China, which has long wished to develop its own computer industry, has chosen to go with Linux on the software side. Loongson is its hope for the hardware side.
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Government not monitoring open source use, minister admits
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“Information on the total use and value of open source in government is not held centrally and could not be obtained except at disproportionate cost.”
But open source software did “play an important role” in major government applications including the Directgov web portal, the online vehicle licensing system and Jobcentre Plus’s system to help people to find work, Merron added.
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Running Linux on the PS3 - A detailed view of what's out there
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the PLAYSTATION 3 has come supplied with everything you need, out of the box - such as an integrated hard disk, and the ability to run a monitor as a sensible resolution. As a result, a number of Linux distributions have been working on making the PLAYSTATION 3 a first-class system, as easy to use and install as a "regular" PC-based version.
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Is Fighting Your Patent Case in Public Really a Good Idea?
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In recent weeks, Sun Microsystems GC Mike Dillon and CEO Jonathan Schwartz have been blogging about their company's IP battle with Network Appliances, trading barbs with NetApp co-founder Dave Hitz, who has been commenting on the case on his own blog.
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Copyright activists want Canada to avoid WIPO treaty
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The Canadian government’s affirmation for copyright reform in this month’s throne speech could have implications on technological innovation as well as the open source community, according to industry activists.
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Blocking bots with mod security
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There are a few risks and reasons to block certain bots 1) If you use Apache as a proxy spammers may try to use your Apache to "fake" clicks on advertisements on their pages, 2) to send plain old email spam and 3) to steal content from your site and use it as filler on their sites used only to serve out ads. mod_security can prevent all of this.
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Red Hat VP Michael Chen: Building a Strategy for China
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"It's a very different marketplace, and having this very American, centralized view and trying to do things in the old way is not going to work," said Red Hat Vice President Michael Chen on opening up business opportunities for his company in China. "You need to have a longer-term strategy. Try to build your China strategy for five to 10 years."
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The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu Studio 7.10
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This document describes how to set up an Ubuntu Studio 7.10 desktop. The result is a fast, secure and extendable system with focus on multimedia creation - the real-time (RT) kernel is installed by default. It provides all you need for daily work and entertainment.
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Halloween XII: What’s really behind those Microsoft licenses?
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In the last week of October 1998, a confidential Microsoft memo detailing their strategy against Linux and Open source was leaked to Eric S. Raymond, who annotated it and posted it on the web. This became known as the first Halloween Document. Between 1998 and 2004 Eric posted 10 other Halloween Documents
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Squandering one of the industry's best open source talents
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Miguel says that he's doing this to bring the proprietary world into the open-source camp. It's not working, Miguel. You don't convince by capitulating. You convince by winning, though I'd like to think that open source can win on its own terms - terms that include collaboration and a non-zero sum game.
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Van Wyk aims to transform Red Hat for future growth
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Having established itself as the leading enterprise Linux vendor, Red Hat is in a pivotal phase of reinventing itself as a broader open-source software provider and a long-term technology leader a la Microsoft and Oracle. It's a tall order, and among other things it will take a business plan that lets the company move smoothly through this make-or-break stage.
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Why Linux Will Succeed On The Desktop
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Former Linux Journal editor Nicholas Petreley argues that the open-source operating system will break through big time on the client side, especially if pre-installs increase and the KDE graphical environment is adopted.
[Editor's Note: This article offers a counterpoint and rebuttal to our earlier article, 7 Reasons Why Linux Won't Succeed On The Desktop.]
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Apache2, https, and Gutsy Gibbon
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This guide shows how to set up ssl with apache2 on ubuntu 7.10
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JavaScript shorthand tips and tricks
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"There is no official ECMAScript or JavaScript language feature called “shorthand”. Developers are responsible for coining the phrase, probably after realizing that terms like Ternary Condition are a bit archaic.
Read more »Perl Foundation calls for grant proposals
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"Newly elected Perl Foundation grant committee chair Alberto Simões has put out a call for grant proposals. The process goes like this: You propose a project you want to do, and how much TPF should pay you for it; you get the proposal approved; you do the project and TPF gives you money. What more could you want? ..."
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