ActiveState Releases Komodo 7.1
Jul 26, 2012ActiveState announces the release of Komodo IDE 7.1, an award-winning multiplatform integrated development environment (IDE) for Python, PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, Perl, and web development.
more »Fabric Python Library Stitching together a crazy sys admin world with Python
Jun 21, 2012The Fabric Python library makes it extremely easy to create repeatable scripts of commands over SSH to any number of servers.
more »SUSE Updates SUSE Linux Server for SAP Applications
Jun 19, 2012SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 offers major improvements in performance, security, and hardware support.
more »Canonical Hosts App Showdown
Jun 19, 2012Canonical announces the Ubuntu App Showdown – a contest in which participants create an Ubuntu app from scratch in three weeks.
more »oVirt Open source data center management with Red Hat’s oVirt
May 29, 2012The days when administrators were forced to manage virtual machines at the console are gone. Competitors of VMware and Citrix now offer equally sophisticated GUIs. One promising alternative is Red Hat’s oVirt – a free Java interface for Libvirt.
more »Perl: Travis CI Headache-free continuous integration
May 29, 2012A new service on travis-ci.org picks up GitHub projects, runs new code through test suites, and notifies the owners if the build fails. Its API enables Perl scripts to gather historical build data, including who-broke-the-build tabulations.
more »Google Dart Google’s JavaScript alternative, Dart
May 29, 2012The Dart programming language is Google’s modern alternative to JavaScript. It will mainly run in browsers but can also be used at the command line and on servers as a replacement for PHP.
more »PowerTOP Releases v2.0
May 17, 2012PowerTOP releases v2.0 of its Linux tool, with improved diagnostics and user interface.
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