CUPS 1.1.9 adds support for AIX, adds several performance improvements to the scheduler, adds support for the Apache Include directive, adds new HideImplicitMembers and ImplicitAnyClasses directives, stores user-defined options as differences from the system-defined options, adds a "natural-scaling" option for printing images, and fixes a number of small bugs.

"The main thrust has been the removal of a number of changes in the core kernel which were required for to support the journalling of data. This has caused some duplication of core code within ext3, but it's not too bad."

"It seems that there are more people out there using Promise FastTrak cards than I could have ever imagined. Luckily, shortly after all my distraught users informed me of their problems they were having on Red Hat 7.1, Promise e-mailed me looking to solve this problem. Armed with your anger (well, maybe not) and problems, I'm hoping I've taken the first step to tackling this problem."

IBM Singapore has announced that two leading research organizations -- the Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) and the Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) will build two Linux clusters using a total of 100 IBM eServer xSeries servers. The system at SMA is expected to be among the largest in Asia and students in both Singapore and the United States will be allowed computing time on this cluster to bolster their knowledge of Linux-based systems.

With the recent release of Samba 2.2, the Samba team has made major improvements to their server software, including support for Windows 2000 and NT 4.0 clients. Here's a series of tips showing you how to get started using Samba 2.2.

This release adds support for the latest stable release of the linux kernel and fixes a couple of bugs too.

ReiserFS is designed and developed by Hans Reiser and his team of developers at Namesys. Hans and his team share the philosophy that the best filesystems are those that help create a single shared environment, or namespace, where applications can interact more directly, efficiently and powerfully. To do this, a filesystem should meet the performance and feature needs of its users. That way, users can continue using the filesystem directly rather than building special-purpose layers that run on top of the filesystem, such as databases and the like.

"The last couple of articles in this series should have given you an idea that a fair bit is happening on your network. Now that you're getting a good picture of the kind of traffic flying across your network, the next piece of information you might want to get concerns what that traffic is costing you in terms of performance and, that most precious of resources, bandwidth."

VM Resources and GlassHouse Systems announce availability of VM/LinMan 1.0.0, software that enables web management of hundreds of independent Linux systems inside a single IBM S/390 or zSeries mainframe running VM/ESA or its 64-bitsuccessor, z/VM.

Ximian, a Boston company that works on the Gnome user interface for Linux, is scheduled to announce Monday a software project called "Mono" intended to compete against Microsoft.Net, according to sources familiar with the plan.