As a committed Ubuntu Linux newbie, I've been feeling pretty pleased with my new distribution over the past couple of days. However, I've hit a telecommunications snag and, judging by the free flow of angst pervading all of the Linux forums I've visited, I'm not alone in my disgust.
Read more »No Linux or Mac drivers for Skype phones? What are they thinking?
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Red Hat, Amazon deliver Linux on demand
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Red Hat Wednesday made its Enterprise Linux OS available on demand by releasing it for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service that hosts business applications. The move is part of Red Hat's so-called "automation" strategy, which aims to deliver a Linux and open-source infrastructure for simplifying how applications run and are managed.
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Open Source VoIP Guide Part 3: Ready for business?
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While the strongest uptake of Asterisk is in the education sector, analyst firm Gartner says businesses should be open to using Asterisk.
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Red Hat Looks to Sun to Crank Up Application Heat
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Red Hat has signed a pair of agreements with Sun Microsystems that will help put the open source company on the fast track to delivering a more complete end-to-end application development and runtime stack for its Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers.
Read more »Linux Game Company Opens Doors
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Sixth Floor Labs LLC, a Linux game development company, has launched their business today. Founded by Ethan Glasser-Camp and Carl Li, the company aims to improve Linux's desktop feasibility through the creation of high-quality games. Games are "sold" to the Internet community through the "ransom model" -- for one large payment, the product is released under the GPL and freed forever.
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Strong Server Sales Lift Sun to Profitable Q1
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Sun Microsystems reported net income of US$89 million on strong hardware sales for its first quarter of fiscal 2008, with the company posting its fourth consecutive profitable quarter after several years of financial loss and instability.
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MontaVista acquires Korean embedded Linux firm
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MontaVista has bought out its partners to take full ownership of a Seoul-based embedded Linux venture. MontaVista Software Korea will continue to help MontaVista support Samsung, LG Electronics, ETRI, and other Korean customers using MontaVista's embedded Linux distribution and development tools, MontaVista said.
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Web 2.0 is Dead, Long Live Openness (aka FREEDOM ?)
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"Whenever I meet with VCs I've noticed that there is a growing distaste for Web 2.0 startups. The "Web 2.0" term, in connection with a startup, and as a collection of concepts, is very tired in this community."
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Autodesk's Liam Speden on how open source can help coordinate our world
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Autodesk recently announced plans to donate its coordinate system (CS) and map projection technology to the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo).
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Open source foundations team up for Hong Kong conference
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The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and the Eclipse Foundation are hosting a summit to reflect the fast growth of the open source movement in Asia. OSSummit Asia will be held Nov. 26-30 at Le Meridian hotel in Hong Kong's Cyberport IT zone.
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The Business of Open Source: Making Success Your Biggest Problem
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CIO Magazine has a collection of articles about the business issues in an open source endeavor. This one, written by JT Smith, includes tips on operating an open-source project and establishing a solid business around it to provide financing and additional resources. See also the sidebars (highlighted on the first page).
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Applications Versus Formats
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Our view is that if there is to be a Universal Document Format, the format must be the nexus of interoperability.
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HP Backs Red Hat in Government Biz Bid
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HP today released new Multi-Level Security (MLS) Services for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 in support of the open source OS vendor's government push.
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Data Center Managers Seek Salvation in Virtualization
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More and more data center managers have begun implementing virtualization and server See the HP Proliant DL380 G5 Server with Systems Insight Manager – Click here. consolidation strategies in an effort to cope with the growing complexities they face today, according to a Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) Latest News about Symantec report released Tuesday.
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Perl Foundation calls for grant proposals
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"Newly elected Perl Foundation grant committee chair Alberto Simões has put out a call for grant proposals. The process goes like this: You propose a project you want to do, and how much TPF should pay you for it; you get the proposal approved; you do the project and TPF gives you money. What more could you want? ..."
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