"...In this interview Kaliya will take your questions about the status of shared identity systems, especially OpenID; the work being done at the Identity Commons; and how communities can leverage these resources..."
Read more »User-Centric Identity - Where is it, how we got here and where is it going? An interview with Kaliya Hamlin
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Asterisk creator: Consider open source VoIP, think twice about hybrid-hosted
Companies selecting a VoIP solution must choose from a dizzying array of options, including whether a hosted, hybrid-hosted or premise-based telephony system will work better for them, and whether the benefits of open source outweigh the potential risks.
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W3C: New draft of Behavioral Extensions to CSS
"...The new draft defines a binding CSS property and :bound-element pseudo-class. The other features are now covered by the XBL draft which is being developed by the W3C Web Application Formats Working Group..."
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The Perl Foundation: Grants Committee elects a new Chair
"The Perl Foundation is pleased to announce the election of Alberto Simões to the position of Grants Committee Chair. Alberto was elected by the Grants Committee members from a pool of four strong candidates..."
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Mozilla's Prism to Pull Web Apps Off the Browser
Popular as Web-based applications are becoming, the fact remains that most of them are tightly tied to the browser. In order to run Google Docs, for instance, you have to access it through a browser like Firefox or IE7. Mozilla Labs is working on Prism, a project it says could make Web apps run with the same ease and efficiency on the desktop as those natively installed on one's hard drive.
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Open-source advocate discusses the movement
Brian Behlendorf, 32, is a leader of the open source movement and a high-tech Renaissance man. He was a key developer of the Apache Web server and is now the CTO at CollabNet, which provides hosted solutions for Web-based software development to Intel, Sun, Motorola and others. He also is a lover of all-night raves, techno music and art.
Read more »A First Tussle With Linux's iPhone Killer: The OpenMoko Neo1973
The Neo1973 is the first physical manifestation of a grand idea -- a new breed of wireless handheld built for the open-source age.
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Know Any Hardware Needing Better Linux Support?
The Linux device driver project has hit something of a snag: they have lots of developers, but few devices to work on, so they're looking for input concerning which devices aren't well-supported in Linux. If any of you know of devices that could use better support, you can help out by listing them on the project's wiki.
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Meet Doxygen Maintainer - Dimitri van Heesch
Blue GNU interviews Dimitri van Heesch, founder and maintainer of the Doxygen project, to learn more about about how developers can manage their documentation.
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Why windows selling better than linux does not bother me
With Windows and Linux sales though... any story reporting sales between the two starts out on a false assumption. That assumption is that Linux and Windows are distributed through selling of a physical product or a license.
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The Beauty Of Ubuntu Linux
The computer that minutes ago was almost a Windows brick, was now running an OS that in my honest opinion (and that of others) can rival Vista in many ways.
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Boost your Internet browsing - Install Polipo
Polipo is a Linux proxy, like squid but it is intended in a personal use, I used to use squid as my personal proxy but because I have a PIV HT processor and 1 Gig of RAM, in Laptop that approach was just to heavy for it.
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Dual booting: PCLinuxOS 2007 and Ubuntu 7.10
This is one of the greatest features of Linux, IMO. I can take a small 30GB hard drive (small by today’s standards) and install two operating systems and still have plenty of space for all of my documents and pictures. In fact, I have the exact same on both partitions with room to spare.
Read more »Community moves: Chris Blizzard leaves Red Hat for Mozilla
"I'm late to the going away party on this one, but just noticed it on Stephen O'Grady's blog that Chris Blizzard is leaving Red Hat to join the evangelism team at Mozilla..."
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Perl: Interview with Jesse Vincent
"Besides being the owner and president of Best Practical, the people who bring you RT, Hiveminder, Jifty, and svk, Jesse Vincent is the current project manager for the Perl 6 effort. He took over those duties from Allison Randal in 2005. He's also a co-author of RT Essentials and the author of many CPAN modules. The Perl Review intereviewed him about the current state of Perl 6."
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