ODF (Open Document Format) has benefited from the two-year battle over the ratification of Microsoft's rival OOXML (Open Office XML) standard, which is native to its Office 2007 suite, Microsoft's national technology officer said Thursday during a panel discussion at the Red Hat Summit in Boston.
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Portrait: Dominic Sartorio
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Dominic Sartorio began his career as a "traditional" software developer, but his career path has been indelibly marked by two things: a solid appreciation for the open source method, and a desire to understand the big picture of open collaboration and how that can ultimately create long-term benefits for the industry and for customers.
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Phoronix Test Suite brings Linux benchmarking to the desktop
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Despite a variety of open source testing tools, until recently there wasn't an easy way to measure and compare the performance of two Linux-powered machines. Phoronix Test Suite (PTS), released this month, addresses this -- and how!
Read more »IBM being wooed to support RP open source center
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IBM is being eyed to support a national open source software center that will serve both local software companies and end-users.
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The ASF's 'Apache Way' Continues to Gain Momentum, Recognition, and Influence on the Future of FOSS
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The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) - stewards, incubators, and developers of leading Open Source projects - today announced that both the organization's community and its meritocratic process (known as "the Apache Way") continues to gain recognition as one of the most influential, prominent, and innovative leaders in Open Source.
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Data goes open source
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A new programme promises to provide CRM users with large amounts of company contact data at no charge. Stuart Lauchlan examines Jigsaw's Open Data Initiative and asks whether it will change the course of the data industry.
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Novell modifies SUSE Linux to run faster on VMware
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Novell Inc. has added support for VMware Inc.'s Virtual Machine Interface (VMI) to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 SP2, which Novell says will make SUSE run faster on VMware's ESX hypervisor.
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How Linux Could Better Market Itself
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For years now we have heard about Linux on the desktop and its need to make a concerted effort to illustrate its value to the end user and whatnot. The point of it all being is that if we expect Linux to become a household name, we must find away to get it into the minds of the typical user, like we have seen with Windows.
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The cake is a lie: IE team bakes a treat for Mozilla
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In honor of today's Firefox 3 release, Microsoft's Internet Explorer team gave a cake to Mozilla. The tasty treat, which prominently displays IE's blue "e" icon, just arrived here at Mozilla headquarters in Mountain View.
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Mozilla working on 'severe' Firefox 3.0 bug
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Security researchers at Tipping Point have found what could be the first vulnerability in the new Firefox 3.0 web browser, ranking the severity of the bug as 'high'.
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Firefox 3.0 smashes target with 8m downloads
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Red Hat Partners With Amazon.com On SaaS
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When I added Amazon.com to our SaaS 20 Stock Index, a few readers asked me whether the online retailer is really a software as a service (SaaS) company. My answer: Absolutely. And a growing number of tech companies agree with me.
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Man gets Windows Vista to work with printer
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"I think it would be a great thing to educate people on, though: If you're installing something new, make sure you remove the old stuff first."
'Nuff said.
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Echoes: Wine 1.0 Review
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The last Wine review I made was to 1.0RC2 (release candidate 2), in which I already tested World of WarCraft, mIRC and DC++. I had no issues with World of WarCraft (tested using a trial account) which performs very well, without any visible problems, DC++ has minor stability problems and the mIRC scripts editor crashes, but otherwise, mIRC behaves good enough.
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There are way too many Linux distributions.
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I support Linux and the free software movement. I appreciate all the hard work that the community has put into free software. However, we need a solid base of what Linux is. Every distribution their own package management, file system structure, and set of tools that is different.
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