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Review: FreeBSD 6.0
Author: Mayank Sharma
For software that's been around since the late '70s, before any of today's more popular operating systems, open source BSDs (in their...
GPLv3 draft analysis
Author: NewsForge Staff
Our staff has been busy reviewing the draft of version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GPLv3). The license contains...
GhostWriter: A Linux distro for writers
Author: Scott Nesbitt
One of the things that I love about Linux is that it has tools for everyone, including writers. Linux distributions come with...
Review: Conglomerate XML Editor reaches basic functionality
Author: Bruce Byfield
Graphical XML editors generally take one of two paths. Ones like FrameMaker with SGML provide a tree-like structure that is often more...
Device Profile: Buffalo LinkStation NAS
Buffalo Technology used embedded Linux to build a compact NAS (network attached storage) device with a capacity of 160 to 450 gigabytes. The LinkStation...
The Open Source as Prior Art Discussion Begins
The US patent system is broken. Everyone knows it. It's a runaway train. And in my opinion, it's heading toward FOSS, not because it...
Advocates urge adherence to North Carolina voting code review
Author: Jay Lyman
Advocates for transparency in electronic voting systems praise North Carolina's Public Confidence in Elections law that requires rigorous review of the code...
Don’t stigmatize the suits
Author: Tina Gasperson
Today, really smart but non-tech-savvy business types are founding companies that either sell open source software or make heavy use of it,...
Linux Advisory Watch – January 13, 2006
Author: Benjamin D. Thomas
This week, perhaps the most interesting articles include hylafax, hal, poppler,
pdftohtml, libpaperl, xpdf, gpdf, and apache2. The distributors include...
An introduction to services, runlevels, and rc.d scripts
A Linux service is an application (or set of applications) that runs in the background waiting to be used, or carrying out essential tasks....