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BBC News
How open source is growing up
BBC News
There is no doubt that free technologies, mainly open source software, are proving more popular both inside and outside the computer industry. ...

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osscube Joins Acquia Gold Partner Program
BigNews.biz (press release)
June 01, 2009, Cupertino, RTP; North Carolina – osscube, one of the leading web application development company leveraging Open Source Solutions that it has ...
OSSCube Joins SugarCRM Gold Partner And SugarCRM Authorized ... BigNews.biz (press release)

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CrunchGear
Atari 7800 goes open source
CrunchGear
In a somewhat belated move calculated to “give potential developers insight into the Atari's gaming platform so they may ...

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Microsoft And Linux Hold Peace Tweets
TechCrunch
A couple of days ago, upon hearing that Microsoft had officially joined Twitter, the official Linux account sent out a tweet welcoming them. ...

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Without sending users on some sort of boot camp, changing the preconceptions of users may seem a daunting task. But there are ways to ease the pain of learning Linux.

BetaNews
Can Linux do BitLocker better than Windows 7?
BetaNews
Betanews kicks off a new series with a look at how the Linux operating system's FDE stacks up against BitLocker, the Windows feature that today commands a ...

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Boston Globe
Mac OS X, Linux May be Exempt From Green Dam
Tom's Hardware Guide
It seems that Apple computers and those running Linux are exempt from the program. According to PC World, Macs sold at the Apple Store in Beijing are free ...
Apple, Linux exempt from Chinese filter Electronista
China's Green Dam Internet Filter is Full of Holes Cult of Mac
There's a big hole in China's Green Dam TG Daily
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Netherlands adopts open-source software
Metamorphosis
The Dutch government has set a deadline of April 2008 for its agencies to start using open-source software programs that anyone can modify and that work ...

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Open-source licensing: Your mileage may vary
CNET News
Over the past 10 years that I've been involved in open source, one thing has become strikingly clear to me: there are no real predictors of ...

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HTML 5 drops open-source video codec
ZDNet UK
HTML 5 will no longer specify Ogg Theora as its video codec, the Google employee who maintains the burgeoning web-coding standard has announced. ...
No Codec Requirements for the HTML 5 Standard As the browser ... Softpedia
Vendor Squabbles Cause W3C to Scrap Codec Requirement PC World
Browser Vendors Force W3C To Scrap HTML 5 Codecs Slashdot

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While Mozilla lights a fire under competing browsers with support of emerging Web standards with Firefox 3.5, it can still improve its performance, reliability, and usability.

Red Hat has released the latest beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, adding improved virtualisation features to the open-source operating system.

CNET News
Open source to shape cloud computing, but not dominate it
CNET News
Redmonk analyst Stephen O'Grady writes a bleak, but likely accurate, eulogy for open source's relevance to cloud computing. ...

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PC World
Week in review: A speedier new Firefox
CNET News
Firefox 3.5, the embodiment of Mozilla's attempt to "upgrade the Web," was released Thursday for Windows, Windows Portable, Mac, and Linux. ...
Mozilla slates first Firefox 3.5 patch Computerworld
'BugDay' Planned To Fix Bugs in New Firefox 3.5 CIO Today
Mozilla will issue security fixes for Firefox 3.5 MX Logic
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Ars Technica
Clever Linux folk find way around Microsoft FAT file system patent
Geek.com
Score one for Linux developers. Andrew Tridgell, one of the lead developers on the Samba project, may have developed a workaround which will bypass a ...
Linux Kernel Patch Works Around Microsoft's FAT Patents OS News
Linux devs strike back at Microsoft patent claims InternetNews.com
New Linux patch could circumvent Microsoft's FAT patents Ars Technica
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Boston Globe
Apple, Linux exempt from Chinese filter
Electronista
... to have the software included, any system that can't install Green Dam, including any of Apple's computers or Linux PCs, doesn't have to bundle it. ...
China's Green Dam Internet Filter is Full of Holes Cult of Mac
There's a big hole in China's Green Dam TG Daily
Want to beat China's web filtering? Get a Mac TechRadar UK
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Moblin is an Intel-created open-source operating system for netbooks and people who use them. On a technical level this means Moblin is built for the Atom x86 chip found in many netbooks, while on a practical level it means Moblin is an Internet- and multimedia-focused operating system.

The latest release in the Concourse Financial Software Suite™ is based on a rules-based architecture that makes it the most flexible, reliable, and cost effective back office solution in the EFT market.

IBM Releases Open Source Machine Learning Compiler
Slashdot
sheepweevil writes "IBM just released Milepost GCC, 'the world's first open source machine learning compiler.' The compiler analyses the software and ...
EU Creates Self-Tuning Compiler Robots.net

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Apple appears to be exempt from China's mandate that a controversial Internet filtering program be shipped with all computers sold in the country.