Over the past couple of years, Microsoft shops have been increasingly wooed by vendors offering alternatives to Windows, Exchange, Microsoft Office and other Microsoft wares. The competition has grown so fierce that in May, Red Hat went so far as to sue Switzerland (and win).
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Novell slapped for impersonating Red Hat
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It's no secret that Novell would dearly love to trade market share with Red Hat in the Linux market. Red Hat, however, isn't happy with at least one of Novell's chosen strategies for getting there: Cloning.
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Firefox juggles plans
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Firefox has dropped version 3.7 from its roadmap and will roll out new features in the next few weeks together with 3.6.
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Linux.conf.au - Day Two
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The second day of the conference dawned just as bright and sunny as the first. The opening keynote was delivered by Gabriella Coleman, Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.
Read more »75% of Linux code now written by paid developers
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The Linux world makes much of its community roots, but when it comes to developing the kernel of the operating system, it's less a case of "volunteers ahoy!" and more a case of "where's my pay?".
Read more »Commercial open source had very good 2009
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2009 was very good for open-source businesses. Sure, there was the very public news of Red Hat's gravity-defying year, along with Novell's SUSE Linux business climbing each quarter, but what of the still-private open-source companies?
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Install and Configure Cacti monitoring tool in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) Server
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Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool’s data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box.
Read more »LCA 2010: Wanna kill a FOSS community?
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As free and open source software becomes more and more a part of mainstream computing, it is common to find large commercial organisations taking a big interest in FOSS projects, sometimes to the extent of taking over such projects.
Read more »Red Hat Counters Oracle, Novell Linux Support Claims
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At first glance, Red Hat’s biggest rival is Microsoft. But take a closer look and Red Hat seems to be equally concerned about two other fierce rivals. They are (1) Free Linux and (2) so-called low-cost Linux support offerings from Novell and Oracle. Here’s the story.
Read more »Open Source House Launches Design Competition
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Architectural Web site Arch Daily points to a design competition at Open Source House for individuals or teams to create a eco-friendly sustainable single-family house for a specifically designated spot in Ghana. The contest, which runs until May 15, 2010, encourages designers to "think big" and come up with ways their initial designs can be implemented on a larger scale.
Read more »European approval for Oracle acquisition of Sun expected this week
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According to the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital blog, Oracle and Sun expect that the European Commission will approve the acquisition of Sun Microsystems some time this week.
Read more »Try The New Terminator 0.90 (Alpha 1)
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Terminator 0.90 (branch named Epic Refactor) work is still in progress, but I've tried the latest bzr today (alpha 1) and except some limitations (see below), everything seems to be working fine.
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Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) Explained
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"The fundamental purpose of the ICMP protocol is to report problems with the delivery of IP datagrams", says networking expert Swayam Prakasha. Join him in his latest article designed to help you discover more about one of the most popular protocols in the TPCG/IP suite…
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Monitoring Disk Usage With Iotop
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If you want to keep an eye on the CPU usage of your processes, you can use top. For disk I/O, the Python program iotop does the same thing...
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Adding up the explanations for ACTA's "shameful secret"
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Why is an intellectual property treaty being negotiated in the name of the US public kept quiet as a matter of national security and treated as "some shameful secret"?
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