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GA_googleFillSlot("LQ_MPU_FirstPost"); [ Log in to get rid of this advertisement] Published at LXer: What does it mean to be open. My copy of Oxford defines open as: "unconcealed circumstances or condition". Way back in the day when the GNU operating system was getting going, they coined the mantra: "Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the ...

GA_googleFillSlot("LQ_MPU_FirstPost"); [ Log in to get rid of this advertisement] Published at LXer: A review of Dell's new Inspirion Mini 9 with bells, whistles, and Ubuntu 8.04 to boot. Portable notebook goodness for under $350. Read More...

GA_googleFillSlot("LQ_MPU_FirstPost"); [ Log in to get rid of this advertisement] Published at LXer: A decade ago, European countries leapt out of the gate to take the lead in the radical open-source movement -- none more so than France -- and left U.S. developers in the proverbial dust. Through policies and high-profile projects, the French Republic for years has been...

GA_googleFillSlot("LQ_MPU_FirstPost"); [ Log in to get rid of this advertisement] Published at LXer: Software developer Red Hat bought an Israeli company in a bid to gain a competitive edge against Microsoft and smaller rivals that provide computing services for complex networks. Raleigh, N.C.-based Red Hat said Thursday that it paid $107 million in cash for privately ...

GA_googleFillSlot("LQ_MPU_FirstPost"); [ Log in to get rid of this advertisement] Published at LXer: Content-filtering proxies restrict Internet access privileges for users or groups across an entire network. They must be able to block unwanted content through keyword, URL, DNS, MIME, and image filtering. They need to authenticate and log a user's Internet activity by ...

GA_googleFillSlot("LQ_MPU_FirstPost"); [ Log in to get rid of this advertisement] Published at LXer: SCO is offering full-day training on Porting and Packaging on SCO OpenServer 6 and UnixWare 7.1.4 Workshop. A hands-on workshop walking through porting of open source applications and packaging. [They want me to pay $500 bucks to learn how to port open source to ...

GA_googleFillSlot("LQ_MPU_FirstPost"); [ Log in to get rid of this advertisement] Published at LXer: A top Debian contributor has been left "pretty disappointed" by elements of the Debian community for failing to comply with the conditions of the GNU GPLv2 license. Daniel Baumann, who maintains the Debian Syslinux bootloader package, has said Debian components were ...

GA_googleFillSlot("LQ_MPU_FirstPost"); [ Log in to get rid of this advertisement] Published at LXer: If this is the best Bogusky and his team can do to compete with the highly successful, and should I say, really funny, Get a Mac Campaign, Microsoft is truly throwing its $300M down the toilet because this is ad is pure crap. Read More...

GA_googleFillSlot("LQ_MPU_FirstPost"); [ Log in to get rid of this advertisement] Published at LXer: If this is the best Bogusky and his team can do to compete with the highly successful, and should I say, really funny, Get a Mac Campaign, Microsoft is truly throwing its $300M down the toilet because this is ad is pure crap. Read More...

GA_googleFillSlot("LQ_MPU_FirstPost"); [ Log in to get rid of this advertisement] Published at LXer: If the rocky reception of KDE 4 has done anything, it has forced the KDE project to realize it needs to listen to users more closely. One of the first results of this realization is the new Community Working Group (CWG). Announced at Akademy, the recently concluded ...

GA_googleFillSlot("LQ_MPU_FirstPost"); [ Log in to get rid of this advertisement] Published at LXer: Obeler is charging that Google, the company, has made a deliberate and conscious decision to use Google Earth to promote a specific political agenda. This charge of explicit bias by Google can be substantiated today even after the Kiryat Yam correction. Read More......

GA_googleFillSlot("LQ_MPU_FirstPost"); [ Log in to get rid of this advertisement] Published at LXer: The purpose of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) is probably obvious from its name -- but what does promoting free software mean in terms of everyday activity? Examining the roles of the organization shows how complex the FSF's advocacy role has become. It also reveals...

GA_googleFillSlot("LQ_MPU_FirstPost"); [ Log in to get rid of this advertisement] Published at LXer: I received an email recently from a young man in Brazil who wanted me to come to his university and talk to the students and faculty about using Free Software. I am normally happy to advise universities to use Free Software, but usually this is done in conjunction with ...

GA_googleFillSlot("LQ_MPU_FirstPost"); [ Log in to get rid of this advertisement] Published at LXer: been able to have OpenBSD's /etc/fstab automatically mount the ext2 filesystem on my Compaq Armada 7770dmt's hard drive with no difficulty lately, but every couple of days or so I get a message while booting OpenBSD that says the Linux filesystem is not clean and that I...

GA_googleFillSlot("LQ_MPU_FirstPost"); [ Log in to get rid of this advertisement] Published at LXer: Zoho, the SaaS (software as a service) alternative to Google Apps, now has 250 employees, expects to be profitable in 2009, and is embarking on an open source middleware strategy, The VAR Guy has learned. Here's the scoop . Read More...

GA_googleFillSlot("LQ_MPU_FirstPost"); [ Log in to get rid of this advertisement] Published at LXer: Does Cisco's Buyout of PostPath signal a showdown against Microsoft Exchange? The VAR Guy doubts it. Here's why . Read More...

GA_googleFillSlot("LQ_MPU_FirstPost"); [ Log in to get rid of this advertisement] Published at LXer: Project Gutenberg, the online library of more than 25,000 free books, is a treasure trove for bookworms and casual readers alike, but turning electronic text files into a readable form is not as easy as it may seem. In theory, since etexts are just plain text files, you...

GA_googleFillSlot("LQ_MPU_FirstPost"); [ Log in to get rid of this advertisement] Published at LXer: Walter Bender's question 22: What “shoulders of giants” should we stand on? What is it that children should learn? Are there any universals? How do children decide whom and what to believe? I've been providing what I think is a good answer to these questions for some ...

GA_googleFillSlot("LQ_MPU_FirstPost"); [ Log in to get rid of this advertisement] Published at LXer: Why is anyone still defending Novell? Is it because Novell and Microsoft gag journalists, police coverage, hijack voices, and have it all serve as brainwash touting a treasonous relationship? Read More...

GA_googleFillSlot("LQ_MPU_FirstPost"); [ Log in to get rid of this advertisement] Published at LXer: I have interviewed Mike Card on the latest development of the OMG working group which aims at defining a new standards for Object Database Systems. Mike works with Syracuse Research Corporation (SRC) and is involved in object databases and their application to ...