The Oregon State University Open Source Lab's data center hosts some of the Linux community's heaviest hitting projects including the Linux Master Kernel and the Linux Foundation. Despite housing such high-profile open source projects, the lab's systems administrators are actually OSU computer science students.
Read more »Systems administration inexperience a reality at Open Source Lab
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Monty Widenius wants another billion dollars, should we help him?
Sometimes inbetween Christmas and New Year's Eve, the "Help MySQL" initiative was founded. This initiative, publicly supported by Monty Widenius, the co-founder of MySQL would be interesting if it wasn't somehow indecent. Let me explain.
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Virtual Darpa Grand Challenge
I have had this idea for a Virtual Darpa Grand Challenge for a couple of years now and I’m starting to shop it around to angel/venture capital people. But I thought I’d also put this out there to the Linux community and see what they think of it.
Read more »2010: Your Year for Ubuntu Membership!
Today I wanted to take a look about what happens with sustained contribution to the Ubuntu project and what is available to those who actively contribute and take part in the Ubuntu Community.
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Insane XO prices!!! Every Laptop must go!!
Wayan Vota and I are agreed that Nicholas Negroponte is crazy. What divides us is the question whether Nicholas is crazy enough. (I am indebted to Niels Bohr for making this distinction early in the 20th century in the context of quantum mechanics.)
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Fedora Ambassadors Walking Tall
I love the fact that in addition to the millions of Fedora fans around the world, we also have in our community a very special group of hundreds upon hundreds of individuals known as Fedora Ambassadors.
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Monty Still Trying to "Save" MySQL
What Widenius and (oddly) Richard Stallman seem to be arguing is that MySQL must not only be a successful FLOSS project, but a successful proprietary business venture as well.
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Does Debian Deviate From Standards Or Upstream?
Recently, I got into a discussion with a friend of mine. The discussion was about whether or not Debian and Ubuntu have deviated from standard practice regarding Paul Vixie’s cron implementation.
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Video: What’s So Great About GNU/Linux?
What will it take for Linux and Open Source to dethrone Microsoft?
We are currently in one of the best situations ever to think about moving to open source and Linux on the desktop. With Windows XP’s end of life, many companies are already considering upgrading to Windows Vista or 7. The user interface has changed, and many existing applications aren’t compatible.
Read more »The Geek Who Cried FUD
Once upon a time there was a pasty-faced geek who lived in his mother's basement and spent his time hacking and collecting online porn. He considered himself an open source expert and took pleasure in displaying his vastly superior knowledge on online forums with such eloquent statements as "RTFM NOOB!"
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First FOSDEM 2010 Speaker Interviews
Interviews with four of the speakers at FOSDEM 2010 are now available. FOSDEM will be held February 6-7 in Brussels, Belgium. This round of interviews includes David Fifield (Nmap), Greg Kroah-Hartman (Linux kernel), Richard Clayton (Evil on the internet), and Wim Remes (OSSEC).
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Linux users more experienced with windows.
It is hard to make up an article title to adequately express the meaning of this article in a few short words. What I really wanted the title to be is "Linux users are more experienced with windows than windows users are with Linux". This is part of a comment on a previous article and it struck a cord with me (c# I think) so I wish to expand on it further.
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Linux and FOSS-related Predictions for 2010
I am very excited about 2010, we have now got some great technology that I cannot wait to get my hands on, such as Android-tablet “appliance” computers, more web multimedia services following the examples of Hulu and Pandora, lightning-fast instant-on operating systems like Jolicloud, color E-Ink screens and of course, robot maids.
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The Linux Commercial Contest
As promised yesterday, this is my potential solution to the Linux survival question: A Linux Commercial--created by you--and it's a contest. Sound exciting?
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