Eucalyptus Systems — the open source outfit that mimics Amazon's so-called compute cloud inside private data centers — has released a major upgrade to its commercial product, Eucalyptus Enterprise Edition.
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A Roundup on Microblogging Clients
The latest buzz in social networking is microblogging—the next generation of blogging where people share their status, images, audio and video files with their friends without being verbose. When you microblog, you answer one simple question: “What’s happening?”
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Ubuntu Linux 10.04 Lucid Lynx
CANONICAL'S UBUNTU has a lot of hype to live up to. First released in 2004, Ubuntu has established itself as one of the most intuitive and accessible Linux distributions and has never shied away from giving both Microsoft and Apple a run for their money.
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10 ways to dodge Linux hardware issues
If you’ve been grappling with Linux hardware problems, take heart: Jack Wallen has some strategies for resolving common issues — or avoiding them in the first place.
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Impressions – HaikuOS R1 Alpha 2
HaikuOS has been in development for so long though that the R2 Alpha1 release is fairly stable and represents a major milestone. Let’s see what I discovered…
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8 of the Best Free Linux Usenet Tools
Usenet is a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system. It was founded in 1980 to enable users to read and post public messages to various newsgroups. As such, it predates forums, blogs, instant messaging and P2P networks.
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Novell Still Markets “Intellectual Property (IP) Peace of Mind”
Novell still uses software patents protection as a business proposition to users of SUSE
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The Start to Finish Guide to Rooting Your Android Phone
Rooting your Android device is much like jailbreaking an iPhone. Once rooted, you can make your phone run faster, tether it to your computer, tweak hidden settings to your liking, and more. Here's how to do it on your Motorola Droid. Rooting essentially means giving yourself root permissions on your phone.
Read more »Google Android Market lets developers down
After applications recently started disappearing from the Android Market, Google continued to have reliability issues with the online store as developers over the weekend experienced issues with erroneous download counts. On Saturday, a number of developers started complaining about incorrect download counts on Android Market.
Read more »Android Team “Laser Focused” On The User Experience For Next Release
Google’s Android team has been pushing new versions of the operating system at a furious pace since the first Android device hit the market in 2008. Lots of features have been added over the last couple of years. But the user experience hasn’t evolved much.
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Fedora 13 Boasts Many Leading-Edge Enhancements
Red Hat's Fedora 13 open-source software can serve in a full gamut of Linux roles, as long as users are prepared to upgrade their systems about once a year.
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So Dell, is Ubuntu safer than Windows or not?
Dell appears to be back-tracking on a claim made on its website that Ubuntu is safer than Windows.
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FFmpeg 0.6 Released With H.264, VP8 Love
The release of FFmpeg 0.5 last March was significant as it was the first official release in quite a while for this popular and widely used free software media program. Fifteen months later, FFmpeg 0.6 has been released with plenty of changes including support for Google's VP8 codec / WebM and improvements for HTML5/H.264 video playback.
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BeRTOS real-time operating system with ARM Cortex and Arduino support
BeRTOS 2.5 supports most of Atmel's AVR microprocessors as well as AT91 processors with ARM-7 core and, for the first time, the ARM Cortex-M3 family of processors
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10 Best Free Alternatives to Microsoft Office
The Microsoft Office suite takes up a lot of memory, both in hard drive space and in RAM. The full and complete package of Office costs more than some people's mortgage payments. Fortunately, Office is not the only option available to get the work done. Here are ten FREE alternatives to what Microsoft Office has to offer.
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