard Server 8 images downloads option lets you download evaluation copies of the SuSE Linux Standard Server 8 CDs. When you purchase the product, you will receive a registration code that will lift the evaluation time frame (90 days). Download here.

Principles are fine things to have, but only if you can afford them. With its stock declared a 'junk bond' and finishing a terrible quarter, Silicon Valley's leading Microsoft antagonist Sun Microsystems has now decided it can't, says Andrew Orlowski for TheRegister.

Another SuSE release and another review on Mad Penguin. What's so special about this release to merit taking up your valuable time?

Two years ago, when Rick Carey was chief technology architect at Merrill Lynch, he was crazy about Linux and especially about Red Hat, the leading Linux distributor. At the time, he was leading the charge to migrate all of the computer systems at Merrill to Linux. But these days, things have changed. Elsewhere, Internetnews has a brief interview with Red Hat's CEO.

After about two years we decided to do a makeover of the front page of OSNews. This new design focuses more on the original content we host rather than the previous "newsbits"/portal nature of OSNews. Let's just say that we try to have a... mini focus shift.

In the previous installment of this series, Philipp K. Janert, Ph.D. implemented two very simple example programs, which nevertheless demonstrated quite a few of the core concepts of Qt programming. This month, he will take a step back and look at some of the fundamentals of programming with Qt.