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Flash is opening up to C and C++ code..."Welcome the preview release of codename 'Alchemy.' Alchemy is a research project that allows users to compile C and C++ code that is targeted to run on the open source ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM2). The purpose of this preview is to assess the level of community interest in reusing existing C and C++ libraries in Web applications that run on Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR.

Carla Schroder gives her usual honest take on the state of Linux printing today...

How the KDE developers approach upstream and downstream bugs...

A very interesting piece on the value of feedback in an open source project...

A deskside supercomputer running Linux clustering software. The holidays come early!"Cray Inc. and Clustercorp today announced the immediate availability of the Cray CX1 deskside supercomputer preloaded with Rocks+ 5, the commercial version of the Rocks Cluster Distribution for Linux users. The joint solution is fully certified as Intel Cluster Ready and ships with Intel Cluster Checker preloaded and pre-tuned. ... [more]

Smartphones vs. netbooks. Let's get ready to rumble? Erm...no...

The effort to gather and categorize kernel crash reports has been very successful... "Today, just a few days short of the first anniversary of the project, the kerneloops.org database of oopses and warnings has passed the 100.000 stored oopses/warnings. "Number one hundred thousand is..." [Read more]

Has it been two years already? Huh. And they said it wouldn't last..."Two years ago this month, Microsoft forged its controversial partnership with Novell that, among other things, had the two companies agreeing not to sue each other over intellectual property issues, in part to protect Suse Linux users over any patent litigation from Microsoft.

Windows is coming on strong in the netbook market... but is Microsoft too late? "Windows advocates will argue that the netbook form factor was inevitable. They will point to growing support for the form factor within Microsoft itself. They will call Linux alternatives el-cheapos, even spin all this as a threat to Linux. "What’s great is we don’t have to argue about it. No politics, not even corporate politics, will determine the outcome. (Oh, goody.) ... [more]

As pcc works towards 1.0, here's a review of the potential alternative for gcc in Linux programming...