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Is Gentoo Ready for Latest Linux Release?
Linux distributions often live and die on the strength of their respective communities. Such is the case with the Gentoo Linux distribution, which canceled its last release in 2007 but has now emerged in 2008 with a new release. Tanned, rested and ready?

Linux 2.6.26-rc9 [Released]
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BSD or GPL: Choosing an Open Source License
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Apache2: Logging To A MySQL Database With mod_log_sql (Debian Etch)
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Developing for Linux Netbooks
09 :45 UTC (912 reads)(Other stories by ) "Most all readers will be well aware of the ASUS Eee Linux PC. Other vendors now seek to achieve similar success, the latest being Acer's Linpus device. Yet, a common complaint is that traditional software

Reiser Reportedly Leads Police to Wife's Body
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Is It Time for Open Source to Grow Up?
Source software and its poster child, Linux, has expanded quite remarkably. It has changed from a rebel without a cause to an entity that even the tried and true establishments have sat up and taken notice. Heck, if it is good enough for such mission

Software Firm Is Open for Innovation
15 :00 UTC (541 reads) "MySQL chief Marten Mickos isn't afraid his rivals in the database-software industry will ever overtake him. 'Let them try,' he says. 'Our secret is in the way we operate our culture, and I'm convinced others cannot imitate that.'

What Hath Open Source Wrought?
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Is Red Hat VP Attempting to Rally Investors?
19 :30 UTC (96 reads)(Other stories by ) [ Thanks to for this link. ] "Tom McCallum, VP of investor relations at Red Hat, is diving into some rather interesting waters. Red Hat's stock has dipped a bit following the company's June 25 earnings

IBM Makes Cognos BI Available for Linux on the Mainframe
In addition, IBM has opened System z centers worldwide to help customers learn about Cognos BI on the mainframe and benchmark the System z architecture. IBM has made its Cognos 8 business intelligence suite available for Linux on System z. In addition,

Stormy Peters lands on Gnome Foundation
The Gnome Foundation yesterday announced that it has hired former Hewlett-Packard industry analyst Stormy Peters as its new executive director. She will hope to snap up a few more industry members and community contributors to the open source groups

Launch Time For Steel, Batteries And Linux
Pulling back from the highs but rallying from the lows, the markets finished a rollercoaster session July 7 a bit lower than when they began. It has long been a truism that traders love volatility, and while Monday's action provided plenty of it, the

Mobile Linux in China Will Find Its Way in TD-SCDMA
By BusinessWire DUBLIN, Ireland, BUSINESS WIRE -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/7b9697/mobile_linux_in_ch) has announced the addition of the 'Mobile Linux in China Will Find Its Way in TD-SCDMA' report to their

Giga-byte to launch Linux mobile Internet device
Taiwanese electronics maker Giga-byte Technology has teamed up with mobile phone service provider Chunghwa Telecom to launch the M528 mobile Internet device in August, a Giga-byte representative said. The M528 is a small, handheld device with a 4.8-inch

Acer's Linpus Linux Lite (Fedora) Ultra Portable Laptop
Gary Richmond at Freesoftware Magazine looks at Acer's Aspire One, the latest ultra portable laptop computer to feature GNU/Linux. It runs Linpus Linux Lite, a hacked version of Fedora 8. At last we have a version of Linux not tainted with the kernel

An earthshaking use of open source
A German scientific research institute is using an open-source database running on Linux and x86 hardware to store global seismic activity data and to interpret that data. The purpose is to ensure that countries around the world are in compliance with

MapusoftMapuSofts Solutions Give Tecnobit the Ability to Move their Code to the Linux Operating System
MapuSofts Solutions Give Tecnobit the Ability to Move their Code to the Linux Operating System Publication date on this website: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 Company: Mapusoft Category: Summary: MapuSoft Technologies (MT) announced that Tecnobit, of

Dynamic EngineeringLinux cPCI4IP Dynamic Engineering
Linux cPCI4IP Dynamic Engineering Publication date on this website: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 Company: Dynamic Engineering Category: Summary: Now you can use LINUX with IndustryPack hardware. A new suite of IP Carrier and IP module software is being

How To Block Spammers/Hackers With mod_defensible On Apache2 (Debian Etch)
mod_defensible is an Apache 2.x module intended to block spammers/hackers/script kiddies using DNSBL servers. It will look at the client IP and check it in one or several DNSBL servers and return a 403 Forbidden page to the client. This guide shows how

GNOME knows why there's no Sun up in the sky
The headline is both a pun and a news quiz. The answer to both is Stormy Peters (right). Peters, previously in charge of open source strategy, policy and business practices at H-P, then director of community and partner programs at OpenLogic, will now be

Installing applications in Linux (part II)
A few readers commented and pointed out that the information I provided didn't work for them. I am using Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution. I tried quite a few Linux distributions before settling on Ubuntu as it worked the best with the

Migrate to Linux instead of Vista
BUSINESSES DISMAYED at the prospect of being forced to move to Windows Vista, due to its associated hardware upgrade costs and poor performance, might consider moving to Linux instead as a viable alternative. Or so a recent article appearing at PC World

IBM software enhances Web accessibility for the blind
IBM launched on Tuesday an application that seeks to harness the power and time of Internet users around the globe to to the visually impaired. Many blind or partially sighted users run screen reading software that describes the content of a Web page

Tencent Coming Up On Linux Release
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TokBox - A Nice, Simple VideoChat Alternative (also for Linux!)
Posted by J.A. Watson I have FINALLY had the time to take at least a quick look at TokBox, which was recommended to me in a comment on a previous blog post. First, I'm sorry that it has taken this long. Second, I'm really glad that I finally got to it.

Giga-byte, Chunghwa to launch Linux mobile Internet device
Taiwanese electronics maker Giga-byte Technology has teamed up with mobile phone service provider Chunghwa Telecom to launch the M528 mobile Internet device in August, a Giga-byte representative said. The M528 is a small, handheld device with a 4.8-inch

GNOME Gets Stormy...
Posted by: Glyn Moody ...Peters, that is: The GNOME Foundation today announced the hiring of Stormy Peters as Executive Director. Stormy, a well-known industry analyst with extensive experience at Hewlett Packard and OpenLogic, will work on accelerating

Linux coder reportedly leads police to wife's body
Hans Reiser, the Linux programmer convicted in April of murdering his estranged wife, has led police to what is believed to be her body, authorities told the The remains were found Monday afternoon buried next to a deer trail in the hills of Oakland,