The Scottish Open Source Awards opens for nominations and entries on 1st August 2007 at 9AM. The awards are open to business, government, education, not-for-profit, charities and students, who contribute to or use Open Source Software or services.
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Fedora 7 does Creative Commons
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REDHAT-SPONSORED open source project Fedora 7 will be the platform for the Creative Commons LiveContent CD, which showcases open source software.
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A Standards Game for a Summer's Day
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Those on both sides of the ODF vs. OOXML competition are always accusing each other of spinning and misrepresenting each other's actions and statements. It's fair, and even important, for both sides to call each other out on actual misrepresentations, since the public is rarely, if ever, going to have first-hand knowledge to rely on.
Read more »Perl Foundation Grant Time Again
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"If you have an idea for doing some work for the Perl community and you think it's worthy of a grant, please send your grant entry to tpf-proposals@perl-foundation.org by the end of August. We will be awarding the grants by the beginning of October..."
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Intellisophic to Contribute to Wikia's Open Source Search Project
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Movement to make search more open and transparent continues to gain momentum as Intellisophic agrees to open-source its text categorization software
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Atompub & OpenID
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"One of the thinmgs I would like to do is to interact with Atompub (aka Atom Publishing Protocol) stores in Javascript through the browser. Since this effectively the browser itself interacting with the Atompub server, browser-like authentication methods would be nice. But services like Atompub don’t work nicely with the kinds of authentication methods that normal websites use.
Read more »BLACK HAT - Mozilla says it can patch flaws in 10 days
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A Mozilla executive has vowed that his company can patch any critical vulnerability in its software within 10 days, a sign that Mozilla may intend to step up its efforts to improve security.
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BLACK HAT - Mozilla says it can patch flaws in 10 days
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A Mozilla executive has vowed that his company can patch any critical vulnerability in its software within 10 days, a sign that Mozilla may intend to step up its efforts to improve security.
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Some Things in Life Really Are Free
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Question: A friend of mine has Linux installed at home, and he's always gloating about how he never pays for software anymore. I'm not ready to make that jump yet, so as a Windows user, what can I get for free?
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Howto Install artwiz fonts in Ubuntu
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The artwiz fonts are a set of small futuristic fonts for x11, created by Artwiz,TigerT,and Daniel Erat.These fonts are most popular with openbox/fluxbox users.
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Open Source Helps Stop Traffic Accidents
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Sometimes, the only thing more damaging than a terrible car accident on a major expressway is the thousands of cars whose passengers slow down to take in the misfortunes of their fellow motorists.
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Linux, 2.6.23-rc2, "-rc2 is the new -rc1"
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"So I tried to hold people to the merge window," Linus Torvalds began in announcing the 2.6.23-rc2 kernel, "and said no to a few pull requests, but this whole '-rc2 is the new -rc1' thing is a disease, and not only is -rc2 late, it's bigger than it should be"
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Linux 2.6.23-rc2 Kernel Performance
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While the Linux 2.6.23 kernel is only weeks into development, it's already generated quite a bit of attention.
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Red Hat Global Desktop delayed
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Red Hat confirmed on Aug. 3 that it would be delaying the release of the newest member of its desktop Linux family, Red Hat Global Desktop, because the company is seeking to provide certain multimedia codecs.
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The first KDE 4.0 beta hits the streets
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KDE 4.0 is very exciting, though not yet production ready, and that shows with this weeks' release of the first beta.
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