Waggener Edstrom is trying to change articles about security, on behalf of Microsoft; all Windows PCs are vulnerable
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Down with Microsoft… in India
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Protests against Microsoft in India; Another concern is, based on previous incidents, that Microsoft will try to hire people there or advocate what it calls "hybrid" model.
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PC/OS: Insert CD, use desktop
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PC/OS aims to be an easy-to-use Linux distribution right out of the box. Being Ubuntu-based, it has a head start on being user-friendly, but PC/OS goes above and beyond Ubuntu's measures to ensure ease of use by having common third-party non-GPL software included in the install.
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Optimizing Linux Use On a USB Flash Drive?
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What can I do to maximize the performance of Linux while running off of a slow medium? I've turned on 'noatime' in the mount options and I don't use a swap partition. Is there any way to minimize drive I/O or batch it up more? Is there any easy way to run in memory and write everything out when I shut down? I've tried both EXT2 and EXT3 and it doesn't seem to make much difference.
Read more »New CEO’s first 30 days
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We recently had to let some valuable members of staff go, notably amongst community members and distribution. It’s always a difficult decision to make and I would like to thank them for the contribution they made to Mandriva during all these years.
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Microsoft's Firefox surprise
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Microsoft's announcement of an OOXML plug-in for Firefox is one of those intriguing moments when a tiny piece of the future sprouts through the winter soil.
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Another tale of Open Sourcery
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I own 50% of a manufacturing company in Bridgwater. When we bought the company out of receivership in ‘03 we had no systems at all. Our former parent company was running a character based ERP system called MAX on Unix and a Windows file serving network.
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Oracle contributes data integrity code to Linux kernel
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Oracle has contributed data integrity protection code, partly developed with the hardware vendor Emulex, to the Linux kernel, the vendors announced Tuesday.
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Open Source: Your Expectations are Broken
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In Open Source: The Model Is Broken, Stuart Cohen complains that the business model based on selling support and services around open-source software is “not meeting the expectations of investors”. In related news, the sky is failing to meet my expectations by not raining tasty soup.
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Microsoft disparages open-source TCO with year-old case study
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There are lots of internal rivalries within Microsoft. One of the most constant is the battle between the Windows/Office teams and the open-source team at the company.
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The world's worst way to market Linux
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At first, it sounds like a good idea. Nanchang, the capital of China's eastern Jiangxi province, is requiring Internet cafe operators to replace pirated server software with legal copies of Red Flag Linux or Windows Server. What's not to like? It's estimated that China has an 82% software piracy rate. Getting businesses to go legal with a native Chinese Linux sounded like a win to me.
Read more »How To Install And Configure Cherokee Web Server On Ubuntu 8.10 Server
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This tutorial shows how to install Cherokee from source with PHP and MySQL support on a Ubuntu 8.10 server machine.
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How Novell and Microsoft Cooperate Behind the Scenes
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A detailed article showing how an actual voucher deal with Novell/Microsoft comes about
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GUI Installer for RT73 (RaLink) Devices [Beta]
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RT73 Driver GUI Installer is simple install script to install wireless devices from the RT73 RaLink chipset.
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Novell/Microsoft Deceive About Moonlight, Generate Hype
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Analysis of the Moonlight hype around the Web (it's just a beta)
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