Version 3.1.0 is a major update with the following major new features:

• Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session from one host to another
• VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well ("branched snapshots")
• 2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion
• More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to an arbitrary IDE controller, and there can be more than one such drive
• The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is running
• Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher
• Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests (VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging)
• Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface)
• Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net)

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Appeared as a full page advertisement in the Wall Street Journal. You have to admit Larry Ellison that he has a sense of humor. Anyway, I'm glad that Oracle will continue work on improving Sun technologies, both hardware (SPARC) and software (Solaris). But it remains to be seen what happens with other products that Sun acquired (before Oracle bought Sun) that are not mentioned explicitly in the ad. Stuff like MySQL database, VirtualBox virtualization and so on...

0 A.D. is a free, real-time strategy game currently under development by Wildfire Games. It's cross-platform, 3D and historically-based. Wildfire Games is switching from a closed development process to open source, making the game's code available as GPL and the art content available as CC-BY-SA. People are encouraged to reuse and learn from and improve their work. They are not releasing a playable game, but want to show what they have achieved and make it easier for more people to get involved in bringing it closer to completion.

There's roughly 150K lines of C++ for the game engine, and another 25K for editing tools. Gameplay scripting uses JavaScript. The game is built on top of low-level libraries (OpenGL, OpenAL, ENet, ...), not an existing game engine (like OGRE).

They admit the code isn't all extremely clean or extremely modular or extremely well-written. It's been written by a wide variety of programmers, and it's far from a "completed" code base. They want to continue cleaning things up as part of the normal development process. They're not averse to rewriting entire subsystems if that's the most effective way. But in many areas it's quite solid.

Most of the code is specific to the game and not very useful outside it, but some parts could perhaps be interesting for developers working on other projects. Some examples:

• Low-level library providing cross-platform support for resource management (archive file loading, GL textures and shaders, ...), debugging tools (error reporting, memory tracking, stack dumps), timers, asynchronous IO, allocators, ...
• Converter from COLLADA models with skeletal animation into a simple game-friendly format.
• Binary XML caching system, for faster resource loading.
• Automated build tools using Amazon EC2.
• Boring maths code for matrices, vectors, quaternions, etc.

Check out their open source page for more details and info on how you can contribute.

SAN FRANCISCO and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 3, 2009 – The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, and SourceForge, a leader in community-driven media and e-commerce, (NASDAQ: LNUX) today announced that the Linux Foundation will be the new host for Linux.com, taking over the editorial and community stewardship for the site. The two companies will collaborate to create a vibrant and long-lasting community destination for Linux users and developers.

Effective today, the Linux.com domain, which saw 21% growth in traffic in 2008, will be transferred to the Linux Foundation. SourceForge will support the Linux Foundation by continuing to sell the advertising for Linux.com.

Adobe has just released a public beta of the next Flash Player, version 10. Mike Melanson from Adobe says:

There are plenty of nifty new features covered in the labs link. More interesting for Linux users is that we have been addressing the graphical performance issues that manifesting starting in 9r115, the version where we had to rework the graphical system due to the new XEmbed support (trying to remember what that bought us... oh yeah: context menus consistent with the desktop). The key to performance? Move away from recommended APIs and use unrecommended ones (without resorting to deprecated APIs).

Xen Virtualization is a new book from Packt that helps Linux administrators to use Xen virtualization for development, testing, virtual hosting or operating systems training. Written by Prabhakar Chaganti this book is a practical guide for supporting multiple operating systems with the Xen hypervisor.

Xen was originally developed in 2003 at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and users now have the choices of both commercial and free versions of the Xen hypervisor. The commercial versions are built on top of the open-source version with additional enterprise features. In this book Chaganti explores and uses the open-source version of Xen.

Xen is an open-source paravirtualization technology that provides a platform for running multiple operating systems on one physical hardware resource, while providing close to native performance. Xen supports several operating systems like Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, and NetBSD. It enables the user to easily test, deploy and run their software and services on multiple operating systems with resource isolation and great performance. It is also a terrific way to consolidate servers, save hardware and maintenance costs, and minimize downtime. Xen is one of the most popular open source projects in the world and vendors like IBM, Sun, HP, RedHat and Novell are working on integrating Xen into their Linux servers.

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced an agreement with Sun Microsystems to advance open source Java™ software. Red Hat has signed Sun's broad contributor agreement that covers participation in all Sun-led open source projects by all Red Hat engineers.

In addition, Red Hat has signed Sun's OpenJDK Community TCK License Agreement. This agreement gives the company access to the test suite that determines whether an implementation of the Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) platform that is derived from the OpenJDK project complies with the Java SE 6 specification.

Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap has today announced the availability of the new Linux Kernel Job Board service on his site. Here's the original announcement:

I am pleased to announce that KernelTrap has partnered with Specialty Job Markets to offer a unique Linux kernel job board for our readers. It is completely free to submit your resume, which will then be personally reviewed and matched with current and future employment opportunities. If you're an employer, it's also free to post jobs. Jobs and resumes that are posted to our boards are individually reviewed and matched by a professional recruiter, not a computer program, offering quality results with a personal touch. The contact information you provide is kept confidential and is only visible to our dedicated recruiter.

Myah OS 3.0 alpha 1 is now available to kick off the 3.0 release cycle. This first alpha release has been very carefully put together. The only thing really missing so far is the graphical installer, which is under construction. This release is a live CD that includes package utilities and all development tools.

Myah OS is an original linux distro created by Jeremiah Cheatham. Myah OS is built for the i686 intel/amd PCs but will also work very well with the newer 64bit intel/amd PCs. Myah OS uses it's package management suite designed to be simple and fast. Myah is designed to be a full featured distro, with at least 1 or 2 applications for every need. XFCE 4.4.1 desktop makes Myah run very fast without taking a lot of resources. Myah will also handle all of your multimedia needs.