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Linux pros saw a giant salary leap in 2012: Dice

Posted January 23, 2013 - 11:48 am

IT professionals enjoyed their biggest salary jump in more than a decade last year, but for those using Linux, it was even better.
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Japan operator KDDI mulling Firefox OS phones

Posted January 23, 2013 - 6:07 am

KDDI, which runs one of Japan's largest mobile networks, is considering selling smartphones based on the new Firefox operating system from Mozilla.
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Meet PicUntu, a lightweight Linux designed for tiny PCs

Posted January 22, 2013 - 5:48 pm

Anyone who's watched the PC industry at all over the past year or so has surely noticed the flood of tiny, Linux-powered PCs that have been flooding the market.
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Six new features coming in LibreOffice 4.0

Posted January 22, 2013 - 5:31 pm

It's hard to believe LibreOffice has only been around about two years, so thoroughly has it come to dominate as the leading free and open source productivity suite, but late last week a release candidate for its next major version appeared.
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Microsoft won't release study that challenged success of Munich's Linux migration

Posted January 22, 2013 - 12:27 pm

Microsoft and Hewlett Packard won't share a study claiming that the German city of Munich had its numbers wrong when it calculated switching from Windows to Linux saved the city millions -- although an HP employee did provide the data to a German publication that reported on the results.
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Weird and wonderful Raspberry Pi hacks

Posted January 22, 2013 - 9:00 am

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but having a $35 Raspberry Pi computer helps too.
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10 superb free tools for all of your basic business needs

Posted January 19, 2013 - 8:25 am

Introducing new software into a typical small business environment can be costly, to say the least. Depending on the size of your business, buying multiple copies of a program—or its licenses—can quickly drive your balance sheet into the red.
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Lightweight 'Kite' tablet runs Ubuntu 12.04 and Android 4.0

Posted January 17, 2013 - 4:38 pm

There's no shortage of Android tablets in the marketplace today, but devices that run Ubuntu Linux are still much harder to come by.
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RHEV upgrade saga: Creating VMs on Open vSwitch

Posted January 17, 2013 - 12:44 pm

Previously we create our network by integrating Open vSwitch into RHEL KVM. Now we need to create some virtual machines to run the workloads required.
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German government should make its software available as open source, committee advises

Posted January 17, 2013 - 11:17 am

Germany should change a law to enable public administrations to make their software available as free and open source, a German parliamentary committee has advised.
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Should programmers be unionized?

Posted January 16, 2013 - 12:51 pm

Software programmers are generally a well compensated bunch. But could they still benefit from organizing and bargaining collectively?
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Five notable new features in Fedora Linux 18 'Spherical Cow'

Posted January 16, 2013 - 11:32 am

After numerous delays along the way, the final version of Fedora Linux 18 "Spherical Cow" made its long-awaited debut on Tuesday.
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SkyTap invites users to dip a toe into big data

Posted January 16, 2013 - 10:00 am

Customers can try out a 50-node Cloudera Hadoop cluster for free
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Semantic Computinmg Tools for teh Small Business?

Posted January 16, 2013 - 8:31 am

3) Utilize the SPARQL Results?
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NASA open-source initiative stalled by vendor protest, report says

Posted January 14, 2013 - 3:15 pm

A formal bid protest by a proprietary CMS provider over NASA's desired move to an open-source system has halted the process at least temporarily, according to a report from Federal Computer Week.
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Touchscreen proliferation could open desktop to Android

Posted January 14, 2013 - 3:05 pm

The takeaway for PCs from CES 2013 last week is that touchscreens are coming and they're coming fast to computers running Microsoft Windows.
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10 Joomla extension modules for easier and better websites

Posted January 14, 2013 - 8:35 am

A collection of 10 diverse Joomla extensions that can help you build and maintain your sites.
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Microsoft launches open source VM image 'Depot' for Windows Azure

Posted January 13, 2013 - 8:34 am

Microsoft Open Technologies, a subsidiary of Microsoft, has launched an app store for its Windows Azure cloud platform called VM Depot, which it describes as “a community-driven catalogue of open source virtual machine images”.
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Twenty free and effective infosec tools

Posted January 12, 2013 - 9:00 am

We asked readers to name the free tools they find most useful in their daily work as infosec practitioners. Here are 20 that stand out.
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The open-source car: automakers eagerly woo app developers

Posted January 12, 2013 - 8:25 am

When you buy a smartphone, one of the biggest draws (or drawbacks) is the platform's app store. In the next year or so, the same purchasing philosophy may apply to cars, too.
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Update Ruby now before it goes off the Rails

Posted January 11, 2013 - 5:20 pm

Do you use Ruby on Rails? If so, it's time to update. Now.
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The Android lag fix that really wasn't

Posted January 11, 2013 - 4:21 pm

One app that claimed to fix "90 percent of lag" in Android phones started a small fire in the open-source phone community. Take a look at some of the wreckage.
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Dell, Intel investment in Mirantis represents a vote for open OpenStack

Posted January 10, 2013 - 8:00 pm

Dell, Intel Capital and WestSummit Capital are investing $10 million in OpenStack systems integrator Mirantis
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Red Hat takes the wraps off RHEL 5.9

Posted January 10, 2013 - 11:03 am

Red Hat on Tuesday announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9, a new update to the company's popular open source enterprise platform.
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Vert.x app framework properties siezed by VMware

Posted January 9, 2013 - 10:08 pm

Project leader Tim Fox left VMware for Red Hat and was told to hand over administrative rights associated with the technology; the companies are discussing a solution to the impasse.
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