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Reseller News > Red Hat CEO: VMware our biggest competitor
“In two or three years, Whitehurst predicts, virtualisation and cloud tools will still be a minority of Red Hat’s revenue, compared to subscription fees of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, though it will be a “substantial” minority of the revenue by then.
On Tuesday, Red Hat reported gains in both revenue and net income for its fiscal 2011 first quarter. It reported net income of US$24.1 million — up from $18.5 million a year earlier — and revenue of $209 million, of which $179 million was from subscription revenue. ”
tags: vmware, red-hat, linux, virtualization
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An overview on Googles Chrome OS – by Mark Standland – Helium
 “Chrome OS is an open source (the source code is open for all to see and can even be changed and added to) operating system built on a Linux kernel that in comparison to its Windows and Mac OS counterparts is more lightweight which lowers the demands of the specs of the computer running it and giving it a faster boot time making it very use-able on netbooks.”
tags: chrome, google, linux
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WXXI: Open-Source Transparency Project Announces Advisory Board (2010-06-28)
“The CIVX website aggregates state and federal data in an attempt to make public information more user-friendly. “
tags: transparency, government, daya
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Has Oracle been a disaster for Sun’s open source? – The H Open Source: News and Features
“It would probably be unfair to characterise Oracle’s running of Sun’s open source projects as a disaster – at least, for the moment; but as the above shows, there are plenty of grounds for concern, both in terms of how the code is being developed, and the happiness or otherwise of developers and users. Whether buying Sun will prove to be a smart move in the long term depends critically on how smartly Larry Ellison and his managers can address these issues. They also need to start to think more seriously about how Oracle can contribute to Sun’s open source products, and not just the other way around.”
tags: oracle, sun, open-source
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New APIs for Mozilla’s JetPack: tabs, selection and Ajax – The H Open Source: News and Features
“Only about a month after releasing JetPack 0.4, Mozilla has issued the next version of its new plug-in technology framework. Its new features include, for example, interfaces for accessing browser tabs and current text selections and support for automatically translating character strings.”
tags: firefox, mozilla, plugins
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How to switch your small or home office to Linux | News | TechRadar UK
“With Linux and free software making a name for itself in the world of big business, many people are testing the feasibility of switching small and home office software to their open source equivalents.
Regardless of how you feel about the Linux desktop, this is one area in which Linux can have a real impact, both financially and productively, and any small or home office has the potential to be transformed by just switching one application or two to their open source equivalents.”
tags: linux
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One big thing Microsoft, Apple, and all CTOs can learn from Ubuntu | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
“What Canonical does really well is to methodically produce incremental upgrades to its OS. It is transparent about its goals and plans, and it releases its software on schedule. In fact, this incremental approach is Ubuntu’s most potent competitive weapon against rivals Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It is also an approach that CTOs and other IT leaders who produce software, Web sites, and other product-based Web services can learn from.”
tags: ubuntu, linux
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i, quaid › Dear Tech Republic, it’s called FOSS and that’s just how it’s done
“Jason Hiner, Editor-in-Chief over at Tech Republic, wrote an article where he describes what Canonical and Ubuntu can teach Microsoft, Apple, and others. Ironically, every virtue he praises Ubuntu for are all virtues they gain from practicing the open source way.”
tags: ubuntu, open-source, linux, fedora
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The 8 best iPad apps — so far – Computerworld
“Apple gave only a chosen few developers early access to the iPad — everybody else had to make do with software simulators and homemade cardboard mockups. They rushed their apps to market, and it shows. Many of the early apps are buggy and missing feature .
These are the best apps I’ve found so far. They are all iPad-optimized, not iPhone apps stretched to fit the iPad. They get the job done, they’re fun to use, and several of them are free.”
tags: ipad, Apple
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Apple refreshes MacBook Pro lineup; faster CPUs, improved graphics, better battery life | The Toybox | ZDNet.com
“Apple on Tuesday refreshed its MacBook Pro line of prosumer laptops with faster processors, more powerful NVIDIA graphics and longer battery life.”
tags: apple, macbook
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CWE – 2010 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors
“The 2010 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors is a list of the most widespread and critical programming errors that can lead to serious software vulnerabilities. They are often easy to find, and easy to exploit. They are dangerous because they will frequently allow attackers to completely take over the software, steal data, or prevent the software from working at all.”
tags: programming, security, errors, coding, development
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Big Star Singer Alex Chilton Dies – 18 Mar 2010 | Clash Music Latest Breaking Music News
“Hugely influential songwriter Alex Chilton has passed away as a result of heart problems.
Alex Chilton was a genuine music legend. As the lead singer with The Box Tops, Chilton became a teen idol selling over a million copies of their single ‘The Letter’.”
tags: music
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Google Code Celebrates 5th Anniversary of Open Source Project Hosting — Developer.com
“Fast forward to today and Google Code has over 240,000 projects registered, of which 26,000 have had active developer involvement in the past 30 days. There are also now 60 APIs (that receive over four billion hits per day) and over 100,000 pages of documentation for various projects. Google hosts 800 open source projects of its own, including four (Android, Chrome, Chrome OS and GWT) with over a million lines of code each.”
tags: google, open-source
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The clouding of open source and virtualization | Software, Interrupted – CNET News
“Red Hat’s virtualization engine, based on the open-source KVM project, received a big endorsement earlier this week when IBM announced that it had based its latest cloud offerings for test and development on the Red Hat commercial product.”
tags: cloud, ibm, red-hat, kvm
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TCO: New research finds Macs in the enterprise easier, cheaper to manage than Windows PCs | The Apple Core | ZDNet.com
“A recent survey of enterprise IT managers that administer both PCs and Macs finds that Macs have a better TOC (total cost of ownership) than Windows boxes, and require less user training and help.”
tags: tco, mac, windows, apple
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[Phoronix] Steam, Source Engine Get First-Rate Love On Mac OS X
“Valve, the makers of the popular Half-Life and Counter-Strike franchises (along with numerous other titles) and the company behind the Steam software delivery system, have announced today that they are now bringing their games (including Steam) over to Mac OS X. Not only are they bringing these games over, but they intend to provide first-rate support for Apple’s operating system.”
tags: phoronix, steam, games
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Apple’s Spat With Google Is Getting Personal – NYTimes.com
“While the discord between Apple and Google is in part philosophical and involves enormous financial stakes, the battle also has deeply personal overtones and echoes the ego-fueled fisticuffs that have long characterized technology industry feuds. (Think Intel vs. A.M.D., Microsoft vs. everybody, and so on.)”
tags: google, apple, mobile
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I was having a problem last week with my Mac: even though I set my default system browser to Google Chrome, one application just refused to believe it wasn’t Firefox any longer. (And no, that application wasn’t Firefox itself!)
Though I tried several times within Chrome and Firefox to toggle the system browser to end up being Chrome, that one application was being recalcitrant.
Today I got an email from my friend and IBM colleague Kelvin Lawrence with the workaround to the problem: go into Safari and under Safari > Preference > General toggle the browser to something non-Chrome and then back to Chrome. This seems to do something a little extra and it did the trick. That one application now opens web pages in Chrome.
Thanks for the fix, Kelvin!
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The web designer’s guide to WordPress | News | TechRadar UK
“So what can WordPress do for designers? A lot, my friends! First and foremost, WordPress is a CMS.”
tags: wordpress, cms, open-source
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How to run almost any OS on your Mac | News | TechRadar UK
“In fact, as a Mac user, you’re uniquely positioned because an Intel Mac is the only computer in the world that can legally run all three major operating systems, Mac OS, Windows and Linux. Indeed, you can, if you like, load all three on the same computer and pick which one you want to load when you switch your Mac on.”
tags: mac, osx, linux, virtualization
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Q&A: IBM’s Alistair Rennie on the big picture for Lotus | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
“IBM is spreading access to its Lotus social and collaboration software all over the various computing platforms. But what’s the big strategy here?
I spoke with Alistair Rennie (right), IBM’s Lotus general manager, about trends like the consumerization of IT and the grand plan for his unit. Here’s the recap.”
tags: lotus
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IBM to support iPhone, Macs with new software | Software, Interrupted – CNET News
“Big Blue is expected to announce Thursday at Macworld San Francisco that it will soon be delivering its enterprise social platform, Lotus Connections, and Lotus Quickr team collaboration package for use with the iPhone and Mac.”
tags: ibm, mac, iphone, lotus
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Groklaw – Packaging Open Source, by Mark Webbink
“There is an article by Mark Webbink, Esq., “Packaging Open Source”, in the International Free and Open Source Software Law Review, Vol 1, No 2 (2009) that I think you’ll find interesting. It compares various FOSS licenses and how they handle compilations and collective works. The context of the article is specifically packaging Linux with an application into a software appliance, but the descriptions of the licenses and how they work are broadly useful in other contexts as well. I am republishing the article here because many of you face choices about what license you will use on your works, so you also need to understand, and others of you are lawyers who would like to understand FOSS licenses better.”
tags: open source
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RHEL 5.5 advances KVM, WiFi
“Red Hat released the first beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.5, providing memory allocation enhancements to the KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) hypervisor. RHEL 5.5 also introduces new storage and WiFi drivers, and supports new AMD, IBM, and Intel processors, says the company.”
tags: red-hat, linux, kvm
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Open Innovation: Accessing a canon of open source research
“So one of the things that’s clear is that even though the room represents hundreds of open source conference and journal papers, few of them have read any of the social science research on open source.”
tags: open-source, innovation
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LinuxPlanet – Interviews – What Matters to Open Source: Licensing or Community? – More to FOSS Than Licenses
“For instance, beyond open source’s licensing components is the idea of its community, which in many cases can be the ultimate arbiter of the success or failure of an open source effort: Simply making an application available under an open source license may not necessarily be enough for a project to succeed, nor is adopting an open source license some kind of magic pixie dust that you sprinkle onto a project to make it successful.”
tags: open-source, community, license
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451 CAOS Theory » Open source evolving with the cloud
“Interestingly, the OpenECP project chose to license it under the Affero GPLv3, and we’re watching licensing moves to see if cloud computing prompts more use of AGPL.”
tags: cloud, GPL, open-source
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Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week
“The Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer is Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon’s pet project. The idea behind the project is to enable developers to write quick, scratch-an-itch application and making development on Ubuntu fun and more accessible.”
tags: ubuntu, linux
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Yale Daily News – Virtual world, real money in ‘Second Life’
“Yale owns two islands. But you can’t get to either of them by air, land or sea.
They exist only in Second Life, an online universe where people can buy land and trade services.
The University purchased its first virtual island, Elihu, in 2007. While the second island lies fallow and Elihu Island currently has only two projects, people involved with the projects said Yale’s presence on Second Life is a cost-effective teaching tool — each island costs $700 to buy and $147.50 a month to maintain — that they hope the University expands.”
tags: second-life, virtual-world, yale
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This weekend I put together a new machine for my home office to complement the iMac on my desktop. Since I didn’t want to fill up the desk with another mouse and keyboard, I decided to get a USB KVM (Keyboard, Video, Monitor) switch that allows me to go back and forth between the two machines. In my setup, the iMac has its own built-in monitor, the new machine has its own monitor, and then they share the mouse, keyboard, and speakers. The new machine has Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit on it.
I went with the Belkin F1DG102U Flip 2-Port KVM Switch with Audio Support (USB Connection) that I found at my local Staples store. (Amazon has it for less.) I gambled on getting this: if it didn’t work I would have to end up buying the other peripherals, but if it did work, then it would be great because I would save a lot of desk real estate. It seems to work, with the following caveats.
- You do really need to press the jacks into the outlet connectors quite strongly. The little remote switch did not work at first, but when I jammed it in there it worked fine. Second, I have a wired iMac keyboard but have a Logitech V450 Cordless Laser Mouse.
 Originally I had the USB wireless receiver for the mouse plugged into the keyboard, but I needed to remove that and plug it in to the KVM switch alongside the keyboard USB.
- Bad things seem to happen if one of the machines or displays goes to sleep, especially on the Ubuntu machine. It doesn’t want to wake up and, since your display is blank, you just need to reset. This happened to me once when I was installing some operating system updates and it really wrecked things; I needed to reinstall from scratch. However, I did remember to go into Ubuntu’s power management and tell it not let the screen sleep before I did the upgrades again.
Also see: Life with Linux: The series
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