Why can't the virtualization vendors just get along?

Like it or not, simply electing to share more rights (rather than fewer) under copyright and patent law doesn’t exempt you from other national laws.

A new generation of companies offer software, smarts, and service

Have an old PC or three? Turn those aging hunks of silicon into refurbished Linux workhorses.

Confronting multi-core anxiety and what the new processors mean for the future of commodity clusters.

Kexec can spawn a kernel-over-a-kernel without the overhead of boot firmware, while kdump can reliably collect a crash-dump using the services of kexec.

Make your fonts go pop!

Dig into some of vim’s programmable features: improvements in key mapping, a scripting language, and built-in and user-defined functions.

Read the HPC tea leaves and see what the future of high-performance computing holds in store.

Pick up a few pointers on optimizing your MySQL install.

How to clean the clutter that consumes your computer.

A number of old-fashioned tools can prevent very modern problems

Here’s how to develop a Web application the easy way — with Python and TurboGears

Learn how to abstract database rows using DB::Rose.