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04 Jan 04 : 30 | Open Source Victories of 2008 Meshach writes "Ars Technica has an interesting run-down on the major open source victories of 2008. Some, like Firefox 3, we can probably mostly agree on. Others — KDE 4 comes to mind — will be more controversial. And Mono 2? What else should be on the list?"Read more of this story at... Source : Slashdot |
31 Dec 21 : 11 | The 10 Coolest Open Source Products of 2008 An anonymous reader writes "Open Source Software is about more than just the Linux operating system, and 2008 brought advances in the form of OpenOffice.org, IBM Lotus Symphony, Firefox and Android. But Linux is still the heart of the FOSS movement, and this year brought key developments in the... Source : Slashdot |
07 Jan 20 : 52 | All of Vietnam's Government Computers To Use Linux, By Fiat christian.einfeldt writes "The Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications has issued an administrative ruling increasing the use of Free Open Source Software products at state agencies, increasing the software's use both in the back office and on the desktop. According to the new rule,... Source : Slashdot 33 hours ago |
29 Dec 20 : 42 | Campaign to Open Source IBM's Notes/Domino Ian Tree, an IT consultant from the Netherlands, has started a campaign to convince IBM to open source the code for Notes/Domino. Hoping for results similar to the push for Sun to open source Solaris which finally saw success in 2005, Tree makes the simple point that it wont happen until someone... Source : Slashdot |
06 Jan 17 : 01 | Using Your BlackBerry As a Modem On Linux ruphus13 writes "Now, the suits and the geeks can unite — Barry allows BlackBerrys to serve as modems for Linux machines. From the news post, 'Barry, created by open source software vendor Net Direct, lets you not only sync your contacts and calendar but also use your smartphone as a computer... Source : Slashdot |
05 Jan 20 : 13 | Ubuntu Kung Fu Lorin Ricker writes "Back in the dark ages of windows-based GUIs, corresponding to my own wandering VMS evangelical days, I became enamored of a series of books jauntily entitled Xxx Annoyances (from O'Reilly & Assocs.), where "Xxx" could be anything from "Windows 95", "Word", "Excel" or nearly... Source : Slashdot |
14 Dec 13 : 23 | Open Source Program Reveals Diebold Bug Mitch Trachtenberg writes "Ballot Browser, an open source Python program developed by Mitch Trachtenberg (yours truly) as part of the all-volunteer Humboldt County Election Transparency Project, was instrumental in revealing that Diebold counting software had dropped 197 ballots from Humboldt... Source : Slashdot |
13 Dec 08 : 28 | HP Pushes Open Source For Small Businesses ruphus13 writes "HP finally begins to actively push open source in its products. From the post, 'HP has been quirky over the years when it comes to open source. It has been, traditionally, a company that supports open source — especially in larger enterprises... Wednesday, it announced two new... Source : Slashdot |
05 Jan 11 : 25 | Software Development Predictions For 2009 snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister lays out his development predictions for 2009. These include further struggles from Microsoft in retooling its image, a more open source mindset for Java, twilight for Sun, the Web as platform of choice, and a dearth of innovation due to dwindling... Source : Slashdot |
11 Dec 17 : 00 | Best Open Source Alternatives To Enterprise Apps PeekAB00 writes "With 2009 IT budgets getting chopped down John Perez came up with this list of 25 best alternatives to enterprise applications (e.g DimDim over Webex, SugarCRM instead of Seibel, Zenoss over HP OpenView). John's list is somewhat eclectic. I am curious to hear what other enterprise... Source : Slashdot |
10 Dec 19 : 56 | An Open Source Coffee Machine Anonymous Coward writes "The Open Source Coffee Machine [video link] is a recycled coffee machine, controlled by a PC running Beremiz, and using some MicroMod CANopen I/O nodes from Peak-System. This machine have been prepared by Peak-System and Lolitech for SCS-Paris-08 exhibition. It served free... Source : Slashdot |
04 Jan 17 : 53 | Perl Migrates To the Git Version Control System On Elpeleg writes "The Perl Foundation has announced they are switching their version control systems to git. According to the announcement, Perl 5 migration to git would allow the language development team to take advantage of git's extensive offline and distributed version support. Git is open... Source : Slashdot |
03 Jan 01 : 42 | Linux In 2009 — Recession Vs. GNU RealityThreek sends this excerpt from an article at IT Management:"Pundits and business executives alike are predicting gloomy economic times for 2009. But when the talk turns to free and open source software (FOSS), suddenly the mood brightens. Whether their concern is the business opportunities in... Source : Slashdot |
29 Dec 17 : 01 | InfoWorld's Crystal Ball Predicts the Future of Microsoft museumpeace writes "InfoWorld executive editor Galen Gruman has brainstormed five different scenarios for Microsoft in the coming decade and solicits the reader's vote on which is more likely. Does it tank? Does it go open source? Does it out-Google Google? Does Ballmer really fill Gate's shoes?... Source : Slashdot |
26 Dec 13 : 31 | Technocrat.net Shut Down twitter writes "Bruce Perens has pulled the plug on Technocrat.net. 'The technocrat.net public discussion site is shut down. This has happened because the site never achieved the ability to financially sustain its editorial staff and system expenses with its revenues. When it became evident that... Source : Slashdot |
24 Dec 14 : 07 | OpenSUSE 11.1 License Changes Examined nerdyH writes "Novell's recent openSUSE 11.1 release includes a new end-user license agreement modeled after Fedora's EULA, says Community Manager Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier in this detailed interview. Zonker says distributions should apply the 'open source principle' and standardize trademark... Source : Slashdot |
21 Dec 15 : 27 | NIST Announces Round 1 Candidates For SHA-3 Competition jd writes "NIST has announced the round 1 candidates for the Cryptographic Hash Algorithm Challenge. Of the 64 who submitted entries, 51 were accepted. Of those, in mere days, one has been definitely broken, and three others are believed to have been. At this rate, it won't take the couple of years... Source : Slashdot |
19 Dec 15 : 03 | Toshiba To OEM Laptops With OpenSolaris ruphus13 writes to tell us of Sun's latest attempt to drive OpenSolaris adoption. The company has inked a deal to pre-install OpenSolaris on Toshiba laptops. "Slowly but surely, major laptop vendors are taking to the idea of shipping systems with pre-loaded open source operating systems. The latest... Source : Slashdot |
17 Dec 22 : 38 | New Font Uses Holes To Cut Ink Use An anonymous reader writes "A Dutch company has taken an open source Sans Serif font and added holes to it to try and save on printer ink costs. The Ecofont is claimed to save up to 20 percent of ink costs, but it allegedly took the firm a while to perfect the ratio of the maximum number of holes... Source : Slashdot |
15 Dec 14 : 48 | Samba's Jeremy Allison On Linux's Future TRNick writes "Jeremy Allison talks Ubuntu, why he loves Gnome, and the trials and tribulations of open source development in a wide-ranging interview on TechRadar."Read more of this story at Slashdot. Source : Slashdot |
13 Dec 00 : 31 | Windows Cheap Enough For $2B Aussie Laptop Deal An anonymous reader writes "Windows-based netbooks aren't too expensive to be ruled out of the Aussie government's billion dollar promise to give a laptop to every school-aged child, according to several education departments. The admission follows an earlier report that open source machines based... Source : Slashdot |
09 Dec 04 : 47 | FOSS Community Can Combat Bad Patents An anonymous reader lets us know about a new initiative designed to help shield the open source software community from threats posed by patent trolls. The initiative, called Linux Defenders (the website is slated to go live tomorrow, Dec. 9), is sponsored by a consortium of technology companies... Source : Slashdot |
09 Dec 02 : 11 | Sun's Mickos Is OK With Monty's MySQL 5.1 Rant narramissic writes "Back on November 29, MySQL developer Michael Widenius trashed Sun's decision to give MySQL 5.1 a 'generally available' designation in a now-infamous blog post. Widenius warned users to be 'very cautious about MySQL 5.1' because 'there are still many known and unknown fatal bugs... Source : Slashdot |
