Clearly, the underlying technology of cloud computing will be based on open source software--that is, if the three cloud infrastructure hopefuls addressing a standing room-only crowd of more than 350 venture capital firms, large company CTOS and CIOs, and other cloud hopefuls--are as successful in their efforts as the show’s judges and audience anticipated.
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Novell SLED 11 feels a lot like Window 7, MacOS
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Novell released SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (SLED 11) at the same time it rolled out SLES 11. We found that the desktop bundle (which we tested on an HP EliteBook 2530p notebook system) includes features that render a look and feel similar to past versions of Apple's MacOS as well as some parts of Windows 7 beta we've tested.
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Why Users Aren't Moving to Linux
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If you read enough blog posts, or more specifically, comments posted on blog posts, you might get the idea that there are specific structural, technological or systemic reasons why Linux has only a small slice of the desktop market.
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Analysis of Git and Mercurial
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This document summarizes the initial research for adding distributed version control as an option for Google Code. Based on popularity, two distributed version control systems were considered: Git and Mercurial. This document describes the features of the two systems, and provides an overview of the work required to integrate them with Google Code.
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Set up Secure Wireless With Zeroshell Linux (part 2)
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Last week we began playing around with ZeroShell, a multi-purpose LAN server that can run on a old PC. We gathered the hardware, downloaded the CD image, and burnt the Live CD. Then we booted up ZeroShell and configured the IP settings to use an existing router. Finally, we created a profile to store the settings, so they're saved and loaded after reboots or shutdowns.
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OpenOffice 3.1.0 has been released
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OpenOffice 3.1.0 has been released.
Currently no changelog or releasenotes are available! I will update this post later.
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Washington Times: Competitors soften Microsoft's roar
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The impressive news last week that Microsoft Corp. posted its "first ever" decline in year-over-year quarterly sales and that revenues fell 6 percent, has set many tongues wagging in the tech world.
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Red Hat CEO: 'The Cloud Belongs to Linux'
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Which of these doesn't belong: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Red Hat. If you said Red Hat, the company's CEO would beg to differ.
"These are all about the power of participation and collaboration and Red Hat is the open source version," said Jim Whitehurst, President and CEO of Red Hat
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Social Desktop Starts to Arrive in KDE
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At last year's KDE Conference Akademy the vision of the Social Desktop was born and first presented to a larger audience. The concept behind the Social Desktop is to bring the power of online communities and group collaboration to desktop applications and the desktop shell itself.
Read more »SCO Responds to Gray's Proposed Amicus Brief
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SCO has filed its response to the proposed amicus brief by Wayne Gray, and it agrees with Novell on it -- they don't want Wayne Gray butting in to this appeal either. Novell said it was irrelevant, and SCO agrees...
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Modeling Furniture in Blender
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In this article, you will learn how important it is to use furniture in models and scenes to make the environment more real. The tutorial takes you through the process of modeling of a sofa and a chair. You will also see how to build your own furniture library for reuse in future.
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Does Windows SPK2 With ODF Support Really Work? Test Results Point to No.
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I tried the updated Windows Office 2007 SP2, which supports ODF, or says it does. I created a document in Office 2007 SP2 and saved it as ODF... I reasoned that OpenOffice, which I intended to use to test the result, does have the features I wanted.
Read more »Europe funds secure operating system research
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A Dutch university has landed a European Research Council grant to continue work on a Unix-type operating system that aims to be more reliable and secure than Linux or Microsoft Windows.
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Teaching a Class with GNU Screen
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I led an Ubuntu Open Week session earlier this morning on screen-profiles. As part of the session, I setup a demo on an Amazon EC2 instance running Ubuntu 9.04. In that shared screen session, I as the "teacher" had read/write access to the instance, and 50+ "students" had read-only access. This proved incredibly handy for doing such a demonstration!
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Hibernate and Suspend works fine on Jaunty
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Hibernate and Suspend functions are working just fine on my Ubuntu Jaunty installation. Till this afternoon had trouble dump my programs onto ram/disk and turn off the laptop.
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