MySQL Founder Warns 5.1 Not Ready
Dec 01, 2008MySQL founder Michael "Monty" Widenius warns in his blog against putting the current version 5.1 of the popular database package into production. He's critical of the release policy and fears that the product's quality may suffer.
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Nov 30, 2008Charly's Column The sys admin's daily grind: parallel SSH
Nov 30, 2008Parallel SSH is the name of an easy-to-configure tool that our resident sys admin, Charly, now routinely deploys whenever he needs to launch the same programs, copy the same files, or kill the same processes simultaneously on multiple computers.
more »Qt Software Lures Fun-Loving Developers
Nov 28, 2008Qt Software, formerly Trolltech, reminds us in a YouTube video about their Pimp My Widgets contest. Deadline is December 31, 2008.
more »eGroupware Version 1.6 Available
Nov 25, 2008The eGroupware project has released version 1.6 of its web-based software. Amongst the changes is a completely revamped filemanager which uses PHP stream-wrapping and WebDAV, and ACL control on files and directories.
more »Free Tool for Scrums
Nov 25, 2008Berlin company Agile42 has released version 0.7 of its Agilo for Scrum software that supports teams in their conversion to the Scrum agile development framework.
more »VIA Partners with OpenChrome Video Driver Project
Nov 20, 2008Taiwanese firm VIA Technologies, specializing in chipsets and the x86 platform, has gone into a cooperative agreement with the OpenChrome video driver project to help in their development effort.
more »Kerneloops.org Discovers Oops Number 100,000
Nov 19, 2008When the Linux kernel hiccups, it issues a more or less cryptic error message known as an oops. To help kernel developers out a bit, the kerneloops.org website collects these crash signatures in a big database. The website recently registered the hundred-thousandth oops just about the time it celebrated its first birthday.
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