The Open Source Convention, or OSCON as it's more readily known, is an annual confluence of all things open source that has taken place since 1998. From its origins as an informal get together of Perl aficionados, OSCON is now regarded as the place to go for all things open source.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of OSCON, and I was fortunate enough to be a part of that history.
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Backed by the latest news, here is a critique of a system that obstructs competition
Read more »"I finally got around to building ruby 1.8.6 for my FR [...] I also built jove, my favorite mini-emacs editor..."
Read more »The folks from Acquia were in San Francisco for the LinuxWorld conference this week. Acquia, as we've covered before, has been working away on an array of support offerings and services for the powerful open source Drupal content management system (CMS).
Read more »GParted (Gnome Partition Editor) is a wonderful open source application that will allow you to easily work with the partitions of your HD. You can add, delete, resize, copy, and move partitions all with an easy interface.
Read more »I recently had the opportunity to interview Andrew S. Tanenbaum, creator of the extremely secure Unix-like operating sytem MINIX 3. Andrew is also the author of Operating Systems Design and Implementation, the must-have book on programming and designing operating systems, and the man whose work inspired Linus Torvalds to create Linux.
Read more »I guess the title tells you too much. The reality is that I was given some MP3 files and wanted to put them on a normal audio CD so the non-geeks here could listen to them. Thus, consider this a geek to non-geek conversion article.
Read more »"...This update has been rated as having low security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team [...] All users of coreutils are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which resolve this issue..." --
* Coreutils - GNU core utilities
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Read more »Sometimes, you can recover that big oops! How to recover a deleted file in Linux or Unix... sometimes.
Read more »In case SCO tries to resurrect any methods and concepts claims to OpenServer or UnixWare, let me remind the world that beginning in 1996, they gave that away themselves when they offered Unix enthusiasts free licenses to what they called Free-OpenServer.
Read more »A truthful new article about OLPC and some of the subsequent steps to replicate these ill tactics
Read more »Well, the Gnome 2.24 freeze is on, and something happened that I never imagined. Just after 2.22 was released, I took a look at the upcoming Gnome release, and I said, for probably the fifth time, that I wish Empathy and Telepathy would make it into Gnome, but...
Read more »Today we will show how to configure and run folding@home, and use a GUI frontend called Prothink to observe progress. I am sure there are others but we will focus on Prothink.
Read more »PatientOS is an Open Source GPLv3 Helathcare Information System in the making. PatientOS version 0.82 brings together Acute Care Documentation, a rewrite of the Scheduling UI and the introduction of user defined Order States.
The documentation includes editable flowsheets, image uploads, graphs and charts as well as inked forms.
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