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4-bit Linux Programming Library
for the TCSPC System PicoHarp 300 A new programmer's library is now available supporting the PicoHarp 300 Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting system from PicoQuant under the 64-bit versions of the GNU Linux operating system. The new library is fully

IBM Takes Red Hat Virtualization to the Cloud
When IBM cast its net around for a virtualization supplier for its new cloud play, it had plenty of choices. Big Blue could have gone with heavyweights VMware or Microsoft, but it went a different way. IBM chose Red Hat's virtualization technology for

IBM, Red Hat Team Up for Development, Test Cloud Works
By including the new Red Hat virtualization-layer offering, IBM is making available another option for IT systems that didn't exist previously. - Red Hat, whose CEO, Jim Whitehurst, delivered the opening keynote of this week's Open Source Business

Hetzner Online Gives Customers More Dedicated Hosting Options with Parallels Plesk Panel for Windows and Linux
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Will The Linux Desktop Soon Be Irrelevant?
Weve all been hanging out for the year of the Linux desktop (whatever that means) but were still waiting. Lets face it, were going to be waiting for a while. Is it because Linux isnt yet good enough? Hardly. These days there are few barriers to adopting

Mobile Messaging and Collaboration Specialist Zarafa Gets a Foothold in France
Paris Delft, March 15, 2010-- Zarafa, the Dutch mobile messaging and collaboration specialist gets a foothold in France. Today, Zarafa announces that it has signed contracts with the French open source systems integrator Smile and with French distributor

Automated GUI Testing: Squish Success at Weatherford Petroleum Consultants
provides consulting services in such areas as geology, geophysics, petrophysics, reservoir modelling, and production technology. They also develop the Sendra core flow simulator which simulates SCAL experiments. We were very pleased to speak with Arent

Latest Open-Xchange Groupware Offers Integrated VoIP
User interface, calendar also enhanced in open source Exchange alternative NUREMBERG, Germany, March 16, 2010 - Open-Xchange, a provider of business-class open source collaboration software, today announced enhancements that give users telephone and fax

Fluendo Launches the Ultimate Media Center for Linux Operating Systems
Fluendo S.A. is delighted to announce release of the ultimate Media Center for Linux Operating Systems. Fluendo is an established leading provider of multimedia plug-ins for the GNU/Linux Market, and has succeeded in offering legal end-to-end solutions

LPI partners with Portuguese government agency on Linux certification and training
The (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced that its affiliate organization LPI-Portugal (http://www.lpi.com.pt) has signed an agreement with UMIC (http://www.umic.pt/), the Knowledge Society Agency of

Red Hat KVM key to IBM's cloud test and dev tool
Red Hat's KVM virtualization underpins the new cloud software test and development service from IBM. This is just one of the recent Red Hat KVM wins, as the company tries to gain more virtualization market share.

Red Hat CEO Says Innovation Trumps Cost Savings
In a keynote address, Jim Whitehurst explains why open source has become more valuable as an enabler of innovation in the enterprise than a means to cheaper software. SAN FRANCISCO - The economy may still be in the doldrums, but Red Hat CEO Jim

Fedora edges closer to Debian development process
Last month, Fedora, the community GNU/Linux distribution sponsored by Red Hat Linux, announced that it would create a new development branch in order to avoid putting a speed hump in the way of developers. /* */ if(typeof(ffxAds)=="undefined")var ffxAds

Symbian Foundation Builds Cloud Platform on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
March 2010 Mobile Open Source Foundation Uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Cloud-Based Developer Platform RALEIGH, N.C.-- Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Symbian Foundation, a

Red Hat to be cloud facilitator, not fluffer
OSBC Red Hat will help others build clouds, but is unlikely to following operating-system rival Microsoft by becoming a cloud service provider itself. Chief executive Jim Whitehurst said Wednesday that Red Hat can best serve its customers by delivering

Symbian Foundation Builds Cloud Platform on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
RALEIGH, N.C.-- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Symbian Foundation, a global non-profit organization formed to foster an open source community around its

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PCLinuxOS 2010 Beta 2 Comes with Linux Kernel 2.6.32.10
The second beta of the upcoming PCLinuxOS operating system is out, PCLinuxOS 2010 Beta 2, with an updated kernel and a big number of bug fixes, surprisingly for such a brief period of time since the initial beta, less than a week ago. The latest release

Novell and Ingres announce SUSE Appliance Program agreement
Novell and Ingres have announced a new cooperative agreement under which the Ingres database is now available within SUSE Studio as part of the SUSE Appliance Program

Epidemic GNU/Linux
Epidemic GNU / Linux is a Linux distro created by Brazilians using the KDE graphical interface. Modern is one of the main attractions which classify Epidemic distrobuições one of the best current Linux using KDE. The only bad feature is that it is

openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 3 is Out!
The third of seven scheduled milestone releases for 11.3 was completed and released on schedule. Milestone 3 focuses on using GCC 4.5 as the default compiler, leaving a great deal of the work in the hands of the openSUSE Build Service after a few issues

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CrossOver Linux 9: Run Windows apps without Windows
A new version expands the number of Windows applications you can run on Linux. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Computerworld (US)) 16 March, 2010 05:54:00 Tags: Windows, open source, Linux, CrossOver Linux Some Linux users insist that anything you can do on

Optimise OpenOffice.org
'Record a macr The simplest way to create a macro is to use OpenOffice's built-in macro recording tool. You launch the macro recorder, run the steps you want to be recorded in the macro, then stop the recorder. Voil, your macro is now ready. Let's look

winetricks 20100316 released
'New winetricks 20100316: new verbs steam, adobeair, 7zip, d3dxof and win7 'Today's winetricks was brought to you by the letters W and S, and the number 7. * Don't detect desktop environment, detect individual programs. * Make warnings more obvious on

Pardus: A Linux distribution for the end user
'Of course when I say leopard, with regards to anything computer, you think Mac OS X. Not this time. This time we're talking about a different flavor of Linux - Pardus. Pardus is developed in Turkey and named after the Anatolian leopard. It's goal is to

OpenShot 1.1 Promises a Bright Future for Video Editing in Ubuntu Linux
'OpenShot video editor has steadily improved since its official release 2 months ago. OpenShot 1.1 even got included into upcoming Ubuntu Lucid 10.04. That news itself speaks volumes about quality and functionality of this budding new video editing app

The State of the Distributions - A comparison of the most popular Linux Distributions
'Whether you are new to Linux and asking 'Which Distribution should I use?', or if you have been using Linux for years and want to see what the other distributions offer, this article highlights the differences between the major Linux Distributions. For

Fluendo announce Media Center for Linux
'Fluendo, maker of codecs and players for licensed formats such as MP3 and MPEG2, has announced Fluendo Media Center, a 40 package which integrates the company's DVD player for Linux and other codecs into a single product that offers a legally licensed,

Released Last Week: Frugalware Linux 1.2, VortexBox 1.2, PC/OS 10.1, eBox Platform 1.4-1
'Andrew Gillis has announced the release of VortexBox 1.2, a Fedora-based Linux distribution with the goal of turning an unused computer into an easy-to-use music server or jukebox: 'VortexBox 1.2 released. The VortexBox community has been working hard