Portland, Oregon, July 27, 2007 - Wikia, Inc. (www.wikia.com) the leading provider of community resources for building and organizing free content on every topic, today unveiled major next steps in its work to build a new search platform founded on open-source search protocols and human collaboration at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON).
Read more »Jimmy Wales and Wikia Release Open Source Distributed Web Crawler Tool
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Acer installing Linux on some notebooks, but not Ubuntu
http://www.infoworld.nl –
"Acer Inc. did not install the Ubuntu Linux distribution on a batch of Aspire notebooks for sale in Singapore, but the company is installing a different version of the open-source operating system on some notebooks, local dealers said."
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IBM saves $250 million consolidating Linux servers on to mainframes
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"Talk about eating your own dog food. IBM today will announce it is consolidating nearly 4,000 small computer servers in six locations onto about 30 refrigerator-sized mainframes running Linux saving $250 million in the process."
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Sneak peak, pretty playlist, raw plasma
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I thought it was time to post a screenshot of how Amarok2 development is moving along.
As my focus is on the service integration, I have chosen to show a few of the new things that are happening in this area, as well as some of the more general and cool stuff that is being worked on.
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Laptop webcam works with AMSN in Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon
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I did a fresh install of Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 3 on my laptop on Saturday. It has ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics card. I had problem with the Live CD as usual. The X server didn’t work. I had to use the safe graphics mode in Live CD to get it to work. I then installed Ubuntu from the Live CD.
Read more »JavaScript Everywhere
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"...This is an interesting development as it appears that with Tamarin we have a solid VM, with JIT support, that will be widely available and embedded into many applications and that actually deigns to touch "C"-land. ...
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Atom Publishing Protocol now an IETF Proposed Standard
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"...The Atom Publishing Protocol or simply APP, is the web services part of the Atom Working Group’s work. [...] The counterpart to APP is the Atom Syndication Format (ASF) that was approved last year...
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Free Software Money Management Quandary
http://www.movingtofreedom.org –
I found myself facing a moral quandary yesterday. I considered using proprietary software for a job that has lots of free software alternatives. You see, I have these doubts and reservations about the free options.
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Keep users informed with PHPList
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If you've ever considered throwing together a mailing list to keep the members of your group, project, or organization informed, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better application for that purpose than PHPList, a free and open source newsletter manager.
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Linux Has Just Vanished Forever
http://www.osweekly.com –
Straightaway, I would like to apologize if the title of this piece feels a little strange, but I'm going to be exploring what most of us would do if all of the different flavors of Linux were to suddenly "vanish" into thin air.
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Managing wireless connections seamlessly with wicd
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The nature of my work forces me to be something of a digital nomad -- my notebook computer and a wireless connection are essential parts of my working day.
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Free Healthcare Information System released
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PatientOS is a free healthcare information system released under GPL 3.0. This enterprise wide software is designed for healthcare facility physician, nurses, pharmacy, laboratory and other clinicians and departments.
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Tibco unveils open-source AJAX mashup tool
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Tibco Software Monday introduced a tool aimed at easing the development of enterprise mashups. The new Tibco PageBus, which the company describes as an open-source message bus, creates a "publish and subscribe" model that can help users more easily tie together Web services and Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (AJAX) components to create mashup applications.
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Web-based development platform goes open source
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Australian software company Once Technologies has released what it claims is the first browser-based Web 2.0 development platform as an open source project.
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Enterprising Ubuntu?
http://redmonk.com –
In the three years since Ubuntu was unleashed upon an unsuspecting populace, debate as to its viability and marketability within “the enterprise,” whatever that means anymore, has been rampant.
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