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Panel discusses openness at OSCON
07/22/2008 
The first two days of O'Reilly's Open Source Convention (OSCON) are dominated by technical tutorials, but there are sessions that buck the trend. Mond ... 
NTT Donates IPv6 Bandwidth to Open Source
07/22/2008
Contributing to open source typically conjures images of working on a project's code. But offering bandwidth is another critical way the movement can ...
Opinion: Microsoft faces a turning point
07/22/2008
Microsoft is probably standing at its most important crossroads ever, just when Bill Gates is waving goodbye. Well, actually, Microsoft has been missi ...
Linux tools to convert file formats
07/22/2008
Life would be a lot easier if we could live in a Linux-only world and if applications never required data from other sources. However, the need to get ...
Web 2.0 the Enterprise Way
07/22/2008
Web 2.0 technologies are empowering enterprises in ways we could only have imagined a few years ago. They have evolved beyond consumer-grade blogs and ...
Debian celebrates 15-year legacy
07/22/2008
Debian, arguably the most important Linux distribution, is readying to celebrate its 15th birthday on August 16. While a respected and widely-used Lin ...
Are VM Environments Open to Attack?
07/22/2008
New adopters often see virtualization as the Holy Grail of enterprise computing. It enables consolidation of separate servers and databases to provide ...
Designing rich AJAX Web interfaces with ZK
07/22/2008
ZK is an AJAX toolkit designed to make creating user interfaces that run in a Web browser as simple as creating event-driven interfaces for desktop ap ...
Embedding Python In Apache2 With mod_python (Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora/CentOS, Mandriva, OpenSUSE)
07/22/2008
This tutorial shows how to install and use mod_python on various distributions (Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora/CentOS, Mandriva, OpenSUSE) with Apache2. mod_py ...
Anatomy of Linux Loadable Kernel Modules
07/22/2008
Linux loadable kernel modules are on of the most important innovations in the Linux kernel. They provide a kernel that is both scalable and dynamic.Di ...
Channel Intelligence Sues Just About Everyone Who Offers Wishlists
07/22/2008
Channel Intelligence, a company based in Florida, filed a lawsuit for patent infringement in Delaware on Tuesday against a long list of startups and o ...
This week at LWN: The current development kernel is...linux-next?
07/22/2008
One of the development process advantages brought by git (and by BitKeeper before it) is the ability to see the up-to-the-second, bleeding-edge status ...
DragonFly BSD 2.0, HAMMER Filesystem
07/22/2008
"Hurrah! 2.0 has been released!" said Matthew Dillon, announcing the eighth major release of DragonFly BSD. This release is the first to include HAMME ...
Intel snubs Microsoft; offers Linux certification
07/22/2008
It's a sure thing that you can sit for a range of Microsoft certifications at almost any event where two or more 'Softies are gathered together in Bil ...
IBM, Oracle, SAP Sued Over Server Software Patents
07/22/2008
Implicit Networks Inc., based in Seattle, claims the three companies and Adobe Systems Inc. are violating two patents for computer-server software tha ...
Face off: Windows vs Linux real world RAM and disk tests
07/22/2008
Forget fear, uncertainty and doubt. How do Windows Vista and Linux really compare against each other? It's one thing to talk about the familiar applic ...
Fancy Globbing With Zsh On Linux and Unix
07/22/2008
A look at zsh's extended globbing functionality with plenty of examples. ...
Man vs. Myth: Greg Kroah-Hartman and the Kernel Driver Project
07/22/2008
Don't tell Greg Kroah-Hartman that Linux hurts for device drivers. He's heard too much of that rap, and he's already done plenty to stop it. We should ...
Libervis.com re-launches to explore the power of technology
07/22/2008
"I believe that if we don't find ways to use technology to the benefit of our freedoms, it will be used by others to its detriment. Is there really an ...
The Status Of DRI2, GEM, KMS, Etc...
07/22/2008
Later this week at OSCON 2008, Intel's Keith Packard will be talking about the Linux desktop when it comes to X.Org, Mesa, and related areas. Unfortun ...
Turn Make Options into Tool Flags
07/22/2008
Often times when developing programs there is a need to build the program in/for multiple configurations. Many times, autoconf and its resulting confi ...
Don't Forget UOF: Here Comes EIOffice 2009
07/22/2008
Long time followers of the ODF-OOXML story will recall that there is a third editable, XML-based document format in the race to create the documentary ...
CherryPal Mini PC Makes Firefox the OS
07/22/2008
PC users seeking an environmentally friendly desktop system can add the new CherryPal C100 desktop to the list of contenders. The machine, announced M ...
Seneca College teams with FOSS projects for hands-on learning
07/22/2008
Where most computer science departments emphasize theory and mention free and open source software (FOSS) only indirectly, Seneca College in Toronto, ...
Linux on mobiles will put the squeeze on MS, says Zemlin
07/22/2008
Once it was the desktop, now mobile phones and embedded devices represent the future of Linux, according to open source fans. Jim Zemlin, executive di ...
OSCON 2008 Conference This Week
07/22/2008
O'Reilly's OSCON 2008 conference is taking place in Portland, Oregon this week. At Phoronix, we are media partners with O'Reilly this year for this le ...
AMD Catalyst 8.7 Linux Driver Released
07/22/2008
Since last month's release of Catalyst 8.6 for Linux we've seen the introduction of the Radeon HD 4850 and 4870 graphics cards and we've been allowed ...
Acer P243WAid 24" LCD
07/22/2008
In the past we have looked at several different Acer LCDs and generally have been quite pleased with them. Acer offers LCD panels that range from cost ...
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