Initial support for OpenSAF is coming from a broad industry segment including Ericsson, HP, Motorola, Nokia Siemens Networks and Sun Microsystems.
Read more »Apple iPhone and DRM
The iPhone hype hides a basic problem with the product – Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) inside the iPhone means that it wont be under your control. Apple has built this “smart” phone to dumb you down.
Read more »The Next Chapter for eBooks
The publishing industry is struggling to cash in on eBooks; so far the digital literary attempt has been fragmented and slow, both in terms of adoption and in getting the material to the reader. However, that may change soon, given new initiatives announced in the last few days ranging from the arrival of new industry standards to a new reader with some cool effects
Read more »Time to get off Red Hat’s case?
Red Hat is a company that is easy to dislike.
Maybe it’s the relationship with IBM. Maybe it’s the way they absorbed JBOSS. Maybe it’s CEO Matthew Szulik, or the proprietary way in which the company operates.
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Whatever, I think it’s time we got off Red Hat’s case
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CRM Systems: Flexing Muscles in the Open Source CRM Ring
After seven years of slowly building its business, Centric CRM is suddenly on a roll. Earlier this month, Centric -- an open source software development company -- announced that it had received an infusion of investment funding from Intel Capital, the venture capital arm of technology titan Intel.
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Kernel and filesystem talks at OLS day two
Greg Kroah-Hartman kicked off the second day of the 9th annual Ottawa Linux Symposium with a talk entitled "Linux Kernel Development - How, What, How fast, and Who?" to a solidly packed main room with an audience of more than 400 people.
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Get ready for mod_atom
Bray, director of Web technologies for Sun Microsystems, has been a major force behind the Atom Protocol and, of course, XML.
Why does Bray think there's demand for mod_atom? "I think that the protocol is going to be a big enough part of the Web ecosystem that Apache, as perhaps the world's single most important piece of Web infrastructure, really ought to support it."
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Dreamlinux offers new multimedia edition
The Dreamlinux project, a Brazilian distribution based on Debian, Knoppix, and Morphix, today announced the release of a Multimedia GL edition of Dreamlinux 2.2. This live CD with a graphical hard disk installation option boots directly into an XFce desktop and features a 2.6.18.1 kernel and moderate-sized application package.
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The distro jungle
People who are new to Linux are often confused by the large number of distributions to choose from. The good news is that you can safely ignore most of them. This article helps you choose a distribution for getting started with your Linux exploration—and helps you understand just what it is you've just chosen.
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Ubuntu System Monitoring Tools
To keep your system in optimum shape, you need to be able to monitor it closely. [...] In this chapter, we look at some of the basic monitoring tools, along with some tactics designed to keep your system up longer. Some of the monitoring tools cover network connectivity, memory, and hard drive usage, but all should find a place in your sysadmin toolkit.
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Linux on Windows with Lina
Between WINE, VMware, BOCHs and ilk -- not to mention the renewed focus on virtualisation we're now seeing -- we're somewhat spoilt for choice when it comes to running Windows applications on Linux. But what about the other way around? Cygwin aside, there is another way.
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Highly discounted Linux web tablets pop up
At least two large online retailers are selling Nokia's 770 Internet Tablet for $140. Originally priced at $400, the 770 was Nokia's first Linux-based consumer device -- and arguably the first product in an emergent new generation of pocketable WiFi-connected Web tablets.
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Integrating Medical Information With Open Source
Nonprofit organization Open Source Health Care Alliance (OSHCA) believes that open source software is the path to follow when it comes to integrating systems and sharing various medical-related information in the local healthcare Latest News about healthcare industry.
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India's Kerala state goes open source
According to a statement, the Kerala government has identified free and open-source software as a major strategic component in its efforts to build an inclusive information society.
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Red Hat and IBM get certified
Red Hat and IBM recently announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) has earned the highest level of security certification achievable by commercial off-the-shelf operating systems. The certification is applicable when RHEL5 is running on IBM hardware, but all of the software is freely available
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