A lot has been said of late concerning the way Apple slipped in a brand-new Safari installer into the Apple Software Update used by many hundreds of thousands of iPod-wielding Windows users. Let me offer a new perspective, from the open source point of view - why what Apple did was bad, and why open source developers wouldn’t do it.
Read more »Apple’s dirty Safari installer wouldn't happen in open source
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Fear! That should work!
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After I gave my presentation on the BRM, and after Ditesh gave his technical evaluation of the resolutions, the TC4 Chair opened the meeting to the floor. Mr Cheong Yuk Wai, from IASA Malaysia, volunteered. We expected him to delve into the technical matters which Microsoft should have braindumped him.
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Zenwalk Live 5.0 is ready
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"Zenwalk Live 5.0 is ready! Based on the 'Current' repository, the new Zenwalk Live features all the latest secure & stable versions of Zenwalk 5.0 standard packages. With this release, it is also our great pleasure to present Zen Installer which will enable you to install a standard Zenwalk system onto your computer's hard drive..."
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Firefox 2.0.0.13 security and stability update now available for download
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"As part of Mozilla Corporation’s ongoing stability and security update process, Firefox 2.0.0.13 is now available..."
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Free/Libre/Open Source Software: International Collaboration and Development Roadmap
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FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software) is arguably one of the best examples of open, collaborative, internationally distributed production and development. FLOSS provides numerous benefits for developing countries, such as low cost, adaptability, and a free-of-charge high quality training environment, as shown by the FP6 FLOSSWORLD study.
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Open Source Emergency Service CAD Program Released
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The Open Information Systems for Emergency Services (Open ISES) Project recently released their latest version of an open source Computer Aided Dispatch program called Tickets. They have also begun work and released our first draft of Cards, an Emergency Medical Dispatch program.
Read more »Shocking Expose: Why We *Really* Love Linux
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"This is a paradox," Dolezal admits. "We often complain Linux isn't more widely used. But that's one of the reasons we use it. It gives us a feeling of being a special clique. Like we're better than 'those ignorant masses.'" Can this really be true? Can Linux -- that most open, free and egalitarian of operating systems -- really be the basis of an elitist clique?
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Leveraging Free
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"Free" has been a founding concept in the Linux world since before there was Linux — or GNU/Linux, if you prefer. In his history of the GNU project, Richard M. Stallman begins, "When I started working at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1971, I became part of a software-sharing community that had existed for many years.
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Installing a secure instant messaging server on Linux
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The popularity of Microsoft's Live Communication Server and the many XMPP/Jabber Server implementations have tech analysts like the ones over at Slashdot asking the question "Is XMPP the 'Next Big Thing'?" The advent of instant message (IM) servers has heralded the age of live communication in the enterprise.
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Microsoft continues to prey upon the overly cautious with patent deals
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Apparently Microsoft has a thing for conservative Japan. Just when I thought Microsoft had closed patent cross-licensing deals with every Japanese firm ever to have considered corporate existence, Microsoft surprises me with a deal with Onkyo.
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5 Tips to Improve your Linux Desktop
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Here are 5 funkalicious tips to improve your Linux desktop. Weather it be speed, or just look and feel, here are some of my favourites. (All these tips were written and fully work on a Ubuntu desktop, but theres no reason why they wont work on any other Linux distribution).
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What CAN’T Linux do?
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A few weeks ago a colleague of mine sent me a link to a story about a man who clustered together 16 Playstation 3s using Linux to simulate black holes. I had forgotten about this until yesterday when I was thinking, “What can’t Linux do?” I know, I know, you’re thinking: Alright fanboy, bring on your dogma. Not so.
Read more »Theory confirmed : Intel and AMD about opensource
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When AMD begun to release specs for its GPU, I've read a theory about the fact that this move was motivated by the project to release hybrid CPU/GPU by AMD. Indeed, AMD CPU were also successful because Linux users like AMD too.
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Teens Bring Laptops to South African Children
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Two teenage sisters from Boston, along with their family and school, have joined forces with an American non-profit organization to provide laptop computers to underprivileged children in South Africa.
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Open source: It's time to get down to business
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IT vendors are trying to make the open-source process better for business users. There's still work to do.
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