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Swiki is a wiki written in the Squeak SmallTalk dialect. It's easy to install, easy to maintain, and a great tool for maintaining documentation.

The Free Standards Group (FSG), a nonprofit organization, today announced it is strengthening its activities in Asia.

As anyone who has used Linux systems for production systems knows all too well, there's an art to arriving at a stable configuration with all dependencies met. Linux distributors do an excellent job of delivering systems that meet this criteria, and keeping them there through their update processes as functionality updates, bug fixes, and security updates get laid on top of the out-of-the-box system. The amount of work and the success that they have in delivering both the base distribution and the stream of updates that follow is widely unappreciated.

FreeNAS, an open source NAS server, can convert a PC into a network-attached storage server. The software, which is based on FreeBSD, Samba, and PHP, includes an operating system that supports various software RAID models and a Web user interface. The server supports access from Windows machines, Apple Macs, FTP, SSH, and Network File System (NFS), and it takes up less than 16MB of disk space on a hard drive or removable media.

Though the obvious benefits of OSS over proprietary software in terms of cost and usability are well documented and widely discussed among software engineers, the use in office and home environment remains low even in an IT-savvy country like India.

We're seeking papers on Open Source languages, technologies, projects and tools as well as topics of interest to Open Source developers.

It is the institution that is arguably the home of free software, as well as so many other important technologies. So it comes as no surprise that the IT infrastructure at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology depends on Linux. Rob Reilly takes a tourist's look at the nuts and bolts of MIT information systems.

Deconstructing databases

Most companies have a tame "guru" - someone presented as a world authority on the subject in question and so amazingly intelligent that they are above the tacky world of commercialism.

Some people like to work in Linux distributions that are at the cutting edge of technology. Other prefers stability at any cost. I want both, and Debian Testing, codenamed Etch, gives me that. The Debian project's testing tree has up-to-date software along with good stability, since packages are highly tested in the Unstable branch before they move to Testing.

Ruby is a relative latecomer among scripting languages but it has developed a distinct niche for itself. In an increasing number of job adverts it is part of an either/or pair with Python. Like Python, Perl, PHP and Tcl, it is downloadable, and there are plenty of free online resources to help you learn it.

Oracle announced that Mutual of Enumclaw Insurance Company, a mutual company that provides a broad array of insurance products and services, is using the combination of Oracle Database 10g on Linux to achieve a tenfold increase in performance while reducing infrastructure costs.

Penguin Computing announced its new Relion 1600 and 2600 servers offering the option of up to two of Intel's new Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 5000 per server and featuring the latest Intel server technologies for significantly improved performance. The new Relion servers will give Linux high-performance computing (HPC) customers with CPU-intensive code performance up to twice the speed as previous designs within the same power and space parameters.

The office of the CIO for the Federal Emergency Management Agency has made several changes in the past year to better communicate with state and local officials, support citizens who need assistance, and keep better track of assets such as food and water.

We developed the Interwiki module to make it easy to link from PRWatch.org to articles on our other website, SourceWatch, and we developed the Epublish module to organize content from our quarterly newsletter.

A government committee identified government security, business analysis, management and open source support as the most affected areas.

One of the great things about open source is that it heightens product permeability - you can see what you're getting before you come to the decision point: buy or don't buy. As in a strong-trust society, the barriers to enter into contracts, associations, etc. are diminished.

CollabNet, a leading provider of collaborative software development solution, headquartered in California, US, announced its plans in Chennai on May 27, 2006, of expanding its business into the Indian market by strengthening its customer base and operations.

It is a revolution in the making as SMEs port their core enterprise applications onto Open Source platforms

UK-based Canonical Ltd. will introduce all-new versions of its popular Debian-based Linuxes -- Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Edubuntu -- along with its first enterprise server edition on June 1, a company spokesman told DesktopLinux.com May 25.

Mac developers and power users no longer have the freedom to alter, rebuild and replace the OS X kernel from source code. Stripped of openness, it no longer possesses the quality that elevated Linux to its status as the second most popular commercial operating system.

[Be glad that GNU/Linux cannot be made non-free at the whim of a vendor. -- grouch]