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New Linux distro will target disabled users

Posted February 5, 2013 - 6:12 pm

There are more than a billion people around the globe living with some sort of disability today, yet software in general and operating systems in particular are just beginning to address their computing needs.
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Apply now to join the White House Hackathon

Posted February 5, 2013 - 6:11 pm

The team behind We the People is looking for a few good coders to provide feedback and ideas around their new Petitions API
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Piston CEO: loads of companies are switching from public to private clouds

Posted February 4, 2013 - 4:44 pm

Piston's CEO said that companies are leaving public cloud services because they aren't that cost effective and the customer service stinks.
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Neo Technology execs: How Neo4j beat Oracle Database

Posted February 4, 2013 - 11:01 am

In an interview, the company's CEO and senior director of products discuss the mobile possibilities of their offering and defend Java's security
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Fedora, openSUSE ditch MySQL, in a major database shake-up

Posted February 4, 2013 - 10:47 am

Two major open-source projects, Fedora and openSUSE, are planning to ditch the venerable Oracle MySQL database framework and adopt MariaDB instead.
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Five open source alternatives to Office 2013

Posted February 4, 2013 - 8:36 am

These free and open source options deliver many of the same features at a very compelling price.
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10 open source projects to watch this year

Posted February 2, 2013 - 8:25 am

Open source software projects may not typically have the marketing budgets necessary to match launch events like the one Microsoft just held for Office 2013, but that doesn't mean their products are any less valuable.
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The Weekly Hash - February 1, 2013

Posted February 1, 2013 - 12:32 pm

From Apple’s latest trademark coup to the secrets Anonymous hacked from the U.S. government to using Google Maps to find the best breakfast food in North Korea, we bring you the silliest stories in the tech world this past week
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Rackspace changes course, won't support third-party OpenStack distributions as part of private cloud offering

Posted February 1, 2013 - 12:30 pm

Last year Rackspace said it would support OpenStack distributions from other providers as part of its private cloud offering. Now it says times have changed and it'll stick with its own OpenStack distribution instead.
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Booting Linux via UEFI can 'brick' some Samsung laptops

Posted February 1, 2013 - 8:03 am

A problem with a kernel driver for Samsung laptops has caused numerous users to find their machines "bricked" after trying to boot Linux on them.
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Book Giveaway: Win a copy of 'Ubuntu Unleashed 2013 Edition'

Posted January 31, 2013 - 5:30 pm

ITworld is giving away 5 copies of "Ubuntu Unleashed 2013 Edition" to some lucky readers. Enter now for your chance to win!
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Japan economy ministry launches data site under Creative Commons license

Posted January 31, 2013 - 4:29 am

Japan's conservative economy ministry has launched a new site that offers its data for download under a Creative Commons license.
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Mozilla takes drastic step to automatically block virtually all plug-ins in Firefox

Posted January 30, 2013 - 1:44 pm

Mozilla yesterday announced it would automatically disable all plug-ins in Firefox except the latest version of Adobe's Flash Player, citing security and stability reasons for the move.
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Microsoft embraces open-source Git for development tools

Posted January 30, 2013 - 1:41 pm

Microsoft has added Git support to Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server.
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Making music recommendations with care

Posted January 29, 2013 - 12:23 pm

The Echo Nest serves up music recommendations for a number of popular music services, like Spotify and Rdio. Here’s how they do it
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Will Cinnamon be the default desktop in Fedora Linux 19?

Posted January 28, 2013 - 10:50 am

It was just last week that Fedora Linux 18 "Spherical Cow" made its official debut, but since then the Red Hat-supported distribution has been all over the news for a variety of reasons, not all of them complimentary.
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Meet Mageia, a rising Linux star

Posted January 27, 2013 - 8:45 am

If the world of Linux distributions has ever had a rising star, it's Mageia. Read on for a brief tour of Mageia's interface and features.
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10 free Drupal modules that make development easier

Posted January 26, 2013 - 8:25 am

Working with Drupal is not for the timid -- but these 10 free modules could make things easier for developers and administrators.
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Gaming on Linux: a guide for sane people with limited patience

Posted January 26, 2013 - 8:03 am

So, you want to play games on your Linux machine. Oh, boy. Batten down the hatches, because we're about to show you how to do some real computing. You ever compiled something, kid? You ever compiled something like we did back in the '90s?
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Canonical invites input on core Ubuntu Phone apps

Posted January 25, 2013 - 2:37 pm

A dedicated website is now available for collaborating on this key component of the Linux-based mobile platform.
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The Weekly Hash - January 25, 2013

Posted January 25, 2013 - 12:26 pm

Making fun of some of the top - or goofiest - tech stories of the past seven days, this week featuring the latest in Cuban underwater cable-laying technology, what Twitter and Beyonce had in common during the presidential inauguration and John Boehner’s new look
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Hadoop goes to the cloud

Posted January 24, 2013 - 3:12 pm

Two public cloud service providers have rolled out hosted versions of Hadoop clusters, including SkyTap announcing a partnership with Hadoop distributor Cloudera, and Joyent teaming with HortonWorks on a cloud-based Hadoop service that's available today.
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Key Linux contributor Alan Cox steps down

Posted January 24, 2013 - 2:43 pm

Alan Cox, one of the chief contributors to the Linux kernel, has taken a step down from his volunteer duties, citing the need to attend to family matters.
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Meet 'Consort,' a brand-new classic Linux desktop

Posted January 23, 2013 - 5:27 pm

There seems to be no end in sight to the enduring popularity of the classic GNOME 2 Linux desktop, and this week afforded yet more evidence.
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Samba 4 review: No substitute for Active Directory -- yet

Posted January 23, 2013 - 11:55 am

Samba's open source alternative to Microsoft's domain controller is a good start, but not ready for prime time
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