Ninety percent of participants have Ubuntu, and about half are in the US (with an impressive and results-bending 33 percent from Finland). Two thirds of them are small businesses (ten to 49 people).
Read more »Ubuntu takes early lead in Open Source Census
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A GNOME-based Desktop on Demand
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Desktop on Demand (DOD) is the latest contender to give users a full-fledged remote desktop instead of Web-based applications to help users to stay productive when they are on the move. Similar to Ulteo (which we reviewed not long ago), DOD gives you a full-blown remote Linux-based desktop -- but that's where the similarity ends.
Read more »Ubuntu Desktop Training Available
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The Ubuntu Desktop Training program, aimed at new users, is now available. The training provides simulations, practical exercises and information to make daily tasks easy. While prior experience with Linux is not required, basic computer skills are a pre-requisite.
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Firefox 2.0.0.14 security update available
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"As announced last week, Mozilla has released a quick Firefox update to fix a critical security vulnerability related to crashes during JavaScript garbage collection that, in theory, could be exploited..."
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Free Open Source Software Is Costing Vendors $60 Billion?
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Talk about FUD. I came across a release this AM titled, "Free Open Source Software Is Costing Vendors $60 Billion," New Standish Group International Study Finds".
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Linux, Unix more reliable than Windows
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LAST YEAR, WE wrote about a controversial report penned by technology research and consulting outfit the Yankee Group, claiming that Windows was more reliable than Linux. The Yankee Group has been busy again this year, but its latest report seems to offer a very different story to last year’s, with Windows now performing significantly worse than its Linux and Unix rivals.
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The iPhone SDK and free software: not a match
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Apple's recently released a software development kit (SDK) for the iPhone, but if you were hoping to port or develop original open source software with it, the news isn't good. Code signing and nondisclosure conditions make free software a no-go.
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Fonality: Open Source VoIP Meets Managed Services
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Chris Lyman is setting in the middle of a perfect storm. As CEO of Fonality, Lyman is building an IP-PBX company that leverages Asterisk (an open source platform) and embraces managed service providers. In other words, Fonality has converged three hot markets (unified communications, open source and managed services) into a single solution.
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SaaS providers going open source to cut costs
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Nine out of ten software-as-a-service providers will rely on open source software by 2010 to save money, but the cost savings likely won't be passed onto customers, Gartner says in a new research note.
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Use Wireshark to capture and analyse packets
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Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) is one of the most well known free software packet capturing and analysis tools available. It is cross platform, and runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and many other Unix-like operating systems.
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How To Control Access To Unwanted Websites Using URL Blacklist With SafeSquid Proxy Server
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SafeSquid - Content Filtering Internet Proxy, has many content filtering features that can be used to decide who is allowed what, when and how much on the net. In this tutorial I will describe how to control access to unwanted categories of websites, by using URL Blacklist database with SafeSquid Proxy Server.
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The UNIX Fire extinguisher [PIC]
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Cleaning up or Deleting LaTeX intermediate files using AucTeX
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"Anyone using LaTeX knows that there are a number of intermediate files that are generated in the course of compiling the document. After the final file is generated, there is no need to keep those files around. But one has to delete them manually or plug the extensions in a shell script to delete them.
Fortunately AucTeX provides a simple interface to clean the files..."
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Various LaTeX tips
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"Tips for using GNU/Linux and Free Software: Various LaTeX tips ..."
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Using Emacs with Git
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"Just upload to server a new part of article about usage of Emacs with version control systems -- now about usage of Emacs to work with Git. This variant contain information only about git.el package, but in near future i'll extend it with information about emacs-git and some minor modes." -- via http://alexott.blogspot.com/2008/04/using-emacs-with-git.html
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