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5 things we love about Fedora 18 / 5 things we hate

Posted April 15, 2013 - 8:19 am
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Rackspace to offer OpenStack deployments for service providers

Posted April 15, 2013 - 12:02 am

Expanding beyond its own OpenStack hosted services, Rackspace is offering to build OpenStack deployments for other hosting providers as well, such as telecommunication companies.
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Rackspace launches new business, hopes to build network of clouds around the world

Posted April 15, 2013 - 12:01 am

Rackspace is entering a new business that will build and maintain clouds for service providers like telcos
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Serious LibreOffice update fixes 54 bugs

Posted April 14, 2013 - 7:00 pm

File import and export are improved in the new stability-focused LibreOffice 3.6.6.
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13 hot new open source projects

Posted April 12, 2013 - 2:07 pm

Browser-based toolkits, add-ons to old favorites, tools programmers will love -- here are the most promising projects emerging from the open source community today
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New OpenStack initiative could address interoperability questions

Posted April 10, 2013 - 4:00 pm

There is some debate over which OpenStack clouds are truly interoperable, but a new project could help clear up differences
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Key updates have arrived for Fuduntu and PCLinuxOS

Posted April 10, 2013 - 9:37 am

A 'Lite' version of Fuduntu is among the brand-new features introduced this week.
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OpenStack to start cracking down on incompatible clouds

Posted April 9, 2013 - 7:18 pm

The OpenStack Foundation is starting to get serious about making sure that cloud services are truly interoperable if they want to call their services OpenStack.
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No, programmers don't code all day

Posted April 9, 2013 - 12:00 pm

A new survey finds out what software developers already know: writing code is only one part of the job
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Open-Xchange takes aim at no less than Microsoft Office, Google Docs

Posted April 9, 2013 - 11:53 am

As his interviewer stumbles for an appropriately careful term to describe the state of open-source office software development, Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange, offers to help.
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Dell's Alienware X51 on Ubuntu may aim for Steam Box status

Posted April 9, 2013 - 11:39 am

Dell could be angling for "Steam box" status with the Alienware X51, a living room-friendly, small form factor gaming desktop that is now available with the Ubuntu Linux operating system preinstalled.
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With Firefox 22, Mozilla escalates the tracking battle

Posted April 9, 2013 - 11:29 am

Third-party cookies are automatically blocked by default in this early browser release.
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Skeptcism follows Cisco-IBM led OpenDaylight SDN consortium

Posted April 9, 2013 - 11:17 am

If you're skeptical about the intentions of the OpenDaylight SDN consortium, you're not alone.
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Piston CTO: 'Giant explosion of businesses moving off AWS'

Posted April 9, 2013 - 6:00 am

Piston co-founder Josh McKenty said businesses are fleeing AWS and while some surely are leaving, 'giant explosion' is surely an overstatement.
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Ubuntu 13.04 'Raring Ringtail' drops Wubi in final beta

Posted April 8, 2013 - 11:27 am

Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" may have technically hit beta 1 a few weeks ago, but at the time there was no beta release to test and try out. Rather, the only variations with actual beta images to see were Edubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, UbuntuKylin, Ubuntu Cloud, Ubuntu Studio, and Xubuntu.
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Where's the beef? Fedora releases 'Spherical Cow'

Posted April 8, 2013 - 11:12 am

After being delayed seven times due to reported problems with the new installer, Fedora 18 has arrived.
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It's an ideal time to have Linux skills, SUSE exec says

Posted April 8, 2013 - 7:57 am

Demand is especially high for developers with kernel know-how, says SUSE's Michael Miller.
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Privacy flap prompts CyanogenMod developers to back down on mandatory info collection

Posted April 7, 2013 - 9:54 am

The lead developer of CyanogenMod, one of the most popular third-party versions of Android, has reversed a change that would have removed the ability for users to opt out of data collection, after a determined protest from some CyanogenMod users.
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8 things you might not know about Android

Posted April 5, 2013 - 9:02 am

Some lesser-known facts about Google's mobile OS
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Setting an active menu item based on the current URL with jQuery

Posted April 5, 2013 - 8:00 am

This problem pops up over and over again when building websites - how do I determine the user’s current location so I can highlight the active section in the navigation menu? It’s such a basic need but the solution seems to be reinvented on every new build.
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Apache Foundation promotes development framework Bloodhound to the top

Posted April 4, 2013 - 4:09 pm

The Apache Foundation announced Tuesday that the software development and project management framework Bloodhound is now an official top-level project, having graduated from the organization's product incubator.
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OpenStack spins up 700 test clouds a day -- on donated HP and Rackspace time

Posted April 4, 2013 - 11:00 am

OpenStack is releasing the latest version of the cloud stack this week and is talking about testing, contributors and the future.
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MapR brings Hadoop support to Ubuntu

Posted April 4, 2013 - 10:45 am

Hadoop distributor MapR Technologies has announced a new partnership with Canonical to package the MapR M3 Edition for Apache Hadoop with Ubuntu.
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Three Ubuntu Linux versions will reach end of life in May

Posted April 4, 2013 - 10:15 am

If you're still using Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop, or Ubuntu 8.04 Server, it's time to upgrade.
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History of the O'Reilly cover animals

Posted April 3, 2013 - 10:56 am

O’Reilly’s cover designer tells the story of how they came to use animals on the covers of their popular books
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