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  • Boxee - A New Way to Enjoy Entertainment on your TV & PC

    20 Nov 2009 | 4:33 pm
    Boxee is a free, open-source software platform that integrates personal media with Internet media along with social networking.

  • KNOPPIX 6.2 / ADRIANE 1.2 - Live CD / DVD

    20 Nov 2009 | 3:01 pm
    Microknoppix "Microknoppix" is a complete rewrite of the KNOPPIX boot system from version 60 and up, with the following features:

  • PHP 5.3.1 Released!

    20 Nov 2009 | 2:34 pm
    The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.3.1. This is a maintenance release in the 5.3 series, which includes a large number of bug fixes.

  • CloudMade Makes Maps Differently

    20 Nov 2009 | 2:23 pm
    CloudMade provides you with access to a range of innovative tools and APIs that allow you to make the most of map data. We source our map data from OpenStreetMap, the community mapping project which is making a free map of the world.

  • Neo FreeRunner - Open Source Phone

    20 Nov 2009 | 2:09 pm
    The Neo FreeRunner is the second phone designed to run Openmoko software and is the direct descendant of the earlier Neo 1973.
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    Slashdot

  • Pittsburgh To Tax Students

    Soulskill
    21 Nov 2009 | 6:14 am
    societyofrobots writes "Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl has proposed taxing college and professional students for the privilege of receiving an education in the city. The proposed tax will charge students in the city at a rate of 1% of their yearly tuition — which, at Carnegie Mellon, would mean roughly a $400 tax (PDF) on most students. As the tax proposal hit local media outlets this week, the mayor repeatedly emphasized the burden that college students have placed on city services, and the need for students to pay their 'fair share.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

  • Major Electronics Firms Support Ending Use of "Conflict Minerals"

    Soulskill
    21 Nov 2009 | 5:12 am
    tburton writes "The US House of Representatives yesterday released the Conflict Minerals Trade Act (HR 4128) to try and end the international trade of tungsten, tantalum and col-tan, the mining of which is accused of fueling violent rape and murder in eastern Congo. Since the very same minerals power the most popular consumer electronics from HP, Verizon, Nokia, RIM and Intel, the Information Technology Industry Council has quickly signed a statement of support. Advocacy groups are hopeful these commitments prove to be meaningful as consumers begin to question the end result of the supply…

  • Bing Censoring All Simplified Chinese Language Queries

    Soulskill
    21 Nov 2009 | 2:08 am
    boggis writes "Nicholas Kristof, a New York Times journalist, is calling for a boycott of Microsoft's Bing. They have censored search requests at the request of the Chinese Government (like certain others). The difference is that Bing has censored all searches done anywhere in simplified Chinese characters (the characters used in mainland China). This means that a Chinese speaker searching for Tiananmen anywhere in the world now gets the impression that it is just a lovely place to visit."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

  • Cyber Attacks On US Military Jump Sharply In 2009

    Soulskill
    20 Nov 2009 | 11:02 pm
    angry tapir writes "Cyber attacks on the US Department of Defense — many of them coming from China — have jumped sharply in 2009, a US congressional committee has reported. Citing data provided by the US Strategic Command, the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission said that there were 43,785 malicious cyber incidents targeting Defense systems in the first half of the year. That's a big jump. In all of 2008, there were 54,640 such incidents. If cyber attacks maintain this pace, the yearly increase will be around 60 percent. The full report (PDF) is available online."Read…

  • RFID Fingerprints To Fight Tag Cloning

    Soulskill
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    Bourdain writes with news out of the University of Arkansas, where researchers are looking for ways to combat counterfeit RFID tags. Passive tags typically wait for a reader to transmit a signal of the appropriate strength and frequency before sending their own transmission. The scientists found that the amount of power required to trigger this varies quite a bit from one tag to the next, especially when many different frequencies are sampled. This and other physical characteristics give the tag its own "fingerprint" that is independent of the signal information stored in its memory, which…
 
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    Open Source Initiative blogs

  • Linux leads in Top500 supercomputers, again and even moreso

    Michael Tiemann
    16 Nov 2009 | 3:14 am
    As families go, the Linux operating system family has become the family among the Top500 supercomputers, running on 89.20% of all systems. Proprietary Unix, which used to the the preferred OS for these supercomputers in the 1990s is down to 5% share, and Windows is reported to be running on exactly 5 systems, for a 1% share.read more

  • Project management lessons from the FreeDOS Project

    tbm
    10 Nov 2009 | 9:17 am
    A lot of people seem to think that open source is a magic solution to project management and that open source projects will automatically attract a large and healthy community of contributors and users who will improve the software. This, of course, is not the case. In fact, creating a successful open source project is a really major and difficult effort. You have to deliver an initial promise that people find interesting, attract other people, then facilitate and lead the community, etc. read more

  • CodePlex Foundation ramping up

    Ken Coar
    9 Nov 2009 | 7:14 pm
    The CodePlex Foundation (http://codeplex.org/; Twitter @codeplex_f), which was started back in September of this year, has been trying to gain traction and momentum. Unfortunately, its pro tempore Board of Directors and President are all volunteers already with overflowing plates, so progress hasn't been particularly visible.read more

  • Open Source Progress in Malaysia

    Michael Tiemann
    4 Nov 2009 | 11:57 pm
    Here are some stunning facts that were published at the end of July in Malaysia: More than 70 percent of Malaysian government offices are running open source software, according to figures released by the country's Open Source Competency Centre. The centre was established as part of the 2004 Malaysian Public Sector OSS Master Plan, to guide and co-ordinate the implementation of OSS in the public sector.read more

  • If it ain't broke...

    Michael Tiemann
    2 Nov 2009 | 4:44 pm
    The Open Source movement is consistent with a larger democratic proposition that the more that we can all be involved in affairs that concern them, the better off we'll all be. But sometimes the involvement of some people, whose concern is the maintenance of monopoly and control, doesn't serve the great good. Glynn Moody uncovers the sinister results that are threatening to emerge from a committee in Europe in a blog posting titled EU Wants to Re-define "Closed" as "Nearly Open". I think the EU got it right the first time in 2004, when they said this about open systems: read more
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    OPEN SOURCE NEWS - Google News

  • Google announces cloud computing operating system will be completely open source - EDL Consulting

    20 Nov 2009 | 11:13 pm
    PC WorldGoogle announces cloud computing operating system will be completely open sourceEDL Consulting"Whatever we do will be in the open, and we are really looking forward to working with the open source community to help drive this forward," said Google Google releases Chromium OS open source projectTechShout! (blog)Google Chrome OS available for download, open source workExaminer.comGoogle Releases Chrome OS To Open SourceChannelWebBBC News -CTO Edge (blog) -eWeekall 1,088 news articles »

  • Clever Tester To Launch Open Source C++ Developer Testing Tools for Software ... - The Open Press (press release)

    20 Nov 2009 | 9:08 pm
    Clever Tester To Launch Open Source C++ Developer Testing Tools for Software The Open Press (press release)The Tester Tools website contains a variety of Quality Assurance scripts including Open Source Testing Tools, Performance and Automated Testing, and more »

  • Reed Exhibitions Makes a Stand With Open Source Data Integration Solution - Trading Markets (press release)

    20 Nov 2009 | 11:51 am
    SYS-CON Media (press release)Reed Exhibitions Makes a Stand With Open Source Data Integration SolutionTrading Markets (press release)Talend Integration Suite provides value-added features and services that extend Talend Open Studio and is the first open source enterprise data integration Infobright and Talend Launch Open Source Solutions for Enhanced Data WarehousingTMCnetInfobright & Talend Combine on Free Virtual Data WarehouseSYS-CON Media (press release)Talend: Conexance MD uses Umanis and Talend to help its clients gain market shareTMC Netall 24 news articles »

  • ARM Solution Center for Android Open for Open Source Developers - Wireless and Mobile News (blog)

    20 Nov 2009 | 11:40 am
    ARM Solution Center for Android Open for Open Source DevelopersWireless and Mobile News (blog) a resource for designers and developers of ARM technology-based products running on Android, the open source platform from the Open Handset Alliance. EVE Joins ARM Solution Center for AndroidEarthtimes (press release)all 17 news articles »

  • Linux and Open Source - ZDNet

    20 Nov 2009 | 5:49 am
    Linux and Open SourceZDNetOracle CEO Larry Ellison insists the delay in Europe's approval is degrading the overall value of Sun, which also controls such important open source Oracle Gets a One-Week Extension on Sun DealInternetNews.comEU extends Oracle/Sun review deadline until Jan 27The Associated PressIBM Savors Oracle-Sun DelayTheStreet.comFinancial Times -East Bay Business Times -Managing Automation Magazineall 94 news articles »
 
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    Open Source Pixels

  • PHP 5.3.1 released for 5 security flaws, 113 bugs

    os-news
    20 Nov 2009 | 7:05 pm
    The first update to PHP 5.3 is now available providing 5 security fixes in addition a long list of bug fixes to the popular open source dynamic language. PHP 5.3 was released at the end of June, so the 5.3.1 point update has been in the works for five months at this point.

  • Intel Linux Graphics Shine With Fedora 12

    os-news
    20 Nov 2009 | 6:08 pm
    Intel’s Linux graphics driver stack is often at the forefront of X.Org / Mesa innovations, from Intel being the first driver having in-kernel video memory management to being the first driver with mainline kernel mode-setting support to even being the driver that often first receives support for new OpenGL extensions in Mesa. The Intel Linux driver stack can be attributed with many firsts, but continually pushing this driver while putting out quarterly timed releases has led to some pains. Earlier this year in fact the driver stack was rather buggy — especially in Ubuntu 9.04…

  • OpenSUSE 11.2– Incremental Updates, Plenty of Polish

    os-news
    20 Nov 2009 | 5:11 pm
    With the purchase of SUSE by Novell many feared that the brand would be subsumed into the corporate borg and contaminated with proprietary add-ons. But openSUSE goes its own way, and the result is a sleek, reliable distribution with all the bells and whistles. Paul Ferrill takes it for a spin and reports.

  • ARM excited by Chrome OS

    os-news
    20 Nov 2009 | 4:13 pm
    Chip designer ARM is excited about the prospect of Google Chrome OS, according to the company’s EVP of Marketing Ian Drew. Speaking to TechRadar after being name-checked by Google at the unveiling of Chrome OS, Drew admitted that he couldn’t predict whether the revolutionary principles behind the new operating system would be successful, but that he wouldn’t bet against a company with such a good track record.

  • Mastering Grub 2 The Easy Way

    os-news
    20 Nov 2009 | 3:26 pm
    If you’re running Linux, there’s a good chance your distro of choice uses Grub as the default bootloader. Grub has served well for many years, but it’s beginning to show its age. As with all software, it doesn’t take long before the latest-and-greatest becomes old-and-haggard. Features have been piling up in Grub without much thought going into revamping the core program. Eventually, this lead to a messy patchwork that no one really wanted to maintain. At this point, Grub2 was born. It’s a complete rewrite from the ground up using a completely redesigned structure. This new Grub…
 
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    OSOR NEWS

  • FR: Advocacy group protests government's approving of OOXML

    20 Nov 2009 | 5:59 am
    April, a French free and open source software advocacy group, is protesting the French government's approval of Microsoft's OOXML as a government document standard, alongside the open document format ODF.

  • EU space agency to start a repository for open source applications

    20 Nov 2009 | 2:10 am
    The European Space Agency (ESA) wants to build a repository for hosting and developing it's open source applications, including flight software, ground software and engineering tools.

  • IT: 'Open source key to software re-use of public administrations'

    18 Nov 2009 | 4:09 am
    "Free and open source software enables more effective actions, with a very low cost, when financing small projects for public administrations", says Osvaldo Gervasi, president of Umbria's Open Source Competence Center (CCOS) and professor of Computer Science at University of Perugia. "This type of software is key to the re-use of applications by public administrations."

  • DK: Chair of Denmark's standards committee: 'Microsoft is lying'

    17 Nov 2009 | 2:33 am
    Mogens Kühn Pedersen, chair of the Danish Standards Committee, says Microsoft is lying when it says it will implement ISO OOXML in the next version of its suite of office applications.

  • European governments help increase ODF interoperability

    17 Nov 2009 | 2:31 am
    Representatives from three European member states, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands, took part in the second Open Document Format (ODF) interoperability workshop held in the Italian town of Orvieto at the beginning of this month.
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    OgasaWalrus.com

  • Amazon Kindle for PC Beta eBook Reader for Windows XP/Vista/7

    todd
    10 Nov 2009 | 10:11 am
    No Mac OS X version yet. But, here's the link to Amazon's... Kindle for PC Beta It works under Windows XP, Vista, & 7. As with the Kindle for iPhone ebook reader, you don't need to own the Kindle hardware product to buy and read Kindle ebooks.

  • Google Dashboard: See Google Services & Data Associated With Your Account

    todd
    5 Nov 2009 | 10:32 am
    Wonder what you have in various Google services (including privacy settings)? Transparency, choice and control — now complete with a Dashboard! You can find the Google Dashboard for your services at... https://www.google.com/dashboard/

  • Free Online Book by Gina Trapani & Adam Pash: The Complete Guide to Google Wave

    todd
    2 Nov 2009 | 12:46 pm
    I freely admit to "not getting" what Google Wave is about. Fortunately, there is a new book on the topic co-written by LifeHacker founder Gina Trapani... The Complete Guide to Google Wave FYI: The link above is to the URL... http://completewaveguide.com/ read more

  • Google Convert, Zip, & Download Feature Lets You Bundle Google Docs Into a ZIP File

    todd
    26 Oct 2009 | 4:19 pm
    Here's a new Google Docs feature that I've been wanting for a while now... Liberate your Google Docs with Convert, Zip and Download It lets you bundle together multiple Google Docs documents in the format of your choice and then download them all in a single ZIP file. More info about it is found on the Google Docs Blog... Data Liberation, "Mark as viewed", and New!

  • AVG LinkScanner Scans Shortened Web Addresses

    todd
    13 Oct 2009 | 10:21 pm
    PC World reports that the free... AVG LinkScanner ...can scan web addresses shrunken by URL shortener services like bit.ly and tinyurl. Interestingly, AVG's website for the product doesn't seem to tout this ability at all.
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  • Google Unveils Chrome OS

    From the Conceptual dept.: Today we are open-sourcing the project as Chromium OS. We are doing this early, a year before Google Chrome OS will be ready for users, because we are eager to engage with partners, the open source community and developers. As with the Google Chrome browser, development will be done in the open from this point on. This means the code is free, accessible to anyone and open for contributions. The Chromium OS project includes our current code base, user interface experiments and some initial designs for ongoing development. This is the initial sketch and we will color…

  • Spain Codifies 'The Right to Broadband'

    From the More FPS dept.: Spanish citizens will have a legal right from 2011 to be able to buy broadband internet of at least one megabyte per second at a regulated price wherever they live, the country's industry minister said on Tuesday. The telecoms operator holding the so-called "universal service" contract would have to guarantee it could offer "reasonably" priced broadband throughout Spain, said Miguel Sebastian in a statement sent to media.

  • Microsoft open sources .NET Micro Framework

    From the Micro dept.: Back in July, Microsoft announced it was making .NET available under its Community Promise, which in theory allowed free software developers to use the technology without fear of patent lawsuits. Unsurprisingly, many free software geeks were unconvinced by the promise (after all, what's a promise compared to an actual open licence?), but now Microsoft has taken things to the next level by releasing the .NET Micro Framework under the Apache licence. Yes, you read that correctly: a sizeable chunk of .NET is about to go open source.

  • Google Introduces Own Open Source Language "Go"

    From the Go Go Google C dept.: Go is a new programming language from Google that aims for performance that is nearly comparable to C, but with more expressive syntax and faster compilation. What it won't do, however, is liberate the coding masses from bracist tyranny. Google's Go is yet another take on C.

  • EC Formally Objects To Oracle's Purchase of Sun

    From the Maginot Line dept.: European antitrust regulators have formally objected to Oracle Corp.'s $7.4-billion US takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc., citing concerns that the takeover could hurt competition in the database market. The European Commission sent a statement of objections to Sun on Monday. At the heart of the issue is Sun's MySQL division, which makes the most popular open source database software. Oracle is the market leader in proprietary database software — the kind that is protected by copyright.
 
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    Open Source Alternative News

  • FrostWire added to osalt.com

    16 Nov 2009 | 1:10 am
    FrostWire is an alternative peer-to-peer file sharing service on the Gnutella network that is modeled after LimeWire and in fact, derived its code from LimeWire Pro. You'll find it a bit different in appearance but if you've worked with one, the other will be very familiar. One of the advantages of FrostWire is that you won't get an onslaught of ads every time you open it to search for a file. This is good news for those who prefer to keep their machines clean of adware and spyware. The interface is pleasantly blue with rounded corners on the tabs but other than that, FrostWire is remarkably…

  • Qt Creator added to osalt.com

    9 Nov 2009 | 12:57 am
    When you want to build applications with state of the art GUI interfaces you may want to look at Nokia's Qt Creator. It is focused on the idea of providing Qt users the features they need to get up and running, whether they are new at Qt or experienced developers. This IDE (integrated development environment) provides several unique features that make Qt creation easier and more enjoyable and supports multiple platforms. Coding can be one of the biggest time consumers in developing applications and Qt's C++ code editor makes it easier and faster. It has static code checking and provides style…

  • Mumble added to osalt.com

    2 Nov 2009 | 12:12 am
    Mumble is voice chat software that can be used by any type of group but is tailored for gamers who enjoy chatting while gaming. It has an ingame overlay for DirectX9 and OpenGL based games and shows clearly who is speaking even when using full screen applications. This is a feature that most chatting software lacks and is what gamers have been asking for. Gamers have had concerns about delays with other chat software. This presents a major problem when a gamer is asking advice and needs a quick response. Mumble has a much shorter delay and better implementation of Speex than most other…

  • MuseScore added to osalt.com

    26 Oct 2009 | 1:05 am
    MuseScore is an open source cross platform music notation program that has a lot of very good features. Simple to operate, notes are entered on a virtual note sheet with your mouse, MIDI or keyboard. There are an unlimited number of staves and up to four voices per staff, making it very versatile. It also features a note editing input that is much like step-time note entry that found on premium commercial music editing software. Its wizards make it easy to set up and files are opened by a simple double click of the mouse. MuseScore includes an integrated sequencer and FluidSynth software…

  • Games on osalt.com

    19 Oct 2009 | 12:08 am
    Today we launch a new category - Games - here on Open Source Alternative. This has long been requested by our users - and we and now finally able to go live. We hope that this new addition to osalt.com will allow us to reach out and help even more people by showing them the alternative to paid software. And thus allowing some of these people to provide feedback to the developer community in order to add new features to and improve their software project. Already today you will be able to find alternatives for some of the most popular games on the market: Guitar Hero and SingStar. And we will…
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    OPEN SOURCE WINDOWS NEWS - Google News

  • Google announces cloud computing operating system will be completely open source - EDL Consulting

    20 Nov 2009 | 11:13 pm
    PC WorldGoogle announces cloud computing operating system will be completely open sourceEDL Consulting"Whatever we do will be in the open, and we are really looking forward to working with the open source community to help drive this forward," said Google Google releases Chromium OS open source projectTechShout! (blog)Google Releases Chrome OS To Open SourceChannelWebGoogle Gives Operating System to Open Source MassesCTO Edge (blog)eWeek -Examiner.com -PC Worldall 1,088 news articles »

  • Clever Tester To Launch Open Source C++ Developer Testing Tools for Software ... - The Open Press (press release)

    20 Nov 2009 | 9:08 pm
    Clever Tester To Launch Open Source C++ Developer Testing Tools for Software The Open Press (press release)The Tester Tools website contains a variety of Quality Assurance scripts including Open Source Testing Tools, Performance and Automated Testing, and more »

  • Ruby shining on Java, Windows, and Mac OS - InfoWorld

    20 Nov 2009 | 5:13 pm
    Ruby shining on Java, Windows, and Mac OSInfoWorldRuby, the popular open source dynamic language, is making headway not only on Java but also on the Windows and Mac platforms. Ruby Rocks at QconADT Magazineall 6 news articles »

  • Windows 8 in 2012? - CNET News

    20 Nov 2009 | 1:32 pm
    Telegraph.co.ukWindows 8 in 2012?CNET NewsAnd you know what else, open source is on the rise like never before (really thanks to Google's efforts in the area). What would you do if (and that is a 24 best free Windows apps from MicrosoftTechRadar UKSinofsky's Windows plan: More data, less testosteroneCNET NewsBallmer: Windows 7 selling like hotcakesCNET Newsall 198 news articles »

  • 10 things about Microsoft's PDC 2009: The good, the bad and the ugly - BetaNews

    20 Nov 2009 | 1:10 pm
    Crave10 things about Microsoft's PDC 2009: The good, the bad and the uglyBetaNewsReal open-source supporters improve Azure's allure. Ozzie has consistently and persistently pitched Microsoft's Web services strategy as being more open. Five Reasons NOT To Buy MS Office This Holiday SeasonNotebookReview.comMicrosoft Unwraps Office 2010 Beta With Streaming DeliveryeBrandz10 Things You Need to Know About Office 2010LAPTOP Magazineall 335 news articles »
 
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    OPEN SOURCE MAC NEWS - Google News

  • So Much Data, So Little Encryption - InformationWeek

    20 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
    So Much Data, So Little EncryptionInformationWeekAs the open source community continues to develop these and other applications and provide key management (a vital feature lacking from TrueCrypt but and more »

  • Ruby shining on Java, Windows, and Mac OS - InfoWorld

    20 Nov 2009 | 5:13 pm
    Ruby shining on Java, Windows, and Mac OSInfoWorldRuby, the popular open source dynamic language, is making headway not only on Java but also on the Windows and Mac platforms. Ruby Rocks at QconADT Magazineall 6 news articles »

  • Listen to 'World's First Twitter Album' - Wired News

    20 Nov 2009 | 12:52 pm
    Listen to 'World's First Twitter Album'Wired NewsA free, open source program called SuperCollider (simplified instructions below) turns the short strings of code into music. It all started when Dan Stowell and more »

  • Week in review: Browser breakthroughs - CNET News

    20 Nov 2009 | 11:45 am
    PC WorldWeek in review: Browser breakthroughsCNET NewsOn the plus side, it should ensure a positive hardware experience for end users, and since ChromeOS is open-source, anyone who wants to run it on Google Releases Chrome OS to Open SourceeWeekGet Chrome OS NowPC WorldGoogle releases Chrome to open sourceITWebComputerworld -InternetNews.com -International Business Timesall 1,088 news articles »

  • Apple: 'Enterprise' is as enterprise does - CNET News

    19 Nov 2009 | 3:32 pm
    CNET NewsApple: 'Enterprise' is as enterprise doesCNET News:P by gold_storm_mac November 19, 2009 4:07 PM PST Open source is about open software. not about hardware. apple works and has created numerous open source and more »
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    OPEN SOURCE LINUX NEWS - Google News

  • Clever Tester To Launch Open Source C++ Developer Testing Tools for Software ... - The Open Press (press release)

    20 Nov 2009 | 9:08 pm
    Clever Tester To Launch Open Source C++ Developer Testing Tools for Software The Open Press (press release)The Tester Tools website contains a variety of Quality Assurance scripts including Open Source Testing Tools, Performance and Automated Testing, and more »

  • Microsoft's embrace of mysql could kill it - CNET News

    20 Nov 2009 | 11:12 am
    Microsoft's embrace of mysql could kill itCNET NewsFor those who have fret about Microsoft fighting against open source, I have news for you: Microsoft's impact on open source may be worse as a Will it be a winner-take-all market for the cloud?InfoWorldall 15 news articles »

  • Linux and Open Source - ZDNet

    20 Nov 2009 | 5:49 am
    SYS-CON Media (press release)Linux and Open SourceZDNetOracle CEO Larry Ellison insists the delay in Europe's approval is degrading the overall value of Sun, which also controls such important open source EU and Oracle Should Just Say We Want Sun DeadBNETEU Extends Review Deadline For Oracle's Proposed Takeover Of Sun Micro - UpdateRTT NewsEU gives Oracle extra time to respond to Sun inquiryITWorld Canadaall 94 news articles »

  • Open Source Science: A Revolution From Within - LinuxInsider.com

    20 Nov 2009 | 4:02 am
    Open Source Science: A Revolution From WithinLinuxInsider.com proposal until the time they publish their final report," Priyan Weerappuli, executive director of The Open Source Science Project, told Linux Insider. and more »

  • Open-source virtualization: Who's biting? - Computerworld

    20 Nov 2009 | 3:01 am
    Open-source virtualization: Who's biting?ComputerworldXenServer's open APIs give him and his team of three Linux engineers better access to and control of advanced functions, especially security, Yazhemsky says and more »
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  • Behind the Code: Times APIs

    By MARCI WINDSHEIMER
    4 Nov 2009 | 12:36 pm
    NYTimes.com developer Nick Thuesen recently chatted with the Yahoo Developer Network about his work with Times APIs, TimesPeople and more.

  • First 5,000 Tags Released to the Linked Data Cloud

    By EVAN SANDHAUS and ROB LARSON
    29 Oct 2009 | 1:07 pm
    Today we are pleased to announce the launch of http://data.nytimes.com and the release of 5,000 person name subject headings as Linked Open Data published under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License.

  • Yahoo Open Hack NYC

    By NICK THUESEN
    13 Oct 2009 | 1:02 pm
    Yahoo's Open Hack Day NYC has come and gone. I'm happy to say it was one of the best "hack" conferences I've ever attended.

  • YQL + NYT = Easy Times APIs

    By MARCI WINDSHEIMER
    7 Oct 2009 | 10:56 am
    Now you can access Times APIs with Yahoo Query Language.

  • Show Me the Code: NYT Trender

    By CHRIS UTZ
    29 Sep 2009 | 11:25 am
    This is the first in a series of posts featuring demo applications that will help you learn how to use Times APIs. We'll look at NYT Trender, which showcases the Times Article Search API.
 
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  • Oracle opponent cheers delay in mySQL decision

    Dana Blankenhorn
    20 Nov 2009 | 5:41 am
    Florian Mueller, coordinating opposition to Oracle’s purchase of Sun Microsystems and mySQL, sent a note today cheering word that Oracle has asked for, and gotten, a six-day delay to answer European objections to the purchase. (Picture from Roberto Galoppini.) Mueller, a former mySQL shareholder and strategic advisor, is working with mySQL co-founder Monty Widenius. “Oracle is now apparently backtracking from previous claims that the European Commission has no credible theory of harm. If the EU’s objections were baseless, Oracle wouldn’t need more time now to develop…

  • Google makes Chrome OS open source today

    Paula Rooney
    19 Nov 2009 | 10:52 am
    Contrary to rumors, Google did not release a beta version of its much anticipated Chrome operating system today. And nothing is coming anytime soon: the final version is at least a year away, the mega giant web company said. But there was some significant news for the community today. Google made the early code available to the open source community and claims external developers will have the same access to the code as internal Google developers. All the code is open and sketches of the design documents are available now. The final version of the cloud-based operating system is expected to…

  • Terracotta buys Quartz

    Paula Rooney
    19 Nov 2009 | 7:16 am
    Open source Java clustering software developer Terracotta announced its intent to buy an open source job scheduler known as Quartz. The integration of Quartz into Terracotta’s platform will ease high availability job scheduling and scaling applications to multiple nodes, the company said. Quartz is currently integrated into SpringSource and Red Hat products and counts Adobe, Cisco, Level 3 and Vodaphone as big customers. It eliminates the need for a central database to handle coordination, Terracotta reports. Terracotta, of San Francisco, intends to support the Quartz open source…

  • ChromeOS says tear down this network regulation wall

    Dana Blankenhorn
    19 Nov 2009 | 6:05 am
    An Australian friend wrote yesterday with a question: I really can’t see the point of a cloud-based OS for the general user. The added cost in using it doesn’t seem worthwhile. It would take me over 6 months to upload my data at my connection speed not to mention that ISPs here in Australia have now included uploads as part of your total usage which for me would be exceeded for those 6 months. So can I ask - why choose ChromeOS ? These are good questions. They have been vexing me ever since IBM and Ubuntu launched their Africa-only Linux, based heavily on network use, a few months…

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    LXer Linux News

  • Installing Google's Go Language on Ubuntu

    21 Nov 2009 | 5:07 am
    GO language promoted by google is a new system programming language said to be expressive, concurrent, garbage-collected. The language is still very young and there is no ready made package available for ubuntu. You can install it and try out the features from the version control repository of go .

  • Does Linus Torvalds Hate Freedom?

    Ken Hess
    21 Nov 2009 | 3:40 am
    It seems odd that Linus would oppose freedoms guaranteed under the GPL.

  • Some People Don't Know When To Leave Well Enough Alone

    Caitlyn Martin
    21 Nov 2009 | 2:42 am
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    Eric Brown
    21 Nov 2009 | 12:48 am
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