The vague distinction between embedded and non-embedded software leaves room for Microsoft to harm Free software in New Zealand; Microsoft's software patents still pushed into GNU/Linux via Novell
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Apache Hadoop project gains momentum
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Last month’s Hadoop Summit in Santa Clara, California, saw a number of interesting developments around this increasingly hot open source project…
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Ubuntu's two big advantages over Windows and Mac
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I’ve been using the latest version (10.04) of Ubuntu Linux since April and there’s a lot to like about it. Today I want to talk about two significant advantages that Ubuntu has over Windows 7 and Mac OS X.
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GNOME and LiMo Foundation partner for assault on mobile market
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The GNOME and LiMo Foundations have today announced their intention to collaborate closely with a key partnership. With immediate effect the LiMO Foundation will become a member of the GNOME Foundation’s Advisory Board and the GNOME Foundation will become an Industry Liaison Partner for the LiMo Foundation.
Read more »Librarian of Congress Still Clueless About Linux
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There are new anticircumvention rules from the US Copyright Office. Several are very good changes, such as allowing you to bypass a technological protection measure to use snips from a movie or video if your purpose is educational or for comment or criticism, and there's more flexibility for phone apps if interoperability is the goal.
Read more »Running ZFS With CAM-based ATA On FreeBSD 8.1
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As was mentioned in last Friday's article, Which Is Faster: Debian Linux or FreeBSD, tests of FreeBSD atop the ZFS file-system (rather than UFS2+S) are currently underway and those results are expected to be published in full later this week as the ZFS disk performance is compared directly to UFS2+S, UFS2+J, and also Ubuntu Linux with the EXT4 and Btrfs file-systems.
Read more »Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.35 (Part 4) - Architecture and infrastructure
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Measures to optimise the power management code and fully support the Turbo Core function of recent AMD six-core processors increase the data throughput and processing speed of Linux 2.6.35. Further kernel additions include tracing interfaces for KVM, another kernel configuration program, and functions for de-fragmenting the working memory
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Why You Should Never Steal From a Linux Admin
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Being a sysadmin does come with its ups and down. It’s not a job which comes with glory or fame. When things work no one even remembers to give you a pat in the back. You only hear from them when things go wrong. However being a sysad is not all doom and gloom.
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Ten Reason to Ignore Ten Reasons to Dump Windows and Use Linux
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There is a tradition amongst the hard-core Linux aficionados to extol Linux's various virtues as a list of 10 or more reasons to substitute (as in "dump") an existing Windows installation with Linux. One very recent list caught my eye over the weekend, published by no less an august publication than PCWorld. Let's consider all ten points.
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Whatever happened to Perl?
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Once one of the pillars of the Internet, is Perl now fading away -- or will Perl 6 will spark a renaissance for the programming language?
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Sabayon 5.3 review
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Sabayon is a multi-purpose, Gentoo-based Linux distribution. It is part-source, part-binary distribution. I just call it a hybrid distribution. The latest update, Sabayon 5.3, was made available to the public in early June.
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Survey: Android Tablets "Sad state of Open Source"
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A survey of eight makers of Android-based tablets found only one in compliance with the GPL requirements of the Linux kernel within Android
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Red Hat Now Worth Three Times as Much as Novell
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Novell is going down whereas Red Hat is a growth company, which means that a wise career choice for S.u.S.E. staff is defection to Red Hat
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The New Ubuntu (10.10) Font Available For (almost) Everyone
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After finally getting the bold version last week, the Ubuntu font which will be default in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat is finally available for (almost) everyone. Why almost? Here is an email from the Kubuntu-users mailing list:
Members of the ~kubuntu-users team on launchpad can now test out the Ubuntu Font which is currently in beta testing. Anyone can join this team.
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Software Patents Versus GNU/Linux, Disguised as Help to GNU/Linux
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More news from Centrify and Protecode, which pretend to help when they actually cause harm (with FUD and Microsoft patent tax)
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