"Not too long ago, I shared my thoughts on Microsoft's introduction of Silverlight, their blatant lack of Linux support and how they were aiming at regaining their browser dominance. Well, it looks like the open source crowd has picked up the pieces again with a solution to conquer what ails the common Linux user. Silverlight, meet Moonlight. "
Read more »Moonlight Overview: An OSS Alternative to Silverlight
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Baylor neuroimaging lab has open source on the brain
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The Baylor College Human Neuroimaging Lab (HNL) uses Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to record and research brain activity. The fMRI scans human brains at work, detecting areas of greater blood flow that indicate which part of the brain is active as subjects perform a variety of activities.
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Sun's McNealy: 'Kick Butt and Have Fun'
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On April 19, one day before an open source advocate protested Bill Gates' visit to Tsinghua University in Beijing, McNealy, who lives in a Microsoft-free household and believes everyone should have a smart Java Latest News about Java chip behind their ears, sat down with China Daily reporter Wang Xing to talk about his experiences.
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Dual password encryption with EncFS
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This article is a step-by-step guide to using two passwords with EncFS. The primary password is required and may be used to secure all data; the secondary password is optional and may be stored on USB stick or other removable media and used to secure more sensitive data. EncFS can also be combined with block device encryption for maximum security.
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Vyatta - changing the world of routers, firewalls and VPNs
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"Kelly Herrell, CEO of Vyatta, and I were introduced recently. The folks making the introduction said “Kelly is CEO of Vyatta, the open source routing company. They are going to change the networking world.” With that sort of introduction, how could I possibly turn down a chance to learn about Vyatta’s technology and why it was “going to change the networking world.”"
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Open standards advocate comes out in favor of Microsoft - Software - News - ZDNet Asia
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Microsoft's Open XML is not as bad as it has been made out to be, while the Open Document Format (ODF) has many "misleading" claims, according to an open standards activist.
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How far can open source CRM get?
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It’s a tough road. Customer Relationship Management is more than mission-critical. The title describes your business right there.
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Getting started with GRUB
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"When you power on your computer, the first software that runs is a bootloader that invokes the computer's operating system. GRUB, the GRand Unified Bootloader, is an integral part of many Linux systems. It starts the Linux kernel. Here's some background on GRUB, and some tips on installing and configuring the software."
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Announcing the launch of PloneGov.org
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Open source experts from the public sector, SME and Plone community participated in the first Plone e-government international workshop. After two days of intense work the group decided to merge into 1 common project 3 e-government initiatives: CommunesPlone (Belgium, France), PloneGov.ch (Switzerland) and UdalPlone (Basque Country, Spain).
Read more »Gnash 0.8.0 release made
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The third alpha release of Gnash has just been made at version 0.8.0. Gnash is a GPL'd Flash movie player and browser plugin for Firefox, Mozilla, Konqueror, and Opera. Gnash supports many SWF v7 features and ActionScript2 classes. Gnash also runs on many GNU/Linux distributions, embedded GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, non x86 processors, and 64 bit architectures.
Read more »Agile Metadot serves up open source Web apps
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Ten years ago, when Metadot founder and CEO Daniel Guermeur was working for a large technology company, he discovered that the Web-based content management systems he was developing were too complicated for his customers, who kept saying they needed a Web-based portal application that was easy to learn and easy to use.
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RPM "relaunched" at rpm5.org
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The RPM Package Manager (RPM), fundamental to an array of Linux distributions and the Linux Standard Base specification, has been on uncertain ground as a project in recent years. The versions of the utility shipped by the various RPM-based distros have slowly branched off in different directions, leading in some cases to stagnation.
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All modern operating systems are able to run many programs at the same time. For example, a typical Linux server might include a Web server, an email server, and probably a database service. Each of these programs runs as a separate process. What do you do if one of your services stops working? Here are some handy command-line tools for managing processes.
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Open-Xchange Gives Feature Boost to Collaboration Server
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Open-Xchange, Inc. today announced a comprehensive feature update for Open-Xchange Server 5. The upgrade adds more than 50 usability improvements to the Linux-based collaboration suite.
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