Serious Sam 2 for Linux needs Beta testers
Vedran, from Croteam, has put out a call for GNU/Linux client and editor beta testers. If you are interested in beta testing this action-packed first-persion shooter just click on the title link…
Red Hat boosts CEO's salary to $600,000
Red Hat last week raised the annual base salary of its president and chief executive officer by 50 percent to $600,000, according to a Friday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.…
First benchmarks of the ext4 file system
Recently, Andrew Morton released a mm patch including, among other things, the new ext4 file system patch. The ext4 file system promises improved data integrity and performance, among with less…
Weekly Wrap-up
Since Linuxlookup news isn't updated over the weekends, here is our weekly wrap-up to hold you over till Monday.
Some top stories this week were:
- Real-time kernels explained
…MySQL CEO Marten Mickos Answers Slashdot Questions
You asked. Marten answered. He even added (and answered) a question he wished had been asked, but wasn't. If you have a comment or follow-up question, please post it. Marten will spend as much…
The gardener's art of 'grafting' and open source hiring
The past few weeks have been a lesson in olive tree gardening. Not literally, of course. Instead, I'm referring to the analogy between how one grafts olive trees and how one grafts employees into…
Unisys to create open source observatory
The European Commission has selected a consortium led by Unisys Belgium, a subsidiary of Unisys Corporation, to create and manage the Open Source Observatory and Repository (OSOR).
This…
Red Hat Expands Footprint In Telecommunications Industry
Red Hat announced that the company is dramatically widening its reach in the global telecommunications industry as evidenced by the company's participation in the European Community Open Platform…
Tunneling with SSH: Windows to UNIX connectivity in a secure world
This article describes the setup of a simple SSH client connecting to an AIX- or Linux-based SSH server that allows a typical, technically literate individual the ability to set up, configure, and…
Nvidia releases a performance and debug tool for Linux
NVPerfKit is a comprehensive suite of performance tools to help debug and profile OpenGL and Direct3D applications. It gives you access to low-level performance counters inside the driver and…