The lack of new jobs continues to be an issue even for San Francisco Bay Area tech companies. So, how are unemployed developers and technologists supposed to find work? One solution: learn new skills.
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Seeking the One True Linux: Is Linux Distro-hopping a Thing of the Past?
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Distro-hopping is easy and fun. Linux users distro-hop to solve problems and to try new software. But is it necessary? Haven't most Linux distributions reached a state of polish that makes distro-hopping unnecessary?
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Windows Mobile Down Sharply, Linux/Android Up Sharply
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Some new numbers suggest that Windows keeps declining, so the trend is probably confirmed (an analyst says that Windows Phone 7 [1, 2] won't be out until next year, either)
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Keeping the Web open and mobile
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Palm’s directors of developer relations, Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith say the mobile Web needs diversity and power - and an open source Facebook application
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Bordeaux 2.0.2 for Solaris and OpenSolaris Released
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The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.2 for Solaris today. Bordeaux 2.0.2 is a maintenance release that fixes a critical bug with sound support. Customers who need sound support are advised to upgrade to this newer release. This release has been tested on OpenSolaris 2009.06 as well as the upcoming OpenSolaris 2010.03 release build 133
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Rhodes 1.4 mobile framework released
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Rhomobile has released version 1.4 of its open source Ruby-based framework that allows developers to create platform independent applications for a number of smartphone operating systems
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PC BSD 8.0 release made BSD much easier for desktop use | Installation and screenshots
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Last Monday PC-BSD was released. PC BSD is based on FreeBSD and uses KDE as its default desktop environment. The 8.0 release of PC-BSD is based onFreeBSD Support for 3D acceleration with NVIDIA drivers on amd64 and improvements in the USB subsystem. PC-BSD is designed to make BSD mu ch easier for desktop use. Screenshots and installation guide
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Cassandra Database accepted as a Apache Top-Level Project
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The Apache Software Foundation board have accepted the open source Cassandra database as an Apache Top-Level Project
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New Python shell is a DreamPie
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DreamPie combines "best of" Python shells to provide an auto-completing, documentation-displaying environment for Python coders
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Novell and Citrix to collaborate on virtualisation
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Novell and Citrix have announced a new collaboration deal aimed at increasing virtualisation interoperability
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MonoDevelop support for MeeGo
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Novell is working on Mono support for the new MeeGo mobile Linux platform and for Google's Android platform
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Ubuntu for the US authorities
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American IT firm Autonomic Resources has been given the go-ahead to supply the US authorities with Canonical's Ubuntu and Landscape products
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PC-BSD 8.0 "Hubble Edition" arrives
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The PC-BSD developers have released version 8.0, the "Hubble Edition", of their open source FreeBSD-based operating system
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Blender 2.5 Alpha 1 arrives
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The Blender developers have released the first alpha for what will become version 2.6 of their open source 3D content creation suite, adding a number of new features and fixing more than 100 bugs from the previous development release
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FOSS for health care
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Hans-Holger Schmuhl has launched a new online medical portal that lists a number of Free/Libre Open Source Software (FOSS) projects aimed at the health care and medical professions. So far, more than 120 projects, in a number of categories, have been listed
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