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Linux Format: the voice of the Linux and Open Source community 2.0

Linux Format is the voice of the Linux and Open Source community. Its unique style brings you entertaining and essential news and... Read more

24 May, 2012

Open Source ... and ... Closed Minds?

Some comments I have seen in the Open Source Community recently have set me to thinking about the general reaction... Read more

24 June, 2011

Microsoft makes chemistry add-on for Word open source

...for Word is now freely available for download and tweaking by the open-source community. Microsoft has announced that its chemistry add-in for Word... Read more

2 February, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

EMC unveils Greenplum database free edition

...EMC on Tuesday rolled out an open-source community edition of its Greenplum data-warehousing software. The free version... Read more

1 February, 2011 by Larry Dignan

Red Hat credits Gluster buy in quarterly results

...demonstrated steady growth and has pointed to its growing involvement in the open-source community as a way it is helping to push future products... Read more

20 December, 2011 by Jack Clark
How Secure Is Your Sudo?

How Secure Is Your Sudo?

CISOs managing large IT environments, combined with the "many eyes" in the open source community, are consistently discovering that sudo creates security, compliance and productivity... Read more

1 October, 2010

1,000-node big data workbench to crunch analytics' toughest problems

...Results from the workbench analysis will be made available to the Hadoop open source community, and will be used to inform future development of Hadoop... Read more

23 May, 2012 by Nick Heath

Red Hat makes OpenShift cloud platform open source

...the release of the PaaS code will underline its commitment to its open-source community. "For the cloud to remain open and vibrant, implementations should... Read more

1 May, 2012 by Jack Clark

Amazon switches on DynamoDB cloud database service

The scalable managed NoSQL database service moves Amazon Web Services further into the platform-as-a-service arena, where it will compete with Salesforce, Oracle and others to attract developers of large web applications Read more

19 January, 2012 by Jack Clark
Open-source projects that deserve your cash

Open-source projects that deserve your cash

...6. GnuCashIf Lemon POS could be integrated into GnuCash, the open-source community would have a particularly potent product for small to medium... Read more

25 November, 2011 by Jack Wallen
Ten tenets the Linux world needs to rethink

Ten tenets the Linux world needs to rethink

...the cause, I know some of the ideals that the Linux and open-source community hold so tightly need re-evaluating. So much of the... Read more

19 August, 2011 by Jack Wallen

Open source alternative for Active Directory

...administration which is essential in any enterprise or corporate environment. But, the open source community responded with a product that is full featured, and very... Read more

7 July, 2010
MediaCoder 0.8.12.5245

MediaCoder 0.8.12.5245

...together lots of excellent audio/video codec's and tools from the open source community into an all-in-one solution, capable of coding among... Read more

22 May, 2012

Oracle and Google bosses clash over patents in court

...for the licensee and the TCK. Before we release our product to open source community we'll make sure our JVM [Java Virtual Machine] passes... Read more

18 April, 2012 by Tom Espiner

GitHub suspends member over 'mass-assignment' hack

...conditions. GitHub hosts software development projects, and is particularly popular with the open-source community as it offers free accounts for such projects. The site... Read more

5 March, 2012

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SoapyTablet

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Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

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So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

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Jake Rayson

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I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

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NarayanaIyyappan

It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

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DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

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Jack Strain

Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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UnderINK

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Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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Jason Burchell

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Philip Charles Cohen

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apexwm

Leslie Satenstein : Where have you ever seen Mozilla even mention this? Firefox is the most popular browser in the GNU/Linux OS, so I don't see...

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songmaster

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Chris Wortman

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PatrickG

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