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The Linux Saga: boot loader, initrd& Sys V
07/25/2008 
How does the system startup look like? This question usually does not come into mind of a normal computer user. Oh, he presses the power button, goes ... 
Open Web Foundation to Keep Data?Open?
07/25/2008
A coalition of individuals and corporate backers are creating the Open Web Foundation, an attempt to create a home for community-driven specifications ...
Whither the Knol? Google Takes a New Experiment Live
07/25/2008
In December of last year, Google posted a brief announcement of a new experiment in online publishing. At first blush it seemed to represent a challen ...
How To Create A Cluster Testbed Using CentOS 5 Virtualization And iSCSI
07/25/2008
This guide attempts to provide a Xen based test environment where you can practice setting up a two node cluster (cluster setup itself is not discusse ...
Government to consult on legislation to curb illicit filesharing
07/25/2008
Only 3 months late, the Government has finally released a consultation into potential legislation aimed at curbing illicit filesharing on the net. Sev ...
Yahoo!'s Zimbra Desktop beta 3 launched
07/25/2008
Yahoo! subsidiary Zimbra has released beta 3 of Zimbra Desktop, its new email application designed to make it simpler to work with multiple web mail a ...
The open source jobs boom
07/25/2008
Looking for a good job in IT? Sharpen your knowledge of open source development frameworks, languages, and programming. A just-published study of avai ...
Open source telephony: a Fedora-based VoIP server with Asterisk
07/25/2008
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has emerged as a popular technology for modern voice communications. Many organizations have replaced their analog ...
OpenEMR Live Launched
07/25/2008
OpenEMR HQ announced the official launch of their OpenEMR Live fully hosted EMR solution earlier today in a conference call with developers, employees ...
60 percent skipping Vista, so Ballmer looks to Apple
07/25/2008
A new survey by KACE, a systems management appliance company, suggests that 60 percent of those surveyed have no plans to deploy Microsoft Windows Vis ...
Web 2.0 fuels open source database boom
07/25/2008
The market for open source databases is booming due to new workloads such as RFID projects, rich Web applications and small portals, despite the unwil ...
Debian looks to launch lenny in Sept.
07/25/2008
The Debian project's maintainer, Luk Claes, announced in an email Saturday that he will freeze the"testing" or"Lenny" tree, in preparation for a new s ...
BT joins enterprise open source community
07/25/2008
The communications and IT giant has already been a member of the Linux Foundation since 2005. According to a Wednesday statement, BT joined FossBazaar ...
More Perl One Liners For Linux Or Unix
07/25/2008
Back to the short-line code. A bit on the lighter side. ...
Linux answers the age-old question,"Why is my network slow?"
07/25/2008
For every person who has said,"Let's network these two computers" there are many more asking"Why is the network running so slow?" Yet, the ethereal na ...
Howto: build and install the intl PECL extension for PHP5 in Debian
07/25/2008
For the past few days I have been looking for a proper i18n (internationalisation) and l10n (localisation) method for PHP. PHP has quite a few locale ...
Google's Knol: More Rules, More Accountability, More Money
07/25/2008
While the beta testing seems never to end at Google -- Gmail is still in beta well past age 4 -- the world's largest search engine and advertising mac ...
Dell UK launches systems with preinstalled Ubuntu Linux
07/25/2008
Dell is now selling selected systems with Ubuntu 8.0.4, Hardy Heron, pre-installed in the United Kingdom . Ubuntu has been an option some Dell systems ...
GovTrack opens up information on US legislature
07/25/2008
Since 2004, GovTrack.us has housed information about the United States Congress, including 10 years of bills, voting records, and contact information ...
Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex" Alpha 3
07/25/2008
While not too much for the end-user has changed since Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 2, Canonical has just announced the release of Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex" Alp ...
Building a Squid Proxy Server
07/25/2008
Squid is a caching proxy server that can provide enhanced performance for your internal network users.. Squid will cache commonly accessed sites so th ...
Mozilla funds SA translation team
07/25/2008
South Africaâs award-winning multilingual software developer, Translate.org.za, has been awarded a grant by the Mozilla Corporation to extend i ...
VMware to give away ESXi for free
07/25/2008
A few short weeks since his former employer Microsoft officially released Hyper-V, newly installed VMware Inc. CEO Paul Maritz told investors on a sec ...
Shuttleworth: Microsoft Does Not Want War
07/25/2008
Mark Shuttleworth said he doubts Microsoft would file suit against a free software developer unless the software giant wants"war." At the end of a ses ...
Vendors Boost Open-Source Tools Support
07/25/2008
Black Duck Software and Intel are the latest vendors to make substantial improvements to their open-source development tools, the latest indicators of ...
Ottawa Linux Symposium 10, Day 1
07/25/2008
The tenth annual Ottawa Linux Symposium kicked off Wednesday in Canada's capital, just a few blocks from the country's parliament building, in a confe ...
NimbleX 2008 is out!
07/25/2008
The NimbleX 2008 Linux distribution has been finally released with a lot of significant improvements since the Release Candidate even though a couple ...
OSCON: SnapLogic Builds Bridges Between SaaS Islands
07/25/2008
What happens when customers try to share and manage data between multiple SaaS (storage as a service) applications? Often, they simply can't do it. Bu ...
Dell Outlines More Ubuntu 8.04 Details
07/25/2008
Last week Dell started shipping Ubuntu 8.04 PCs and even with a Dell option for ATI graphics. Today a few more details surrounding Dell's adoption of ...
Interesting Bits Of News From OSCON
07/25/2008
A few (small) interesting tidbits of information to report on from this afternoon's OSCON...
- Along with delivering the source-code to Launchpad wit ...
Using Adobe Flash and other 32-bit applications on 64-bit Linux
07/25/2008
64-bit computing is as prevalent today as multicore computing. Almost any new processor from Intel or AMD has the AMD long mode extensions, allowing t ...
Why We Must React to ACTA
07/25/2008
A new global standard for the enforcement of intellectual monopolies is currently being discussed by representatives of the United States, the Europea ...
Is Microsoft Irrelevant?
07/25/2008
Is Microsoft irrelevant? That's what Brian Aker, director of architecture at Sun Microsystems' MySQL, called the software giant in an onstage Q&A duri ...
VIA Appoints An Open-Source Liaison
07/25/2008
VIA's commitment to the open-source community has been everything but stellar. VIA Technologies has taken advantage of the open-source community befor ...
Crossover Games 7.1 Released
07/25/2008
CrossOver Games for Linux was originally released back in March (CrossOver Games Preview), but the CodeWeavers team is still busy driving new features ...
How To Install Django On Debian Etch (Apache2/mod_python)
07/25/2008
This tutorial explains how to install Django on a Debian Etch server. Django is a web framework that allows to develop Python web applications quickly ...
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