From /.:

A new router, designed by one of the creators of ARPANET, manages flows of packets instead of only managing individual packets. The router recognizes packets that are following the first and sends them along faster than if it had to route them as individuals. When overloaded, the router can make better choices of which packets to drop.

Read the full thing at http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/10/1830217/New-Router-Manages-Flows-Not-Packets

Linux distributions strive to include all the useful applications that users will need, but a quality video editor has been lacking for quite some time. Now with KDE4 getting better and better, could an application like Kdenlive fill that gap?

Read the full thing at http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7413/1.html

To write it down clearly: I don't like clones. There are too many distro's out there as it is. Over the last years I have had many people ask me: I have tried Distro X, Y and Z, can you help me? Just a while back a colleague told me, I have upgraded Ubuntu and now my server won't work, can you help me? Or constantly I get people telling me: "I have tried Clone of Clone X, Y, Z, it looks nice, but then I upgraded and it hosed my system."

Read the full thing at http://www.linux.co.nz/journal/2009/7/3/cloned-distros-why-ubuntu-sucks-and-should-be-banned.html

Today, three days before the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit starts, the KDE team released KDE 4.3.0 RC1. RC1 is an early candidate for what will become KDE 4.3.0 at the end of this month.

Artwork has now also been merged, and KDE 4.3 will have a new Plasma look, sported by the new, light "Air" Plasma theme. Oxygen, the default in earlier versions of KDE 4 is still available as an option through the "Desktop Settings" dialog.

Read the full thing at http://dot.kde.org/2009/07/01/release-candidate-kde-430-out

We are proud to announce the release of Cacti 0.8.7e and Spine 0.8.7e.

Please visit http://www.cacti.net/ to download.

There are quite a few bug fixes in the 0.8.7e release. Some highlights
include:

* Reduced issues unexpected SNMP agents results
* Fixed issue with SNMPv3 passwords and Firefox Browser
* Fixed a long standing bug where changes to graph trees would not show up immediately

Thanks,
The Cacti Group

You already know the Linux command called "top", and also iotop and iftop (from previous Web Upd8 posts), but I bet you don't know some of the other 14 top-like Linux apps

Read the full thing at http://webupd8.blogspot.com/2009/06/16-top-like-linux-apps-commands.html

Mandriva Linux 2010 Alpha 1 is now available on public mirrors. This first alpha is available only through Free version, 32 and 64 bits DVDs.This development release is the first one realized without mkcd, our historical build tool, but using bcd available also on Mandriva svn. This new tool should improve global quality of our release and make tests much easier and efficient.

Read the full thing at http://blog.mandriva.com/2009/06/21/mandriva-linux-2010-alpha-1-and-2010-specifications/

Work on Mandriva Linux 2010 release has already started for some weeks now. Final planning is finally out, you will find all details below. So first milestone is planned for 18th of june. Mandriva Linux 2010 planning: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2010.0_Development#Planning

Read the full thing at http://blog.mandriva.com/2009/06/03/mandriva-linux-2010-is-on-the-road/

The KDE Release Machine seems unstoppable these days! Today brings you KDE 4.2.4, the monthly update to the 4.2 series of KDE. KDE 4.2.4 is the recommended update for all those using KDE 4.2, or rather anything in the KDE 4 series. Those that stayed away from KDE 4 until now might give it a whirl as well to see if KDE 4 is up to their tasks.

Read the full thing at http://dot.kde.org/2009/06/02/kde-424-aka-cornrow-released

Being worked on as part of Mandriva's next Linux distribution update is a technology they are referring to as Speedboot. Speedboot will be officially introduced with Mandriva Linux 2009.1, and compared to the normal boot process, it begins initializing some processes early on while it postpones other tasks until after the graphical display manager has shown. In essence, the user is logging into their Linux desktop even before the system is fully booted. We have some timed results of Mandriva's Speedboot along with videos showing the differences.

Read the full thing at http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=mandriva_speedboot&num=1