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Taiwan-based PChome becomes Mozilla Firefox's first portal partner ...

PChome Online, a leading web portal in Taiwan, on October 2 announced cooperation with Mozilla Corporation, a global leading provider of open-source technologies and products, to facilitate Internet use by offering "Firefox for Portal 2.0" service, becoming the first partner for the Mozilla-developed browser Firefox among all portals in Asia.

OpenLibraries Offers “Toolkit” for Developing Rich Media Aps

The Jahshaka Project today announces the availability of the OpenLibraries 0.3.0, a powerful, cross-platform set of C++ libraries that provide developers with key components to create, test and deploy rich media applications.

Novell Continues to Go for SCO's Throat

Forget about who owns Unix or who did what with its code; Novell is asking about SCO's Unix sales to Microsoft and Sun.

The Heath Robinson Rube Goldberg Computer

  • ibm.com/developerWorks; By Clive Maxfield (Posted by IdaAshley on Oct 3, 2006 9:23 PM EDT)
  • Groups: IBM; Story Type: News Story
Imagine a computer formed from a mixture of technologies ranging from relays to fluidic logic. Now imagine being able to create your own single masterpiece of such a computer, in the technology of your choice, using the Internet to run it in conjunction with other portions of the system created around the world! In Part 1 of the HRRG series learn the creation of just such a computing engine and how you can be involved.

SageTV's Linux edition lacks first-class polish

Open source personal video recorder (PVR) software like MythTV has acquired a reputation for being difficult to install and maintain, so you might think that a proprietary PVR app would enjoy an advantage. I put SageTV's Linux media center software through its paces, and I can tell you that it, too, requires commitment. If you stick with it, though, and can outfit your system correctly, it might be worth the $80 price tag, despite a slew of little annoyances.

Los Angeles Public Library Selects ThinkFree Server Edition To Supply Remote Locations With Office Productivity Solutions

Free Word Processing, Spreadsheet and Presentation Applications, Including Multi-Language Support, Made Available to the Public.

Ten Reasons To Dump Windows [II]

  • PolishLinux.org; By Borys Musielak (Posted by michuk on Oct 3, 2006 7:01 PM EDT)
  • Groups: GNU, Linux; Story Type: News Story
PolishLinux.org: This is the second part of the article about top ten Windows annoyances which made me switch from XP to GNU/Linux and stick with it. It covers system upgrades, recovery after crashes and overall desktop performance. Read part I here.

Roktoberfest: The Amarok Project Fundraiser

The Amarok Project is giving away an iPod Nano during its current fundraiser to celebrate the month of Roktober. Anyone that gives the equivalent of $10 or more is automatically entered in a random drawing to win a 2GB iPod Nano. Amazingly, a year has passed since the last fundraiser. Having the ability to spend some money on project resources and hardware made a big difference to the project's productivity.

Is Linspire Any Good for System Builders?

  • CoolTechZone.com; By Gundeep Hora (Posted by gsh on Oct 3, 2006 5:26 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Linspire
Even though there is still a lot of frustration in regards to the CNR client, thanks to the issues that are yet to be resolved, I’ve begun to see a glimmer of hope.

Interview with Tim Bray

The loud Atom evangelist Tim Bray talks about everything from Ruby to simplified equal opportunity.

Review: Finding China, Crystal, and Tableware With Linux

Seven million customers. Over 11 million items in an inventory with more than 250,000 patterns. Find out how one company in the business of replacing lost items found its way to a better IT solution with Linux.

IBM sweats acquisitions for bumper SOA rollout

IBM today rolled out 23 updated product and 11 professional services offerings for service oriented architectures (SOAs). Some use technology from recent and recent-ish acquisitions, Webify, BuildForge and Bowstreet.

Proofpoint and VMware team up for messaging security

Recently, Proofpoint Inc released the Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway Virtual Edition, an enterprise-scale virtual appliance that provides messaging security. The new solution utilises VMware's virtual appliance technology to allow simple deployment to provision new Proofpoint Virtual appliances very quickly in response to fluctuating demands.

Sun Creates Advisory Board to Spur OpenSPARC Development

The new OpenSPARC Community Advisory Board will be comprised of five charter members, including two from Sun and three outside the company. The board will set the direction of the OpenSPARC community and solicit input from its members to shape the evolution of the initiative.

Pricing your software

  • Avangate; By Adriana Iordan (Posted by avangate on Oct 3, 2006 1:08 PM EDT)
  • Story Type:
No one can tell you exact how much you should charge for your software product, but there are some things you need to bear in mind when deciding your software product pricing strategy.

Super Grub Disk delivers easy boot record recovery

Super Grub Disk (SGD) is a specialty rescue CD for emergency repairs on boot sectors. Despite its name, SGD not only manipulates the Grand Unified Bootloader (GRUB), but also works with the content of other master boot records as well. Available in English, French, and Castillian Spanish, SGD also works with a variety of operating systems and supports all the basic options needed to manipulate how a hard drive boots.

Steps to get Audio to work in Debian Etch

The upcoming Debian Etch is a very promising Linux distribution with all the latest versions of software included. And coupled with the Debian's ideology, it makes a fantastic distribution. And in most cases the sound works out of the box flawlessly. But sometimes it doesn't though and this article explains how to get sound to work in Etch when it isn't working.

SAM Desktop 2006-3 Screenshots

TCS has taken some great screenshots of SAM Desktop 2006-3. "Again based on PCLinuxOS software and XFce 4.3.90.2, SAM offers you a complete desktop environment for your older hardware. With more than 1,000 packages it's smaller than the previous version, but now the complete OpenOffice.org 2.0.3 is back on the live CD with full support for English and German languages...."

Cassatt and XenSource to sellhype software together

Normally, two virtualization companies with silly names forming a sales partnership would not capture our attention. But, people actually seem to use the software from Cassatt and XenSource, so here we are.

Open Source Medications Database

  • GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News; By David Uhlman (Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Oct 3, 2006 8:22 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Community; Story Type: News Story
Uversa was recently contracted by the Primary Care Coalition of Montgomery County Maryland to conduct a feasibility assessment determining whether it is possible to build an Open Source medications database. The goal was to use only public domain data to produce a result that is commensurate with what is commercially available. They deserve a large amount of credit for consistently funding and actively creating open source solutions to public and community health problems.

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