The kernel can't know if you want those low-priority processes to use all the CPU power on the system, or if you want them to pile up on one CPU and save power on the rest. Developers debate the best way to set the system's power rules.
Open source has become a staple for software development in the enterprise, but keeping track of it and maintaining security for it remains an elusive goal, according to a survey of more than 3,500 data architects and developers published today by Sonatype, which provides component lifecycle management products and also operates the Central Repository for downloading open-source software.
Outsourcing development and open-source development may at first appear to be about as far apart as baseball and football. Both use a ball in a game, but that's about it. Yet a closer look from open-source software developers and industry analysts reveals that enterprises using outsourcing for their programming needs could stand to learn some management and process techniques from the open-source community.
HP has released Digital's Tru64 Advanced Filesystem
under the GPL, free for Linux developers to borrow.
And developers can learn a lot from this museum piece.
Intel last week at the Intel Developers Forum in Taipei opened up part of its Input/Output Acceleration Technology, which speeds network traffic handling, to outside companies.
The Khronos Group has announced plans to create an open and royalty-free application programming interface for controlling mobile and embedded cameras and sensors, giving developers access to features such as burst modes and flash.
Real-time processing capabilities are now included in the main release of the Linux kernel, allowing developers to implement embedded Linux systems more easily. The move could also lead to more stable real-time Linux systems, and broader adoption of real-time Linux.
Less than 24 hours before Google kicks off its annual I/O developers confab in San Francisco, Google CEO Larry Page is revealing why his speaking voice is so soft.
Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie Monday revealed Windows Azure, Microsoft's cloud-computing platform that allows developers to build and host their services on Microsoft infrastructure.
After 15 years of "pain" and "despair," open-source developers on Tuesday celebrated the release of version 1.0 of the Wine emulation software by, you guessed it, opening a few bottles of wine.
Last week I wrote about the newest technology behind using biometrics (specifically fingerprints) as a means for identity verification. This week I’ll cover some of the latest ways that hardware and software vendors and application developers are using this technology to authenticate users of computer systems. Using biometrics for authentication is a growing trend as the technology becomes more reliable and the need for multifactor authentication increases sharply.
Watchfire is upgrading its application vulnerability-testing software so it’s easier for Web software developers to run scans on code and to close security holes.
As Linux grows to handle enterprise workloads, two
developers are keeping an eye on things to make sure
that embedded Linux users, from cell phones and PDAs
to giant phone switches, aren't being left behind.
Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) hosted infrastructure service for developers will expand its choice of operating systems and databases to include Microsoft's Windows Server and SQL Server.
Microsoft will release test versions of some forthcoming Web-development tools, as well as clarify its strategy for adding application-modeling to its software portfolio, at its TechEd Developers conference this week.
In my work as program director of the MSIA at Norwich University, I frequently have to receive large files from course developers and reviewers and to send them to the instructional designers responsible for putting the materials into our teaching platform.
Wait! Keep reading! This is not yet-another-methodology that promises to solve all of your programming problems. What we'll be discussing in this article is why search has become a critical tool for developers.
Nobody could accuse Canonical of resting on its laurels. The business side of Ubuntu – the best-known desktop Linux distribution – has expanded aggressively into mobility, pushed forward with a new desktop environment, and continued to release new versions of the flagship OS over the past few years.
Developers are starting to clean up a old coding technique that they used in the early days of Linux SMP. As the system scales and better synchronization techniques become available, rooting out the Big Kernel Lock is a tricky job.