"...the Mozilla Foundation is funding a project to implement "OCSP stapling" in Apache and OpenSSL. In the future, Firefox will be enhanced to check the validity of SSL certificates using Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) responses served up by the webserver itself (colloquially known as "OCSP stapling"), as opposed to directly from the CA's OCSP server..."
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XUL activity in France
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"Xulfr team is a privileged observer of the use of the Mozilla platform in France. Most of us work professionally with Mozilla technologies. I thought it might be a good idea to write a little report about what has happened in France over the last few years as far as XUL is concerned..."
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(k)Ubuntu, fresh from the start.
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(k)Ubuntu, fresh from the start, is much like Windows. You need to install lots of softwares before you can get productive. Which, to my dismay, is not just the distro i was looking for. SimplyMEPIS, on the other hand, delivers just the right stuff at my hands.
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Bruno Coudoin on GCompris: 8.4 Release Imminent, Reorganization Underway for 8.5
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GCompris is a fantastic educational program aimed at children. I installed it for a family some time ago, and found myself getting caught up in it as I showed them how it worked. I caught up with the lead developer, Bruno Coudoin, to ask him a few questions about the widely-used GCompris project.
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Mark Shuttleworth Talks On ATI's New Linux Drivers
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Mark Shuttleworth, the self-made millionaire and leader of the Ubuntu project, has been very vocal about the adoption of free software and that "the free software approach is a better device driver development model." But what does Mark think about AMD's announcements this week with the 8.41 display driver and the just-announced program where AMD will be handing out specifications under NDA and he
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OGG is for metadata too
http://opensource-notebook.com –
"OGG is a media container format. But it is also supposed to contain metadata; information describing the media it contains. But there is no standard at all for including metadata in OGG containers. I want to change that..."
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Komodo Spawns New Open Source IDE Project
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"Development tools vendor ActiveState is opening up parts of its Komodo IDE in a new effort called Open Komodo..."
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SCALE announces second annual Health Care Conference
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The Southern California Linux Expo is proud to announce the second annual Demonstrating Open-Source Health Care Solutions (DOHCS). The event will be held on February 8, 2008 in Los Angeles, California in conjunction with the Sixth Annual Southern California Linux Expo.
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Automatix Backlash: Why the Hate?
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In order for Automatix to be as hated as it has become by a select few, we need to first examine the reasons why the application is allegedly being targeted with such harsh words.
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Open Tools for a Better Web
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"Good tools are a developer's dream. I've been hearing the lament for better open source tools for open technology stacks ever since I started working with Mozilla. Today ActiveState is announcing the Open Komodo Project, bringing new open source tools for web developers into the Mozilla world..."
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Battle for Open Web Standards Gains Open Source Tools
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"Open Komodo Project from ActiveState to create Firefox-integrated web developer tools based on the award-winning Komodo IDE [...] The Open Komodo development environment will be entirely open source and licensed under the same terms as Firefox: Mozilla Public License (MPL), GNU General Public License (GPL), and GNU Lesser Public License (LGPL).
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Ohio (GNU/)LinuxFest Set to Edutain Thousands
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Attendees of the Ohio LinuxFest - or GNU/LinuxFest for GNU fans - received the following note from the organizers...
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The problems of counting Linux desktops
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Here's what we know beyond doubt. First, the Linux desktop is gaining in popularity. Second, it's doing so at the expense of the Windows desktop. After that, things get muddy.
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Taking FOSS to the masses
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Since 2005, a small band of volunteers in many countries has been gathering together on one day of the year to give away free and open source software in order to spread awareness about this genre.
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Poor Community Advice Is No Substitute For Linux Documentation
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It has long since been my own personal experience that Linux documentation is largely ignored by Linux beginners in exchange for the interactivity of Linux forums. The reasons why will be further explored in this piece
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