If you’ve been involved in IT over the past few decades, you know that the flame of war has always burned strong. It’s like the best rivalries in sports, with camps residing on opposite sides of the field. Chances are, you’ve been in at least one of these flame wars over the years.
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Why is Acer Curtailing Its Linux Efforts?
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Acer suddenly pushes back the Android plan it was so excited about; ASUS temporarily neglects sub-notebooks
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Zend squeezes PHP into business suit
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Zend Technologies has announced the latest version of its open-source framework for PHP, offering improved support for Microsoft and Novell environments. The changes are part of what Zend called more of a business focus, which encompasses updates to help those building and plumbing web services and enterprise applications into PHP.
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Adobe Released An Alpha Version Of Flash Player 10 for Linux x86_64 (64 bit)
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Yesterday, Adobe released an alpha version of Flash Player plug-in version 10 for x86_64 architecture. This is a prerelease version of the Adobe® Flash® Player 10 software 64-bit Linux platforms. It is being made available for developers and consumers to test their content to ensure new features function as expected, existing content plays back correctly, and there are no compatibility issues.
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Novell Still Serves Microsoft with Mono
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Novell's latest developments around Mono further fulfill Microsoft's needs
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Beyond the hype: Where open source actually saves you money
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Talk to any open-source vendor (myself included), and we'll tell you that there's a lot of money to be saved by dropping your proprietary software in favor of open-source alternatives. But is that always the case? And, if so, what are the necessary preconditions for saving money?
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Microsoft’s Extend-and-Extinguish with ActiveX is Blowing Up in Rival Vendors’ Faces
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MicroHoo: Good or Bad for Open Source?
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News that Microsoft and Yahoo have finally agreed a formula for their collaboration comes almost as a relief after what seems like years of tiresome on-off negotiations. I think it's necessary to distinguish between short-term and long-term effects.
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Will Smartbooks Replace Netbooks?
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Could netbooks be replaced by smartbooks? Yes. But will they? Maybe. The general idea is to run smartphone software such as Google's Linux-based Android and Microsoft's Windows CE (AKA Windows Mobile) on portable computers with 7in-10in screens.
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Are we too naive by believing that GNU/Linux is more secure by design?
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Technology FLOSS: "GNU/Linux is far more secure than Windows among other things because it's designed to be so (a real muti-user OS by design, real Networked OS by design, etc) plus other customs that we *NIX users have like not using the root account to play Frozen Bubble and so on."
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Tasksel: an installation system for ubuntu (debian)
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I found this in the ubuntu documentation. Tasksel is an installation system that is an integral part of the Debian installer; it is also included in Ubuntu. Tasksel groups software packages by tasks and offers an easy way to install all the packages needed for that task.
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WASC Honeypot Opens Up With Open Source mod_security
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The idea behind the IT security concept known as the honeypot is all about luring hackers into a server or network so they can be tracked. The Web Application Security Consortium (WASC) has its own particular brand of honey to attract would-be attackers -- a blend of open source and open proxies.
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Linux Appliances Made Easy With Suse Studio: Arstechnica
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Novell has launched a new Web service called SUSE Studio that simplifies the process of building Linux-based software appliances. It provides a convenient interface for creating custom versions of Novell's SUSE Linux distribution with specialized configurations. The service is part of Novell's broader SUSE Appliance Program initiative.
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Automated spam translation keeps global spam rates near 90%
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While spam levels globally remain at a two-year high of approximately 90 percent, some European countries are seeing levels of over 95%.
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Speaking UNIX: Man oh man
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UNIX has hundreds if not thousands of commands, and it's impossible to remember every option and nuance. But, happily, you don't have to: man, UNIX's built-in, online reference system, is man's best friend.
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