Have a spare PC gathering dust? Turn it into a multi-purpose server using ZeroShell. Whether there's a real need or you want to do some tinkering around, you ought to find something useful in ZeroShell. Best of all, its Linux-based, open sourced, and free.
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Open Source and the Cloud: Pay Dirt or Parasite?
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Does using open source software pay off in a total cost sense when compared to commercial offerings today? Is it worth the usually lower cost, or will an enterprise that casts its lot with FOSS be trapped in a high-risk situation where they can't get support and innovation?
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Could free software liberate poor countries?
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Nine years ago I wrote this headline for a Linux Today story. You can read the full story below.
This is a follow-up.
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Busting 4 Myths About Open Source
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The second thing that angered me last week was on the topic of open source myths. It began when I received my copy of the May, 2009, issue of Website Magazine. This is the ONLY free industry publication that I actually read and I thought it was a pretty good until this week.
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Home Education and Open Source Software
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Home education is all the rage and for good reasons. How can Open Source Software help?
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Microsoft to open source: Please don't compete on price!
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Microsoft must really love open source and want to see it succeed. Recently, Microsoft's open-source team lead, Sam Ramji, urged open-source vendors not to compete with Microsoft on price, but instead focus on "value."
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Open source gains while proprietary software declines
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It used to be so easy to be a proprietary-software vendor.
That is, until the open-source neighbors moved in. As noted in a Gartner analysis from late last year, proprietary software is on the wane within enterprises while open source is gaining
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The 6 Free Softwares For Designers That Are Absolutely Useful
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We have lots of commercial software available to use on different platform to complete our different work. As they are not free and sometime we do not able to purchase or for some reason we urgently need some software to complete any task but without having a licensed copy of commercial software we can not perform that job.
Read more »DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 299, 20 April 2009
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Welcome to this year's 16th issue of DistroWatch Weekly! It's the Ubuntu release week (or Ubuntu "circus", as some prefer to call it), a major event in the calendar of many open source software enthusiasts.
Read more »Is Open Source Experience Overrated?
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If you're looking to polish your programming chops, what could possibly be better, more job-worthy experience than immersing yourself in a real live open source software project? There are thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, and a few of them have arguably changed the world.
Read more »Of RMS, Ethical Visions, and Copyright Law
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As RMS emphasises again and again, at the heart of free software lies an ethical vision of sharing and mutual respect. Although open source blurs that vision somewhat thanks to the glasses of pragmatism that it wears, the basic idea is still there. And yet we talk relatively little about that ethical aspect, which is a pity, because it is both important and interesting.
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JavaScript revision aims for browser cohesion
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ECMA has released the final draft of the Fifth Edition of its scripting language, with Adobe, Microsoft and Mozilla coming together to make all browsers work with a more open standard. The JSON object encoding format is now supported.
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Aberdeen hosts first advanced open source training course in Scotland
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Local business Suretec teams up with world experts at Digium to bring ‘eccentric and entertaining’ professional trainer to north-east Scotland.
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Learn how to install and configure Nagios on different operating systems
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Learning Nagios 3.0 is a comprehensive configuration guide to monitor and maintain your network and systems. It is a practical guide to setting up the Nagios 3.0 open source network monitoring tool, installing and configuring Nagios 3 on various operating systems. It will help understand system monitoring and how Nagios works.
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