Intuit’s new Linux Business Resource Center (www.thelinux411.com). The site is devoted to helping growing businesses embrace the capabilities and learn about using open-source software.
Developed in conjunction with the new capabilities of QuickBooks Enterprise 8.0 (Intuit’s mid-market ERP offering) to run on Linux servers, the site is designed to serve as a community for users to [...]

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Google Gadgets for Linux are simple HTML and JavaScript applications that can be embedded in web pages and other applications. By all accounts, Gadget support for Linux was a major undertaking for the Google team as it is an entire platform for mini applications. You can check out the source code for it on Google’s [...]

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Forget fear, uncertainty and doubt. How do Windows Vista and Linux really compare against each other? It’s one thing to talk about the familiar applications available to Windows users contrasted with the rich suite of free open source apps for Linux, but something totally different to actually compare the loads of the two operating systems [...]

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In the previous articles we discussed about Nagios 3.0 Jumpstart guide and How to monitor remote Linux host using Nagios 3.0. In this article, l’ll explain how to monitor remote windows machine and the various service running on the windows server using nagios monitoring server. Following three sections are covered in this article.
I. Overview
II. 4 [...]

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“We chose Linux for reliability, lower power CPU, and the ability to work within the Linux community”
Next month, Cirgon will announce and ship a Fedora Linux-based media server that supports 1080i HD resolution. The Encore offers 320GB, 500GB, and 750GB hard drive options, and controls management and playback of music, photos, and video for use [...]

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Dear subscribers, readers and blog visitors. I have good news for all of you, as this is really awesome one for me as well. Within next 48 hours this, as well as my personal blog, will be completely moved to Dedicated Server Hosting environment.
As you might have probably noticed (hard not to), I have been [...]

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When should a company relinquish control of hard-won proprietary technology in hopes of gaining a strategic advantage via an open source software model?

In a global case study published in the April 2008 edition of Harvard Business Review, coauthors Scott Wilson, senior manager, Deloitte Research, and Ajit Kambil, global director, Deloitte Research, address this tough and [...]

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Wordpress 2.6 is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are [...]

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An open source software project, originally propped up by European Commission (EC) funds, has released an alpha version of its quality control program, Alitheia Core.
Software Quality Observatory for Open Source Software (SQO-OSS – pronounced squash) is intended to develop tools based on identified metrics to define and check the quality of open source software.
European businesses, [...]

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Hello, All
You may have noticed that the blog has been down off and on, we are working on resolving this issue to maintain 100% up time. Sorry for the inconvenience.
We are also working to speed up the blog, the load time mainly.
Thank You

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The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the 1.0 release of the openSUSE Build Service. The 1.0 release provides all the features necessary to support building openSUSE in the public build systems and allowing direct contributions to openSUSE from all contributors. Developers can now submit contributions to openSUSE directly at build.opensuse.org.
The openSUSE Build Service allows [...]

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