The company will try to compete with the likes of Apple and Android with a smartphone that will offer a “differentiated experience.” [Read more]
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Thanking the openSUSE Conference Sponsors!
In about a month, the openSUSE conference will kick off in Thessaloniki, Greece. We expect that about 300 visitors will join us for 4 days featuring over 60 talks, workshops and meetings covering everything from low-level Linux hackery to debating the state of Free Software marketing. Entree to the openSUSE conference is free, as always. Of course, organizing an event like oSC is not exactly without costs, both in terms of hard work and hard cash. For the work we can’t thank our volunteer crew enough, and they deserve some attention. So do the sponsors, who help make this event possible, either by providing equipment and services or money. We’d like to introduce the core team and our sponsors to you!
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Android’s Audacious Desktop Debut
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RIP Google Reader
Today, Google’s RSS reader is kaput. Maybe most don’t notice, maybe some are relieved not to have another box with 396,955,428 unread items. But it spurns a stalwart contingent. [Read more]
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Open Source Private Cloud Storage With OpenStack Swift
Everyone has data. It’s always growing, and you should have ownership of everything that touches your data. You need to have the ability to see and make changes to the code managing your storage system. Having ownership of your data gives you control of your own destiny.
All this started with web apps: companies were embracing the web as a new way to easily deliver software to a massive audience and looking for scalable infrastructure on which to build their applications. So, in 2009, Rackspace Hosting launched a product to give application developers access to flexible, scalable storage built to serve content at a massive scale.
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Driving Better Governance With Open Source
“Ten years ago, open source—notably Linux—was often labelled a ‘fad’ or destined for the ‘hobbyist’ market,” said Mark Bohannon, Vice President for Corporate Affairs & Global Public Policy at Red Hat.
“Fast forward to today. Owing not only to the benefits of the technology, but also to the benefits of the collaborative innovation model, open source software has by any measure become mainstream and vital to enterprise and government IT architecture.”
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