The Fedora Project Board wants our project to remain in
compliance with Free and Open Source Software licenses. We also
want to make sure our Ambassadors are properly following those
licenses when they distribute Fedora. By making sure we are
meeting our obligations under these licenses, we protect Fedora
and all its contributors, including you, our Ambassadors.
Fedora's advice on GPL compliance
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So what's the easiest box to hack - Vista, Ubuntu or OS X?
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Tired of all the knee-jerk banter from fanboys about whose operating system is the most secure? So are the organizers of the CanSecWest security conference, which will be held in Vancouver later this month. And with a contest awarding as much as $25,000 worth of prizes, they're likely to breathe fresh life into a stale debate.
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Open source's green claims
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The combination of free software from the likes of Linux and GNU with virtualisation - which maximises computing efficiency - is a compelling proposition. It offers lower costs, flexibility and greater efficiency, plus environmental benefits
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Novell chief: We helped Microsoft be more open
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To many outsiders and to numerous sections of the open-source community, Novell's decision to make a deal with Microsoft in 2006 to avoid litigation around Linux was motivated by desperation.
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Thingamablog makes client-side blogging easy
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Thingamablog is a cross-platform GPL blogging application that lets you create, update, and maintain multiple blogs from the client side. Thingamablog even acts as its own FTP client when you're ready to publish or update your blog with new content. The software is easy enough for beginners to use, but sophisticated enough that veteran bloggers will appreciate it too.
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Install Anyterm for remote terminal access without SSH
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Anyterm allows you to have secure terminal access to a server without needing any special software on a client machine beyond a Web browser. For example, with Anyterm you can open a terminal into your server from an Internet cafe. Because Anyterm uses a pseudo-terminal for communication with the shell, you can run most command-line tools from an Anyterm terminal running inside a Web browser.
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Web Servers: Don't Count Apache Out
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There's been discussion in the open source world about a decline in the popularity of the dominant Apache web server. These concerned are fueled largely by the Netcraft survey of the internet, which shows a 20% decline in Apache's market share over the last three years, from a high near 70% to the 50% or so it enjoys today.
Read more »Sun’s Small Business Server Push Includes Ubuntu Linux
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Ubuntu Linux is moooovin’ on up in the Linux server neighborhood. When Sun announced a major open source initiative targeting small and midsize businesses this week, a lot of people failed to realize that Sun would include servers certified for Ubuntu. Here’s the scoop.
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KolourPaint: More than a Microsoft Paint clone
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Just as Microsoft Paint is included with every Windows installation, so KolourPaint has been part of the kdegraphics package since KDE 3.3. This simple raster graphics editor works well not only in KDE, but also in Xfce, GNOME, and Fluxbox.
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alltray - Dock any program into the system tray
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With AllTray you can dock any application with no native tray icon (like Evolution, Thunderbird, Terminals) into the system tray. A high-light feature is that a click on the “close” button will minimize back to system tray. It works well with Gnome, KDE, XFCE 4*, Fluxbox* and WindowMaker*. (*) No drag ‘n drop support. Enable with “-nm” option.
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Brazilian Enterprises Embrace Open Source
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Linux and related open-source software has gained an increasingly important role among large local corporations in Brazil, according to a recent study.
Read more »Subcontractors, Meet Open Source
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Now that the recent lawsuit against Verizon (NYSE: VZ) by a couple of open source developers has been settled, it's become clear -- as some people suspected -- that the real offender here wasn't Verizon per se but a subcontractor, Actiontec.
Read more »Google playing politics with open source
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For open source, a choice between Google and Microsoft is a false choice.
Yet that’s what Google CEO Eric Schmidt is offering, as when he claims a Microsoft-Yahoo combination might “break the Internet” or that the two might act against the openness of the Internet
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Linux powers Zigbee-based home monitor
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A British startup called AlertMe.com has introduced a remotely managed security system that runs off a Linux-driven Hub. The AlertMe Hub tracks various sensors via Zigbee, and then reports back to AlertMe.com's servers, which in turn relay alarm events to the customer via SMS or email.
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Open Source Development For iPhone Takes Shape
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There is no shortage of hype around developing for the Apple iPhone. Moving beyond the hype there are also real tools, among them an open source tool from Ajax vendor Aptana.
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