July 29th: the day Microsoft began suing competitors using its patents as a weapon.
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Setting up LAMP on FreeBSD
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Setting up a LAMP server is a common task for systems administrators, and FreeBSD is one of the most reliable and stable operating systems available. Why not combine both LAMP and FreeBSD to build a fast and reliable Web server?
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Infogain, Red Hat ink deal
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Infogain Corporation, a provider of open source solutions and services, and commercial Linux and middleware provider Red Hat today announced that they have signed an enterprise reseller agreement.
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KDE 4.1 release ups free desktop ante
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After six months of development since the release of the much publicized 4.0, the KDE project has unveiled version 4.1 which includes many new bug fixes and feature enhancements.
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SCO and Novell Ask for More Time to Haggle About Final Judgment or Not, Interest Amount
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SCO and Novell have jointly filed an intriguing document, Joint Motion for Extension Regarding Deadlines for Proposed Final Judgment and Pre-Judgment Interest Submission [PDF], and we find out what's been going on since the trial ended early in May.
Read more »Install Windows Applications on Linux with a Single Mouse Click
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No more dependency rambling, no more dll hell, no more compatibility problems. Install applications which are well tested by community with a single mouse click
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Roku's Netflix Player: a hands-on review
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It's small and silent, sports an array of ports on the back but only one tiny white LED on the front, and it can help you spend hours of time in front of your TV -- and it runs Linux. It's the Netflix Player from embedded device specialist Roku, and we got our hands on it for a review of the service and the hardware.
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PostPath cracked Exchange protocols for Postfix-based mail server
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PostPath is a drop-in Microsoft Exchange alternative based on the open source Postfix MTA. PostPath director of product management Sina Miri calls PostPath the "only" drop-in Exchange replacement, and he says that ability is the reason why his company makes PostPath available only with a proprietary license, despite its open source roots.
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introducing griddy
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"The linked video shows my hackbaby of the last couple months, a hackable 3D compositing window manager written in Scheme..." -- http://wingolog.org/pub/griddy.ogg
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GNOME Do vs Launchy
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Launchy and GNOME Do are both two launcher programs that are designed to let you quickly open applications and files and perform tasks you want done quickly, with just the tapping of a few keys.
Previously, Launchy had been an open source solution, albeit for Windows only, and GNOME Do was the Linux solution.
SCO Tells Customers and Partners It Will Appeal Shortly
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I'm sure you could write it yourself, knowing SCO as we do by now, but SCO's Jeff Hunsaker has sent a letter to "SCO Customers and Partners", letting them know that SCO will be filing an appeal shortly. From the wording, I'd say they intend to appeal both rulings, the August 10th and the July 16th rulings.
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Install KDE 4.1 in Ubuntu, and Make GTK Applications Look Good
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KDE 4.1, the second major release of KDE 4, has been released. KDE 4.1 adds new applications (including the KDE PIM suite), improvements to the Plasma desktop shell, and improved frameworks for developers.
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8 Best E-mail Clients for Linux
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Managing e-mail is made easy with the use of e-mail client, also known as e-mail reader. Some e-mail clients can also function as feed reader and can support plug-ins and themes. When it comes to picking the right e-mail client, Linux users have tons of choices. I have here a list of 8 of the best free and open source e-mail clients that are available for Linux.
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SSD vs. SATA RAID: A performance benchmark
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Solid state drives (SSD) have many advantages over traditional spinning-platter hard drives including no noise, low power and heat generation, good resistance to shock, and most importantly, extremely low seek times. To see just how much an SSD might improve performance, I used Bonnie++ to benchmark a contemporary SSD as it might be used in a laptop computer.
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Who will build the open source cloud?
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I wrote recently about the potential of open source software as a platform for cloud computing. Since then I’ve been involved in a couple of conversations with prospective cloud users that have further highlighted the opportunity for an open source cloud.
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