Administrators using CentOS, the free open source operating system built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, remain confident about the long-term stability of the OS, despite a recent shakeup prompted by the seeming disappearance of a CentOS administrator and co-founder.
Read more »Terracotta swallows open-source Java speed pill
Open-source Java clustering startup Terracotta is today expected to announce an acquisition that'll potentially boost the speed of clustered Java applications. The company said it's buying the IP behind the Apache-licensed Ehcache along with Ehcache founder Greg Luck, who'll be joining the Terracotta team. The goal is to integrate Ehcache with Teracotta.
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Mindcraft 2.0: Firefox Comes of Age
The Mindcraft benchmarks gave the lie to this position more effectively than anything the open source community could have done. At a stroke, Microsoft had anointed GNU/Linux as an official rival.
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Korona Brings KDE 4.3 To OpenSolaris
While Sun Microsystems puts their weight behind the GNOME desktop environment for Solaris and OpenSolaris, there are developers that do work on providing a quality experience for KDE on OpenSolaris. However, getting KDE to run on a clean OpenSolaris installation can require building KDE from source and taking various other steps.
Read more »Will The G1 Continue To Get One?
One of the significant disadvantages of being an early adopter of any new technology is what comes after it, specifically, the improvements that every technology experiences over time. Such appears to be the case for those who rushed to pick up the G1 - the first Android phone on the market - as questions have begun to pop up over whether the device is in line to see its last update.
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Creating Backups With luckyBackup On An Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop
This tutorial explains how to install and use luckyBackup on an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop. luckyBackup is an application for data back-up and synchronization powered by the rsync tool.
Read more »Hosting Mercurial Repositories with Nginx
Mercurial is a great distributed version control system written in Python. It is a "fast, lightweight source control management system designed for efficient handling of very large distributed projects".
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Storage Basics: Clustered File Systems
In this article we will cover a few common physical storage configurations, as well as clustered and distributed file system options. Hopefully, this is a good starting point to begin looking into the technology that will work best for your high availability storage needs.
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Drizzle for Christmas - year-end-prediction for MySQL fork
A production ready version of the MySQL fork Drizzle could be ready by the end of this year.
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Three Local Firefox Search Tips
The following article contains three interesting and hopefully useful Firefox tips that improve the local search in the Firefox web browser. Two of the tips are add-ons for the web browser while the last is a setting that provides smoother access to the local search options.
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Confirmed: Gartner and Burton Groups Wrong, Boycott Novell Correct on ODF and Patents
ODF and OpenOffice.org unaffected by the i4i dispute with Microsoft
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The Next Snake: What do Python 2.x programmers need to know about Python 3?
With the latest major Python release, creator Guido van Rossum saw the opportunity to tidy up his famous scripting language. What is different about Python 3.0? In this article, I offer some highlights for Python programmers who are thinking about making the switch to 3.x.
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Open Source Email Specialist Plans First Partner Summit
Open-Xchange, which promotes open source groupware to more than 500 resellers and integration partners worldwide, plans to host its first partner summit on October 8 in Germany. Here's the scoop, the opportunities and the challenges facing Open-Xchange.
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Repository List for Jaunty Jackalope
Here is the content sources.list through which you can install any necessary applications. So delete the whole content of your sources list and replace it with the this content (below).
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Linux Gaming
While one would imagine that trying to mass market proprietary software that is intended for an open source platform would be problematic, there are some major advantages.
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