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Ars Technica: "The open-source WebKit HTML rendering engine is rapidly gaining ground on the Linux platform where it is increasingly being adopted by conventional desktop applications for content display "


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Worker's Edge: "Here are three Ubuntu tweaks that speed up the start of my workday "


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451 CAOS Theory: "We have been hearing rumblings about the server operating system and its role being disrupted by virtualization as companies such as VMware push hypervisor and virtualization management software beyond the OS directly to the server "


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internetnews.com: "In my opinion we can now add the founder of the open source content management system Drupal (and its commercial startup Acquia) Dries Buytaert to the rock star list "


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InformationWeek: "When Cisco and Juniper first said they were opening their router OSs, I thought that they'd be about as open as the iPhone. With Cisco's launch of IOS XE, I realize I was wrong: The iPhone is much more open "


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Managing L'unix: " [T]he realities of both mass production and retail distribution mean that fully assembled products always retail for less than the sum of their parts--except among Wintel enthusiasts "


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CIO: "When I read the database report from Evans Data that I wrote about yesterday, I noticed that the open-source databases--MySQL and PostgreSQL--fared rather poorly "


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The Open Road: "Recent research suggests that much of the core development work on open-source projects is done by paid developers. Is this a bad thing ?"


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Datamation: "However, as soon as you become involved with the community that centers around such code, you quickly find that it is also called free software--and that the two terms are far from synonymous "


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Tech Source from Bohol: "Increasing number of software applications are going the free/open-source way these days "


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Computerworld: "Carefully choosing between community-supported and enterprise versions is key, they say "


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internetnews.com: "Effort to win hearts and minds in open source community heats up with latest release "


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LinuxWorld: " [B]ut questions during the press conference at Cebit in Hanover, Germany, focused more on Microsoft's recent, high-profile pledge to improve interoperability and shore up its relationship with the open source community "


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internetnews.com: "The hires could be a sign that the Linux vendor is gearing up for intellectual-property challenges ahead "


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Groklaw: "The BRM was not intended to be a public event but followed the orderly and inclusive process of ISO and IEC. With the BRM review completed, it is now up to national bodies to determine whether approval of ISO/IEC DIS 29500 is warranted "


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LKML: "It's a few days late, but I was waiting for some updates for some of the most annoying regressions until releasing it, so the end result is hopefully more useful as a result "


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Battle Creek Enquirer: "Athens Area Schools is spreading its wisdom on the use of open source computer technology to educators around the state "


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LinuxInsider: "To long-time promoters of mobile Linux, Google's announcement of Android marked a critical market inflection point "


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Register Hardware: "Khanna now owns a total of 16 PS3 consoles, all linked together to provide the same computing power as a 400-node [Linux] supercomputer "


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ComputerWorld Australia: "Project founder on making self-replication technology affordable through open source hardware and software "


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Argentina Discovery: "The trend to Open Source in South America seems to be stronger than it is anywhere else. Almost all governments there seem to be setting an Open Source agenda "


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Groklaw: "They were there. And they contradict the stories being put out by those in charge and by Microsoft "


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LinuxWorld: "Drivers tend to be a world unto themselves, with bugs only affecting a subset--often a tiny subset--of kernel users "


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GNOME.org: "The GNOME Foundation and the Mozilla Foundation announced today that they will increase their collaboration to improve developer support and user experience of desktop applications on GNU/Linux and other free software systems "


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451 CAOS Theory: "As Dhiren Patel, community relations manager writes: 'This in-memory technology, and not Solid's open source offering, was the key driver behind IBM's acquisition '"


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SearchEnterpriseLinux: "Are you curious about Samba 4, the ambitious new version of the open source program that provides an interface between Linux and Unix print and file servers and Microsoft Windows clients ?"


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LinuxDevices: "A Seattle-based nonprofit organization called Literacy Bridge hopes to create a low-cost audio player for the developing world "


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Computerworld UK: "Since this study we have seen the emergence of the new breed of ultra-portable Linux-based computers aimed squarely at the education sector and the inexorable build of Web 2 services such as Google Apps "


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Linux.com: "Paylocity provides payroll and human resources outsourcing services for companies that don't want the burden of performing those functions in house "


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Linux Journal: "This week we'll look at what's been going on recently with LinuxSampler, a very cool software audio sampler "


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Raiden's Realm: "I had always avoided Slackware because of its reputation for being very difficult to install and configure. I am not a computer professional, so possess the knowledge of a typical user. I just want things to work "


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Linux.com: "Slax, a Slackware-based modular Linux distribution, released version 6.0 last month. This release brings a new tar install format along with a new donation request, but also includes some noticeable bugs "


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Phoronix: "Workstation GPUs are not our main focus at Phoronix, but with the increasing use of Linux on workstation systems, we will be starting to look at professional graphics products this month and likely more of them in the future "


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Linux+ Magazine: "In this article I share some of the basics of setting up a Linux firewall using the iptables tool. It's important to note that configuring firewalls is slightly different depending on which flavour you use "



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An anonymous reader writes "It looks like SCO will be emerging from the almost dead soon, with new owners and $100 million on board. SNCP is adjusting the business strategy, according to this report on TG Daily, SCO is saying goodbye to CEO Darl McBride and is also preparing to appeal the summary judgments in the cases against Novell and IBM. If you have thought the chapter was closed, think again. Those $100 million can go a long way (even if SCO has to pay 17% interest on it)."Read more of this story at Slashdot.


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eldavojohn writes "On message boards, Linus Torvalds was explaining why NDISWrapper is not eligible to be released under the GPL even though the project claims to be. Linus remarked, "Ndiswrapper itself is *not* compatible with the GPL. Trying to claim that ndiswrapper somehow itself is GPL'd even though it then loads modules that aren't is stupid and pointless. Clearly it just re-exports those GPLONLY functions to code that is *not* GPL'd." This all sprung up with someone restricted NDISWrapper's access to GPL-only symbols thereby breaking the utility. Linus merely replied that "If it loads non-GPL modules, it shouldn't be able to use GPLONLY symbols." As you may know, NDISWrapper implements Windows kernel API and then loads Windows binaries for a number of devices and runs them natively to avoid the cost and complication of emulation."Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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I’ve always been a big proponent of virtualization for many reasons, one of the most powerful of which is that it is making the underlying platform less and less important. For years, there has been the struggle for the “desktop” by Windows


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Some people may be familiar with my writing/blogging about Windows Mobile, Mac applications, or Freeware and Free & Open Source Software for Windows & Macs. Microsoft gave me a unique way to discuss why I'm so interested in getting Open Source


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The last time I installed PHP on Windows for serious testing (with Windows that is) was probably in 2002. It was a really painful process that involved (if I recall correctly) manually copying ISAPI DLLs and other obscure (to me) files to



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Source: developerWorks : Linux : Technical library

As the Xen open source hypervisor gains traction in many enterprises for
production deployment, you may need to provide fully redundant storage to the Xen
environment from the host adapter all the way down to the hard drives. In this
article, learn how to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 to set up Xen and multipath
storage access to the IBM System Storage DS4800.


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In this tutorial, Sean Walberg helps you prepare to take the Linux
Professional Institute Senior Level Linux Professional (LPIC-3) exam. In this third
in a series of six tutorials, Sean walks you through configuring a Lightweight
Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server, including access control, security, and
performance. By the end of this tutorial, you'll know about LDAP server
configuration.



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