December
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Dec 21, 2007
Global census to show business OSS use
Yesterday, OpenLogic, a provider of enterprise open source software (OSS) solutions, announced that it would be running a global census to determine OSS use within businesses. read more...
Dec 20, 2007
Open source telephony gives customers control, consultant says
Thomas Howe is a telecommunications developer and consultant who is passionate about the role of open source software in the telephony industry. He calls open source the "next generation" of telecommunications, and works with large enterprise companies to help them design phone systems that fully integrate with their business flow. "Only open source can do that," Howe says. read more...
Dec 19, 2007
Mobile phone management under Linux
Even people who don't live and die by their mobile phones sometimes need to send SMS messages. Did you know you can do that from your computer? read more...
Dec 18, 2007
Open source to help defend human rights
A Filipino organisation has released open source software to track human rights violations. While the software comes from the Philipines, with Africa's chequered history it could certainly be used to great benefit in parts of the continent. read more...
Dec 17, 2007
Top FOSS security vulnerabilities
Palamida, the San Francisco company that helps companies to audit their use of open source software, has released a list of what it calls "the top five most overlooked open source vulnerabilities." read more...
Dec 16, 2007
Global census to show business OSS use
Yesterday, OpenLogic, a provider of enterprise open source software (OSS) solutions, announced that it would be running a global census to determine OSS use within businesses. read more...
Dec 15, 2007
Java vs Ruby: a Comparison of the Key Elements
Ruby is an interpreted scripting language, whereas Java is a compiled programming language. Ruby is similar to Java in that both are object-oriented languages and are strongly typed. read more...
Dec 14, 2007
Paldo melds source-based and binary in one distro
Paldo Linux is a cross between a source-based and binary distribution. It installs as a binary system to provide a quick and easy desktop. read more...
Dec 13, 2007
China's Linux desktop market booms
Although China's Linux market as a whole doubled from 2003 to 2006 to $20 million per year, sales of Linux desktop software grew more slowly. read more...
Dec 07, 2007
Update: Sun dangles prize money over open-source efforts
San Francisco - Sun Microsystems on Wednesday will release details of a new award program meant to spur growth and activity within the company's open-source efforts, according to a post by Sun's open-source officer, Simon Phipps, on his corporate blog. read more...
Dec 06, 2007
Open source tool helps fight measles
The Washington Post on Friday reported that global measles fatalities had been reduced by two-thirds following stepped-up vaccination campaigns since 2000. read more...
Dec 05, 2007
Google's open source contest for youths
Building on the success of the its last three Summer of Code programmes, Google has announced the Google Highly Open Participation Contest geared for pre-university students. read more...
Dec 04, 2007
All about Linux swap space
When your computer needs to run programs that are bigger than your available physical memory, most modern operating systems use a technique called swapping, in which chunks of memory are temporarily stored on the hard disk while other data is moved into physical memory space. read more...
Dec 03, 2007
Open Source Meets Business
The congress for CIOs, CTOs, and IT decision makers will be held for the third time from January 22–24 2008 in Nurnberg, Germany. read more...
Dec 02, 2007
Another society plans to launch an OA journal
The newly elected President of the American Fisheries Society, Mary Fabrizio, plans to launch the society's first OA journal. From yesterday's announcement of her election: read more...
Dec 01, 2007
Torvalds on Where Linux is Headed in 2008
"In an interview at the ITNews site, Linus Torvalds lays out his current excitement about the future of Linux read more...
