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Microsoft unveils public robotics software

Microsoft on Wednesday plans to take the wraps off its first commercial operating system for robots, with hopes of paving the way for a broader robotics industry and taking a central role in its development.
by Stefanie Olsen.

MySQL Quietly Drops Support For Debian Linux

MySQL AB’s Director of Architecture (and former Slash programmer) Brian Aker corrects an apparent miscommunication in a blog post: “we are just starting to roll out [Enterprise] binaries… We don’t build binaries for Debian in part because the Debian community does a good job themselves… If you call MySQL and you have support we support you if you are running Debian (the same with Suse, RHEL, Fedora, Ubuntu and others)… someone in Sales was left with the wrong information”
from slashdot.

Debian: server yes, desktop no

I recently decided to retire Red Hat 7 after seven years of loyal service as a firewall/router-OS on my home LAN. Like a red-headed stepchild grown old, it had become cranky from extended neglect, and no longer would even shutdown or reboot without issuing nasty messages.
by Rick Lehrbaum.

Where are the broadband price wars?

He [Jupiter analyst Joseph Laszlo]also points out that the market is now mature, with some 60 percent of Internet users having a broadband connection. In such a well-developed marketplace, competition must be thriving and prices dropping, right?
by Nate Anderson.

Review: Shuttle XPC SN27P2 barebones desktop system

The SN27P2 motherboard supports AMD Socket AM2 processors and up to 8GB of DDR2 667/800 RAM, and has one PCI Express x16 slot and one regular PCI slot. However, the system holds only four sticks of RAM, so you’ll probably end up maxing it out at 4GB unless you’re willing to pay a serious premium for 2GB sticks of DDR2 667 or DDR2 800.
by Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier.

PCI Express SATA RAID Controllers For SMB Servers

Entry-level RAID controllers allow administrators to create secure multi-drive storage arrays to host a server’s operation system and vital data.
by Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos.