People have lost track of real mistakes that Canonical is making and instead they focus on buttons and themes
Read more »Allianz CIO 'lost hair' over Linux upgrade
Allianz Australia Insurance chief information officer (CIO) Steve Cole said yesterday he had done the equivalent of losing hair while undertaking an upgrade that saw the company move from multiple Wintel servers to a Linux mainframe.
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Amazon and Dell: Friends or Foes of GNU/Linux?
What Amazon does not want to tell us about software patents in its recent deal with Microsoft; more reasons to suspect that Dell pays Microsoft for Ubuntu GNU/Linux
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Tim O'Reilly: 'Whole Web' is the OS of the future
Open-source developers and businesses are focused on the wrong opportunity, according to industry luminary Tim O'Reilly. The future isn't programming for Linux or MySQL. The future is programming for the "whole Web."
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LiMux project management, "We were naïve"
Florian Schießl, deputy head of the Munich-based LiMux project for migrating the city's public administration to Linux, has been explaining why migrating the computing landscape to open source software has taken longer than originally planned. One reason cited is the proprietary world's "digital waste"
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Android market going down the drain?
I am on a quest to rid the android market of certain apps. For the past year I have seen the Android Market fill up with apps of lascivious and copyrighted content.
Read more »Making a copyright system that works
Here's a synthesis of a few prominent ideas of what real copyright reform might look like.
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5 of the Best Free Linux Medical Practice Management Software
Medical Practice Management Software (MPMS) is a type of software that is designed to supervise and support the day-to-day operations of a medical practice. This category of software typically offers functionality such as data entry, scheduling appointments, billing, reporting, records management, the generation of reports, accounting, and capturing patient demographics.
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Linux Arpeggiators, Part 2
Part 1 of this series introduced arpeggiators in general and profiled the QMidiArp application. This week we conclude our survey with a look at two more arpeggiators for Linux musicians: Hypercyclic and Arpage.
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IBM Adopts Red Hat's Virtualization Technologies for Cloud Computing
As cloud computing deployments ramp up, so too does the competitive battle for the cloud infrastructure technology supporting those deployments.
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Kubuntu is not Ubuntu
This post is supposed to make it clear why Kubuntu is what it is. Writing this down is necessary because people constantly get the wrong picture.
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Three favorite distros currently in testing:
Two of my favorite Debian based distributions, and one RPM based distribution that uses Debian-like packaging tools are in their testing cycles right now.
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10 Windows apps that should be ported to Linux
The ranks of Linux users would certainly grow if a few go-to Windows apps could run natively on the OS. Jack Wallen lists the ones he thinks would turn the tide.
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DimDim provides Open Source Version of Web Conferencing Client for intranet.
Many times there are situations when you want to host private web conferences may be it for business or academic purposes. Here I list some of the finest Online Tools which can be used for web conferencing and Online Collaboration.Different from the others dimdim provides an Open Source version of it's product for web conferencing at intranet.
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Marvell promises $100 tablet for students
Marvell announced its intent to deliver a $100, Android-ready tablet computer built around a 1GHz Armada 600 series processor. Aimed at students, the "Moby" will offer WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, an FM receiver, and Adobe Flash compatibility, the company says.
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