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Interview with Kris Moore, PC-BSD lead developer

August 30, 2008 (6:00:00 AM) - 5 hours, 26 minutes ago

The so-called "distribution for the average Joe" market has been expanding at a rapid pace in recent years. While the vast majority of these projects is invariably based on Linux, we have also witnessed a few attempts to create a user-friendly "distribution" based on operating systems that traditionally belonged to the hacker's domain, notably FreeBSD and OpenSolaris. One of them is PC-BSD, a project launched in 2005. Its main goal? To hide the complexity of FreeBSD and to deliver an alternative to Linux on the desktop. Its main claim to fame? The web-based software installation infrastructure called PBI. Its community? Over 8,000 registered forum members and a growing network of world-wide community sites. All this thanks to the original vision and undying conviction of Kris Moore (pictured on the right), the founder and lead developer of PC-BSD.

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Can open source replace Microsoft Exchange?

August 30, 2008 (4:00:00 AM) - 7 hours, 26 minutes ago

Open source projects and vendors are trying a variety of technical approaches to replacing the expensive but ubiquitous Microsoft Exchange. While none is yet a drop-in replacement, some administrators can get a TCO advantage by switching.

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Linux jumps to 13.4 percent of the stalling server market

August 30, 2008 (2:00:00 AM) - 9 hours, 26 minutes ago

According to a recent IDC report highlighted by ZDNet, Linux is booming. At just 9.4 percent of the overall server market in terms of revenue in 2007, Linux has now climbed to 13.4 percent of the overall server market, with Unix at 7.7 percent and Windows at 36.5 percent. If Linux server vendors want to continue to grow, at some point they're going to have to come to grips with Windows, rather than eating into the low-hanging Unix fruit.

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Complete Dose of Linux Poison

August 30, 2008 (12:00:00 AM) - 11 hours, 26 minutes ago

Proprietary software is often looked down upon in the free software world for many reasons:

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Open source: What you should learn from the French

August 29, 2008 (10:00:00 PM) - 13 hours, 26 minutes ago

A decade ago, European countries leapt out of the gate to take the lead in the radical open source movement -- none more so than France -- and left U.S. developers in the proverbial dust. Through policies and high-profile projects, the French Republic for years has been advocating for all open source all the time, in government and education.

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The Upside Down Of HTML On Unix and Linux: Backward

August 29, 2008 (9:30:00 PM) - 13 hours, 56 minutes ago

If today's title throws you off a little, that's good. I was going for an allegorical representation of the output of today's Perl script in the title of this post. The beauty of it is, even if I don't succeed, I have done my job, since (although this script is supposed to produce upside down and backwards HTML pages) the outcome of any input handed off to today's script may, or may not, have every single line reversed and in top to bottom order. In fact, when it comes to the more complicated issue of handling tags that dictate image, span, table, style and other such extravagant beautification, it may turn out a web page so horribly disfigured that you'll hardly recognize it. ...although, maybe that was the point. I allow my friends to talk me into wasting my time on folly like this far too often. ...probably because I enjoy it.

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Things you should never EVER type in Linux. Ever!

August 29, 2008 (9:00:00 PM) - 14 hours, 26 minutes ago

I feel that I need to put a warning at the top of this post because try as I might in the subject to be clear about what I mean, I know that someone will go and type/execute one of these things into their production server at work and then be horribly distraught and/or cause some sort of power grid catastrophe across the Pacific Northwest or something.

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Novell's third-quarter loss widens, but Linux booms by 30 percent

August 29, 2008 (8:30:00 PM) - 14 hours, 56 minutes ago

Novell beat Wall Street's estimates with a solid third quarter, but the real story is in its continued Linux growth. Net revenue rose to $245 million from $237 million in 2007, but Novell's third-quarter loss quadrupled to $15.1 million from $3.7 million in 2007. The company reported that annual adjusted operating margin to be between eight to ten percent, up from earlier expected seven to nine percent.

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Microsoft to drop $486 million for European shopping site

August 29, 2008 (8:00:00 PM) - 15 hours, 26 minutes ago

Microsoft said Friday it has reached a deal to acquire Greenfield Online, the owner of consumer shopping sites, for about $486 million.

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Judge: Qualcomm violates Broadcom ruling

August 29, 2008 (7:30:00 PM) - 15 hours, 56 minutes ago

The legal drama between wireless chipmakers Qualcomm and Broadcom continues this week.

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ATI R500: Mesa vs. Catalyst Benchmarking

August 29, 2008 (7:00:00 PM) - 16 hours, 26 minutes ago

With Mesa 7.1 having been released this week and the open-source R600/770 3D support just around the corner, we've taken this opportunity to see how the open-source Mesa 3D stack compares to AMD's monthly-refined Catalyst Linux Suite with the fglrx driver performs for the Radeon X1000 (R500) series. In this article are Mesa 7.1 and Catalyst 8.8 benchmarks for the Radeon X1300PRO and X1800XL graphics cards.

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Open source: What you should learn from the French

August 29, 2008 (6:30:00 PM) - 16 hours, 56 minutes ago

San Francisco - A decade ago, European countries leapt out of the gate to take the lead in the radical open source movement -- none more so than France -- and left U.S. developers in the proverbial dust. Through policies and high-profile projects, the French Republic for years has been advocating for all open source all the time, in government and education.

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Buddi - Personal Finance & Budgeting Program for openSUSE

August 29, 2008 (6:00:00 PM) - 17 hours, 26 minutes ago

Buddi is a personal finance and budgeting program, aimed at those who have little or no financial background. Designed to keep the software simpler but still effectively help users to manage their finances. Buddi is released a free opensource software released under GNU GPL license. Buddi will run on almost any computer which has a Java virtual machine installed. This can include Windows, Macintosh OS X, Linux, and many other operating systems.

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List of Email Clients Available in Ubuntu Linux

August 29, 2008 (5:30:00 PM) - 17 hours, 56 minutes ago

An e-mail client, aka Mail User Agent (MUA), aka e-mail reader is a frontend computer program used to manage e-mail.

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Intel Acquires Mobile OSS Firm OpenedHand--Advances Moblin

August 29, 2008 (5:00:00 PM) - 18 hours, 26 minutes ago

Intel is pushing forward with its Moblin mobile Internet and Linux project, focused on mobile and automotive Internet devices based on Atom processors. Its latest move is acquiring OpenedHand, which provides software development and consulting services, in addition to maintaining several ongoing projects focused on mobile and embedded Linux. OpenedHand's team maintains and contributes development efforts to the Matchbox window manager (on Nokia's devices), the Pimlico suite of PIM applications, Poky (an embedded Linux distro), and more. In essence, Intel gets a distributed set of open source applications and Moblin development resources in picking up OpenedHand.

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Linux Product Insider: "FIRST LEGO League", the book

August 29, 2008 (4:30:00 PM) - 18 hours, 56 minutes ago

This "Linux Product Insider" features the book FIRST LEGO League, iStor Networks' integraSuite/MC Management Center, WaveMaker's Visual Ajax Studio 4.0, Perforce 2008.1 SCM System and FST's FancyPants SDK.

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Linux Foundation End User Collaboration Summit, Oct 13-14, NYC

August 29, 2008 (4:00:00 PM) - 19 hours, 26 minutes ago

The Linux Foundation will be hosting our first ever End User Collaboration Summit this October in New York.

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CG Linux distro supports multicore MIPS64

August 29, 2008 (3:30:00 PM) - 19 hours, 56 minutes ago

MontaVista is touting its Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) distribution's support for Cavium's Octeon architecture. Using the architecture-specific registration available in version 4.0 of the CGL spec, it has registered its Carrier Grade Edition (CGE) 5.0 Linux product as "CGL 4.0-compliant for the Cavium Octeon MIPS64 architecture."

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Patent dispute threatens GPS imports

August 29, 2008 (3:00:00 PM) - 20 hours, 26 minutes ago

U.S. importation of smartphones and other devices using SiRF's GPS chipsets could be banned by December, if the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) adopts a recommendation made last week. Announced by Broadcom, the ruling is the latest development in a patent battle between the chipmakers.

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