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The Free Software hardliner, the corporation, and the shotgun wedding

Author: Josef Assad We called it Free Software at first. It wasn't until we started calling it Open Source that the punditry line counts began...

Open source personal information managers

Author: If you rely on personal information managers (PIM) to keep you organized, then you'll find no shortage of open source options to choose...

Open Source Support: When Should You Go Commercial?

These days we can assume that most large enterprises have some sort of open source software presence in the data center. Whether it is...

Free software goes Hollywood

Author: Bruce Byfield As the Writers Guild of America's strike enters its fourth month, one of its key issues -- the sharing of profits from...

Did Novell Just Die?

Okay, the headline is a bit dramatic. But the Sun-MySQL business combo makes The VAR Guy wonder: Will Novell wake up and start buying...

The unflappable free software community that opened the iPhone

The world of free software is full of amazing and even heroic stories (the gcc toolkit for its quality and flexibility, Linux and free...

A conversation with the autopackage team

Author: Samartha Vashishtha Curtis Knight, Isak Savo, and Taj Morton are the lead maintainers and developers of autopackage, a set of tools designed to let...

Build a faster desktop with RAID

Author: Simon Kaczor The evolution of computing is characterized by a vertiginous acceleration of speed and capacity. As we install sophisticated applications and make use...

New D language pumps up programmer productivity

Author: Nikolai Sivertsen Is it possible to have the performance of C and C++ and the programmer productivity of modern programming languages such as Ruby...

Annvix: A stable, secure, no-frills server distro

Author: Preston St. Pierre Annvix is a distribution aimed at providing a secure, stable, and fast base for servers. Be warned, however: Annvix is not...