Drupal, the popular open source Web content management system, will sacrifice speed for scalability in the upcoming Drupal 7 upgrade, the founder of the project said on Monday afternoon.
Read more »Drupal upgrade to be slower but more scalable
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Today's Bankruptcy Hearing Was Cancelled; Patent Sold, Order Signed
Bankruptcy court gets more and more weird. Today's scheduled hearing in SCO's bankruptcy was cancelled at the last minute. No one told the U.S. Trustee's Office, I gather, since our reporter showed up and so did that office's representative. Meanwhile, the order approving the sale of the patent was approved and signed by the judge. They should just skip hearings.
Read more »Talend: New funds, new version
The data integration specialist has updated its data management software to version 4.0. In a further financing round, funds of $8 million have been injected into the company
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An Introduction to KDE Games
For a long time KDE has come with an assortment of games. Collectively, this suite of games is simply called “KDE Games“. With the advent of KDE 4, all of the KDE games were given face lifts and a standard set of features that make moving from game to game a seamless exercise. The games are two dimensional and do not run inside of a separate layer like SDL.
Read more »Will Open-Source Ruin Apple?
Can open-source overtake the iPhone? The iPad? Apple itself? That's the dominant position of Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation. But is that an idea that's based on reality? He's been trying to paint a connection between Sun and its Solaris OS--a "legacy" operating system to Linux, he suggests--and Apple's various devices.
Read more »Ubuntu Restricted Extras - Lets Ubuntu Play Everything [Ubuntu for Beginners Screencast]
Many technologies such as Flash, MP3 and DVD are proprietary or patent encumbered and can not be included on the Ubuntu CD. Thankfully, it’s extremely easy to set up your new Ubuntu system to play just about any media file you can throw at it.
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Google bypassing Chrome OS for its tablet device?
Google is reportedly working on a tablet computer based on its Android operating system, not the Chrome OS. Google has declined to comment on the tablet rumor, but that hasn't stopped analysts from mulling over the operating system choice.
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HelenOS - the operating system that launched a thousand processes
On March 10, 2010, the HelenOS project released version 0.4.2 of their operating system. HelenOS sits on top of the SPARTAN kernel, which supports SMP, multi-tasking and multi-threading on a variety of common architectures. One of the developers behind HelenOS, Jakub Jermar, was willing to take time out of his busy schedule to answer some questions.
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Using a Hauppauge PVR 150/250/350/500 TV Tuner card in Ubuntu/Linux
Getting traditional TV to work in linux can be an exercise in frustration at times. For those with a Hauppauge PVR 150/250/350/500, you are in luck. The following tutorial will get you up and going in no time. It Is aimed at ubuntu users, but if you are a bit resourceful, you will be able to get it to work on the distro of your choice.
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Interview with Thiago Macieira
Hello again for another interview with KDE people. Last time we had Aleix Pol with us. Now it is time for Thiago Macieira. One of the first KDE developers, he is still working towards world domination at Qt as he will explain to us in the interview.
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Firefox add-on said to blunt Google's data collection tactics
A computer security researcher has launched a project designed to provide people greater privacy when using Google, as the company expands the scope of data its collects about its users.
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Comparing Apples and Androids
Apple ups the ante against Android with iPhone OS version 4 -- but first they have to answer to the 3.3.1 worm.
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Is The Linux Brand Poisoned?
It's taken me a while to put the data together. I queried 109 people. People who either owned, managed or worked as Executive Assistants to those in small to medium-sized businesses.
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ModSecurity: Allowing GoogleBot
One of the big reasons people disable ModSecurity is that they see in their logs continual blocks on Googlebot. Obviously, if Google’s bot cannot list your site you will be in trouble with trying to get people to your site.
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Migrating to openSUSE
I asked people for their recommendations for a good KDE4 Linux distribution. Well after a bit of thought I decided that I would move away from Kubuntu to openSUSE. Why the change?
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