All the blithering excitement about Google's Chrome OS announcement shouldn't blind us to the fact that it's currently vapourware and history suggests it will make little difference to the overall PC market.
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Red Hat: From manic acquisitions to focused execution
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Red Hat is at the top of its game right now, delivering quarter after quarter of impressive performance despite (or, perhaps, because of) a global recession. But it wasn't always thus. Despite a meteoric initial public offering in 1999, Red Hat spent years fumbling about for a winning game plan, dabbling in technologies that took it far beyond its core competence in operating systems.
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VirtualBox 3.0: An easy way to mix and match operating systems
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Whether you prefer Linux, Windows, or Mac OS X, you can probably get almost everything you need done with your chosen OS. However, sometimes a task demands an OS that you are not currently using. That's where virtualization programs like Sun Microsystem's VirtualBox 3.0 come in.
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Dangerous Security Flaw Likely Just a Hoax
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A claim of a software vulnerability in a program used to connect securely to servers across the Internet is likely a hoax, according to an analyst with the SANS Internet Storm Center.
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Kdenlive: A Video Editor in the Spotlight
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Linux distributions strive to include all the useful applications that users will need, but a quality video editor has been lacking for quite some time. Now with KDE4 getting better and better, could an application like Kdenlive fill that gap?
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What to expect from the next version of Ubuntu
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The great thing about Linux distro development, when compared with OS X or Vista, is that the whole process is transparent. You can see at any stage what the developers are planning, and even download the latest build of your favourite distribution.
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Ajaxed – Classic ASP Library With AJAX Support
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The ajaxed library is free classic ASP library with built-in AJAX support, providing you with common tools for the development of modern web applications.
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Search-Based Keyword Tool From Google
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If you have ever advertised at Google Adwords, you probably experienced a keyword guessing process.
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SCO Files Notice of Cure Amounts Re Leases and Executory Contracts
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There is a monster SCO filing in the bankruptcy, 531 pages, I'm told, a Notice of Cure Amounts in Connection with the Assumption and Assignment of Unexpired Leases and Executory Contracts [PDF] and then a 7-part exhibit. SCO proposes to transfer everything on this list to unXis "free and clear of all liens, claims, encumbrances and interests upon satisfaction of the cure amounts...
Read more »Get to Know Clustered File Systems
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Many options exist for setting up clustered and highly available storage, but figuring out what each does will take a bit of research. Your choice of storage architecture as well as file system is crucial, as most have severe limitations that require careful design workarounds.
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Ultimate Edition 2.2
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This release was built from Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope with all the goodies pre-added you have come to love in prior Ultimate Edition releases & all upgrades pre-installed for your convenience. This release has 2 kernels 2.6.28-13 & 2.6.28-11 selectable at boot time increasing your chances of success.
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VirtualBox Solutions
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As a Linux administrator or as as Desktop user, there are times when you would either like to try a different distribution or when you need several test machines that you can blow away when you are done with them.. I have used VMWare with a a lot of success over the years but VirtualBox provides an excellent option that is Open Source.
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Installing Sonar on a linux build server
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Anyone who has read many of my blog entries or articles will know that I'm a great fan of code quality metrics. By code quality metrics, I am referring to coding standards, best practices, complexity, but also to other associated statistics such as the number of unit tests run and the level of code coverage.
Read more »Ubuntu goes blue on my desktop
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I decided that I was tired of brown, brown, brown in Ubuntu, so I changed out the wallpaper on my Ubuntu 8.04 desktop to this blue-themed image from the fine folks at GNOME. I also changed the way my "theme" looks by going to System - Preferences - Appearance in the GNOME menu and picking something less brown, more blue.
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Sorry Linux but the chicken came first
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In the old question of which came first, the chicken or the egg, I got the answer this week, at least as it relates to computing. The chicken came first.
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