NewsForge has an interesting report on a small, but highly effective way to improve Apache performance. “Lingerd is a daemon process that sits in front of your Apache processes to handle socket IO. What it does is free up your webserver to handle your application layer instead of dealing with clients that tie up your Apache children. This is a huge gain for sites using PHP, mod_perl or one of the Java engines. Having expensive Apache processes waiting around for clients to close sockets is a waste of resources.”
It is September, and that means brilliantly colored leaves, cooler weather, and a new Mandrake Linux release.
As the big day for Mandrake Linux 9.0 approaches, Open for Business's Timothy R. Butler talked with
Mandrake co-founder Gaël Duval about the company's past, present, and future.
The embattled, Linux pioneer Caldera announced today that it had renamed itself the SCO Group, SCO being the name of the UNIX vendor Caldera acquired assets from last year. The original organization known as SCO (Santa Cruz Operation) is now known as Tarantella, a company producing “web-enabling software.”
The KDE Project announced the availability of KDE 3.1 Beta 1 today. This release, which marks the second test release
of the KDE 3.1 series, offers many improvements and bug fixes over KDE 3.0, which was release in early April. KDE, which stands for K Desktop Environment, is a popular desktop user interface for Linux and UNIX systems.
Andreas Pour is well known to most everyone in the K Desktop Environment
(KDE) community. Considering that KDE is the leading desktop for Linux, if
you are investigating GNU/Linux workstations, you are sure to run into Pour's
work.
According to a story published by another LDN affiliate, LinuxandMain, the UnitedLinux consortium should release a beta to select testers by the end of the month. UnitedLinux, which launched in the end of May, is a group of four beleaguered Linux companies attempting to make a proprietary GNU/Linux “standard.” “The UnitedLinux consortium says the first beta drop of its common base system will be available to its customers by the end of August. An open beta, the consortium said, will be made available by the end of September.”
A story in ComputerWorld talks about TrollTech's upcoming Qt 3.1 beta. Qt is a multi-platform development toolkit made famous by the KDE desktop environment, and more recently, by the Sharp Zaurus PDA. Qt 3.1 gains integration with the Mac Appearance Manager, support for antialiased text, and user settings. OpenGL support has also been greatly improved, with hardware acceleration now in place.
In our review of OEone's HomeBase 1.2 release ( OEone HomeBase Offers Computing, Simplified), we noted that HomeBase was probably the most innovative interface released since the advent of the GUI. OEone HomeBase Desktop is the only package we know of that has pulled off a simplification of the user interface without “dumbing down” the system.