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vivek on 2007-10-24 03:04:56 in the "
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Microsoft and Turbolinux, a Tokyo-based Linux distributor up with a patent cross licensing deal and agreement to work more closely together. At present, Windows and Turbolinux machines on a mixed network can’t access a common authentication database, but their deal should change this, said Noriko Otake, a spokeswoman for Turbolinux in Tokyo.
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vivek on 2007-10-10 08:03:28 in the "
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Christina has published a nice list of 50 apps to get your office on open source software. This is a worth bookmark page:
Open source software has a lot to offer the business world. Aside from the fact that they?re generally free, many open source programs are more secure, reliable and customizable than their proprietary counterparts. [...]
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vivek on 2007-10-04 06:52:43 in the "
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Open source is getting lots of popularity and if you are an entrepreneur you make some good money too. HylaFAX is an enterprise-class system for sending and receiving facsimiles as well as for sending alpha-numeric pages. The software is designed around a client-server architecture. Fax modems may reside on a single machine on a network [...]
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vivek on 2007-09-11 16:56:50 in the "
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Finally big blue has announced that it will support and promote OpenOffice.org office suite. These are the same companies once promoted Microsoft product. Dell, HP and IBM will one day force more Linux desktop systems and open source software for all of us:
The OpenOffice.org community today announced that IBM will be joining the community to [...]
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vivek on 2007-08-30 17:32:17 in the "
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Go Linux go…
After Dell, it is now Hewlett-Packard, the world?s largest PC manufacturer, has announced it will start selling Linux-based PCs from $AU600 in Australia. The pc is powered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 desktop will come pre-loaded on the HP dx2250 desktop computer — an AMD-based model. This system aimed at small to [...]
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vivek on 2007-08-20 20:36:09 in the "
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From the project home page:
This page is an attempt to track ongoing developments in the Linux development community that have a good chance of appearing in a mainline kernel and/or major distros sometime in the near future.
This is an interesting way to track down upcoming changes, technology in Linux and related project such [...]
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vivek on 2007-08-20 18:51:25 in the "
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This is yet another example that shows us one can make money with open source software.
Network security specialist Sourcefire announced Friday that it has acquired ClamAV, an open-source gateway anti-malware project whose technologies are used in the products of a number of other vendors:
With nearly 1 million unique IP addresses downloading ClamAV malware updates [...]
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