Gameloft, a major mobile games developer, has moved more than 1,000 desktops to Ubuntu, according to a source who reached out to The VAR Guy. But Gameloft isn’t alone. The VAR Guy’s research is tracking hundreds of companies moving to Ubuntu. Here’s the scoop.
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MySQL cofounder David Axmark leaving Sun
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David Axmark, a cofounder and former lead engineer for MySQL, has resigned from Sun Microsystems a few weeks after another cofounder said he may also leave the company.
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Smartphones are opening - but just a crack
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There are several definitions of "open access." One is making open source code available to a community of smart cookies who can debug and modify it using open source mechanisms.
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Quit smoking and other ways to keep healthy with Linux
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Ah, Linux! Is there anything it can't do? Not only can you surf the Internet, write documents and calculate taxes, here's how Linux also wants to look after your health and well-being, including getting you off cigarettes and avoiding repetitive strain injury.
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Sharing Files with a USB Drive in Ubuntu
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The simplest and most common use for a USB drive is to share files between systems.
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Differences between paid and volunteer FOSS contributors
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There's a lot of debate these days about the impact of the increasing number of paid developers in FOSS communities that started as volunteer efforts and still have significant numbers of volunteers.
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Puppy Linux Live Trumps LinuxDefender In More Ways Than One
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Run with the puppies or stay behind to defend what isn't there anymore ;)
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Getting it on with Git - Part 2
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In my previous post I introduced Git and discussed its distributed nature, speed, and powerful branching/merging capabilities. Today I'm going to continue the discussion on Git by writing about GitHub, Git in practice, and why Git may not be for everyone.
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Postfix Backup Script
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You need several different methods of backing up your mail server. One of those methods is using a compressed tar file of all of the important configuration files and directories that have content for Postfix. In addition, you will need to add a timestamp for your backups to you can go back and dig out mail from the archives if needed.
Read more »Open-source server appliance is "free"
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KangarooBox is shipping a "free" open-source server appliance that runs Debian 5 GNU/Linux. Targeting small offices, the silent, fanless "Joey" employs an AMD Geode-based PC Engines ALIX 3c2 single-board computer (SBC), and is given to customers buying a $3,000 one-year support plan, the company says.
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Research Report: "Open Source in the Enterprise", a Review
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This is a review of a relatively new resource, called Open Source in the Enterprise (OSIE) by Bernard Golden. The report's raison d'être is to help companies to decide if open source applications are right for their enterprise, and if so, how to implement it intelligently.
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Thunderbird 3.0 beta turns into alpha
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The development schedule for Mozilla Messaging's Thunderbird 3 has been changed as the next beta milestone release is being rescheduled to be a third alpha release.
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Red Hat undercuts Microsoft on high-performance OS pricing
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Red Hat Inc. Thursday released a Linux software stack for compute-intensive IT environments that it said costs less than Microsoft Corp.'s price for its comparable Windows offering.
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Emacs: If you haven't updated rinari, now may be a good time
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"...I just pulled in some new fixes to ruby-mode and ruby-compilation from Phil, and there have been a couple of other additions to Rinari over the last couple of weeks. If you haven't updated from the git repo in a while now may be a good time..."
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Open-source image editing project launches
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Begun in 2007, the Nathive project officially launched earlier this week, with 0.810 Alpha code set to be posted next week under a Creative Commons license.
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