iWeb Communities: Blog

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published daily at 8.00am EST. For Jan 26th, here are the highlights:

• Suse Studio is a new application that lets Suse Server users to get a fine-tuned server appliance, with just the right components, and customized to their precise needs. The result is a VMWare image, or can be put on a DVD, or a USB Key. Suse Studio is interesting because it’s the first time a Linux distribution offers “mass customization”
• AMD has launched 2 new families of Opteron server chips. The HE series are meant for low-power servers, with an optimized energy efficiency (55W), while the SE series are for high-end performant servers (105W). The HE runs at 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 GHz while the SE runs at 2.8Ghz. 
• The Zune is an unpopular music player, with reported sales half than last year’s. Read more about Zune DeathWatch
• Windows 7: Not so good for enterprise