"Despite the considerable advances that the free software has made in the last years in its «market share» in different fields in informatics, only in a few of this fields free software has the supremacy. One of these is the field of web servers.
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Blackring: Lisp
"I think I may have fallen in love. It's obvious from my work with Carrot that I bought into the Lispish way of doing things long ago, but the decision to write Blackring using it has... well [...] This is what I've been doing for most of the past 24 hours, and I've found some amazing things..."
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Microsoft Pays for a More Microsoft-Obedient Apache
Microsoft pays Apache to promote Windows at the expense of GNU/Linux
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Microsoft pledges love and money to open source
After years of hostility towards Free Software Foundation (FSF) licensing (here and here) Microsoft has announced the first in a series of PHP patches - and it's using an FSF license.
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RMS: «The GNU system (often called "Linux") has been developed, since 1984, for the sake of computer users' freedom. Ironically it is now the basis for a system designed to smother the freedom of the people of London, through online payments to Oyster cards. [...]»
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Installing mod_python and Django on Apache
I’ve recently started learning Django for doing web development, so as part of that, I needed to also learn how to set up Django within mod_python so I could deploy my new Django applications on my server.
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gitweb + apache + gentoo
"This is meant as a quick tutorial to get gitweb up and running on gentoo with apache as the web server..."
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Apache Developers Invited to Redmond
My name is Garrett Serack, and I am the Community Program Manager in the Open Source Software Labs here at Microsoft. I would like to extend an official invitation to the Apache Software Foundation to participate in the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Compatibility Labs here in Redmond.
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Microsoft Keeps Its Enemy Closer (and Away from GNU/Linux)
"We occasionally discuss Microsoft’s very clear plan to ’steal’ free software projects from GNU/Linux and bring them over to Windows. The OSI ‘invasion’ was merely a first step. At the moment, Microsoft is trying to grab Apache..."
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Bullet proof your server #2 - SSH
In the first part of this multi-part tutorial on FOSSwire, I look at some simple ways you can boost your security for the Apache web server. In this part, I’m going to look at securing the OpenSSH server, which is used for remotely logging in to your server.
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Sharing the Supercomputer Wealth
The M45, named for a star cluster, is considered one of the world's 50 fastest supercomputers. The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's Big Ben system, by comparison, debuted two years ago with capabilities for 10 trillion calculations per second.
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The Perfect Server - Gentoo 2007.0
"This tutorial shows how to set up a Gentoo 2007.0 based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Courier POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall..."
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Is Microsoft winning the web server war?
Google moves the numbers, press panics
Supposedly the big news coming out of LinuxWorld today is that Microsoft’s IIS server is “catching up” to Apache.
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Deconstructing the Latest Netcraft Survey
According to Netcraft, their latest Aug 2007 survey shows more very large gains for Microsoft technologies on the web:
"What does this mean for Apache? Is Apache dying? Is Microsoft set to take top spot as the web platform of choice?