ZFS is an advanced filesystem created by Sun Microsystems but not supported in the Linux kernel. The ZFS_on_FUSE project allows you to use ZFS through the Linux kernel as a FUSE filesystem. This means that a ZFS filesystem will be accessible just like any other filesystem the Linux kernel lets you use.
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How Microsoft’s OSS Insiders Can Plant the Seeds of Intellectual Monopolies
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Microsoft wants software patents in its protocols to be acknowledged in Europe and enforced (possibly by remote intervention)
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Why Is Mono in Fedora? Nobody Knows… It’s Possibly a Secret
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The story about Fedora's inclusion of Mono leaves more questions than answers
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Fresh Linux Mint is a mixed bag
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Linux Mint is a heavily customized community-driven derivative built on top of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. According to the creators, its purpose is "to produce an elegant, up-to-date, and comfortable GNU/Linux desktop distribution." The latest release, Linux Mint 5.0 "Elyssa", released this month, retains most of Ubuntu's stability and features, but distinguish itself with unique features and tweaks.
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Community Source Software: If You Build It, They Will Join
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The Utah Department of Health has enlisted the Collaborative Software Initiative to develop a system for meeting CDC requirements for infectious disease tracking and reporting. The system is being built using the community sourcing model, a model that mixes both open source and commercial interest elements.
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ASUS, Xandros, Microsoft and Other Business Partners
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Several companies that have deals with Microsoft and may be harmful to GNU/Linux as a result
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Monopoly Abuser Feels the Wrath of Intellectual Monopolies
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Microsoft may have just lost half a billion dollars for 'stealing' the idea of filling out forms and using styli on tablets
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Novell, Microsoft… and IBM… Maybe Oracle Too (Part I)
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Exploring the role of prolific Linux users in the Microsoft/Novell deal
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Acquia commercializing Drupal open-source publishing platform
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While blogging platforms like WordPress and Movable Type have considerable name recognition among Web users, few outside the development community know about this flexible and open-source content management system Drupal, which powers sites like Sony BMG's Myplay, PopSci.com, and the Web 2.0 blog Center Networks.
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Version Control: Thanks, BitKeeper — Welcome, Bazaar
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During the last month, MySQL code has been migrated from BitKeeper to Bazaar. Bazaar is a distributed, free revision control system sponsored and supported by Canonical, the company behind the fast-growing Linux distribution Ubuntu.
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Top 10 Best GTK Applications Not Included in GNOME
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The article reviews 10 GTK applications which don't come with the GNOME desktop environment, and are third-party applications: GIMP, Banshee, OpenOffice.org, Firefox, XChat, VLC, Deluge, Geany, LinuxDC++ and Inkscape. Screenshots included.
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Should Carriers Fear Open Source?
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Telecom juggernaut BT opens up about how it's using open source, though there are still some issues to overcome.
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GPL divide still lives, one year on
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More proof time flies. GPL v. 3 is one year old. To “celebrate,” Black Duck Software looked at some of its own license resources , including its list of V.3 licensees, concluding that the divide between V.2 and V.3 licenses still lives, one year on. Black Duck founder Douglas Levin said inertia is on V.2’s side.
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Red Hat Network to be open-sourced
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Red Hat plans to announce Thursday that it is open-sourcing Red Hat Network (RHN), its Web-based Linux infrastructure management platform, according to CEO Jim Whitehurst.
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Set Up a Custom Worksheet with KSysGuard
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The KDE System Guard at first glance just looks like a simple system monitor application which lets you take a look at the System Load and Processes running on your machine. It is actually capable of a lot more monitoring than that, and if you delve deeper into it, you can customise the way it works to show you information about your system that you are interested in.
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