ShareSource, a leading website for collaborative open source development adds Mercurial to it's line of Version Control Systems
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The Disconnect That Could Fail Thousands
They think Ubuntu IS Linux...many of them do anyway. When I tell them that there are other distros available, some give me that blank stare reserved for those who have just been presented with a fact that they should have already known. I know the stare well...I am accomplished at it.
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Novell SA chief quits to join Google
"Novell South Africa's Stafford Masie is leaving the Linux vendor to head up the local Google operation, reports ITWeb."
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SourceForge Community Choice Award winners are....
SourceForge has been running a community-driven awards process over the last month, trying to discover the top open-source projects. On Friday, the winners were announced. The ones selected say a lot about those who frequent SourceForge. But before I get into that, here are the winners:
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Wikia Goes The Way of Open Source Search
Look out, Google! Jimmy Wales is coming for you. The founder of Wikipedia is aggressively building out his Wikia effort, a commercial collection of Web sites anyone can edit. One of its key parts? Search.
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Screaming Monkeys, Mozilla And Microsoft
What do Mozilla, Microsoft and monkeys have in common? A bit more than you might think.
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So Cal Linux Expo Announces Call For Papers
The Linux Expo of Southern California has opened the Call For Papers for the 6th Annual Southern California Linux Expo, to be held February 8th, 9th, & 10th, 2008. As with SCALE 5x, S6x will be held at the Westin Hotel at Los Angeles International Airport.
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Scads of Free Software for the Mac
Sure, we all know about the highest-profile open source applications available for the Mac operating system. Firefox probably jumps to mind first, followed closely by its e-mail partner, Thunderbird. However, worthwhile as they are, applications whose development is supported by the Mozilla Foundation are just a small piece of the Mac freeware movement.
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Misys gambles on open source revolution
British software group Misys is expected to announce a major strategic gamble this week - giving its products away for free. Under new American management, the company is planning to embrace the "open source" movement, releasing a software code that can be copied or modified by other programmers.
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Sun Plug-in Brings ODF Support to Microsoft Office
Sun's ODF plug-in can play an important role in broadening interoperability between OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office.
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How To Harden PHP5 With Suhosin On Fedora 7
This tutorial shows how to harden PHP5 with Suhosin on a Fedora 7 server.
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Use Google Linux repositories in Debian
Google’s Linux software repositories make it easier to download and stay up-to-date with current releases of Google Linux applications. Please choose one of the guides below to help configure your system to use these repositories
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Power Saving for the Workstation, Part 1
Ordinarily, the only place you see these programs are in laptops and the methods should work on laptops, and there are many places to go for information on the specialized laptop tweaks and GNOME and KDE laptop configuration options.
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this is a rant. i know it is a rant. i need to get it off my chest.
Take the licensing issue. I've been handling licensing matters for Fedora for at least a year now (maybe longer), and admittedly, the new GPL v3 makes things much more complicated.
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The Value of Choice or the Choice of Value?
"When I wrote a passioned statement about how having a choice of distros was a good thing, I decided to list 359 other things that it was good to have choices for. I thought it was a good effort, and still do. But in the course of a week I have also come to realize that other points of view may have some validity, too."
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