I am going to tell a story just to give an understanding of the real value of FOSS in business.
Read more »The real value of FOSS to business – A personal example
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GNU/Linux Yawns at Apple’s Large iPhone (Without the Phone Functionality)
Further analysis (hopefully the last) of Apple's "disappointing" product and how it compares to many GNU/Linux counterparts
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German Federal Office of Justice: SCO Breaches Regulations in Germany
Operation of the SCO cowboys continues to be scandal-rich and a large fine is coming
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On Novell, Ubuntu, Microsoft and Mono
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Review: Mod-Security 2.5 by Magnus Mischel
One of my favorite things about mod_security is that (amongst other things), it provides logging where none was provided. In fact, there is a whole chapter dedicated to it (chapter 4 on audit logging). And thus the first chapter I went to (just for fun). So I started flipping back and forth between chapters 2 (writing rules) and 4 (audit logging) to create my ruleset.
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Five Linux Distros You Should Try
There are many Linux distros and we have unique reasons to like them. To fully master Linux, start with the top of the list - the most user-friendly - and slowly choose the next one, until you reach the bottom of the list - the most challenging - where you can get your hands dirty.
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KDE SC 4.4RC2 Fedora KDE preview
Interested in trying out KDE SC 4.4 but don’t want to do a full installation, risking system instability?
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Cloud Computing: What It Is and What It’s Not
Cloud computing is a concept. It is an architectural framework by which one or many organizations can deploy, manage and retract any workload, public or private. Cloud computing addresses business needs from a workload perspective.
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Review: Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit
I last looked at Ubuntu 9.04 a little over six months ago. So I decided it was time to see what has changed. Since I’m now testing on a 64-bit machine, I decided to test the 64-bit version of Ubuntu. So here we go:
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Get full versions of website on an Android phone
A user agent is a client application implementing a network protocol used in communications within a client-server distributed computing system. The term most notably refers to applications that access the World Wide Web, but other systems, such as the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), use the term user agent to refer to both end points of a communications session.
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Virtualized Supercomputer Operating System
New work on the Sandia National Laboratories Red Storm supercomputer — the 17th fastest in the world — is helping to make supercomputers more accessible.
Read more »The Register’s Suggestion: Novell and Microsoft’s Partner of the Year Should Merge
Citrix and Novell would be better off sharing a bed, argues a UNIX/Linux expert from The Register
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Defective by Design is Defective
Once again the Defective by Design have sprung into action to denounce another product from Apple, and once again nobody really cares. Defective by Design is a marketing campaign sponsored by the Free Software Foundation. While the FSF does plenty of good work, DBD is increasingly out of touch with the majority of users.
Read more »Government quotas on how much open source to buy appear to be backfiring
Beyond expressing a preference, does anything else need to be done to make sure that governments that say they are going "open source" really do so?" Quotas -- dictating specific percentages of open source usage -- seem an obvious answer, but in countries that have tried them, open source has not necessarily flourished. One country where quotas on open source use have been instituted is Hungary.
Read more »Machine Embroidery Management is coming to Linux
You may remember that one developer, David Boddie, had done some work, with the result that I could build .png files to visualise my patterns within Dolphin, and that we were hoping that the other developer who had shown interest, Purple-Bobby, would join us. That’s exactly what happened.
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