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Debian and Ubuntu: uneasy coexistence continues
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-08-03 20:36:46
In September 2006, an article titled "Debian and Ubuntu: uneasy coexistence" appeared in these columns, outlining why these two projects were not exactly the best of bedfellows.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-08-03 20:36:46
In September 2006, an article titled "Debian and Ubuntu: uneasy coexistence" appeared in these columns, outlining why these two projects were not exactly the best of bedfellows.
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Defective iPod? Apple will pay - if you keep your big mouth shut
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-08-03 13:49:18
All you iPod users out there - what happens if that little slick gadget of yours turns out to be defective, explodes and you ask Apple for your money back?
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-08-03 13:49:18
All you iPod users out there - what happens if that little slick gadget of yours turns out to be defective, explodes and you ask Apple for your money back?
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CentOS head reappears, project back on track
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-08-02 21:25:44
The leader of the CentOS GNU/Linux project, Lance Davis, who had gone missing for a while and caused other developers on the team some angst, has reappeared and held a meeting with them, according to a notice on the project website.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-08-02 21:25:44
The leader of the CentOS GNU/Linux project, Lance Davis, who had gone missing for a while and caused other developers on the team some angst, has reappeared and held a meeting with them, according to a notice on the project website.
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Head of CentOS project goes missing
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-07-30 21:20:36
The head of the CentOS GNU/Linux project has gone missing and other contributors to the project are sufficiently concerned to post an open letter to him on the project's website.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-07-30 21:20:36
The head of the CentOS GNU/Linux project has gone missing and other contributors to the project are sufficiently concerned to post an open letter to him on the project's website.
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Next Debian release will not follow time-based freeze
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-07-30 20:21:06
The Debian GNU/Linux Project has announced that it will not be following a time-based system for freezes for its next release, Squeeze.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-07-30 20:21:06
The Debian GNU/Linux Project has announced that it will not be following a time-based system for freezes for its next release, Squeeze.
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Debian to adopt time-based releases
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-28 20:52:53
The Debian GNU/Linux Project has decided to adopt time-based development freezes from now on, on a two-year cycle.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-28 20:52:53
The Debian GNU/Linux Project has decided to adopt time-based development freezes from now on, on a two-year cycle.
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OLPC: the more we know, the more we marvel
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-27 20:33:55
The One Laptop per Child project is a forgotten entity these days - and rightly so. From being a high-profile unit it has degenerated into a curiosity.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-27 20:33:55
The One Laptop per Child project is a forgotten entity these days - and rightly so. From being a high-profile unit it has degenerated into a curiosity.
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Microsoft Linux code originally violated GPL
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-23 12:58:48
The driver code that Microsoft contributed to the Linux kernel this week was originally in violation of the GPL, a post by Stephen Hemminger, an engineer with open source vendor Vyatta, says.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-23 12:58:48
The driver code that Microsoft contributed to the Linux kernel this week was originally in violation of the GPL, a post by Stephen Hemminger, an engineer with open source vendor Vyatta, says.
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Red Hat welcomes Microsoft code contribution
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-22 19:57:45
Microsoft's code contribution to Linux has been welcomed by the biggest Linux vendor, Red Hat - with a few digs here and there.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-22 19:57:45
Microsoft's code contribution to Linux has been welcomed by the biggest Linux vendor, Red Hat - with a few digs here and there.
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Canonical releases Launchpad source code
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-22 00:06:23
Two years ago, Mark Shuttleworth, the head of Canonical, told iTWire that the company was on track to free up the source code for Launchpad, a system that serves as a single repository for revision control.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-22 00:06:23
Two years ago, Mark Shuttleworth, the head of Canonical, told iTWire that the company was on track to free up the source code for Launchpad, a system that serves as a single repository for revision control.
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Microsoft code cannot taint Linux
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-20 23:18:42
Exactly why people would want to run a stable system like Linux on top of an unstable one like Windows - any version - isn't clear to me.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-20 23:18:42
Exactly why people would want to run a stable system like Linux on top of an unstable one like Windows - any version - isn't clear to me.
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Why are people attacking RMS?
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-20 21:04:32
When the two main desktop projects catering to free and open source software - KDE and GNOME - held their annual desktop summit at the same place for the first time, they probably expected nothing but messages of peace and harmony to emanate.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-20 21:04:32
When the two main desktop projects catering to free and open source software - KDE and GNOME - held their annual desktop summit at the same place for the first time, they probably expected nothing but messages of peace and harmony to emanate.
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FSF says Microsoft Mono move full of loopholes
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-17 11:47:26
The Free Software Foundation has described Microsoft's extension of its community promise to the two ECMA standards 334 and 335 as being "full of loopholes and nowhere near enough to make (the use of) C# safe."
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-17 11:47:26
The Free Software Foundation has described Microsoft's extension of its community promise to the two ECMA standards 334 and 335 as being "full of loopholes and nowhere near enough to make (the use of) C# safe."
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Mono: Why is Debian resorting to spin?
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-14 21:36:27
Gone are the days when the Debian GNU/Linux Project had a spokesman whose utterances could be taken at face value.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-14 21:36:27
Gone are the days when the Debian GNU/Linux Project had a spokesman whose utterances could be taken at face value.
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Microsoft Mono move means exactly nothing
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-12 20:21:02
When Britain was the superpower of the world, there was one tactic which its officials used, with great success, to manage its colonies - divide and rule.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-12 20:21:02
When Britain was the superpower of the world, there was one tactic which its officials used, with great success, to manage its colonies - divide and rule.
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Chrome OS: Nice curveball from left field, Google
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-10 18:09:42
In times like these, when most of the world thinks of its pocketbook before shelling out even loose change, is it logical for a highly successful company to announce that it will be moving in a direction it has never gone before?
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-10 18:09:42
In times like these, when most of the world thinks of its pocketbook before shelling out even loose change, is it logical for a highly successful company to announce that it will be moving in a direction it has never gone before?
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OpenSSH developer plays down exploit rumours
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-08 22:01:47
Melbourne-based OpenSSH developer Damien Miller has played down rumours of a zero-day exploit in the popular application, saying he had no evidence from the alleged owner of a hacked server to justify the claims floating around the net.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-08 22:01:47
Melbourne-based OpenSSH developer Damien Miller has played down rumours of a zero-day exploit in the popular application, saying he had no evidence from the alleged owner of a hacked server to justify the claims floating around the net.
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Mono: Microsoft community promise inadequate, says RMS
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-08 19:39:30
Microsoft's bid to dispel the patent fears surrounding the open source .NET clone, Mono, has met with little enthusiasm from free software advocates.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-08 19:39:30
Microsoft's bid to dispel the patent fears surrounding the open source .NET clone, Mono, has met with little enthusiasm from free software advocates.
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Microsoft appears to clarify Mono licensing
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-06 22:07:11
Microsoft has decided to allow developers to use C# and the common language infrastructure, both of which are part of its .NET development environment, under the terms of its community promise, according to a statement from Peter Galli of Microsoft.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-07-06 22:07:11
Microsoft has decided to allow developers to use C# and the common language infrastructure, both of which are part of its .NET development environment, under the terms of its community promise, according to a statement from Peter Galli of Microsoft.
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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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