With the open source community seriously doubting Oracle's commitment to open source software, Oracle tried to smooth over some ruffled feathers by announcing a new release of MySQL Cluster server today.
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SugarCRM 6 Beta adds new user interface
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The SugarCRM developers have released a first beta for version 6.0 of their open source customer relationship manager. In addition to several ease-of-use and performance improvements, the preview release features a completely re-designed user interface
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COSSFEST; A Calgarian Tale of FOSS, Betrayal, and Murder
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This past weekend (April 9th and 10th), I had the great pleasure to attend COSSFEST 2010 in Calgary. COSSFEST is the Calgary Open Source Systems Festival, a gathering of people whose passion is free and open source software, coming together to share information, exchange ideas, and otherwise talk about all things FOSS. Oh, and drink beer. And eat, too. Yeah, right . . .
Read more »Ruby for .NET gets stable with IronRuby 1.0
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Microsoft's Jimmy Schementi and the IronRuby team have announced the first stable version of IronRuby, the Ruby runtime for the .NET platform's Dynamic Language Runtime
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Apache Cassandra 0.6 released
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Apache's Cassandra, the "NoSQL" distributed data store, has been updated to version 0.6, adding support for Apache Hadoop, integrated caching and improved performance
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Choosing The Best Linux Filesystem For Your PC
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If you’re a Linux user, you’ve likely been asked at some point if you want Ext3, Ext4, XFS, ReiserFS, Btrfs, or one of many other filesystem acronyms. This choice confuses new and old users alike, and like all software, the options change as technology improves.
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Antix M8.5 for Lite Computers is Available
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9 months since the release of antiX-M8.2, the antiX-team announce that antiX MEPIS 8.5 'Marek Edelman' - a fast, light, flexible and complete desktop and livecd based on SimplyMEPIS and Debian Testing - is now available.
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PDF Export in OpenOffice.org
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Originally, PDF export in OpenOffice.org was limited to three levels of quality, whose exact differences were obscure to most users. But that was many releases ago. The latest versions of OpenOffice.org provide, for no cost, most of the features available in Acrobat Standard for $299 -- to say nothing of a few features that even Acrobat Pro Extended does not include even at $699.
Read more »Fedora tempts fate with Apollo 13 beta
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If thirteen is supposed to be an unlucky number, why tempt the Fates and launch the beta of a thirteenth version of a product on the thirteenth of the month - and on the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission to the Moon, which damned near killed its three astronauts?
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Aaron Seigo on the Future of KDE
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No one is better qualified to talk about the state of the KDE desktop than Aaron Seigo. A former member of the board of KDE e.V, the German non-profit that oversees the project, Seigo is a lead developer on the desktop. Last weekend, I interviewed him at the Calgary Open Source Systems Festival, COSSFest, in front of an audience, on where KDE is today and where it is heading.
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Advantage: Red Hat
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Linux software company Red Hat is in the enviable position of benefitting from several near-term trends in the information technology industry, according to an analyst who recently initiated coverage of the Raleigh-based business.
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OpenSSH 5.5 release
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OpenSSH is a 100% complete SSH protocol version 1.3, 1.5 and 2.0 implementation, that also includes sftp, client and server support. This new relase fixed several non-critical errors and contains some useful additions.
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Diffuse - Graphical tool for comparing and merging text files
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Diffuse is a graphical tool for comparing and merging text files. It can work with many revision control systems as a diff viewer or merge tool. Diffuse is able to compare an arbitrary number of files side-by-side (n-way merge), and gives the user the ability to manually correct line matching and directly edit the files.
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German firm presents an iPad killer
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First, relax. The new baby is called "WePad" and it's an Android device. Or, as the developers put it: The WePad is an open platform and everybody can contribute. It's based on established technologies like Linux, Android and Adobe AIR. Every developer in the world can create applications for this device. And you can also use existing Android applications.
Read more »Online Office In Ubuntu With Zoho Webservice
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Canonical developer Jamie Bennett presented a new project 2 days ago: Zoho Webservice, which is basically the online office suite Zoho (which comes with tools such as: Presentations, Spreadsheet and Word Processor), but with Ubuntu integration.
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