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In 2002 I was working for Oculan, a company that founded an open source network management application platform called OpenNMS. Oculan used this platform as the basis for a network management appliance, but my job was to create a services and support business around the platform itself. Forbes released its annual list of the world’s billionaires Thursday, and technology companies are well represented, even though Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is no longer the world’s richest person. This month marks the one-year anniversary of Linux.com in its newest form. A year ago, we built the site based on your rankings of features on IdeaForge. Today, we want to hear how you’re using Linux.com and what is most useful. And perhaps even more importantly – what isn’t useful. We also want to [...] “You can now pre-order an Apple iPad; but do you really want to, asks Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols. ‘I mean, I get why you’d want an iPad. I’d like one too,’ he writes. ‘But,’ he says, ‘when I consider that there are soon going to be literally dozens of cheaper, Linux-powered iPad devices on the market, [...] There has been a lot of talk about the ‘cloud’ lately and, though the term is largely misused and perhaps a little too hyped, there’s definitely something to this new way of thinking about online applications and the infrastructure to serve them, the so-called cloud computing. Canonical, the company behind the very popular Ubuntu Linux [...] Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #184 for the week March 7th – March 13th, 2010 and is available here. There’s a large selection of free and open source (FOSS) operating systems available these days, and choosing the right one for any given circumstance can be quite a challenge. This article is intended to help you pick the best operating system for your needs and experience level. Although this article is geared primarily toward those [...] One of the technologies I am waiting for would allow me to effect transactions without giving over vast quantities of personal data. After all, what companies really need to know are: can I pay, and do I have the necessary qualities (age, residence) I claim to have. They don’t need to know a vast range [...] Whichever way you look at it, consumers want to be able to play the latest commercial computer games. The enterprise Linux space has suddenly got very interesting following the news that a bunch of sharp-suited New Yorkers have made an offer to buy SUSE Linux’s parent company, Novell. Whether or not they succeed, there can be little doubt that it’s cheerio and night-night for Novell, a business that has been doomed since, let’s [...] Google has announced a test runner for Sputnik, the JavaScript conformance test suite that it launched last June. The test runner makes it easier to run the complete Sputnik test suite from within a browser. Sputnik covers testing all aspects of JavaScript as defined in the 3rd edition of ECMA-262 specification and is made up [...] SugarCRM, provider of open source CRM software, today unveiled its Open+ Partner Programme, which it says will offer its channel partners a wider variety of incentives and resources to deliver its solutions to customers. Liferay, makers of the portal software, are moving from licensing their code under the MIT(X11) licence and switching to the LGPL. The announcement came in a blog posting by Liferay CEO, Byran Cheung, who said that although the MIT(X11) licence had brought benefits due to its permissiveness, a downside was that there were vendors [...] What’s a Game Developers Conference without some sweet new tools for developers to sink their teeth into? Khronos Group, the association behind OpenGL, has today announced the fourth generation of its cross-platform API spec, which takes up the mantle of offering a viable competitor to Microsoft’s DirectX 11. The latest release includes two new shader [...] One of the features expected with the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04 release is the Ubuntu One Music Store (UOMS). The UOMS is a mechanism by which Ubuntu users can purchase songs in the MP3 format, with some of the revenue going to support Canonical. These songs are evidently compressed at a relatively high bit rate and [...] Did you know that 55% of statistics are made up on the spot? (or maybe it was 68% I don’t recall) If you have ever taken a statistics class you know that data is everything, but it’s not just about the data itself. Whenever you see numbers you have to ask yourself: Mozilla has released the first beta of Thunderbird 3.1, code named Lanikai. Several fixes to improve upgrading from Thunderbird 2. Google does a lot of things well, maybe too well, and it’s adding to its portfolio of tools on a weekly basis. At some point you have to look at the number of pies in which Google has its fingers and start to get a little frightened of this company. I came across this video [...] The Mozilla Foundation, the organisation behind the popular Firefox web browser, has announced the launch of a new public process to update the Mozilla Public License (MPL), during which a new version of the MPL will be developed. The current Mozilla Public License, version 1.1, is already 10 years old. March 8, 2010 – 1st Annual Ubuntu Women Project “How I discovered Ubuntu.” International Women’s Day Competition | |||||
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