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This week at LWN: Memory part 5: What programmers can do

11/02/2007  IIIII
Relevance: 7.22
After the descriptions in the previous sections it is clear that there are many, many opportunities for programmers to influence a program's performance, positively or negatively. And this is for memory-related operations only. We will proceed in covering the opportunities from the ground up, starting with the lowest levels of physical RAM access and L1 caches, up to and including OS functionality which influences memory handling.
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Red Hat: Customers are not afraid of Microsoft

12/14/2006  III
Relevance: 5.18
Executive sees opportunities despite recent challenges to its position from Microsoft and Oracle.
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The Linux Foundation Boosts Its Membership

04/05/2007  I
Relevance: 5.07
The three newest members are expected to help deepen the foundation's understanding of the issues and opportunities for Linux in multiple environments.
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Podcast: Up Close and Personal with Tim Berners-Lee

08/23/2006  IIII
Relevance: 5.07
Listed by Time magazine as one of the 100 greatest minds of this century and Originator of the Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium talks about how far we've come, and about the challenges and opportunities ahead.
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The Linux Foundation Reveals Speaker Line-up for 2nd Annual Collaboration Summit

03/12/2008  II
Relevance: 4.93
Kernel developers, leading market research firm and companies such as Dell, HP, IBM, MySQL, and Oracle will debate growth opportunities for the platform
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Piracy creates jobs, FOSS creates opportunities

11/02/2006  I
Relevance: 4.67
APC director slams the anti-piracy campaign during the Internet Governance Forum in Athens. Spend money on fighting real crimes, not prosecuting software pirates, she says.
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Flourish conf - Floss conference, April 6-7 Chicago

04/03/2007  II
Relevance: 4.58
Is there a professional future in Free and Open source software? To answer these and other questions, we have invited quite a few of really smart people from different organizations: Google, IBM, Red Hat, and the FSF, and we are going to have a a chance to hear about the opportunities that FLOSS has to offer for our future. Come join us!
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Walter Bender hopes all will be sweet… with Sugar

05/20/2008  I
Relevance: 4.48
The man who once was the president of OLPC, the initiative to provide 'one laptop per child' to some of the world's poorest and digitally divided children, has joined Sugar Labs. Why? To do what Nicholas Negroponte won't – providing open source opportunities for learning, instead of being just another laptop seller.
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Linux PC auction benefits charity

10/25/2008  IIIIII
Relevance: 4.43
Want to combine your love for robots and strange mini-ITX systems with your interest in furthering educational opportunities for U.S. schoolchildren? You, too, can bid on this strange, one-of-a-kind Linux system available only through a charity auction on eBay.
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Why Microsoft Loves Apple

09/11/2006  IIIIIIIIII
Relevance: 4.38
We've been trained from the beginning to view Microsoft and Apple as bitter enemies, and this type of thinking has influenced the actions of many people. There's been a convergence of both sets of users, but even with this advancement, you can still find devout fans of OS X and Windows who are always on the lookout for opportunities to badmouth the competition. Get a grip, people - it's just software.
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