HP and MIT have formed an independent organization to support the work of digital archivists who use the DSpace open source archiving software.
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Optaros EOS will take the licensing question seriously
Optaros has launched its Enterprise Open Source Directory. It is a very good thing, better than a plate of Martha Stewart bran muffins. That is partly because it has listing criteria, including only those projects which are truly enterprise class.
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Ubuntu Live and OSCON: Open-Source Software Heads Northwest
There are two big open-source software gatherings happening over the next week, as both Ubuntu Live and O'Reilly OSCON descend upon the Oregon Convention Center in Portland (which even has a moat!).
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Many Linux users work with multiple OS platforms, survey finds
I decided to conduct an informal poll among Linux users -- including notables like Linus Torvalds -- to see how their platform usage compared with mine.
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SSH Saves The Day.. 1400 Miles Away! Enable Automagic Login
A few months ago I was in Chicago to take the Redhat Certified Engineer exam. By day I attended class and by night I studied the book to prepare for the grueling test. Well, one of the nights I was there (5 day course) my brother calls me in a panic begging me to come fix his computer.
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359 Choices - too many distros?
For quite a few pundits out there, the fact that there are so many Linux distributions is a bit troubling to them. I am not sure why this argument keeps coming up, but it goes something like this: there are X Linux distros out there, which is too many to choose from for users, and creates a strain on developer resources.
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The Cookbook - an analogy
It seems a little off-base, but this is an insightful parable by Rob Weir about ooxml. Worth a read
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Jason: A Little Help Please?
"I'm a bit mystified by a reference to me in a post that Microsoft's Jason Matusow added to his blog yesterday"
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Open source conference seeks speakers, exhibitors, attendees
One Course Source has announced its first annual open source conference, set for Oct. 3-4 in San Diego, Calif. The organization says the "One Course Source - Open Source Conference" (OCS-OSC) aims to "[address] the growing demand for alternative technology solutions that cost-effectively support and sustain the corporate IT environment."
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Top Linux and open source software recognized
Reader-submitted nominations were at the heart of the annual "Linux and Enterprise Open Source Readers' Choice awards," revealed at the recent Enterprise Open Source Conference & Expo 2007 in New York. Notable winners include Ubuntu (Linux distribution), Sendmail (email server), and Evolution (productivity tool), conference organizer SYS-CON Media announced this week.
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Setting a New Standard
Shortcomings aside, Microsoft's Office Open XML offers an opportunity.
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Legal summit will convene top FOSS attorneys, educate the public
"The Software Freedom Law Center's first Annual Legal Summit for Software Freedom October 12 includes a closed private meeting in the morning for key open source attorneys and a series of educational lectures in the afternoon that will be open to other interested lawyers as well as the general public."
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Support Open Documents in Massachusetts
Massachusetts is accepting comments on this decision until Friday, July 20th.
Please join us in letting them know that as a government, we expect them to use
a format for their documents that is independent of any proprietary vendor and
fully implementable in free software. OpenDocument meets that requirement;
MS-OOXML does not.
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Newbie flunks Firefox update
OK, Desktop Linux heads, I'm a confessed newbie trying to switch to Linux from XP. My simplyMEPIS install from an ISO went well, but now, on day two, my attempts to install the just-released Firefox update have failed.
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More Pragmatic Questions about F/OSS on Proprietary Platforms
Yet I still wonder. How many people have switched to free platforms after realizing that they already used or could switch to completely free software that did what they needed?
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