Far from showing strength, the wide availability of Windows on netbooks is a sign of weakness.
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How to save the Internet from Windows
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After last week's near-collapse of the social networks, such as Twitter, due to a Windows-based, botnet DDoS attack, I made a modest proposal: Throw Windows off the Internet. Here's how we can do it.
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ARM netbooks may lack hardware-accelerated graphics
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In announcing its newly shipping touchscreen-equipped "Touchbook," Start-up Always Innovating said that "over time, in 2009," it will support "interesting projects such as Moblin."
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Industry Heavy-Hitters Swing into Linux Word Processing
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As word processors for Linux keep picking up in popularity, household names in the computer industry are getting into the act. Like Sun Microsystems, Novell and IBM Lotus are both offering word processors based on OpenOffice.org's open source Writer application, but none of these offerings is exactly alike.
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Is Google spending $106.5m to open source a codec?
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After acquiring On2's video compression codecs in a deal valued at approximately $106.5 million in stock, will Google simply turn around and open source them? It certainly looks that way.
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Netscape redux: Google's Chrome browser now an OS
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The day that Microsoft has dreaded since the mid-1990s is at hand: Google Inc. is rolling out a new browser-based PC OS that stands a good chance of dislodging the software giant's Windows.
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Another step forward for open source video
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The history and circumstances of video technologies have long militated against open source success, but a number of events this year point to the inevitability of open source reaching even into the video space. It's about time!
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What a Difference a Decade Makes
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A look at GNU/Linux as a competitive threat today compared to 10 years ago
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FreePBX 3.0 Debuts
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With its third-generation release, out this week, popular open-source management interface FreePBX has taken a bold step away from its longstanding ties to Asterisk, to embrace the up-and-coming VoIP alternative FreeSwitch.
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Sweet Home 3D: Open Source, Cross Platform Design Application
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The key thing to keep in mind with Sweet Home 3D is that zoom is as useful as any of the building tools. Walls, rooms, half walls, and furniture can be set at any angle (and the angles and dimensions are calculated as the structure is laid out).
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Obamacare VS Open-source
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What does socialized healthcare mean for open source software's market penetration? Well, let's look at some simple concepts first. What is open source? The idea of things being open source, means that there can be open collaboration, sharing, etc. It also means that anyone can come up with his/her own solution to a problem and implement his/her solution within the community.
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A Look at Linux Educacional 3.0
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A week or so ago I stumbled across an article, in Portuguese, from March of this year that talks about a program the Brazilian government's ministry of education is expanding. It's pretty exciting, especially for those interested in Linux.
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Markets
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What is it that makes Microsoft's products sell? Why is it that Microsoft seems to reign supreme in our microcomputer industry? Sure, we all know that IBM and Linux are strong in the research field, and we know that Solaris had a strong following in some areas as well, but niches aren't what dominate markets. Niches are just small pockets that concentrate on specific things...
Read more »Forecast: Cost Cutting Will Drive Open Source Growth
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Expenditures by enterprises on open source software jumped 34 percent last year and spending in 2009 is on pace to increase at least another 24 percent, according to a forecast released last week by IT market researcher IDC.
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Open Source, Open Research
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Open source and open data standards play a role in collaboration, laboratory and literary scholarly research, publishing, and managing the overall research programs at institutions of higher learning.
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