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Submission + - Automatix Activly Dangerous to Ubuntu

Submitted by exeme on Saturday August 04, 2007 @06:21AM

exeme writes: Ubuntu developer Matthew Garrett has recently analysed famed Ubuntu illegal software installer Automatix and found it to be actively dangerous to Ubuntu desktop systems. In a detailed report which only took Garrett a couple of hours he found many serious, show-stopper bugs and concluded that Ubuntu could not officially support Automatix in its current state. Garrett also goes on to say that simple Debian packages could provide all of the functionality of Automatix without any of the problems it exhibits.

Submission + - NASA to build largest Supercomputer ever (linuxworld.com.au) 1

Submitted by Onlyodin on Friday August 03, 2007 @09:04PM

Onlyodin writes: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has given the green light to a project that will build the largest ever supercomputer based on Silicon Graphics' (SGI) 512-processor Altix computers.

Called Project Columbia and costing around $160-million, the 10,240-processor system will be used by researchers at the Advanced Supercomputing Facility at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.

What makes Project Columbia unique is the size of the multiprocessor Linux systems, or nodes, that it clusters together. It is common for supercomputers to be built of thousands of two-processor nodes, but the Ames system uses SGI's NUMAlink switching technology and ProPack Linux operating system enhancements to connect 512-processor nodes, each of which will have more than 1,000G bytes of memory.

Full Story at Linuxworld

Submission + - It is the end of -ck (bhhdoa.org.au)

Submitted by on Sunday July 01, 2007 @04:16AM

An anonymous reader writes: The CK patch set of the Linux kernel (-ck) is over after the next stable release.

Submission + - Google Desktop now available for Linux

Submitted by

weighn

on Thursday June 28, 2007 @01:46AM

weighn writes: "The Official Google Blog brings us news that Google Desktop for Linux is now available. "Just a few months after Google Desktop became available for the Mac, I'm [Mendel Chuang, Product Marketing Manager] happy to tell you it's now available for Linux users too. Google Desktop for Linux makes searching your computer as easy as searching the web with Google". So, what's wrong with grep?"

Submission + - Saltwater Fuel 1

Submitted by MikeV on Thursday June 28, 2007 @12:46AM

MikeV writes: Not entirely sure if this chance discovery will actually create additional power above the power that's required to produce it, but John Kanzius discovered quite by accident that strong radio waves aimed at salt water caused it to burn. Actual flames! He was only trying to find a cure for cancer and chanced onto this. What they can do with it is yet to be determined but it's the ultimate coolness and I suspect many a Slashdot tinkerer is going to go try to burn their own salt water! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6vSxR6UKFM So, who's going to be the OPEC of the Ocean?

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