"The Software Freedom Law Center's first Annual Legal Summit for Software Freedom October 12 includes a closed private meeting in the morning for key open source attorneys and a series of educational lectures in the afternoon that will be open to other interested lawyers as well as the general public."
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Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 3
Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 3 is the third alpha release of Ubuntu 7.10, and with this new alpha release comes a whole host of excellent new features. Note: This is still an alpha release. Do not install it on production machines. The final stable version will be released in October 2007.
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How Linux Will Enter the Legal Market
I wanted to wrap up the general thread of the last three posts I wrote regarding Linux in the law office, as from some of the comments posted, I believe some of the points I had made were unclear.
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Interoperability Without Patent Agreements. Really.
I got the word yesterday that Zenoss, which has a nifty network and server management tool (cleverly named Zenoss Core), was planning to announce the launch of its new Zenoss Enterprise product today.
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Open source and mission critical: The Linux application server landscape
In 2005, Michael Dortch, executive editor and director of IT infrastructure management strategies at the Robert Frances Group, penned a report comparing Linux application server total cost of ownership (TCO) with Microsoft's Windows and Sun Microsystems' Solaris.
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Setting a New Standard
Shortcomings aside, Microsoft's Office Open XML offers an opportunity.
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Set Up OpenLDAP On Fedora 7
This document describes how to set up OpenLDAP on Fedora 7. OpenLDAP is a directory server based on the LDAP protocol, that same protocol MS Active Directory is based on. OpenLDAP is an open-source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.
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Securing your Linux server with iptables
Everyone in the IT industry is concerned with security, especially Linux administrators. Many Linux distributions come with several services that you may not use or ever need, but they're running on your server anyways. This can cause many security threats.
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Separate form and function in PHP applications with Smarty
The ease of mixing PHP and other Web-page markup leads to a morass of program logic, HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and JavaScript, making maintenance a hair-pulling task. The Smarty template engine separates form from function.
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Industrial-strength Linux lockdown, Part 2: Executing only signed binaries
For technical and non-technical users alike, maintaining a large installed base of Linux machines can be a harrowing experience for an administrator. Technical users take advantage of Linux®'s extreme configurability to change everything to their liking, while non-technical users running amok within their own file systems.
Read more »Open source software on the Nintendo DS (Lite)
The Nintendo DS is an excellent gaming device, but that's not all you can do with it. The machine's "hackability" makes the Nintendo DS a great platform for running open source software and even Linux, if you want to run a slimmed down version of Linux.
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Editing basics for the xorg.conf file
For many users, the xorg.conf file, which configures the system resources, graphics card, keyboard, pointing device, and monitor for a computer running the X Window System, is an exception to GNU/Linux's do-it-yourself credo. Users who think nothing of editing /etc/fstab or /etc/hosts.allow will shy away from xorg.conf for fear of breaking their systems
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PCAL gets dates down on paper
In our house, the refrigerator door is where we post the family calendar, showing our family and friends' birthdays, school terms, and important events, along with public holidays. We create the calendar using a nifty command-line program called PCAL, which produces a standard one-month-per-page calendar with each day in a separate box.
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Groklaw -ODF vs OOXML: Proprietizing Standards- Updates from India
Questions by Dr. G. Nagarjuna, Chairman FSF India, submitted to the Working Committee, Board of Indian Standards on Wordprocessing & answers from Microsoft's Vijay Kapur, followed by a response from Dr. Nagarjuna are used for this article in Grok law. Groklaw's PJ urge any of you interested in OOXML to read the other exchanges most carefully.
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Linux: 2.6.23 Stability
In response to another merge request, Andrew Morton retorted, "argh. I have a backlog of maybe 300 patches here which I am cheerfully ignoring while concentrating on preventing 2.6.23 from being less of a disaster than it has already been."
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