Citrix to offer free XenServer virtualization.
In a shot across VMware’s bows, Citrix will announce next week that it will be offering free licenses to its full XenServer virtualization program and new partnering with Microsoft to provide system management, Citrix Essentials, for Hyper-V and, in return, Microsoft’s System Center will support XenServer. more... and Citrix, Microsoft, and Red Hat or Novell gang up on VMware.

MonoDevelop 2.0 Beta 1.
MonoDevelop 2.0 is a very ambitious release in terms of the new functionality available since the MonoDevelop 1.0 release back in March 2008. It is ambitious, but also very stable, we have had hundreds of people dogfood this new release of MonoDevelop during the entire development cycle. more... and Mono Runtime Debugging and

New notification work lands in Jaunty.
Thanks to the concerted efforts of Martin Pitt, Sebastien Bacher and several others, notify-osd and several related components landed in Jaunty last week. Thanks very much to all involved! And thanks to David Barth, Mirco Muller and Ted Gould who lead the development of notify-osd and the related messaging indicator. more...

Ubuntu 9.10: Karmic Koala.
Mark Shuttleworth has announced Ubuntu 9.10: Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce the Karmic Koala, the newest member of our alliterative menagerie. more... and Introducing the Karmic Koala, mascot for Ubuntu 9.10.

Anatomy of ext4.
With every Linux kernel release come a few surprises, and this December's 2.6.28 release was no exception. This release is the first of a stable ext4 file system. This next generation of the extended file system provides improved scalability, reliability, and considerable new functionality. Ext4 is so scalable that the maximum file system would consume one million 1-terabyte (TB) disks. more...

Compiz 0.8.0 Has Been Released, Finally.
Compiz 0.8 was branched from master back in November, but only today do we now have the v0.8.0 release of Compiz. Since that point the future of Compiz was called into question and Compiz++ had emerged as a C++ rewrite of Compiz that also brings a separation of the Composite and OpenGL layers, a new plug-in design, and other changes. more...

Applications.
pdftk is an electronic staple-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses.
PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks.

Misc.
Hulu's Hollywood overlords force Boxee block.
My Newest Favorite Audio Player!
Perl 6 Periodic Table of the Operators.
KDE 4.2 brings the MySQL server to the desktop.
Aligning filesystems to an SSD’s erase block size.
World of Goo Linux Version is Ready!
The browser war is back – expect user casualties.

How To Tips.

How To Linux Convert ext3 to ext4 File system.
How To 25 Tutorials To Get You Started With Blender.

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