CentOS 5.3 now comes with disk encryption. When you install the operating system you have the option to encrypt block devices, partitions that you create. Block device encryption requires a passphrase or key as authentication in order to access the data on that partition.

fwbackups is a feature-rich user backup program that allows you to backup your documents anytime, anywhere. It is completely free to download and use without any sort of trial or restrictions. In fact, fwbackups is open-source, which means anybody can use, share it and improve it. If you would like to help develop or test fwbackups, see the developer's page.

KDE 4.2.2 has been released and is available for Kubuntu.

Parallel programming is not just about multi-threading and multi-core. There’s also a lot of power in the SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) extended instruction set available in most modern microprocessors from Intel and AMD.

The RC2 release of Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring (code name Estephe) is now available. This RC2 version provides some updates on major desktop components of the distribution, including KDE 4.2.2, GNOME 2.26,X.org server 1.6, kernel 2.6.29.

We are not all made from the same mold. To cover all of those bases there is a plethora of Linux distributions ready for the picking.

Through this book users will learn to design, develop, and test their web applications using the Spring Web Flow 2 framework. Java developers will be able to Integrate Java Server Faces (JSF) with Spring Web Flow to organize and manage the storage of data inside their web application.

There were some comments in my original story about the performance of some DVCMs where I was told that bazaar degrades pretty much when you have thousands upon thousands of revisions and that the repositories could be packed. I decided to follow suit and see where git and bzr would stand having some thousands of revisions in them.