Chris Rivera announced a new utility on the lkml called 'slabtop', with output similar to the familiar 'top' command. Chris wrote the utility with Robert Love [interview]. The man page explains:

"slabtop(1) displays detailed kernel slab cache information in real time. It displays a listing of the top caches sorted by one of the listed sort criterias. It also displays a statistics header filled with slab layer information."

More information about the slab layer can be found on the slabinfo man page. For the full slabtop announcement, complete with some sample output and download directions, read on.

Several open source developers will be at Southern California Linux Expo 2003 touting open-source and providing technical presentations on their various projects. Names include Andrew Morton (Linux 2.6 maintainer), William Irwin (Linux Memory Management developer), Kevin Lawton (Bochs and Plex86) and many more.

Chris Lyttle has announced the release of GnuCash 1.8.5. The full changlog is below.

Benoit Gregoire recently posted an article to the GnuCash users mailing list, summarizing the current state of the GnuCash project. His paper is titled, "STATE OF THE GNUCASH PROJECT, A CALL FOR HELP", and begins:

"The GnuCash project is having a hard time. I think most everyone agrees that GnuCash is a critical piece of software for the Linux desktop. It's also one the largest free software projects. How big is it? GnuCash currently has 287,853 physical source lines of code (SLOC)."

Benoit continues on to with a little history of the project, then what needs to be done to ensure the project's survival. As a daily GnuCash user myself (currently managing my finances with version 1.8.4), I for one am quite interested in seeing this project not only survive, but to thrive. Read on for Benoit's full article.