The Bandit® Project today hit another key milestone in the development of open source identity services with the availability of an open source, cross-platform information card selector that helps users manage “digital identity cards” used in Web transactions.
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Anatomy of the Linux networking stack
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"One of the greatest features of the Linux® operating system is its networking stack. It was initially a derivative of the BSD stack and is well organized with a clean set of interfaces."
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Organize and find files fast with GTKtalog
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If you own a large number of CD or DVD media disks, you might have a hard time finding a specific file or folder on one of them -- unless you use GTKtalog. This utility scans every file and folder on your storage media and saves the captured information in a single-file searchable database named CDkatalog.
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Linspire backs Microsoft's Open XML
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"Former arch rivals Linspire and Microsoft have continued their recent rapprochement with a collaboration to improve interoperability between OpenOffice.org's Open Document Format (ODF) and Microsoft's Open XML."
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Review: Xandros Linux 4.0 Professional
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"Xandros is a distribution of Linux descended from Debian and built on the Debian framework. Unlike Debian though, Xandros is built more with a profiteering mindset, a philosophy that has slowly alienated it from the Linux community, more so lately after their announced affiliation with Microsoft."
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IBM, Red Hat, Novell, MySQL cautiously support GPLv3
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Several large software companies seem satisfied with GPLv3, albeit cautious about adopting it (as corporations are wont to do). IBM intends to release some software under GPLv3, and MySQL says it will switch if GPLv3 is adopted widely.
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Ubuntu is not Linux. Linux is not Windows. Then, Ubuntu is ...
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Ubuntu is all about fixing bug #1 and I feel it's incredibly successful in that game. Ubuntu gets mainstream press coverage, hardware vendor support and popularity with not-so-geeky but experienced (and potentially influential) computer users to an extend unheard of in the free software world
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So long, and thanks for all the penguins
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Today, it's Phil Hochmuth's last Linux & Open Source newsletter ever. He writes: "In my last Linux & Open Source newsletter, I'd like to thank the tens of thousands of subscribers who have read loyally over the last eight years."
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From Windows to Ubuntu
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The decision to switch to Ubuntu wasn’t a hard one. After all the problems I was having with Vista, it was a no brainer. I’m not going to re-hash all my woes with Vista in this article, you can read about them here and here oh yeah, and here. My only concern was putting my wife through another OS change.
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Palamida IP Search on GPLv3 adoption
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Our goal is to build a unified view of the status of GPLv3 adoption and usage across the community. Of course, it's a moving target and we'll do our best to keep it up to date. You can help — please feel free to send us updated information that we should add and we'll be happy to do so. And suggestions for improvements are always welcome.
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Misusing open source in a good cause
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The great scientist and futurist Freeman Dyson has an important essay today in the New York Times. [...] But he also misuses the term open source. Twice.
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Free and Priceless: Windows XP vs Linux Mint
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Today we are going to take a look at installing, and running, both Windows XP and Linux Mint on a Dell Inspiron 6400. Why crusty old XP and not the sparkling new Windows Vista? For the unspectacular reason that it's what I have. You see, I purchased the computer about a year ago and Vista had not shook the world yet.
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Linux Development Part 1
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"Finding information about how to develop and publish games for Linux is difficult. There aren’t many articles or tutorials written about it, and there is no centralized web site you can go to find all the answers."
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Linux works on Sun server partitions
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"A Linux kernel programmer has got Linux running on a logical domain, Sun Microsystems' term for an operating system partition on its newer UltraSparc-based servers."
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QuickBooks and Linux: A Server Story
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"When it comes to competition between operating systems, a platform is ultimately only as useful as its applications. For businesses that use Linux servers for their back-end operations – a category now growing by double-digits quarterly according to IDC – availability of applications is often the most significant bottleneck."
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