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MindTouch Sharpens Its Deki App Masher
07/24/2008 
MindTouch announced on Wednesday the latest version of its open source collaboration and collective intelligence platform, MindTouch Deki. Dubbed"Kile ... 
Ubuntu to unveil new version of its Launchpad community next week
07/24/2008
A year after creating an online open-source software development community to take on SourceForge.net and other rivals, the development team at Ubuntu ...
The new business of free radio
07/24/2008
Andrew Leyden has some killer ideas about radio. Literally. For example, hecorrectly identifies the iPhone as a radio, and says it will kill off XM an ...
Sources: Canonical Preparing to Launch Ubuntu Appliances
07/24/2008
Canonical is working with partners to potentially launch Ubuntu Server appliances at LinuxWorld Expo, according to open source industry sources who me ...
Sun to support AMP plus Linux
07/24/2008
Sun Microsystems is putting the"L" back into LAMP with plans to support customers running the open-source Apache, MySQL and Perl or PHP (AMP) stack on ...
Shell Script To Emulate A Thesaurus For Linux or Unix
07/24/2008
A simple shell script to grab information from an online thesaurus. Had I used it, this tagline might be more colorful ;) ...
Making desktop Linux work for business
07/24/2008
Today's IT managers face tough choices. PCs that run fine today have an uncertain upgrade path, now that Microsoft has chosen to discontinue Windows X ...
The Mess That is Linux Volume Management
07/24/2008
LXer Feature: 24-Jul-2008The GNU/Linux operating system is blessed to have sound partition management tools likeGParted which are very easy to use. Ho ...
San Francisco's mayor gets back keys to the network
07/24/2008
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom met with jailed IT administrator Terry Childs Monday, convincing him to hand over the administrative passwords to the ...
Apple Is Linux's Main Competition
07/24/2008
Counter to what many people seem to think, Shuttleworth seems to believe that Apple, not Microsoft, is Linux's main competition, and he is right for a ...
Tutorial: Tip of the Trade: Linux Easter Egg Fun
07/24/2008
For lo these many years here on ServerWatch's Tip of the Trade, we have toiled to bring you useful tips and tricks to make your job a little easier, a ...
Linux mini-PC takes two Watts to tango
07/24/2008
A Silicon Valley startup called CherryPal announced a two-Watt, $250 ultra-mini PC that runs Debian Linux. Based on a 400MHz PowerPC-based system-on-c ...
Ubuntu to unveil new version of its Launchpad community next week
07/24/2008
A year after creating an online open-source software development community to take on SourceForge.net and other rivals, the development team at Ubuntu ...
Veteran developer ditches Microsoft for open source
07/24/2008
If you've ever used Microsoft Access or Excel, you have likely used a product that Mike Gunderloy had a hand in developing. The irony is that Gunderlo ...
Sun readies Web stack featuring choice of OSes
07/24/2008
Sun Microsystems Inc. is announcing on Wednesday availability of Sun Web Stack, which puts the company's own twist on the popular open-source LAMP (Li ...
Checking out Opensolaris 2008.05
07/24/2008
In May of this year, Sun's"Project Indiana" team released OpenSolaris 2008.05, a major milestone on the path to a community-developed Solaris distribu ...
Ubuntu founder urges Linux desktop to rival Apple
07/24/2008
Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth urged development of a Linux desktop to rival what Apple Inc. has done and aired a vision of software changing ...
Fedora adds collaboration tools
07/24/2008
Fedora has released its Asterisk-based Fedora Talk VoIP application for connecting Fedora contributors. Other news posted on a recent Fedora blog incl ...
Re-jigged Intel mobile Linux stack dumps Ubuntu
07/24/2008
Intel's project to put a Linux and open source stack on mobile devices is getting overhauled to attract developer support, having failed to generate m ...
We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet For$200. Help Us Build It.
07/24/2008
I'm tired of waiting- I want a dead simple and dirt cheap touch screen web tablet to surf the web. Nothing fancy like the Dell latitude XT, which cost ...
Benchmarking Microsoft Word 95 through Word 2007
07/24/2008
In the beginning, what was your guess: did you guess Word 2007 will be faster or slower? Well, here are all the tests rolled up together. Word 2003 bu ...
Kernel Log: No unstable series; Linux 2008.7; dealing with security fixes
07/24/2008
Along with 2.6.27 development ramping up, there is a variety of other Linux kernel news. Shortly after the release of Linux 2.6.26, someone on the Lin ...
Network Security Toolkit distribution aids network security administrators
07/24/2008
Network Security Toolkit is one of many live CD Linux distributions focusing on network monitoring, analysis, and security. NST was designed to give n ...
Sams Teach Yourself Django in 24 Hours
07/24/2008
Django (for those of you who don't know and are just reading this out of sheer curiosity) is"an open source web application framework, written in Pyth ...
Moblin 2.0 Being Released At Intel IDF
07/24/2008
At OSCON 2008, Linux on mobile devices has been an extremely hot topic. This morning Intel's Dirk Hohndel had keynoted about their Atom-based mobile d ...
Dell offers new machines with Linux Ubuntu 8.04
07/24/2008
Dell said it spent months in development and testing to deliver more peripheral support for features, including ATI video graphics, wireless networkin ...
Ubuntu Netbook vs. Ubuntu Mobile Internet Devices: What's the Difference?
07/24/2008
Canonical is working on at least two mobile Linux projects. One called Ubuntu Netbook Remix, the other called Ubuntu for Mobile Internet Devices. So w ...
JasperSoft Fires Up New OSS Forge
07/24/2008
Open source business intelligence firm JasperSoft on Wednesday announced its next-generation community platform at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference ...
Reduce Apache's Load With Nginx On RHEL 5.2
07/24/2008
This article describes how to install and configure Nginx to accelerate an Apache server based on RHEL 5.2. ...
Pentaho's Doug Moran on How to Build an Open Source Company
07/24/2008
Doug Moran, one of Pentaho's founders, offers a fascinating description of how the company was created in part by bringing on board the chief architec ...
Dynamic Content - Missing Files Error Catching
07/24/2008
In the two previous articles my focus was on the catching an error where it was impossible to generate any valid menu, even the many of the meta tags ...
xf86-video-intel 2.4.0 Driver Released
07/24/2008
It's been about three months since the xf86-video-intel 2.3.0 driver was released and today they have now issued their next quarterly update. Version ...
RadeonHD Driver Gets "CS" Branch
07/24/2008
There are already separate branches of the xf86-video-radeonhd driver for AtomBIOS support and another one for improved 2D acceleration, but today we ...
X.Org Server 1.4.99.906 Released
07/24/2008
X.Org 7.4 / X Server 1.5 is running months behind schedule, but now holding up its release is Mesa 7.1 or there the lack of. However, Adam Jackson has ...
Keith Packard Talks X.Org At OSCON 2008
07/24/2008
Following this morning's keynote at OSCON 2008, Intel's Keith Packard had talked about the status of X. This short talk wasn't too different from his ...
GNOME 2.23.5 Released
07/24/2008
As the first development release since GUADEC 2008 (GNOME's developer conference) where they had announced GNOME 2.30 will be GNOME 3.0, we have a new ...
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