There’s a real explosion of cloud platforms and management tools, it seems you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting one these days. In the commercial proprietary solutions space you have – CA’s 3Terra AppLogic, Enomaly, Nimbula, RightScale. In open source there are Eucalyptus, Cloud.com, Open Nebula and Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud. There are a bunch more that I failed to mention.
Read more »Is OpenStack Cloud Computing Rocket Science?
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Microsoft's Iron languages embrace 'official' open source
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Microsoft has cracked open .NET a little further and surrendered some control over its development platform to the open-source community. Latest code for company's take on Python and Ruby – fine-tuned for .NET, IronPython, and IronRuby – has been quietly released under the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) license.
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5 ways to use bootable Linux live discs
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In the almost 20 years since Linux was first released into the world, free for anyone to use and modify however they like, the operating system has been put to a lot of uses. One incredibly useful way that Linux has been adapted to the needs of modern computer users is as a "live CD."
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Time-Lapse Photography with your Inexpensive Canon Camera
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When your camera is 500 feet up hanging from a balloon, how do you tell it when to shoot photos? Or you want to shoot some time-lapse photos of clouds, the changing light on a mountain, a slow-moving highway repair crew...Akkana Peck shows us how to remote-control all kinds of Canon camera functions using CHDK, the Canon Hack Development Kit.
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Linuxables: Get Your Edit On With Gedit
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Gedit is the "official" text editor for the GNOME desktop. It offers plenty of features that will appeal to just about any level of user
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Richard Stallman's Mono and DotGNU patent concerns
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RMS's utopian advice runs counter to commercial logic and fails to advance the cause of software freedom.
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50 Open Source Replacements for Popular Financial Software
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For our list of open source financial tools, we cast a wide net and included applications related to enterprise resource management, point-of-sale and even employee time tracking. Not to mention traditional accounting and financial management tools.
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A lesson in Linux: Eating one’s own dog food
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There is an old saying in the Linux community (actually in just about every community – but I heard it from a Linux developer first) “eating your own dog food” (or the shorter “hipster friendly” version dogfooding. This basically means using the product you create.
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VMware, Zimbra Open Source Set to Attack Microsoft Exchange August 1
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VMware and Zimbra are preparing to launch an open source attack against Microsoft Exchange, starting on August 1. The effort will ultimately include thousands of VMware partners. Here are the details.
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Add your own GIMP features
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One of the most compelling reasons for using free or open source software is that it provides an opportunity for the user of the product to add whatever features he wants or needs. But the ability to add features is constrained by a project's size and complexity, and the nature of available documentation.
Read more »Privacy Lawsuit Targets Net Giants Over ‘Zombie’ Cookies
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A wide swath of the net’s top websites, including MTV, ESPN, MySpace, Hulu, ABC, NBC and Scribd, were sued in federal court Friday on the grounds they violated federal computer intrusion law by secretly using storage in Adobe’s Flash player to re-create cookies deleted by users.
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Canonical brings IBM database to Ubuntu on the cloud
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Canonical and IBM have announced the release of a new virtual appliance of IBM’s DB2 Express-C database software, the free community edition of IBM's DB2, running on the Ubuntu cloud platform
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Lightspark 0.4.2 open source Flash player released
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The latest version of the Lightspark open source Flash player adds better compatibility for YouTube videos and sound synchronisation support
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Tax office goes Ubuntu for AUSkey Linux standard
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The Australian Taxation Office is preparing to release a Linux port of its AUSkey authentication software with Ubuntu being the reference distribution for testing and development.
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China and the Year of the GNU/Linux Desktop
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It's an old joke by now that this year will be the year of the GNU/Linux desktop – just like last year, and the year before that. But now there's a new twist...
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