A new survey by KACE, a systems management appliance company, suggests that 60 percent of those surveyed have no plans to deploy Microsoft Windows Vista, a 10 percent...
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60 percent skipping Vista, so Ballmer looks to Apple
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OpenEMR Live Launched
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OpenEMR HQ announced the official launch of their OpenEMR Live fully hosted EMR solution earlier today in a conference call with developers, employees, and clients. The...
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Web 2.0 fuels open source database boom
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The market for open source databases is booming due to new workloads such as RFID projects, rich Web applications and small portals, despite the unwillingness of...
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OLS: Kernel documentation, and submitting kernel patches
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The second of four days at the 10th annual Ottawa Linux Symposium got off to an unusual start as a small bird "assisted" Rob Landley in giving the first talk I...
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Ubuntu founder urges Linux desktop to rival Apple
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From the Leapfrog dept.: Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth urged development of a Linux desktop to rival what Apple Inc. has done and aired a vision of software...
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Debian looks to launch lenny in Sept.
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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 stable release of...
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MoBo Manufacturer Foxconn Refuses To Support Linux
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Noodlenose notes a thread up on the Ubuntu forums, where a user is questioning the practices of hardware manufacturer Foxconn. The user describes how his new Foxconn...
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BT joins enterprise open source community
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The communications and IT giant has already been a member of the Linux Foundation since 2005. According to a Wednesday statement, BT joined FossBazaar because it wants to...
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Introduction
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Hi and welcome to my blog. I'm an engineer working on Adobe AIR for Linux operating environments. Through this blog, in addition to providing updates about releases (and...
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Linux answers the age-old question, "Why is my network slow?"
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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 nature of Ethernet...
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Howto: build and install the intl PECL extension for PHP5 in Debian
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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 aware functions such...
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Google's Knol: More Rules, More Accountability, More Money
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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 machine has released to...
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Dell UK launches systems with preinstalled Ubuntu Linux
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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 in the past, but...
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Building a Squid Proxy Server
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Squid is a caching proxy server that can provide enhanced performance for your internal network users.. Squid will cache commonly accessed sites so that it can improve...
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Mozilla funds SA translation team
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South Africaâs award-winning multilingual software developer, Translate.org.za, has been awarded a grant by the Mozilla Corporation to extend its translation tools....
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VMware to give away ESXi for free
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A few short weeks since his former employer Microsoft officially released Hyper-V, newly installed VMware Inc. CEO Paul Maritz told investors on a second-quarter earnings...
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Shuttleworth: Microsoft Does Not Want War
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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 session at the...
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Vendors Boost Open-Source Tools Support
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Black Duck Software and Intel are the latest vendors to make substantial improvements to their open-source development tools, the latest indicators of the open-source...
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The Mess That is Linux Volume Management
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The GNU/Linux operating system is blessed to have sound partition management tools like GParted which are very easy to use. However, when it comes to the management of...
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Ubuntu founder urges Linux desktop to rival Apple
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From the Leapfrog dept.: Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth urged development of a Linux desktop to rival what Apple Inc. has done and aired a vision of software...