items tagged with Open Source
Two in race for Debian project leader
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-11 19:26:02
It's that time of the year again - the Debian GNU/Linux project is in election mode with the process for electing a leader for 2009-10 having begun.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-11 19:26:02
It's that time of the year again - the Debian GNU/Linux project is in election mode with the process for electing a leader for 2009-10 having begun.
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Kernel Conference Australia 2009 call for papers
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Information technology news
Category: Open Source
2009-03-11 17:31:12
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: Information technology news
Category: Open Source
2009-03-11 17:31:12
Sun Microsystems and the University of Queensland have joined forces to produce the first ever Kernel Conference Australia in July this year. Speakers include luminaries from Sun, Intel, BSD and Apple.
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Linux s'il vous plaît: French Gendarmerie say oui to Ubuntu
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-03-11 08:30:09
The Gendarmerie Nationale – France’s national police force – has been slowly introducing open source software to its 105,000+ policemen since 2005. In 2008 the decision was made to use only Ubuntu for all new workstations. A year on shows this has been a great success with happy users, a better network and cost savings of over seven million euro per year.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-03-11 08:30:09
The Gendarmerie Nationale – France’s national police force – has been slowly introducing open source software to its 105,000+ policemen since 2005. In 2008 the decision was made to use only Ubuntu for all new workstations. A year on shows this has been a great success with happy users, a better network and cost savings of over seven million euro per year.
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Ubuntu 9.10 sees the cloud above the trees
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-03-09 19:16:34
Next month Ubuntu 9.04, Jaunty Jackalope, hits an FTP or torrent site near you. With its feature set pretty much frozen the masterminds at Canonical are looking to the future with Ubuntu 9.10 – Karmic Koala, I kid you not – being touted as cloud-centric.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-03-09 19:16:34
Next month Ubuntu 9.04, Jaunty Jackalope, hits an FTP or torrent site near you. With its feature set pretty much frozen the masterminds at Canonical are looking to the future with Ubuntu 9.10 – Karmic Koala, I kid you not – being touted as cloud-centric.
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Linux saves the day: why every good toolkit should have Linux
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-03-08 20:45:38
No matter if you're exclusively a Windows shop, every good IT technician needs Linux in their toolkit. A bootable Linux CD has saved my bacon more than once.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-03-08 20:45:38
No matter if you're exclusively a Windows shop, every good IT technician needs Linux in their toolkit. A bootable Linux CD has saved my bacon more than once.
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Become a Linux command line black-belt
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-03-07 20:59:17
!whatever:p, sudo !!, ^foo^bar ... if they whet your appetite and set your pulse racing do I have a web site for you! It’s the Digg or Reddit of the Linux command-line world.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-03-07 20:59:17
!whatever:p, sudo !!, ^foo^bar ... if they whet your appetite and set your pulse racing do I have a web site for you! It’s the Digg or Reddit of the Linux command-line world.
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Become a Linux command line black-belt
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-03-07 20:59:15
!whatever:p, sudo !!, ^foo^bar ... if they whet your appetite and set your pulse racing do I have a web site for you! It’s the Digg or Reddit of the Linux command-line world.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-03-07 20:59:15
!whatever:p, sudo !!, ^foo^bar ... if they whet your appetite and set your pulse racing do I have a web site for you! It’s the Digg or Reddit of the Linux command-line world.
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Firefox fixes remotely exploitable flaws
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Open Source
2009-03-05 15:46:33
Firefox 3.0.7, a new version of the leading open source browser, combines security and bug fixes with support for additional languages.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Open Source
2009-03-05 15:46:33
Firefox 3.0.7, a new version of the leading open source browser, combines security and bug fixes with support for additional languages.
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Governments and open source: never the twain shall meet
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-02 17:46:27
It's interesting to see the reaction from various corners of the FOSS community when any government announces a policy that is seen as friendly to open source and one which could, possibly, help to spread its use.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-02 17:46:27
It's interesting to see the reaction from various corners of the FOSS community when any government announces a policy that is seen as friendly to open source and one which could, possibly, help to spread its use.
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Linux ISVs gain tool to uncover lost license revenue
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-02-27 23:31:18
Software piracy is a big deal. Maybe, you can reason, Microsoft and Adobe and the like can suck it up because they still make huge profits. Yet, for small independent software vendors each unpaid, unlicensed installation could be taking food from their mouth. CodeArmor is a tool to help developers, and is now available for Linux.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-02-27 23:31:18
Software piracy is a big deal. Maybe, you can reason, Microsoft and Adobe and the like can suck it up because they still make huge profits. Yet, for small independent software vendors each unpaid, unlicensed installation could be taking food from their mouth. CodeArmor is a tool to help developers, and is now available for Linux.
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MySQL forks: Monty splits from Sun
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-25 07:38:11
Sometimes open source projects "fork." Disagreements over direction cause a splinter group to hive off and maintain their own separate code base. This is going to happen with well-known heavyweight FOSS staple, MySQL, after the original author quit Sun Microsystems earlier this month.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-25 07:38:11
Sometimes open source projects "fork." Disagreements over direction cause a splinter group to hive off and maintain their own separate code base. This is going to happen with well-known heavyweight FOSS staple, MySQL, after the original author quit Sun Microsystems earlier this month.
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Debian project gets a new secretary
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-02-23 20:21:34
The Debian GNU/Linux Project which was functioning without a permanent secretary for some time has finally got a man for the job.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-02-23 20:21:34
The Debian GNU/Linux Project which was functioning without a permanent secretary for some time has finally got a man for the job.
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Knoppix: live CD par excellence
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-02-19 20:08:20
While the bigger and better-known Linux distributions tend to get more than their fair share of publicity, there are other bright stars that light up the FOSS firmament and rarely get a mention.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-02-19 20:08:20
While the bigger and better-known Linux distributions tend to get more than their fair share of publicity, there are other bright stars that light up the FOSS firmament and rarely get a mention.
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Red Hat deal a kick in the guts for Novell
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-02-16 16:13:44
The good people over at Novell must be wondering what to do next after Red Hat and Microsoft inked a deal on server virtualisation interoperability yesterday.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-02-16 16:13:44
The good people over at Novell must be wondering what to do next after Red Hat and Microsoft inked a deal on server virtualisation interoperability yesterday.
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Linux celebrates its 1234567890'th breath
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-02-12 23:35:14
How do you measure time on a computer? If you're using a UNIX-like operating system, such as Linux, AIX, Solaris and others, time is counted as the number of seconds since an event known as "the epoch." It just so happens February 13th 2009, is the day that 1234567890 seconds tick over.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-02-12 23:35:14
How do you measure time on a computer? If you're using a UNIX-like operating system, such as Linux, AIX, Solaris and others, time is counted as the number of seconds since an event known as "the epoch." It just so happens February 13th 2009, is the day that 1234567890 seconds tick over.
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A touch of sadness as Lenny emerges
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-02-12 10:23:29
The release of a stable version of Debian GNU/Linux is normally a time of rejoicing and celebration for the 1000-plus geeks who provide Linux users with one of the best distributions going.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-02-12 10:23:29
The release of a stable version of Debian GNU/Linux is normally a time of rejoicing and celebration for the 1000-plus geeks who provide Linux users with one of the best distributions going.
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Open source and open standards: the new economics of IT
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-11 22:36:01
Is open source part of the answer to the financial crisis? Ingres thinks so.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-11 22:36:01
Is open source part of the answer to the financial crisis? Ingres thinks so.
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Free software isn't freeware: why Linux and FOSS have a higher standard
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-02-08 06:48:25
Microsoft's recent survey proclaimed nearly half the population believe it is ok to use pirated software for personal use. This diminishes the argument by Linux advocates that you can use their operating system without any cost. Yet, you can't confuse free as in cost with free as in freedom. Here's what FOSS really means.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-02-08 06:48:25
Microsoft's recent survey proclaimed nearly half the population believe it is ok to use pirated software for personal use. This diminishes the argument by Linux advocates that you can use their operating system without any cost. Yet, you can't confuse free as in cost with free as in freedom. Here's what FOSS really means.
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Why Debian release schedules don't matter
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-02-05 18:52:37
We all love it when things run on time. There are certain things which need to happen when the clock strikes the hour - buses and trains need to arrive, a cron job on your server needs to spark some script or the other to life, your kids need to be at school.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-02-05 18:52:37
We all love it when things run on time. There are certain things which need to happen when the clock strikes the hour - buses and trains need to arrive, a cron job on your server needs to spark some script or the other to life, your kids need to be at school.
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Dell select Linux to keep enterprise IT costs down
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-04 07:33:38
This week Novell announced they've signed a deal that will see Dell using SUSE Linux Enterprise on their new OptiPlex FX160 thin clients. This move means corporate IT departments will be able to simplify IT at a lower cost than ever before.
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Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-04 07:33:38
This week Novell announced they've signed a deal that will see Dell using SUSE Linux Enterprise on their new OptiPlex FX160 thin clients. This move means corporate IT departments will be able to simplify IT at a lower cost than ever before.
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