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Open source is taking over the software world, survey says

Posted April 18, 2013 - 10:51 am

Innovation, quality, and growth are named as key motivators for using open source software.
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Fuduntu Linux to shut down, new distro to follow

Posted April 18, 2013 - 9:32 am

Maintainers of popular Fedora/Ubuntu hybrid vote to close up shop.
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U.S. intelligence agencies embrace OpenStack

Posted April 17, 2013 - 1:38 pm

The NSA is already running a production OpenStack cloud and said it's about to share it with all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies
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Six good reasons to try Manjaro Linux 0.8.5

Posted April 17, 2013 - 10:59 am

This new update to the up-and-coming distro adds key beginner-friendly features.
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HubSpot latest to leave Amazon Web Services -- mostly. Should Amazon worry?

Posted April 17, 2013 - 9:00 am

HubSpot announced at the OpenStack Summit that it built a private OpenStack cloud to take over some work it was running on Amazon Web Services
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Interoperability question shows OpenStack growing pains

Posted April 17, 2013 - 7:00 am

A panel discussion during the OpenStack Summit about interoperability issues shows that the community recognizes how important the issue is, but hasn't quite figured out how to handle it
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Comcast, Best Buy take the wraps off OpenStack implementations

Posted April 16, 2013 - 4:58 pm

Comcast and Best Buy are talking about their OpenStack implementations for the first time.
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Red Hat advances enterprise OpenStack distro to early adopter program

Posted April 16, 2013 - 4:21 pm

Red Hat Distribution for OpenStack, or RDO, is designed to provide a place for the community to add upstream features to Red Hat's enterprise OpenStack distribution, similar to the role the open source Fedora Project plays for its Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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Immaturity holding back OpenStack deployments

Posted April 16, 2013 - 2:48 pm

Attendees at the OpenStack Summit say that businesses worry about using OpenStack because it currently takes too much work to implement
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Don't have enough sources for breaking news? Try Wikipedia

Posted April 16, 2013 - 12:12 pm

The Wikipedia Live Monitor can identify breaking news stories almost as quickly - and more reliably - than social networks
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OpenStack gains momentum as vendors give Grizzly a bear hug

Posted April 16, 2013 - 11:40 am

HP, NetApp, and an array of cloud startups roll out new cloud offerings built around OpenStack Grizzly
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Red Hat, Hortonworks prep OpenStack for Hadoop

Posted April 16, 2013 - 11:25 am

The software program, called Savanna, will make it easier to deploy Apache Hadoop on an OpenStack cloud service
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Fuduntu Linux is closing its doors

Posted April 16, 2013 - 11:20 am

Plans are already afoot for a brand-new replacement for the distro, which was just updated last week.
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Open your data to the world

Posted April 16, 2013 - 7:22 am

Not having an API is becoming like not having a website, but the interface has got to be easy for outside developers to work with.
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Red Hat releases community OpenStack distribution

Posted April 15, 2013 - 5:05 pm

Red Hat has launched a community version of its still-in-development OpenStack distribution, and it also released a preview of the enterprise edition of this distribution for those who sign up for an early adopter program.
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Citrix bequeaths Xen to the Linux Foundation

Posted April 15, 2013 - 2:02 pm

In an effort to attract a more diverse set of contributors, enterprise software vendor Citrix has donated its open source Xen hypervisor to the Linux Foundation.
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OpenStack grows up: But is it grown up enough for enterprise IT?

Posted April 15, 2013 - 9:49 am

Less than a year ago the cool thing for IT vendors to do was jump on the OpenStack bandwagon.
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Can't find Free flashlight app using front and back camera For I pad mini

Posted April 15, 2013 - 8:48 am

Had ap provided by salesman no longer in store
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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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