If you went to your bank manager and said you had a great idea for a business in which you gave away your core product to your competitors, it is likely you would be instantly shown the door and not just because of the credit crunch. Yet this is exactly what some of the most successful companies in the world are doing.
Read more »Microsoft’s Anti-GNU/Linux Fund (EDGI) Gets New Leadership
New shuffles/reorganisation at Microsoft's Unlimited Potential team
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Urgent Call: Stop Mono(vell) People from Putting Moonlight in Ubuntu
The usual suspects are pushing Moonlight into Ubuntu 9.04 (popular and ubiquitous GNU/Linux distribution)
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Interview: Bringing a community together with free software
At a recent free software advocacy event I encountered a great example of free software being used in the community. Chris Kilby has been running an IT suite for residents of his local housing estate in Stepney, east London. A suite of desktop PCs running Edubuntu with a Fedora-based server has been built and runs on a shoestring budget.
Read more »KDE 4.2 brings the MySQL server to the desktop
If you’re using Fedora 10, and are a KDE desktop user, you’ll notice that your latest KDE 4.2 update, requires having a local MySQL server installed.
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Goo Blimey, It's "Awesome"
MY nine-year-old son bellowed: "This is awesome.. world class!" I was hooting with laughter. The source of this merriment? A game.
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A Review of Damn Small Linux 4.4.10
For the first time this week I finally had the pleasure of taking Damn Small Linux (hereafter, DSL) for a test drive. One of the companies that I work for required an easy, lightweight and quick solution to salvage an older project.
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Commercial Linux Distro Support Shootout
Money can't buy you love; nor can it buy you happiness. But it just might bring you peace of mind. The Big 3 commercial Linux vendors; Canonical, Novell and Red Hat are ready to serve you through support subscription services for your Linux infrastructure.
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Why the gOS Could Now Hurt Microsoft
Good OS, the Taipei, Taiwan-based company that launched in 2007, could turn out to be bad news for Microsoft.
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Unix And Linux Cartoon Roundup
A whole lot more comics for your weekend enjoyment
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Easy Steps to Rip a DVD to ISO in Ubuntu 8.10
An ISO file is the easiest and most universal method for backing up a DVD. The file is an archive file specifically for DVD VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS files, and is an exact copy of the disc. ISO files can be quickly burned to a new dvd using standard burning software, making it the optimal choice for storing backups.
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Jabber Mail Notification
Do you always wanted to get notfied by Jabber about new emails? You are only one PHP script and one procmail rule away from a solution...
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How To Add Two-Factor Authentication To phpBB
This document describes how to add WiKID two-factor authentication to phpBB through Apache using mod_auth_xradius. Given the recent attack against phpBB and the exposure of it's users' passwords, we thought two-factor authentication might be timely.
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Ubuntu Training Program Improved Throughout USA
One of Ubuntu's strategies for gaining a larger user base is providing quality, comprehensive training for everyone who desires. For that purpose, Canonical has recently included Fast Lane and Bridge Education in its Ubuntu Training Partner Programme, signing and training instructors. The courses are held all across the United States of America.
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Moonshine brings Windows Media to Linux
When I first looked at Moonlight, Novell’s open-source version of Microsoft’s Sliverlight, I liked it, but I didn’t really see much of a point to it. Silverlight, Microsoft’s latest answer to Adobe Flash, isn’t used in many sites. What I liked the most about Silverlight was that it provided a fully legal way to access WMV and WMA (Windows Media Video and Audio) from Linux.
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