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IBM will build new Department of Energy supercomputer, 09/07/06
The U.S. Department of Energy chose IBM to build a new supercomputer for its Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, IBM announced Wednesday.
Linux Laptop Tips from Mark Shuttleworth, 09/07/06
If you want to support a Linux desktop, a traveling business user is the hardest person to keep happy and productive. Connecting to strange wireless networks and working offline are both tricky. We asked Mark Shuttleworth how he handles networking and mail, and he pointed out some tools and tips.
HP updates Itanium-based Integrity servers, 09/07/06
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) Thursday announced an upgrade and expansion of its Itanium-based Integrity server line to include new low-end models, a processor upgrade and improved virtualization support.
NIST invites closer interaction with vendors on security vulnerabilities, 09/07/06
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which maintains a database of product software vulnerabilities as a public reference, Thursday invited closer contact with industry to clarify and resolve disputed vulnerability information.
Eclipse touts desktop client tool at event, 09/05/06
The Eclipse Foundation at the EclipseWorld 2006 conference in Cambridge, Mass., this week plans to tout the progress of open source projects focused on desktop application development, PHP, and embedded Java.
Review: A closer look at OpenSUSE 10.1, 09/04/06
OpenSUSE 10.1, Novell’s attempt to keep a general-purpose version of its Linux freely available to the open source community, is both aided by and suffers from the lack of attention from Novell.
Infrequently Asked Questions: memory, RPM recovery, monitoring, 09/01/06
Most of my memory is gone, my hard drive just became half-sized, and now the RPM command won’t answer my queries. Can anyone at linuxquestions.org help?
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