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Red Hat settles 2 patent lawsuits - 1 more to go
06/11/2008 
In March of this year Red Hat expanded its legal firepower by hiring lawyers Rob Tiller and Richard Fontana. Three months later it's evident that thes ... 
X.Org Releases X Server 1.4.2
06/11/2008
It took more than 200 days for X Server 1.4.1 to be released, but X Server 1.4.2 is coming just about 24 hours after yesterday's release 1.4.1. This r ...
Contributors To The X Server
06/11/2008
Since our article yesterday entitled X Server 1.4.1 Is Released, No Joke where we shared that the X.Org server update -- a critical part of the Linux ...
Speaking UNIX: It's all about the inode
06/11/2008
Have you ever wondered what Iused and %Iused mean in UNIX commands like df or what people are talking about when the say inode? UNIX and Linux systems ...
Monitoring and Display Commands For LVM On Linux And Unix
06/11/2008
How to use the basic LVM commands to monitor and check on your LVM configuration. ...
GPL: why can't a lawyer understand it?
06/11/2008
Nearly a year after the Free Software Foundation released an updated version of the General Public License - the GPLv3 - there appears to be a great d ...
2008 Open Source CMS Award Details Announced
06/11/2008
Packt Publishing today announced details of the upcoming2008 Open Source Content Management System Award. Beginning with the Nominations stage on July ...
Red Hat Summit sessions preview: Rik van Riel, Fedora 9, and RPM with Spot
06/11/2008
Here's a little sneak preview of some of the educational sessions at this year's Summit. And who better to outline their talks than the speakers thems ...
Puppy Linux 4.00 is barking up the right tree
06/11/2008
With the recent release of Puppy Linux 4.00, developer Barry Kauler and his team have provided a lightweight but functional Linux operating system. To ...
Open-source Asterisk appliance takes on Nortel
06/11/2008
Media processing vendor Pika Technologies Inc. recently announced that its Warp appliance line is customer-ready and ready to slay the Nortels and Cis ...
World's fastest supercomputer runs Linux
06/11/2008
IBM announced the completion of a one-petaflop supercomputer that runs Red Hat Linux. Twice as fast as the previous record-setter, the IBM Blue Gene, ...
Introduction to Linux Gaming
06/11/2008
When you think of Linux, you probably think of open source software and security, but not gaming. Most people think if you are into gaming, Windows is ...
The Happy Collision of Collaboration and Competition in the Mobile World
06/11/2008
Silos and walled gardens are giving way to collabetition in the mobile handset industry. Faced with customer demands to innovate at nearly light speed ...
Another West Virginia hospital gets Open Source EHR
06/11/2008
Lakin Hospital, a long-term nursing facility operated by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, has adopted an open source electr ...
X Server 1.4.1 Is Released, No Joke
06/11/2008
Today -- just 212 days after the planned November launch date -- X Server 1.4.1 is finally released! Daniel Stone announced its release this morning o ...
BSDanywhere: A new OpenBSD live CD
06/11/2008
I've used Josh Grosse's jggimi live CD version of OpenBSD to test hardware compatibility recently, but now there's a new live CD project based on Open ...
Canonical OEM Strategy Deserves Applause
06/11/2008
Apparently, Canonical is already attracting attention from OEMs that want to build small Internet devices running Ubuntu Netbook Remix.Here's the scoo ...
Comparing Asterisk and OpenSER
06/11/2008
Voice Internet Protocol (VoIP) Telephony refers to the technology used for making telephone calls over the Internet. The two major technologies used t ...
Screencasts in Ubuntu with FFmpeg
06/11/2008
I had an ambitious plan to have a perfect knowledge of ffmpeg as well as possible. I have to admit that getting the most of this program is out of my ...
I'm actually using OpenOffice Writer
06/11/2008
I've probably written a dozen or more times about how I think that OpenOffice is the killer app of free, open-source software, and is the software sui ...
Why Python is The Best
06/11/2008
At the Geek Ranch we recently made a decision to implement some software in Python. Or, more accurately, I decided and there was no disagreement. Then ...
IBM Lotus Symphony turns old OOo code into enterprise Judas goat
06/11/2008
Oracle and now IBM seem to have strange ideas about creating a business around open source software for the enterprise. First it was Oracle's Unbreaka ...
Sould Novell Invade Red Hat Summit?
06/11/2008
The Red Hat Partner Summit kicks off in Boston on June 18, roughly 15 miles from Novell's corporate headquarters. Is it time for Novell to get aggress ...
Banshee 1.0 Released
06/11/2008
Banshee, the Linux media player backed by Novell that's built upon Mono and uses the GStreamer framework, has today reached the version 1.0 milestone. ...
Mozilla's open source phone system
06/11/2008
What does Mozilla - arguably the most popular open source project in the world - use for its telephony solution? It shouldn't surprise you that they u ...
Testing ebook readers for Project Gutenberg
06/11/2008
Project Gutenberg (PG) collects and maintains a library of public domain books in electronic text format, in an assortment of languages. That's all we ...
Graphical Terminal Emulators for Linux
06/11/2008
Command line is known to be the most powerful way of doing things on Linux. Even though there are GUI tools for almost any task, doing them in the she ...
ISO puts OOXML standardization on hold
06/11/2008
After member states filed four complaints against the standardisation of Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format, the International Standa ...
openSUSE Forums Launched
06/11/2008
The openSUSE Project is proud toannounce the launch offorums.opensuse.org, a merger of the openSUSE Novell support forums, suseforums.net, and suselin ...
Linux Mint 5.0 Builds Upon Ubuntu Hardy
06/11/2008
Linux Mint, one of the popular desktop distributions that's based off Ubuntu, has come out with version 5.0"Elyssa" that builds upon the 8.04 Hardy He ...
Violate the GPL at your own risk
06/11/2008
It used to be that companies could get away with stealing GPLed open-source code into their own software and no one would be the wiser. Those days are ...
Stallman attacks Oyster's 'unethical' use of Linux
06/11/2008
Free-software advocate Richard Stallman has spoken out against the association of open-source software with London's"unethical" Oyster-card system. In ...
EU takes swipe at Microsoft
06/11/2008
The European Union competition commissioner, Neelie Kroes, took a swipe at Microsoft on Tuesday by recommending that businesses and governments use so ...
Boy Scouts of America look to open-source community for help
06/11/2008
Scouts honor the 98-year-old Boy Scouts of America (BSA) organization is adopting open-source software as a path to building better software to suppo ...
How To Get Started With Logical Volume Management In Linux
06/11/2008
A simple how to on getting started with LVM for Linux. ...
Why Do Venture Capitalists Invest in Open Source?
06/11/2008
Bernard Dalle explains what the attraction is, how his company Index Ventures sees no shortage of top-flight open source startups following investment ...
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