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John Diamond, the lead developer of the open-source Alien Arena game, has emailed in tipping us off that Alien Arena 2011 will be released next week – for Linux !

https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/alien-arena-2011-is-coming-next-week

What an amazing year ! Thank you for your valued support.

Please view DcData’s latest newsletter which includes closing times etc here: http://newsletter.dcdata.co.za
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/christmas-closing-times/

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, the latest version of Red Hat’s flagship Linux-based operating system, began shipping last month, boasting a bevy of core improvements around scalability, resource management and virtualization. What’s more, the system ships with a slate of updated open-source software components that stand to make life easier for developers and system administrators who wish to take advantage of recent features without leaving Red Hat’s support and certification umbrella to do so. https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/red-hat-enterprise-linux-6-handles-workloads-physical-and-virtual

There’s been a number of individuals and organizations asking us about benchmarks of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0, which was released earlier this month and we had benchmarked beta versions of RHEL6 in past months. For those interested in benchmarks of Red Hat’s flagship Linux operating system, here are some of our initial benchmarks comparing the official release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5, openSUSE, Ubuntu, and Debian.
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/red-hat-enterprise-linux-6-0-benchmarks

Google on Wednesday released mod_pagespeed, a module for the Apache HTTP Server that will automatically perform various website speed optimization tasks.
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/google-soups-up-apache-with-new-speed-module

Check out the latest DcData and Linux news ! Hear how Linux can save you money.
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/the-latest-linux-news-from-dcdata

Two years ago, the London Stock Exchange (LSE) with its TradElec Windows-based C# and .NET programs crashed and took out the Exchange for almost 7-hours. That’s an eternity in stock market terms. Months later, the LSE’s CEO was history, and the LSE announced that it was dumping TradElec. Last year, the LSE announced that it was going to move to Linux. Now, the LSE is just about ready to switch over to Linux. Not only does it work, the new Linux-powered LSE runs faster than any other stock exchange on the planet.
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/london-stock-exchange-moves-to-linux

Yesterday Argentina’s Government signed a strategic alliance with Red Hat to migrate all federal systems to open source solutions. https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/1038/

Updated Ubuntu’s mission to become more Mac-like takes a step forward with Maverick Meerkat, as Canonical further fuses machine and web.
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/ubuntus-itunes-jumps-to-windows-and-android

In terms of customizability, I can honestly say that the Linux desktop is far better than Mac OS X or Windows.
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/20-really-awesome-linux-desktop-customization-screenshots

Client/server systems with SQL interfaces jockey for position against upstart NoSQL systems with intimidating (and exciting) new models for data representation, distribution and consistency. In addition, more than a dozen embedded and special purpose databases have grown up to serve the needs of applications too small or too agile to require a full RDBMS.
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/open-source-databases-have-come-of-age

InfoWorld’s Test Center picks the top open source platforms, middleware, applications, and application development tools
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/bossie-awards-2010-the-best-open-source-software-of-the-year/

IBM’s newest chip for mainframes boasts one of the highest speed ratings to date and will go into Big Blue’s fastest mainframe computers.
IBM, no stranger to cutting-edge chip designs, will use the new 5.2GHz z196 processor in mainframes targeted at businesses managing huge workloads, such as large banks and retailers.
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/ibm-ships-5-2ghz-chip-its-fastest-yet/

Everyone in the Linux world remembers Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s famous comment that Linux is a “cancer” that threatened Microsoft’s intellectual property.
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/microsoft-we-love-opensource/

Google has officially ended its sixth annual Google Sumer of Code (GSoC) event.
https://www.dcdata.co.za/public/googles-6th-summer-of-code-wraps-up