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Avoid Trap Of Proprietary Cloud Tooling: Use Simple API

Wednesday, 21 October 2009 11:11 InformationWeek

What's the first thing you should do if you're thinking of developing software for cloud computing? At ZendCon, Zend Technologies user group yesterday, three members of a five member panel answered the same way: adopt Simple Cloud API, the open source cloud services interface.

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Teaching with Tux

Wednesday, 21 October 2009 08:32 LinuxJournal

As a homeschooling family, my wife and I are very involved in our children's education and since we're both a couple of nerds, much of our children's education is done on the computer.

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Firefox's Crossroads: Cutting-Edge or Mainstream?

Wednesday, 21 October 2009 00:00 CNET

Mozilla must make its browser appeal both to enthusiasts who like Google's Chrome and mainstream users using IE today.

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5 Years Later, 5 Ways that Ubuntu has Made Linux More Human

Tuesday, 20 October 2009 15:28 ArsTechnica

Canonical announced the very first release of the Ubuntu Linux distribution on October 20, 2004. Five years later, Ubuntu is the star of the Linux desktop and has achieved a level of popularity and mindshare that is unprecedented among various flavors of the open source operating system.

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IBM and Canonical Team Up Against Windows 7

Tuesday, 20 October 2009 05:01 CNET

The companies are bringing their low-cost cloud and Linux desktop platform to the U.S. Even if customers don't bite immediately, Microsoft needs to be concerned.

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