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Firefox 3 Beta 4 is out and it’s beating Microsoft’s IE7 in the memory consumption arena. As browsers improve so do their hunger for memory but to what limit is the question. The competition will eventually boil down to which browser uses the least amount of memory to accomplish the general requirements of a browser. Currently Firefox 3 has managed to beat Firefox 2 and IE7 by working around the 100MB mark after loading and unloading 30 random web pages. The graph below will speak for itself, at peak (30 pages) IE7 was consuming around 500MB while Firefox 2 hovered around 280MB and Firefox 3 steadily working around 200MB. [<img border=“0” src=“http://static.flickr.com/2130/2344570169_1db87c2cd2.jpg) ...

HP is planning to roll out a few of it’s Notebooks and Desktops preloaded with Novell’s Enterprise Desktop 10 (SLED10). Dell had the head start with it’s offering of machines preloaded with Ubuntu and recently also preloaded with SLED10. “We are really excited because of the power that the HP distribution channel brings, the reach they have and their commitment to interoperability. I am very enthusiastic about what this relationship could bring,â€? Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian told eWEEK in an interview during Novell’s BrainShare 2008 conference. ...

Recently I wrote about implementing session timeouts on Linux. For admin’s who know what they are doing(most times) this can sometimes be an annoying experience. There’s a simple noop script over at bashcurescancer to help work around session timeouts. This will work for ssh and also the default virtual consoles. Watch noop in action. ...

Wal-Mart have decided to drop the “Green gPC” Linux based low cost desktops from it’s stores. However the gPC will still be available through walmart.com “This really wasn’t what our customers were looking for,” said Wal-Mart Stores Inc. spokeswoman Melissa O’Brien. Consumers today are not into low end PCs which was the whole idea behind the “Green gPC”. Consumers are favoring up to date hardware specs bundled with alternative OS like Linux as seen with ASUS’s Eee PC range of products. ...

After bout 5 months of invite only beta testings hulu has opened it’s doors to the public earlier this month. hulu is an online video streaming service but unlike youtube and other video services hulu will only be publishing premium content from prime time TV like full episodes of popular tv shows, fulllength movies and premiums clips. The current lineup already includes Family Guy, 30 Rock, The Office, House, The Simpsons, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Friday Night Lights, TV classics, from Arrested Development and Firefly to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Miami Vice, Roswell and many more. The movie lineup includes full-length movies from The Usual Suspects, Ice Age, and Point Break to Some Like It Hot, In Her Shoes, and Me, Myself and Irene, as well as hundred of clips from classic movies such as Aliens, Die Hard, Little Miss Sunshine, Napoleon. The list keeps growing so choices will eventually be infinite. ...