News earlier this week that IBM is buying French business rules player Ilog for $340m has once again shone a spotlight on this relative backwater of enterprise technology.
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Ubuntu Mobile Edition: Review
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The mobile Internet device (MID) space is one of the fastest growing platforms with new concept designs appearing every month. Nokia was one of the earliest vendors with a product (Nokia 770) in this space to ship with a Linux operating system (OS) and continues to see solid sales with the current model 810. New concept designs come in a wide range of shapes and sizes, and many sport a Linux OS.
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IBM exec predicts the future of Linux, open source
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With LinuxWorld showcasing the popularity of the open source operating system, and with open source in general finding its legs in the enterprise, Bob Sutor, IBM's vice president of open source and standards, made a slate of predictions for Linux and open source during his keynote address on Wednesday at the Black Hat conference.
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Tiny, 6-chip ‘open’ computer runs Linux
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Embedded designer Paul Thomas is showcasing a tiny, open-sourced computer at LinuxWorld in San Francisco this week. Would-be “Linuxstamp” enthusiasts can obtain pre-built boards for the hefty sum of $120 directly from Thomas, or they can download the design for free and build it themselves.
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What if Linux Took a Vista 'Mojave' Test?
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With the perceived success by Microsoft regarding their Mojave experiment (at least in the eyes of Microsoft PR reps), I found myself wondering how today's popular desktop Linux distributions might do under identical circumstances.
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Ubuntu Goes Enterprise
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Ubuntu is well known in user circles as the cool kids' Linux. It's available pre-installed on PCs and laptops from Dell and from numerous smaller computer vendors. What Ubuntu hasn't been known as is a Linux distribution that matters to CIOs and IT managers. Things are changing.
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A New Acceleration Architecture For X
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XAA, or the XFree86 Acceleration Architecture, is over twelve years old and finally in 2005 it was greeted by a replacement, EXA. XAA is nearing an end-of-life and Intel is prepared to remove XAA acceleration within their next Intel graphics driver release later this year. EXA was designed to offer speed improvements over XAA by accelerating more options and enhancing X's RENDER extension.
Read more »It's like Click 'N Run Warehouse, but with applications
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You can tell when someone who dropped his or her legacy OS for Linux is not moving back. It's when he or she gets the way of the package manager. Mark Pilgrim explains the difference between what most OSs make you do and the ease of installing everything from the package manager.
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Mar Del Plata to host 8th Debian conference
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"...Mar Del Plata, Argentina, 8 August 2008 - The Debian Project, the team behind the free Debian GNU/Linux operating system, is inviting members of the public and the press to its annual conference, DebConf 8, which takes place from 10 August to 16 August at the Hotel Dorá in Mar Del Plata, Argentina [...] The Debian Project is an association of Free Software developers who volunteer their time
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IBM To Linux Desktop Developers: 'Stop Copying Windows'
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Company executives call on the open source community to do more to make Linux popular as a desktop OS for consumers and businesses.
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List of BitTorrent clients Available in Ubuntu Linux
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A BitTorrent client is a program that manages torrent downloads and uploads using the BitTorrent protocol.
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Another Reason to Avoid Mono: Security
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By mimicking Microsoft's security-agnostic .NET, Mono begs for trouble and puts GNU/Linux at considerable risk
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Virtual Box - How to Install & Configure in openSUSE
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VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
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Microsoft and Novell Starve in Land of Buybacks
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Novell's and Microsoft's savings from "past glory" days enable them to pretend
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Open source technology is hungry for new college grads
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Many college graduates are finding it difficult to enter the information technology world with little or no work experience. There is no such thing as an entry-level position anymore, and more and more graduates are finding themselves in a catch-22 situation because of this.
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