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According to a recent article at The Inquirer, chip firm Intel was getting ready to do some very noticeable price cuts on the Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad lines, some up to 40%.

According to a few sources, the new prices are already in the wild, so if you are looking to buy a new Intel CPU, now would be a good time.

For a full price quote of Intel’s server and desktop princing for April 2007, visit the folks at digitimes, but here are some of the big cuts:
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Linux Kernel 2.6.21 has just been announced by Linus Torvalds.
2.6.21 improves the virtualization features merged in 2.6.20 with VMI (http://lwn.net/Articles/175706), a paravirtualization interface that will be used by Vmware (and maybe -probably not- Xen) software.
KVM does get initial paravirtualization along with live migration and host suspend/resume support (http://lwn.net/Articles/223839).
2.6.21 also gets a tickless idle loop mechanism called “Dynticks” (http://lwn.net/Articles/223185), a feature built in top of “clockevents” which unifies the timer handling and brings true high-resolution timers.
Other features are: bigger kernel command-line, optional ZONE_DMA; support for the PA SEMI PWRficient CPU, for a Cell-based “celleb” architecture from Toshiba, better PS3 support: support for NFS IPv6, IPv4 <-> IPv6 IPSEC tunneling support, UFS2 write support, kprobes for PPC32, kexec and oprofile for ARM, public key encription for ecryptfs, Fcrypt and Camilla cipher algorithms, NAT port randomization, audit lockdown mode, many new drivers and many other small improvements.

Ed Finkler, for the past couple of weeks, has been collecting data from the NIST NVD to get stats on PHP application vulnerabilities. In his blog,
he released the top 20 PHP security issues statistics.

The data covers only reported vulnerabilities, between April 1 2006 and April 1 2007.

Thanks for the nice work!

Envy is an application for Ubuntu Linux written in Python and PyGTK which will:

1. detect the model of your graphic card (ATI and Nvidia cards are supported). However “Manual installation” is also available
2. download the right version of the proprietary driver for your ATI or Nvidia card from ATI or Nvidia’s websites
3. handle the dependencies (compilers, OpenGL, etc.) (according to your OS version and kernel) required to build the module
4. install/uninstall the driver
5. set up your xorg.conf (i.e. the configuration file of the Xserver) for you (according to your system specifications)
6. restart the Xserver for you (if you wish so) (this feature is available only in the textual interface)

Interested? Visit Alberto Milone’s blog (the author) for the latest news about envy, or head on to the project’s page to grab it. (packages available for Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04 and Ubuntu Edgy Eft 6.10)

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Nero Linux 3 features:

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