Ever since Oracle got its anti-open source hands on MySQL via the Sun acquisition, many in the open source community have been hoping for a new champion to fill the perceived void that Oracle "selling" MySQL presents.
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Does Linux Offer Too Much Choice?
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Linux doesn't offer too much choice, "but it may not organize its choices well enough," says Slashdot blogger David Masover. The ideal situation "is to provide sane defaults so that people aren't forced to make choices --
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The Linux Sweet Spot
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To be successful on the next wave of Internet devices, the Linux price point has to go lower. Imagine the seventy-five dollar touch screen Linux tablet that does one thing, browse the web.
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Get organized with Getting Things GNOME
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Getting Things GNOME is a GNOME tool that takes the task list to the next level. GTG allows for tag-able task, add sub tasks, includes a plugin systems (with plenty of included plugins), and more.
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Open Source Windows SSH Client Delivers Security Boost
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The Windows SSH client PuTTY is incredibly useful; even more useful is setting it up with a private/public keypair.
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Dovecot 2.0.3 released
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The new version of Dovecot here. Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 email server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security primarily in mind. Dovecot is an excellent choice for both small and large installations. It's fast, simple to set up, requires no special administration and it uses very little memory.
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LinuxFromScratch 6.7 is released
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I'm pleased to announce the release of LFS Version 6.7. This release includes numerous changes to LFS-6.6 (including updates to Linux-2.6.35.4, GCC-4.5.1, Glibc-2.12.1) and security fixes. It also includes editorial work on the explanatory material throughout the book, improving both the clarity and accuracy of the text.
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Mozilla Joins Open Invention Network
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This week Mozilla joined Open Invention Network as a licensee. OIN is an organization which helps protect the Linux ecosystem by building a variety of defenses against patent attacks.
Read more »Facebook open sources live MySQL makeover
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Facebook has open sourced a new MySQL utility that lets the social networking colossus update its database indexes and juice query times without staging the changes on test servers. With the tool -- known as Online Schema Change for MySQL, or OSC -- it can update indexes on live servers.
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50 Fantastic Free Android Apps
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A free Android app is a wonderful thing. The problem is, the Android App Marketplace is a bit freewheeling, and it can be hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. Lucky for you, we've done the job for you.
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SCO v. Novell Trial, Day 5, Friday, March 12, 2010 - as text
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Now that SCO has filed its appeal brief in SCO v. Novell, let's get back to the trial itself. We've already done the first four days' transcripts, and here is the transcript of day five, as text, of the SCO v. Novell trial.
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Ubuntu makeover paying off
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Ubuntu's focus on improving the desktop experience for users is starting to take hold. Clearly nothing happens overnight. More than two years ago, Ubuntu chief Mark Shuttleworth went out on a limb and said that his ambition was to make the Ubuntu desktop better than Apple's famously good-looking desktop.
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Why is Linux Email Stuck in the 90s?
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Email, love it or loathe it, there's no getting away from it. On an average day I process hundreds of emails, but haven't yet found an open source mail user agent (MUA) that I really like. Ten years ago this wasn't surprising, but today?
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xVideoServiceThief- Download and convert your favorites videos from more than 76 websites
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xVideoServiceThief (a.k.a xVST) is a tool for downloading your favourite video clips from a lot of video websites (currently supports 76 websites and increasing!). xVideoServiceThief also provide you the ability to convert each video in most popular formats: AVI, MPEG1, MPEG2, WMV, MP4, 3GP, MP3 file formats. xVideoServicethief is across platform, it is available for Windows, Linux and MacOSX.
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Clementine: a Port of Amarok 1.4 to QT 4
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Clementine is a port of Amarok 1.4 to QT 4, giving users an application that fits in well with KDE 4 while still resembling the previous version of the library-based music player.
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