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Wikipedia needs help to keep growing
News Spambots are particularly problematic for smaller Wikipedia projects that are not able to constantly monitor the site and block the bot before it causes too much damage. Some of the new projects that the Wikipedia Foundation has created, such as...
[March 1, 2005, 14:40]
Powering up supercomputing
News In the PERCS (Productive, Easy-to-use, Reliable Computing System) program, for instance, the idea is to build a machine that can optimise itself with a variety of applications, which should cut down the time required to develop the underlying...
[December 18, 2003, 13:30]
Photos: Red Hat boss seeks The Truth
News The Red Hat boss chose to make his speech short, claiming that he did not wish to ape the normal conference performances of leaders of proprietary companies who "try to sound smart and technical for 45 minutes", and left more time for Red Hat...
[June 1, 2006, 10:05]
The one thing Larry's cash can't buy
Leader The important point to remember is that however much money is thrown at a project by Oracle, IBM and the others who are - let's face it - no strangers to intellectual property land grabs, the projects will ultimately remain free.
[March 7, 2006, 14:55]
Google gives developers code-search capabilities
News The service, conceived by the Google Labs early technology group, will crawl publicly available code, most of which is made available through open source projects. Google engineers, many of whom participate in open source projects, already use...
[October 5, 2006, 9:50]
MI5 IT upgrade costs balloon
News The ISC said: "We are concerned that the Security Service [MI5] does not yet have sufficient project managers or expertise to manage all their IT and capital projects at the same time. However, the committee remains concerned that Scope has yet to...
[April 8, 2005, 10:20]
Linux madness grips Texas
News They also will receive updates on some of IBM's in-process open-source projects, such as its port of Linux to the AS/400 server family, its ongoing PowerPC Linux work, and its efforts to build out Linux's clustering capabilities.
[November 27, 2000, 8:20]
RealNetworks releases player code for Linux
News Still, it's a relatively new market for RealNetworks, and many Helix developer projects have yet to reach the market. It is just another proof point of our commitment to open-source software and to the Linux community.
[August 6, 2003, 15:10]
US Report: Open Source gathering steam
News While such projects were once the province of enthusiasts, they are receiving increasing attention from the business world, analysts say. Marshall said groups such as Red Hat, which do offer support for Linux or other open-source projects, show...
[December 8, 1998, 10:02]
Solaris engineers offer personal source-code tours
News One interested programmer is Octave Orgeron, a 25-year-old programmer who once worked at Sun and who now is involved in Solaris 10 projects at Barclays Global Investors. Sun hopes to create a vibrant programming community around Solaris, an...
[June 15, 2005, 11:00]
Lack of testing 'threatening stability of Linux'
News It's only Linus who is directly affected by the BitKeeper business," he said, noting that many projects would need a different approach. A lack of commitment to testing by the Linux community may ultimately threaten the stability of the operating...
[April 22, 2005, 10:15]
UK's 'biggest' muni Wi-Fi network goes live
News Norfolk Open Link claims it is avoiding competition with the private sector, which has been a major obstacle to municipal Wi-Fi projects in the US. There, such projects have often run into opposition from a powerful telecommunications industry lobby.
[August 1, 2006, 17:20]
Final GPLv3 draft leaves Novell in the clear
News The GPL is the most widely used licence in the free and open-source software realm, governing such projects as the Linux kernel, the Samba file server software and the MySQL database. That agreement is particularly important in the open-source...
[June 4, 2007, 8:39]
Oracle's free software foray scorned
News Four major open source database projects have scoffed at Oracle’s attempt this week to tackle the threat of open source software. Price is certainly one reason, but equally important is the fact that the open source vendors are progressively adding...
[November 2, 2005, 14:00]
Web standards body finalises anti-patent policy
News Perens -- a cofounder of the Open Source Initiative who recently received a $50,000, or about £32,000, grant to fund his antipatent activism -- said that while the W3C patent policy represented a victory for patent-free standards and the open...
[May 22, 2003, 7:46]
FSF works on 'fully free' OpenOffice
News Mark Wielaard, the maintainer of the GNU Classpath project, said these projects are likely to be fully compatible with the Java code in OpenOffice.org within a few months. Although the FSF is improving its Java compiler to ensure that there is a...
[May 24, 2005, 16:10]
Worlds collide in IBM-VA Software deal
News VA Software will move its SourceForge repository of open-source software projects to a foundation of proprietary IBM software, the companies plan to announce at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco.
[August 13, 2002, 13:30]
Debian: We're not looking for commercial fortune
News Some analysts foresee a less than rosy future for projects such as Debian, claiming free coding is all well and good, but that without a solid financial backing — such as the models adopted by Red Hat and to a greater degree Novell/Suse — Debian...
[April 28, 2008, 13:03]
Linux: The forking fight-back
News In 2000, the LSB and LI18NUX projects joined to form the FSG, and efforts over the next four years culminated in the release of the LSB 2.0. There was a big problem with the level of forking in the Unix community," says Red Hat analyst relations...
[February 4, 2005, 16:10]
Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2: a first look review
Reviews Test Projects are language-specific, so if you've written .NET components in both VB and C#, you'll need to test each part separately, although the test projects can be part of the same Solution in VS 2008.
[October 5, 2007, 14:35]
