Now that the SourceForge.net community has selected the nominees, you can vote for the projects you think represent "the cream of the crop on SourceForge.net."
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Linux robots descend on Atlanta
Linux-powered robots are flocking to Atlanta this week to compete in the Robocup scientific competition. The eleventh annual event has attracted at least two Linux-based designs aiming to replace Sony's Aibo as the de facto hardware platform for standard Robocup league play.
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Florida Linux Show 2008
The board members of the Florida Linux Show 2008 have elected Jacksonville, Florida as the city to hold the 2008 Conference and Exhibition.
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2008: Year of the Linux Desktop
When Evans Data released its survey on Tuesday showing a sharp shift toward Linux (and away from Windows) among developers in North America, the Linux world went wild. Wistful pengiun heads heralded the coming Open Source Age.
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If you're Steve Ballmer, don't read this
"If you're Microsoft's CEO, the finding by Evans Data of a falloff in the number of developers writing apps for Windows desktop computers makes for grim reading."
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How will open source do in a talent-short age?
We’re not partying like it’s 1999, but a Deloitte survey of CEOs finds that there is a growing shortage of technology talent, and some companies are trying to accommodate programmers’ needs again, rather than try to squeeze them into penguin suits.
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Akademy Awards 2007
At the second day of aKademy 2007, the contributors conference closed with the aKademy Awards Ceremony
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MySQL CEO Marten Mickos: What Open Source Is Really All About
"I am very passionate about open source. And I do believe that it is a superior method. But at the same time, I must be pragmatic. So when they say being dogmatic is very important for the Free Software Foundation -- well, they should be. That's what we respect them for. But running a business is not about dogma," said MySQL CEO Mårten Mickos.
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Another reason I love open source software
This weekend I was reminded of another reason that I love open source software: A transparent development process. Only in open source software will you be able to talk directly to the developers of a software project and give them your input. This is one of the reasons that open source projects tend to focus specifically on the requirements of the users. Let me tell you my story...
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The top Linux support weaknesses, then and now
In 2003, SearchEnterpriseLinux.com visited the Linux support landscape with a list of Linux support weaknesses. A lot has happened over the past four years, as is evident in the success of Red Hat and Novell's subscription-based support models and the meteoric rise of commercial-grade Ubuntu support, to name a few.
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Open source funding back up in Q2
The level of funding in free and open source-related vendors rose over 33% in the second quarter compared to the same period last year, following a decline in the first quarter.
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Open source statistics? Anyone? Anyone?
come on guys, lets help the man out! Is his maths department doomed to use excel next year?
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Video: The source code of democracy
See Alan Dechert from the Open Voting Consortium talks about the importance of changing the voting system.
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The Intel Betrayal (of Linux)
"Over the past several days I've been mulling over the news of Intel's apparent backstabbing of the Linux and BSD communities by hiding the truth about the flaws in their Core 2 chips."
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Open-source evolves from 'nerdy' to notable
As the open-source movement completes its first decade, the fast-growing industry is at a crossroads, experts say, having advanced from nerdy novelty to recognized market niche while attracting the double-edged attention of its biggest rivals.
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