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FLOSSToday.com is a news and information portal into the exciting world of Open Source Software! Here you will find the latest news along with links to valuable F(L)OSS resources. But first, What Is F(L)OSS??? Free (Libre) Open Source Software is software that is readily available to anyone to use, copy, improve, examine and/or distribute to friends, family, co-workers. Read More... |
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How to identify a fanboy
This isn't a news item as such, but I found it on the techworld.com site and just had to share it. It's actually courtesy of PCWorld and illuminates the various characteristics of Apple, Windows, Android, Blackberry, and even (gasp) Linux fanboys. Hysterical.
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Creating An NFS-Like Standalone Storage Server With GlusterFS On CentOS 5.4
This tutorial shows how to set up a standalone storage server on CentOS 5.4. Instead of NFS, I will use GlusterFS here. The client system will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. Storage bricks can be made of any commodity hardware such as x86_64 servers with SATA-II RAID and Infiniband HBA.
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Getting ready for Firebird 2.5 – MindTheBird
As Firebird approaches the final 2.5 release, a new campaign is born to help increase Firebird’s visibility and awareness.
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Amarok 2.3.0 "Clear Light" released
Team Amarok is proud to announce Amarok 2.3.0. It contains many improvements and bugfixes over Amarok 2.2.2 as well as many new features. Areas such as podcast support and saved playlists have seen huge improvements, as has the support for USB mass storage devices (including generic MP3 players).
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Mark Shuttleworth: "This is not a democracy"
After Mark Shuttleworh's recent comment regarding the decision to put the Metacity window buttons on the left, the debate is more intense then ever. In a recent comment (posted a few seconds ago), Mark Shuttleworth states that:
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Microsoft says its contentious relationship with open source is changing
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Acknowledging the relationship between Microsoft and the open source community has been contentious, a Microsoft official Thursday nonetheless emphasized the company's embrace of the open source paradigm, even if it was not necessarily for altruistic purposes.
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Hosted Drupal CMS Planned for Midyear
(PC World)
PC World - Acquia hopes to make a hosted version of its Drupal open-source content management system widely available in about three months, the company's CTO said Wednesday.
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Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 Browser: FAQ
(PC World)
PC World - Microsoft's next-generation Internet Explorer 9 browser may not be anywhere close to competition, but you can test drive a "platform preview" of the software that provides a taste of IE9's capabilities. So what's the deal with Redmond's upcoming browser, and how does it differ from IE8 and worthy competitors such as Google's Chrome, Mozilla's Firefox, Opera Software's Opera, and Apple's Safari? Here's a quick primer.
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