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Hortonworks Cofounder: Hadoop Rivals Cant Touch It|Dr.Dobbs | Dr Dobbs.

Hadoop is the best and most economical option for extracting value from massive data sets, according to Arun Murphy, Apache Hadoop project management committee chair. In addition, the up-and-coming data management platform has quickly become the “de facto standard” for big data, he claimed.

Given Murphy’s background, it’s not surprising he’s a bit biased in favor of Hadoop. One of the cofounders of Hortonworks, an enterprise software company focused on the development and support of Hadoop, Murphy has been a major participant in the open source project since its beginning in 2006.

“The exciting part of Hadoop — and the way things have gone the last 12 months or so — is that a lot of really big and important enterprise software companies are starting to work with it,” said Murphy.

Take Microsoft, for instance. At last week’s Strata Conference in New York, Microsoft announced the preview release of HDInsight Server for Windows, the first beta version of the company’s Hadoop software distribution. Read full story on InformationWeek

The KDE-Edu project was started in July 2001.  The goal of the project is to develop Free Educational Software (GPL license) within the KDE environment.  This software is mainly aimed to schools,  to students and to parents at home as well as to adults willing to extend their knowledge.

A new KDE module was created, the kdeedu module.  The applications in that module are fully KDE compatible (use of KMainWindow, XML GUI, …)  and get a proper documentation handbook in docbook format.  Thus, all applications interfaces and documentation are translated in more than 65 languages,  via the l10n KDE teams.

The kdeedu module joined the KDE 3.0 official release.

Download OSS Educational software from http://edu.kde.org/applications/all/

Python 3.3.0 was released on September 29th, 2012.

Python 3.3 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series, as well as easier porting between 2.x and 3.x.  Major new features in the 3.3 release series are:

• PEP 380, syntax for delegating to a subgenerator (yield from)
• PEP 393, flexible string representation (doing away with the distinction between “wide” and “narrow” Unicode builds)
• A C implementation of the “decimal” module, with up to 120x speedup for decimal-heavy applications
• The import system (__import__) is based on importlib by default
• The new “lzma” module with LZMA/XZ support
• PEP 397, a Python launcher for Windows
• PEP 405, virtual environment support in core
• PEP 420, namespace package support
• PEP 3151, reworking the OS and IO exception hierarchy
• PEP 3155, qualified name for classes and functions
• PEP 409, suppressing exception context
• PEP 414, explicit Unicode literals to help with porting
• PEP 418, extended platform-independent clocks in the “time” module
• PEP 412, a new key-sharing dictionary implementation that significantly saves memory for object-oriented code
• PEP 362, the function-signature object
• The new “faulthandler” module that helps diagnosing crashes
• The new “unittest.mock” module
• The new “ipaddress” module
• The “sys.implementation” attribute
• A policy framework for the email package, with a provisional (seePEP 411) policy that adds much improved unicode support for email header parsing
• A “collections.ChainMap” class for linking mappings to a single unit
• Wrappers for many more POSIX functions in the “os” and “signal” modules, as well as other useful functions such as “sendfile()”
• Hash randomization, introduced in earlier bugfix releases, is now switched on by default

See these resources for further information:

• What’s new in 3.3?
• 3.3 Release Schedule
• Change log for this release.
• Online Documentation
• Report bugs at http://bugs.python.org.
• Help fund Python and its community.

Reproduced from: http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.3.0/

opsi is a Client Management System for Windows clients based on Linux servers

Visit the project site at http://www.opsi.org/en