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IBM Frees Web Services Patents
1 hour, 44 minutes ago
IBM says it is foreswearing enforcement of a bunch of patents it holds that might be necessary to implement upwards of 150 standards designed to make software interoperate.
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The top 10 products of the past 40 years
5 hours, 10 minutes ago
• Linux: And if Salesforce.com is “rent”, Linux is “get it free”. More important, since first appearing in 1991, Linux has shown that major pieces of IT infrastructure can be developed by large groups of loosely organised programmers.
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XenSource's XenEnterprise Is A Virtualization Bargain
9 hours, 10 minutes ago
(Press release) Virtualization will inevitably shrink the bite hardware takes out of our capital budgets. But VMware has somewhat dampened IT's enthusiasm by charging $3,000 per socket for its enterprise-class VMware ESX. Doesn't, say, $750 per perpetual dual-socket license sound a lot better?
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Yoggie Pico: Security on a Stick
11 hours, 10 minutes ago
Yoggie Pico, from Israeli-based Yoggie Security Systems, isn't the first USB thumb drive with antivirus protection. But Yoggie Pico takes the concept to whole new heights - a USB Linux-based thumb-sized appliance that intercepts all Internet traffic and checks it for malware and security violations before allowing it through to the PC. The Linux OS means it won't be susceptible to Windows-targeting malware that typically shuts down PC-installed protection, thus giving the (top-rated Kaspersky) antivirus on the device a better chance to protect. And each time Yoggie Pico is rebooted, it installs a fresh copy of its Linux OS from a non-writeable partition on the device, further hardening the defense. In addition to antivirus, Yoggie Pico also provides a firewall, spam and phishing filter, anti-spyware scanner and other assorted protection.
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GNOME 2.19.5 Desktop Screenshots
1 day ago
Thanks to the power of GARNOME, this afternoon we decided to take a look at GNOME 2.19.5, which was released this past Wednesday. GNOME 2.19.5 is the fifth development release in the road to GNOME 2.20, which will arrive this September. Among the bits of the GNOME desktop with new features in this release include Eye of GNOME, Evince, Evolution, GDM, gedit, and many other packages.
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OLPC official challenges Michael Dell
1 day, 2 hours ago
Walter Bender, the One Laptop Per Child program's director of software, told DesktopLinux.com on July 13 that he invites Dell Computer founder and CEO Michael Dell to help figure out how to better use 125 million computers that are discarded annually because they are archaic.
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Oracle 11g for Linux to Debut in August
1 day, 4 hours ago
While Oracle Corp. has unveiled Oracle 11g and provided a look at its new features, pricing and availability information was pretty thin on the ground. All the vendor would confirm is that the Linux version of 11g will ship this quarter, probably in August.
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Microsoft Resists the GPL
1 day, 6 hours ago
The rewritten GPL 3 license, modified to gut Microsoft's patent claims on open source, has been released and Microsoft's reaction has been to issue a statement saying it's not a party to it, has no legal obligations under it, and that the Free Software Foundation is on shaky legal grounds in claiming that distributing certificates for Novell SUSE support services puts it under the GPL's thumb.
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Will Sun Rise on a Linux-ized OpenSolaris?
1 day, 8 hours ago
"The traditional Solaris on SPARC 'über-alles' kind of attitude started wearing thin several years ago, and the company's embrace of x86 and a less traditional approach to microprocessor development reflects the recognition that the company needs to move into new areas," Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT, told LinuxInsider.
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Freecom’s MusicPal Wi-Fi Radio with MP3 and RSS Introduced
1 day, 10 hours ago
The latest player has the capability of playing MP3 and WAV tracks directly from a PC. It works on Linux 2.6 kernel operating system. The device also supports home stereo for good sound. More than five thousand radio channels can be played via internet radio.
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Intel joins One Laptop Per Child nonprofit
1 day, 12 hours ago
Intel Corp. said Friday it will work with the nonprofit group One Laptop Per Child to "explore collaborations involving technology and educational content," and will join the organization's board.
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Im In Your Leenucks Box Changing Your Password
1 day, 21 hours ago
So I'm having a conversation on the phone with Scrap this morning and he relayed this little story from his adventures as a professor of information security studies at a local school.
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Intel GMA950 & xf86-video-intel 2.1.0
2 days, 3 hours ago
It was earlier this month that version 2.1.0 of the xf86-video-intel driver was released, which among other things had introduced open-source Linux graphics support for the G33, Q33, and Q35 chipsets as well as fixing a horde of bugs and adding PCI IDs for the 945GME, 965GME, and 965GLE chips. As our last Intel graphics performance article was looking at the Q965 back in May, in this article we have enclosed some benchmarks from Intel's GMA 950 IGP using the new xf86-video-intel 2.1.0 driver.
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coLinux - Cooperative Linux Short Review
2 days, 4 hours ago
Since I discovered Linux I also started to have this dilemma which OS, Linux or Windows I should use to do everyday works. On Windows I had a lot of important apps that I couldn’t find linux counterparts to – starting from Outlook for PocketPC synchronization, through Visual Studio for programming needs, to some games. On Linux, from the other hand, I have had excellent audio player Amarok, great scripting support (Python, Ruby) and easy server setup for web testing needs.
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Intel and OLPC kiss and make up
2 days, 5 hours ago
There's nothing like allegations of predatory conduct to bring two organizations together.
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Mind-blasting Japanese language learning tools
Knowledge of a secondary language has long been a coveted skill, whether it be for academics, business, or travel, but learning another language can be a challenging task. While many Western languages at least offer a level of familiarity by sharing the Roman alphabet, Japanese and other Eastern languages offer no such comfort. Here are three applications that can help you overcome some learning roadblocks.
Easy TV Data promises TV listings for Myth TV users
A group of developers from free software digital video recorder (DVR) related projects announced the first step towards a solution for obtaining free television listing information this week. The search for such a free guide data source has been on since June, when Zap2it Labs announced it would shut down its free, XML-based service as of September 1.
Lock in productivity with Lockout utility
You can stop computer-based slacking -- like the compulsive reloading of Digg or Reddit at the expense of productivity -- with a few changes to your computer's DNS profile, and enforce the changes using Lockout, a tool designed to enforce discipline and increase productivity.
Where are your site visitors? GeoIP knows
If you maintain a portal, ecommerce site, or heavily trafficked Web site, you might appreciate the ability to identify the geographical location of your site visitors. Geolocation information can help you localize content, serve relevant local advertisements, offer a download mirror close to visitors, and detect online fraud. Techniques like whois lookup of IP addresses are of some help, but they don't always find accurate locations. A better approach is a database that maps each IP address to a location -- such as MaxMind's GeoIP.
Dutch open source language project gets official certification
The OpenTaal project (Dutch for "OpenLanguage") has published the first open source word list to be certified by the Dutch Language Union as corresponding to official spelling. Simon Brouwer, project leader of OpenTaal, says, "This is a milestone. Users of open source software can trust their Dutch spell checker now. They have the guarantee that their word list is consistent with the official spelling."
Dzen: pop-up windows from the command-line
I stumbled across an interesting and useful tool recently called dzen, a "general purpose messaging and notification program" written by Rob Manea. Basically, dzen provides an instant-on/instant-off pop-up terminal window, along with a multitude of options that allow you to run just about any command.
Totally "free" Ubuntu? That's the plan for Gobuntu
Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has announced a new "freedom-focused flavour of Ubuntu" devoid of any proprietary software, which may hold special appeal for open source purists.
A three-pronged attack on performance
A computer running Linux can outperform the same computer running Windows XP or Vista. Even so, you may be able to make your Linux system even faster. Here are three optimizations, at different levels, that can make your Linux system perform better.
Newest FSF board member Hill discusses free software goals
"I'm a bit of a rebel," Benjamin Mako Hill says, quoting a phrase he first read on an online calendar for activists, "with rather too many causes." Best known for his many roles in Debian, Hill is also a member of the Ubuntu Community Council, an advisor to One Laptop Per Child, a director of Software Freedom International, and the originator of several free software projects -- to say nothing of an active voice for the Free Culture Movement, and the occasional organizer of such activities as last fall's iPod Liberation Event in Cambridge, Mass. Hill recently took on his largest challenge yet as the youngest director on the Free Software Foundation's board of directors.
Openbox window manager grows up
If you want an adaptable window manager that doesn't drain your resources, try Openbox. Its latest version, 3.4.2, released this month, has several visual improvements and dozens of new usable features.
NoMachine NX 3.0 improves remote access to Linux boxes
NoMachine recently released version 3.0 of its remote desktop product line. NX 3.0 has some interesting advantages over similar products -- but also some pitfalls for inexperienced users.
Serial entrepreneurs find OSS "a no-brainer"
Together, Isaac Garcia and Arnulf Hsu have launched several successful businesses, including two that were eventually purchased by CNET. Garcia and Hsu were firmly in the Microsoft development camp, but recently they noticed what they call the increasing maturity of open source software. They decided to launch their latest endeavor, CentralDesktop.com (CD), using an open source platform.
Samba adopts GPLv3 for all future releases
The Samba team announced Monday that it will be issuing all future releases of the venerable open source file and print services suite under the third iteration of the GNU General Public License (GPLv3).
Siag Office is far from pathetic
"Siag, it sucks less!" This is the slogan for Siag Office. This and the self-effacing name for the Siag Office Word Processor, Pathetic Writer, might leave you thinking that this office suite is a mere plaything, a university student's cobbled-together programming assignment. But don't be fooled by first impressions. Siag Office is a lightweight suite of applications which might be just the right set of office tools for you, especially if you have older hardware.
Canonical releases Launchpad component as open source
Canonical has announced the release of Storm, a open source object-relational mapping (ORM) tool for Python that can support simultaneous communication with multiple databases.
Venerable Slackware 12 gets a sporty new wardrobe
Slackware Linux is the oldest surviving Linux distribution, and still one of the most popular. Last week's release of version 12.0 is a milestone for the Slackware team, as it marks Slackware's first use of a default 2.6.x kernel. Other new components include KDE 3.5.7, Xfce 4.4.1, Xorg 7.2.0, and GCC 4.1.2. Slackware is now nearing the bleeding edge without sacrificing stability, making this truly an exciting release.
Colorado Human Services opens an open source portal
When the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) couldn't depend on a proprietary portal solution to meet its needs any longer, CDHS County Infrastructure Manager Ron Cash turned to open source software, because of the benefits of community development and the flexibility to customize applications for a perfect fit. The financial benefits of open source are nice too, Cash says.
New kernel brings better wireless support
In Linus Torvalds' words, "Not a whole lot of changes since -rc7," but the more significant upgrades in kernel release 2.6.22, announced over the weekend, include a new wireless stack, a new FireWire stack, and a new SLAB allocator for more efficient memory management.
Maemo 3.2 update brings Skype, kernel improvements to Nokia tablets
With little fanfare, Nokia released the latest upgrade for its N800 Internet tablets this weekend. Known officially as Internet Tablet OS 2007 Edition version 4.2007.26-8 and to open source patrons as Maemo 3.2, the new download features long-awaited changes to the Linux kernel, improved battery life, and some flashy updates to the application software -- including the popular Skype softphone.
Hit-a-Hint for fast keyboard-driven Web surfing
Hit-a-Hint (HaH) is a Firefox plugin that aims to create a faster Web surfing experience by letting you use the keyboard to click links.
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