Submitted for your consideration: There are some legitimate TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) reasons not to use Linux in the enterprise, or in smaller IT shops.
Read more »Resurrecting Marc Fleury
I was fortunate to spend most of my evening here in Atlanta with JBoss founder Marc Fleury.
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Novell's Rule 26 Pretrial Disclosures - Update: SCO's too
"Novell has filed its Rule 26 Pretrial Disclosures [PDF]. What's that? It's required by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 26 that the parties tell in advance what witnesses, depositions, and exhibits or documents they expect to use at trial."
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Is Google secretly helping M$ ?
Now we have a situation where Windows supports more hardware, has access to more free desktop applications from Google and the normal free open source applications. In some countries like china, M$ is offering windows at ~7-10$ and that is negligible when compared to the cost of entire Desktop/Laptop.
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CNR has hit the streets
CNR has splashed down. The new service Linspire co. that is aimed to make software installation that much easier on Linux
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MySpaceIM Pidgin Protocol Plugin
Welcome. This page contains files for the MySpaceIM Protocol Plugin (known as msimprpl for short), which allows you to IM your friends on MySpaceIM using the Pidgin instant messenging program and possibly other programs that use libpurple, in the future.
Read more »Startforce - A web based OS
Startforce is a web based operating system. I wanted to give it a try. Once I went to startforce website, I was presented with a login screen as shown below.
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Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 Released
"The Mozilla Corporation has released Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.6. This update fixes two security issues..."
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Installing Asterisk 1.4 on OpenSuse 10.2
I’ve had my Asterisk PBX offline for a while now for no good reason, so I decided I’d upgrade and put the latest Asterisk on my new machine. I wrote about the last time I installed, that was on an older AMD Athlon 1200MHz Thunderbird. It worked fine but I got a Linksys PAP2T-NA ATA and became very lazy.
Read more »Rough edges mar *nix-style configuration tool
*nix-style is a GNOME graphical interface for configuration options in your system or current user account. It makes no attempt to be comprehensive, nor does it focus on options that are available from the desktop menus or GNOME system utilities. Instead, it concentrates on lesser-known configuration options, such as customizing the bash prompt or suppressing the initial splash screen in GNOME.
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Mounting Atompub Resources Locally
"appfs is a utility that can mount remote resources exposed via the Atom Publishing Protocol (Atompub) as a local filesystem."
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Hack and crack proof SSH on Linux
It’s inevitable: if your computer is Internet-connected you will have people coming a-knockin’. Fortunately Linux users are more savvy than to think any keep-alive ping or other piece of Internet flotsam is a hack attempt.
Read more »GNOME 2.19.6 Released!
This is our sixth development release on our road towards GNOME
2.20.0, which will be released in September 2007. New features are
still arriving, so your mission is simple : Go download it. Go compile
it. Go test it. And go hack on it, document it, translate it, fix it.
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‘Big Four’ systems management vendors ripe for open source shake-up
A new research report from the New York-based 451 Group has found that the ‘Big Four’ systems management vendors — BMC, HP, IBM and CA — are “ripe for a shake-up from open source systems management players.”
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Howto upgrade kernel(2.6.22-9-generic) in Feisty Fawn
Currently Feisty Fawn users (7.04) using the generic kernel (which is 2.6.20-16-generic). This tutorial will explain howto upgrade you to kernel version 2.6.22-9-generic(as of 31JUL07).
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