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How Microsoft benefits from Conficker
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-06-30 21:53:31
An attack by the Conficker worm, that infects Windows systems, has cost the Manchester Council in England around £1.5 million - and Microsoft has benefitted too, according to a report in the Manchester Evening News.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-06-30 21:53:31
An attack by the Conficker worm, that infects Windows systems, has cost the Manchester Council in England around £1.5 million - and Microsoft has benefitted too, according to a report in the Manchester Evening News.
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Ubuntu says yes to Mono, SFLC says no
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-06-30 19:17:06
The Ubuntu technical board has announced that it sees no reason to consider a dependency on Mono as an issue when suggesting applications to be included in the default set included in the GNU/Linux distribution.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-06-30 19:17:06
The Ubuntu technical board has announced that it sees no reason to consider a dependency on Mono as an issue when suggesting applications to be included in the default set included in the GNU/Linux distribution.
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GNOME 3.0 may have more Mono apps
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-28 21:08:39
The next major version of the GNOME desktop environment, version 3.0, may contain more than the one Mono-dependent application than it currently does, according to GNOME Foundation member Dave Neary.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-28 21:08:39
The next major version of the GNOME desktop environment, version 3.0, may contain more than the one Mono-dependent application than it currently does, according to GNOME Foundation member Dave Neary.
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Ubuntu tech board plays down Mono IP concerns
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-26 19:25:14
The Ubuntu technical board appears to have decided that there is no significant cause for IP concern over Mono, the contentious clone of Microsoft's .NET development environment.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-26 19:25:14
The Ubuntu technical board appears to have decided that there is no significant cause for IP concern over Mono, the contentious clone of Microsoft's .NET development environment.
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Microsoft and FOSS: uneasy bedfellows
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-24 20:27:52
Maybe it's the cynic within that makes me think this way - but at the end of an event titled “Microsoft”.“Open Source” == “unhandled exceptions.” I was left wondering: Is this all an elaborate set-up?
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-24 20:27:52
Maybe it's the cynic within that makes me think this way - but at the end of an event titled “Microsoft”.“Open Source” == “unhandled exceptions.” I was left wondering: Is this all an elaborate set-up?
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Ubuntu may increase Mono-dependent apps
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-24 18:34:43
The next release of the popular Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution may include a third Mono-dependent application by default, a spokesman for Canonical, the parent company for Ubuntu, told iTWire today.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-24 18:34:43
The next release of the popular Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution may include a third Mono-dependent application by default, a spokesman for Canonical, the parent company for Ubuntu, told iTWire today.
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Enter ext4, the filesystem of the future
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-23 18:47:48
The ext4 filesystem has been around for a while as experimental code in GNU/Linux distributions. Recently one distribution decided to make it the default for an install.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-23 18:47:48
The ext4 filesystem has been around for a while as experimental code in GNU/Linux distributions. Recently one distribution decided to make it the default for an install.
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Puppet's parent wins fresh funding
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-23 18:13:05
Reductive Labs, the company behind Puppet, the open source configuration management system, has won funding to the tune of $US2 million, the company announced today.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-23 18:13:05
Reductive Labs, the company behind Puppet, the open source configuration management system, has won funding to the tune of $US2 million, the company announced today.
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Software patents loom in NZ
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-22 18:25:42
New Zealand is moving towards allowing unlimited software patents in the country. The first reading of the bill, which is now at the select committee stage, resulted in 107 votes for and only 14 against.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-22 18:25:42
New Zealand is moving towards allowing unlimited software patents in the country. The first reading of the bill, which is now at the select committee stage, resulted in 107 votes for and only 14 against.
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Mono: Shielding the facts
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-21 13:13:29
Should FOSS users be concerned about the software they use, in case it opens them up to copyright, trademark or patent claims? Or should such concerns be left exclusively to developers?
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-21 13:13:29
Should FOSS users be concerned about the software they use, in case it opens them up to copyright, trademark or patent claims? Or should such concerns be left exclusively to developers?
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Join Optus and receive bills for life
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-18 21:10:59
Optus has a nice, new offer: join up and receive bills for life, even if you don't need to pay them.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-18 21:10:59
Optus has a nice, new offer: join up and receive bills for life, even if you don't need to pay them.
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Iran: is the 'H' word at play here?
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-06-17 21:00:28
At iTWire, we never venture into politics - except when it touches on technology or science. And even then, we rarely get into hardcore politics.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-06-17 21:00:28
At iTWire, we never venture into politics - except when it touches on technology or science. And even then, we rarely get into hardcore politics.
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MS Money or Quicken, it's all the same
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-06-17 19:31:11
What's the benefit of casting off one proprietary embrace for another? That would seem to be the question one should ask in view of the offer from Intuit to discount its Quicken money management software for those who plan to move from Microsoft Money.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-06-17 19:31:11
What's the benefit of casting off one proprietary embrace for another? That would seem to be the question one should ask in view of the offer from Intuit to discount its Quicken money management software for those who plan to move from Microsoft Money.
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Debian may include Mono in default install
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-06-15 21:45:10
The Debian GNU/Linux distribution may include Mono in its default install, with the project leader Steve McIntyre telling iTWire today that "there's a chance that it might do, but it's under discussion at the moment."
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-06-15 21:45:10
The Debian GNU/Linux distribution may include Mono in its default install, with the project leader Steve McIntyre telling iTWire today that "there's a chance that it might do, but it's under discussion at the moment."
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Open source takes no hostages
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-06-11 20:36:23
Have you ever had the experience of creating and storing data in a certain application, only to find that your dependency on a proprietary format means that you have lost all your data?
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-06-11 20:36:23
Have you ever had the experience of creating and storing data in a certain application, only to find that your dependency on a proprietary format means that you have lost all your data?
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OpenSolaris: how long will it be with us?
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-06-09 00:19:15
OpenSolaris came out with its third release last week and within a year there seems to have been some pretty good progress.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-06-09 00:19:15
OpenSolaris came out with its third release last week and within a year there seems to have been some pretty good progress.
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Will Google be beached by the Wave?
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-06-04 21:10:43
In its short existence, everything that Google has done, business-wise, has been marked by one trait: simplicity.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-06-04 21:10:43
In its short existence, everything that Google has done, business-wise, has been marked by one trait: simplicity.
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Fedora casts Mono into outer darkness
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-06-03 19:27:22
Red Hat's community GNU/Linux distribution, Fedora, has decided to replace the Mono-dependent note-taking application Tomboy with Gnote in upcoming releases, according to a message posted to the Fedora Desktop mailing list.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-06-03 19:27:22
Red Hat's community GNU/Linux distribution, Fedora, has decided to replace the Mono-dependent note-taking application Tomboy with Gnote in upcoming releases, according to a message posted to the Fedora Desktop mailing list.
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What is linux.com trying to achieve?
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-06-02 22:50:14
What exactly does the Linux Foundation hope to achieve by running a parallel site, linux.com? Is it a bid to shape the debate around GNU/Linux, something which companies are increasingly trying to do for their own products?
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-06-02 22:50:14
What exactly does the Linux Foundation hope to achieve by running a parallel site, linux.com? Is it a bid to shape the debate around GNU/Linux, something which companies are increasingly trying to do for their own products?
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Even OpenSUSE recognises drawbacks of Mono
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-06-02 20:17:34
Mention Mono in a story and you are certain to draw two kinds of readers - the followers, those who have drunk the kool-aid ladled out by Novell vice-president Miguel de Icaza, and the detractors, who realise that it could cause them patent headaches a few years hence.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-06-02 20:17:34
Mention Mono in a story and you are certain to draw two kinds of readers - the followers, those who have drunk the kool-aid ladled out by Novell vice-president Miguel de Icaza, and the detractors, who realise that it could cause them patent headaches a few years hence.
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