Reader reaction to our coverage of new Defense Department guidance that puts open-source software on equal footing with proprietary software has ranged from cheers to questions about whether the move will change anything.
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Using Temporary Tables to Speed Up MySQL
If you're fetching several resultsets that contain a lot of common data, it can make sense to obtain a single resultset that has all the data that's required, store it in a temporary table, and then select from this temporary table as needed.
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Survey in Italy: OpenOffice.org Usage in 50% of Companies, GNU/Linux at 63%
One survey - however biased it may be - claims and demonstrates that Italy's adoption of Free software is well ahead of the rest of the world
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First GNOME 3.0 Development Release Available
The much anticipated GNOME 3.0 release is coming in March, but the first development release (v2.29.1) for GNOME 3.0 (a.k.a. 2.30) is now available this week.
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Mozilla's messaging story gains credibility
Mozilla isn't just about browsing anymore. While the foundation made its name with the increasingly popular open-source Firefox browser, it is quickly moving beyond its roots, particularly in the area of e-mail.
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Sun Microsystems and SirsiDynix Libel GNU/Linux and Free Software
Two companies are shown for their smears of Free software competitors, one using a leak (probably disgruntled employee) and another using a former employee
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AMD Loses Its Linux Core Engineering Manager, Matthew Tippett
AMD's Catalyst Linux driver has improved substantially over the past few years with AMD now providing same-day Linux support, a near feature parity to the Windows Catalyst driver, and first-rate performance. Playing a critical role in improving the ATI Linux support has been Matthew Tippett. However, today will be his last day serving ATI / Advanced Micro Devices.
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Jeremy Allison on “Why Free Software”
New video from Jeremy Allison, Samba. Go here for the ogg version.
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Ford announced that it is testing an open-source platform to could be used in the future to develop applications that make use of Sync to connect to social networks in the cloud.
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Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) Screenshots Gallery
This is screenshots tour of Ubuntu 9.10 (code name “Karmic Koala”), the most recent release of Ubuntu, released on the 29th of October 2009.Click on the Image to view small view.
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Where the battle lines are drawn
To where do we take the battle in support of OpenSource and Free Software? We are told to choose our battles carefully and not to fight where it is least effective.
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Setting up your own DNS
Setting up a dns at home do not require a masters degree in black magic. Following this 3 part series will guide you through the steps needed to set up a caching dns that resolves for a small home network or a small business network.
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The Perfect Server - Ubuntu 9.10 [ISPConfig 3]
This tutorial shows how to prepare an Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, MyDNS nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more.
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ZaReason Bolsters Ubuntu 9.10 Branding
ZaReason is taking a small but significant step to help strengthen the Ubuntu brand. To celebrate the Ubuntu 9.10 launch, the PC maker is offering "a stick of Ubuntu aluminum case badges with each computer ordered" October 29 through November 5. Here's why you should care.
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Mono and Fraud
One reader's thoughts about the spreading of Mono inside GNU/Linux
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanFrom the very start, directories have served a very useful purpose on the Internet. (One I find useful for example is Free Web Directory). News sites can also be considered directories: they index and categorize news stories! What about categorizing software? In the open source world you get Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat; there are still, believe it or not, shareware and freeware directories like FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and Freeware Downloads (although you need to be careful, as they are not like their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselAbout Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software?, it's clear that the topic of software directories is very hot. Most of what you find on Google, however, are not pointing to free and open soruce software -- or worse, they mix the two. Examples of such sites are Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download, which simply don't focus on "free as in freedom", and still can be used as good free software directories.



