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Category Archives: Open Source
Daily Links for Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Open Source Oracle gives open source a patent pass Computer Business Review Oracle has vowed not to assert its patents against open source projects such as the Linux operating system kernel and the MySQL and PosgreSQL databases by entering into … Continue reading
Some favorite 2009 blog entries on open source, standards, and cloud computing
I’ve been doing some year-end maintenance on the blog and in doing so put together the following list of blog entries that are among my favorites on the topics of open source, standards, and cloud computing. I could have also … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud, Open Source, Standards
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Daily Links for Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Open Source Is OpenOffice.org a Threat? Microsoft Thinks So ComputerworldUK / Glyn Moody This confirms what many of us have been warning about for some time: that Microsoft’s new-found eagerness to “engage” with open source has nothing to do with … Continue reading
Daily Links for Wednesday, December 24, 2009
Open Source Red Hat Revenues Up 18 Percent in Q3 eWeek / Darryl K. Taft Red Hat reported financial results for its fiscal year 2010 third quarter, showing revenues up 18 percent. For its third quarter ended November 30, 2009, … Continue reading
Daily Links for Monday, December 22, 2009
Open Source A Concise Introduction to Free and Open Source Software Consortiuminfo.org Consortium Standards Journal — August – September 2009 / Andrew Updegrove Abstract: In the early days of information technology (IT), computers were delivered with operating systems and basic … Continue reading
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Daily Links for Sunday, December 20, 2009
Open Source WordPress 2.9, Now with Built-in Image Editor and Delete Undo Softpedia / Lucian Parfeni The latest version of the world most popular self-hosted blogging platform, WordPress 2.9, is now out and available for everyone to download and install. … Continue reading
Daily Links for Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Standards Netherlands helps Denmark with open IT The Industry Standard The Dutch government has provided Denmark with information regarding the Dutch national plan Heemskerk for open government IT. In Denmark, there is heated debate about the approach for open IT … Continue reading
Topics on open source for college classes
I’ve been asked several times for some ideas about topics on open source that would be suitable for one or more classes at universities. While I know there are curricula out there, here are some specific discussion areas that could … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Open Source
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Daily Links for Saturday, December 12, 2009
Open Source Linux Foundation Announces “Get One, Give One” Holiday Membership Program The Linux Foundation The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that for every new individual member who joins the … Continue reading
Daily Links for Friday, December 11, 2009
Cloud IBM: LotusLive paying subscribers go from 0 to 18 million in a year ZDNet / Larry Dignan That LotusLive tally at the beginning of the year was nil so the growth is stunning. I double checked with IBM to … Continue reading
Webcast: “Smart Business Development and Test with IBM and Linux in the Cloud”
On Thursday, December 17, IBM will present a webcast entitled “Smart Business Development and Test with IBM and Linux in the Cloud.” From the description: More than just a presentation, this webcast will take you from the theory of cloud … Continue reading
Daily Links for Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Politics / Government Public Access Policies for Science and Technology Funding Agencies Across the Federal Government With this notice, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) within the Executive Office of the President, requests input from the community regarding … Continue reading
Posted in News, Open Source, Politics / Government
Tagged Chrome, Google, Linux, Mozilla, Thunderbird
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Daily Links for Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Macintosh Official Google Mac Blog: Google Chrome for Mac goes beta! Official Google Mac Blog 73,804 lines of Mac-specific code and 29 developer builds later, we’re excited to finally release Google Chrome for Mac in beta. We took a hefty … Continue reading
Event and conference listing for Linux and open source in 2010
I’ve started putting together a listing of open source and Linux events that will take place in 2010 around the world. The list is small right now, but if you add a comment here or send me a message via … Continue reading
Daily Links for Friday, December 4, 2009
Open Source 10 Linux features Windows should have by default ZDNet / Larry Dignan In my next two 10 Things articles, I am going to take pieces of each operating system and place them in the other. In this first … Continue reading
Open source software: modify, extend, or leave it alone?
Let me begin with a story. When I first started using WordPress for blogging, it didn’t have support for standards-level Atom feeds. Being open source, though, a colleague had looked at how RSS feeds were processed and had written some … Continue reading
Posted in Open Source, Software
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Firefox pulls ahead of Microsoft Internet Explorer in Germany
Der Spiegel Online has a chart showing that use of the Firefox Browser has now pulled ahead of Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) in Germany, 45.6% to 44.4%. While these numbers are close and the margin of error is probably bigger … Continue reading
Daily Links for Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Open Source An Open Source Tool for Every Task School Library Journal / Steve Hargadon Following are some of the most popular OSS applications for schools. All are freely available, requiring no license fees, and can be loaded on an … Continue reading
Posted in News, Open Source, Software, Standards, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Google, Microsoft, OpenSim
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Life with Linux: Google Earth
As I continue to work and play with Linux on the desktop, I try new things, keep a few, and toss out even more. Here’s a keeper. I started using this on Windows (ancient history), then on the Mac, and … Continue reading
Daily Links for Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Open Source Open Source Proves Elusive as a Business Model The New York Times / Ashlee Vance The grass-roots nature of open source has led advocates to view the projects as a populist foil to proprietary software, where a company … Continue reading
Daily Links for Sunday, November 29, 2009
Cloud Roll Your Own Ubuntu Private Cloud InformationWeek / Serdar Yegulalp Conventional wisdom has it that if you want to make use of “the cloud,” you’ve got to use someone else’s service — Amazon’s EC2, Google’s clouds, and so on. … Continue reading
Daily Links for Monday, November 23, 2009
Open Source Microsoft delays open sourcing Windows 7 tool Ars Technica / Emil Protalinski After committing to making the source code and binaries for the Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool available under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 … Continue reading
Daily Links for Friday, November 20, 2009
Open Source Good Karma: An In Depth Review Of Ubuntu 9.10 Ars Technica / Ryan Paul Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala, was officially released last month. In this comprehensive review, Ars takes you under the surface for an in-depth look … Continue reading
Fedora 12 released
The onrush of cool new Linux distributions continues with the availability of Fedora 12. From the press release: The Fedora Project, a Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, today announced the availability of Fedora 12, … Continue reading
Daily Links for Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Open Source What’s New in openSUSE 11.2 Linux Magazine / Joe Brockmeier openSUSE 11.2 is finally out after 11 months of development. The openSUSE Project released openSUSE 11.2 with a bevy of updates and improvements over last year’s 11.1 release, … Continue reading
Daily Links for Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Open Source Windows 7 on netbooks: Maybe it’s not a Linux killer ComputerWorld / Preston Gralla I’ve frequently written that Windows 7 will kill Linux on netbooks. But given that most Windows 7-equipped netbooks ship with the underwhelming Starter Edition, … Continue reading
Daily Links for Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Open Source Did Microsoft Windows 7 download tool violate the GPL? ZDNet / Mary-Jo Foley Microsoft has pulled an update tool for Windows 7 from the Microsoft Store site after a report indicating that the tool incorporated open-source code in … Continue reading
Operating systems: upgrade or reinstall? guilt or pleasure?
Through the years I’ve run many versions of Microsoft Windows. For the last two and one-half years I’ve had Apple Macs, so I’ve used both OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard. I don’t even know how many different desktop Linux … Continue reading
Posted in Macintosh, Open Source, Software
Tagged Apple, Fedora, Linux, Microsoft, Ubuntu
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Daily Links for Monday, November 9, 2009
Open Source Ubuntu: the complete beginner’s guide Times Online / Jonathan Richards Ubuntu, if you’re not familiar with it, is one of many varieties of a broader, open-source OS called Linux. It looks and feels a lot like Windows (more … Continue reading
Working with Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala: initial impressions
I’ve been playing with the latest Ubuntu desktop release, 9.10 Karmic Koala, since the first beta and I’ve now been using it full time for business work for three days. Here are my impressions and comments: For some reason, the … Continue reading
