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HP to Microsoft: Thanks for Nothing

November 19, 2008 (10:00:00 PM) - 1 hour, 29 minutes ago

Microsoft's move to relax standards to qualify for its Vista Capable sticker program left HP execs fuming, newly disclosed e-mails show.

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Linux: for all things great and small

November 19, 2008 (9:30:00 PM) - 1 hour, 59 minutes ago

Most of us get a chance to see Linux in action at the desktop or single server level. Some of us use Linux on mobiles and other little gizmos without even realising that the penguin is doing the lifting.

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The Microsoft-Novell Linux deal: Two years later

November 19, 2008 (9:00:00 PM) - 2 hours, 29 minutes ago

Two years ago this month, Microsoft forged its controversial partnership with Novell that, among other things, had the two companies agreeing not to sue each other over intellectual property issues, in part to protect Suse Linux users over any patent litigation from Microsoft.

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Open Source Business Cluster launched in New South Wales

November 19, 2008 (8:30:00 PM) - 2 hours, 59 minutes ago

On the 7th November 2008, at the Australian Google Headquarters in Sydney, New South Wales, an Open Source Business Cluster was announced. The aim of the cluster is to more effectively market, deliver and provide support for Open Source technology to business and government agencies.

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Tip: Using find Command in Linux

November 19, 2008 (8:00:00 PM) - 3 hours, 29 minutes ago

Doing command-line stuff in Linux is fun. It may be intimidating for some at first, now that we are in the age where GUI is no longer an option. But with CLI, we can do so many things that can be accomplished faster if we know how to utilize the features of a certain command.

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Linux Printing: A Curious Mix of Yuck and Excellence

November 19, 2008 (7:30:00 PM) - 3 hours, 59 minutes ago

Last week I talked a bit about the bipolar world of printing on Linux: the best of times, the worst of times; the easiest and the hardest; the most reliable and the most annoying. I raised a number of questions such as why do print jobs disappear without a trace, then reappear days later? Printing multiple copies, if you had hit the print button in frustration multiple times. Is this printer really online and working? Does it have enough toner and paper? If there is a problem, why won't it tell me in a reasonable way? Why isn't there an obvious, easy button for "cancel the print job plz, kthx"?

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Independent conformance testing needed for ODF and OOXML implementations

November 19, 2008 (7:00:00 PM) - 4 hours, 29 minutes ago

Tineke Egyedi, senior researcher of standardization at the University of Delft, The Netherlands, president of the European Academy for Standardization and vice-chair of the International Cooperation for Education about Standardization, send an open letter (PDF) to software vendors with the title Who pays for interoperability in public IT procurement. In her letter she calls upon vendors to submit their implementation of the OpenDocument standard and the Office Open XML standard in software products for independent conformance testing and to verify the interoperability. She feels this is needed to make sure that governments and it’s citizens do not head into a new vendor-lock and to ensure vendors do not alter the open standards along the way.

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the Video Editor that Linux Already Has, but still Needs

November 19, 2008 (6:30:00 PM) - 4 hours, 59 minutes ago

I speak of course of Blender. Blender is one of my favourite apps ever. I use it, I love it, I am constantly amazed by it.

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Unemployed? Five reasons to build your resume with FOSS contributions

November 19, 2008 (6:00:00 PM) - 5 hours, 29 minutes ago

It looks like we’ve gone from speculating whether we’re headed into recession depression, to speculating just what that depression is going to look like. Yihong Ding, over on the Thinking Space blog,predicts that we’ll have a “Golden Age” of the Web thanks to millions sitting at home with little else to do than putter around on the Web:

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'WSJ' calls Microsoft antivirus tool 'spyware'

November 19, 2008 (5:30:00 PM) - 5 hours, 59 minutes ago

There's a lot of ways to look at Microsoft's decision to abandon OneCare and come up with free antivirus software.

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Exciting Features For Ubuntu 9.04

November 19, 2008 (5:00:00 PM) - 6 hours, 29 minutes ago

If all goes according to plan, the first alpha release for Ubuntu 9.04 (the Jaunty Jackalope) will be released tomorrow. It's not even been one month since the release of Ubuntu 8.10, but this first alpha release will show early signs of what we can expect to see in this next Canonical-sponsored release -- albeit many of the features are still in planning. In this article we will provide a glimpse at what Ubuntu 9.04 should hold in store to captivate Linux desktop users.

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Linux: Should You Use Twice the Amount of Ram as Swap Space?

November 19, 2008 (4:30:00 PM) - 6 hours, 59 minutes ago

Linux and other Unix-like operating systems use the term “swap” to describe both the act of moving memory pages between RAM and disk, and the region of a disk the pages are stored on. It is common to use a whole partition of a hard disk for swapping. However, with the 2.6 Linux kernel, swap files are just as fast as swap partitions. Now, many admins (both Windows and Linux/UNIX) follow an old rule of thumb that your swap partition should be twice the size of your main system RAM. Let us say I’ve 32GB RAM, should I set swap space to 64 GB? Is 64 GB of swap space really required? How big should your Linux / UNIX swap space be?

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5 Reasons I Like Linux (And 5 Why I Dislike It)

November 19, 2008 (4:00:00 PM) - 7 hours, 29 minutes ago

Doing “stuff” on linux is just so easy. By “stuff”, I mean everything from doing some normal day chores, downloading files, customizing things, automating routine tasks, etc. The backbone for this is “the terminal” (not the movie :P). I can do almost anything I want from the console.

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Mounting Xen virtual machine storage on physical hosts

November 19, 2008 (3:30:00 PM) - 7 hours, 59 minutes ago

If a Xen virtual machine fails to start up, having its storage back end-mounted to your Xen server physical host is beneficial. An expert explains how to do so if you use a device as your storage back end.

Ubuntu for the Holidays

November 19, 2008 (3:00:00 PM) - 8 hours, 29 minutes ago

Want some Ubuntu gear to put under the Christmas tree? Then check out the new U.S. Ubuntu store.

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PHP Zend Framework 1.7 adds Adobe support

November 19, 2008 (2:30:00 PM) - 8 hours, 59 minutes ago

The open source Zend Framework 1.7 is now available expanding the PHP framework to work better with Adobe Flex and AIR applications. Adobe and Zend announced back in September that they would be collaborating for Zend Framework and now they've delivered.

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Using Fedora 10 on the One Laptop Per Child XO Laptop

November 19, 2008 (2:00:00 PM) - 9 hours, 29 minutes ago

With the release of Fedora 10, and the One Laptop Per Child Give One Get One (G1G1) approaching On-Disk.com was approached by OLPC to make Fedora 10 available for the XO G1G1 laptops. Because we needed to test the process anyway, I documented the process and my impressions of Fedora 10 on the XO laptop.

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16 videos from the Linux Kernel Summit

November 19, 2008 (10:00:00 AM) - 13 hours, 29 minutes ago

The Linux Foundation has published a series of video interviews from the annual Linux Kernel Summit held Sept. 15-16 in Portland, Oregon. In the videos, 16 developers -- including Linux creator Linus Torvalds -- discuss their development activities.

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NVIDIA Driver Brings PureVideo Features To Linux

November 19, 2008 (6:00:00 AM) - 17 hours, 29 minutes ago

Over the course of the past few months we have been saying that the NVIDIA 180 Linux driver to be released in the fourth quarter of 2008 would hold in store a few interesting features. Well, today that closed-source driver has been released in beta form. This driver adds a new VDPAU API, which provides PureVideo-like features on Linux, adds in CUDA 2.1 support, new workstation performance optimizations, X Render improvements, and other improvements.

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Open Comparability: against anti-benchmarking EULAs

November 18, 2008 (11:00:00 PM) - 1 day ago

It is time that legislators, regulators and procurement officials put an end to end-user license agreements (EULA) that prevent publication of comparative benchmarks.

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