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Alfresco's Latest ECM: Prying Open a Sector?
(May 17, 2008, 12:00 UTC) (327 reads)
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internetnews.com: "John Newton, the chairman and CTO at open source document management firm Alfresco, is no stranger to Enterprise Content Management..."
The Convenience of Proprietary Software (From a Purchasing Angle)
(May 17, 2008, 08:00 UTC) (677 reads)
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The Open Road: "One of the things that we open sourcerors need to figure out--or which the market needs to figure out--is the convenience of purchasing proprietary software..."
Please Welcome Digistan
(May 17, 2008, 04:00 UTC) (752 reads)
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ConsortiumInfo: "On Wednesday, I introduced The Hague Declaration to those that visit this blog, promising to write again shortly to introduce the new organization that created the Declaration..."
Ubuntu's Pipe Dream: True Free Software Syncronicity
(May 17, 2008, 00:00 UTC) (1410 reads)
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internetnews.com: "While I have a great deal of respect for Mr. Shuttleworth and what he has accomplished in his life, I don't think distribution syncronicity is something that will ever happen--nor should it..."
Nothing New Under the Sun. Or Red Hat, or FSF, or OSI, or...
(May 16, 2008, 22:30 UTC) (1230 reads)
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Editor's Note: "In this, I completely agree with Aslett: there's a lot of friction between the community and the vendors who are working with Linux and open source software. Where I diverge from his opinion is that this is anything new..."
Open-Source Security Idiots
(May 16, 2008, 21:00 UTC) (2453 reads)
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Practical Technology: "Sometimes, people do such stupid things that words almost fail me. That’s the case with a Debian 'improvement' to OpenSSL that rendered this network security program next to useless in Debian, Ubuntu and other related Linux distributions..."
Microsoft's Quiet War Against GNU/Linux on Motherboards
(May 16, 2008, 20:15 UTC) (3583 reads)
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Boycott Novell: "As rudimentary as Splashtop may be at the moment, this could be the start of something greater that will be extended and improved over time..."
Reflections on Open Source Commerce, Part 2
(May 16, 2008, 19:30 UTC) (536 reads)
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LinuxPlanet: "Author John Terpstra continues his look at the challenges facing the desktop and server markets, with a close examination of current market dynamics..."
Novell Readies Silverlight Clone for Linux
(May 16, 2008, 18:00 UTC) (1648 reads)
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internetnews.com: "A year after the introduction of Microsoft's Silverlight cross-platform, cross-browser media plug-in and streaming technology, Novell has released a Linux version for testing..."
A Tale of Four Kernels
(May 16, 2008, 17:15 UTC) (1973 reads)
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Spinellis: "We analyze the source code of the four systems by collecting metrics in the areas of file organization, code structure, code style, the use of the C preprocessor, and data organization..."
Gentoo Foundation Reinstated, Gentoo Council Goes Out with a Fizzle
(May 16, 2008, 16:30 UTC) (1286 reads)
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kloeri: "Some important things for Gentoo happened over the last few days. First of all we have a bit of good news as all the paperwork for the Gentoo Foundation was filed and approved a few days ago..."
openSUSE 11.0 Beta 3 Resolves Over 700 Bugs
(May 16, 2008, 15:00 UTC) (1707 reads)
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Softpedia: "The third and last beta version of openSUSE 11.0 was announced last night..."
Microsoft, OLPC Officially Team Up
(May 16, 2008, 13:30 UTC) (1506 reads)
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Beyond Binary: "The One Laptop Per Child project and Microsoft announced Thursday that indeed the XO laptop will be available in both Linux and Windows varieties..."
SECURITY: Debian SSH Key-Cracking Tools Released, Tips for Tightening
(May 16, 2008, 12:45 UTC) (2435 reads)
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Roundup: With the 18-month gap in OpenSSL publicly discovered, already tools built to exploit the not-so-random keys have surfaced. Computerworld details the threat, and Computerworld Australia gives tips on defending against this and other brute-force attacks.
Parallel Optimized Host Message Exchange Layered File System
(May 16, 2008, 12:00 UTC) (1101 reads)
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KernelTrap: "'I'm please to announce [the] POHMEL high performance network filesystem. POHMELFS stands for Parallel Optimized Host Message Exchange Layered File System,' began Evgeniy Polyakov..."
Become A System Rescue Guru With Linux, Part 1
(May 16, 2008, 10:30 UTC) (2199 reads)
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LinuxPlanet: "With a SystemRescueCD or USB stick you can perform heroic rescues on any Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Windows, and probably a number of lesser-known platforms as well..."
SECURITY: Strong Passwords No Panacea as SSH Brute-Force Attacks Rise
(May 16, 2008, 09:00 UTC) (2612 reads)
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Ars Technica: "Thanks to the end-of-term for many colleges and some K12 schools, brute-force attacks against SSH servers surged sharply this past weekend, according to the SANS Internet Storm Center..."
How to Add an Internationalized Keyboard to Your Web Site
(May 16, 2008, 07:30 UTC) (849 reads)
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Linux.com: "JavaScript VirtualKeyboard provides a virtual keyboard entirely written in JavaScript with more than 130 supported keyboard layouts allowing you to enter text in a variety of languages..."
Drupal and Amazon EC2 Quick Start
(May 16, 2008, 06:00 UTC) (1226 reads)
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Tag 1 Consulting: "With all the excitement surrounding cloud computing, and specifically Amazon's EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) Beta service, I decided it was time to give it a try myself..."
Linux From Scratch: A Recipe for System
(May 16, 2008, 04:30 UTC) (2268 reads)
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Polish Linux: "GoboLinux--fits on one CD, 'weighing' 640 megabytes and finally Linux From Scratch Distribution--one PDF file, with over 250 pages…"
Praise for the Humble gedit
(May 16, 2008, 03:00 UTC) (1749 reads)
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Linux Magazine: "I’ve been a fan of lightweight text editors for more than 10 years now. I started out on Emacs, drifted over to Vi(m) for a long stretch and then somehow settled into Textmate for the last couple of years..."
Linux and the Tax Office: Never the Twain Shall Meet
(May 16, 2008, 01:30 UTC) (2041 reads)
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"Why would a government body offer trial software for small and other businesses which use the GNU/Linux operating system, take it offline when the interest in it grows and keep quiet about it thereafter?
Google, IBM, Red Hat, Sun and the Digistan Connection
(May 16, 2008, 00:00 UTC) (1681 reads)
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Seeking Alpha: "Another anti-Microsoft front group has emerged in favor of 'free and open standards,' hyping what it calls the Hague Declaration and making some absurd connection to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights..."
Trouble in Paradise?
(May 15, 2008, 23:15 UTC) (1401 reads)
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451 CAOS Theory: "Maybe it’s a coincidence but this week has seen evidence of tension between commercial open source vendors and elements of the open source user community..."
Why Open Source Developers Can be More Productive, and Other Tales from a Google Open House
(May 15, 2008, 22:30 UTC) (1173 reads)
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ONLamp: "Yesterday Google celebrated the opening of a larger Cambridge, Massachusetts office, which takes up a substantial part of a building right next to the Kendall/MIT subway stop in the higher-than-high tech area of East Cambridge..."
Frequent Open Source Miles
(May 15, 2008, 21:45 UTC) (941 reads)
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ZDNet: "Matt Asay’s piece on 'open source free-riders' got my goat this morning because we’re on opposite sides of the market..."
Laura Thomson on Coding, the Workplace, and FOSS
(May 15, 2008, 21:00 UTC) (855 reads)
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Linux.com: "She is currently a senior software engineer at the Mozilla Corporation, where her recent work includes the API for the Add-ons Manager on Firefox 3..."
Discussing Free Software Syncronicity
(May 15, 2008, 20:15 UTC) (774 reads)
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here be dragons: "There’s been a flurry of discussion around the idea of syncronicity in free software projects..."
Should You Use Free Software at Work?
(May 15, 2008, 19:30 UTC) (3001 reads)
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Datamation: "'But it’s free!' I stood in the cube of an engineer on my team as he made his case about a free software tool that would supposedly solve a recurring problem we were having with our network..."
NPR Station WBUR Boston Adds Support for Free Audio Standard
(May 15, 2008, 18:00 UTC) (1115 reads)
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Free Software Foundation: "The Free Software Foundation has marked a milestone in their PlayOgg.org campaign with the announcement that National Public Radio news station WBUR Boston has begun worldwide webcasting in the free audio format Ogg Vorbis..."
Linux: Who Got it Right, Who Got It Very Wrong?
(May 15, 2008, 16:30 UTC) (3989 reads)
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ZDNet Australia: "Who predicted Linux servers would outnumber Windows servers by 2006? Who said one in five enterprise desktops would be Linux-based by 2008? We look back at the bad (and good) predictions made about Linux over the past decade..."
Linux Rides Pillion on Mumbai City Buses
(May 15, 2008, 15:45 UTC) (951 reads)
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Linux.com: "In the swarming Indian metropolis Mumbai, it can be a gymnastic exercise just to fish in your pocket on the packed city buses and stretch out your paying hand to the conductor..."
Red Hat Defends UK's Open Source Record
(May 15, 2008, 15:00 UTC) (966 reads)
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Open Sauce Software: "Is the UK really a laggard in open source? Red Hat denies there is any problem..."
Thunderbird 3 Fledges with First Alpha Release
(May 15, 2008, 14:15 UTC) (2443 reads)
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Ars Technica: "Mozilla Messaging announced today the first official alpha release of the next generation Thunderbird e-mail application..."
Flash Player 10: Dazzling Effects, Better Performance, Runs on Linux
(May 15, 2008, 13:30 UTC) (3884 reads)
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Wired: "Adobe has released a beta version of Flash Player 10, which promises better performance, improved text handling, custom photo effects filters and native 3D animations..."
Kubuntu KDE4 Remix: An Ubuntu User's View
(May 15, 2008, 12:00 UTC) (3343 reads)
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polimath: "Playing with KDE 4 is something I've wanted to do the past few months but avoided for fear of breaking things when I had too much going on to spend a full day getting them working again..."
Fedora 9--An OS That Even the Linux Challenged Can Love
(May 15, 2008, 10:30 UTC) (2437 reads)
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The Register: "Fedora is a community-driven distribution sponsored by Red Hat and, while Fedora may be best known as a popular server OS, most of the changes in Fedora 9 are aimed at making the system friendlier for desktop users..."
Asus Eee PC 900 is a Ripper Not a Rip-Off: Review
(May 15, 2008, 09:00 UTC) (3952 reads)
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The Beer Files: "You know how those stories start: I started writing this review on my loaner Eee PC 900 but...well this is not going to be one of those..."
The Perfect Server--Fedora 9
(May 15, 2008, 07:30 UTC) (2229 reads)
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HowtoForge: "This is a detailed description about how to set up a Fedora 9 server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters..."
Linux--Easier to Run by the Release
(May 15, 2008, 06:00 UTC) (2052 reads)
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451 CAOS Theory: "We've seen recently how fast Linux is moving and how many changes and updates are quickly and constantly being made..."
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