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Reduced hardware and operating costs, improved backup and disaster recovery, cloud computing, and lower costs of development and testing have made virtualization viable for small businesses.

"..it appears GRUB has to be ditched in favor of something under a more permissive license such as the BSD license. Interestingly, an old boot loader for Linux called LiLo (literally meaning “Linux Loader”) has just resumed development last year, and it is licensed under the BSD."

The latest Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal is probably the most dramatic Ubuntu release to date, and the key to this is its new Unity default user interface. Unity marks several important shifts from Ubuntu. ... Good ideas that aren’t executed well, however, wont bear fruit, and this is what this review is about.

"I would like to take this opportunity to point out a rather disturbing nature of the principle at play in such law suits; that a company can effectively own something as intangible and dependent on individuals other than Apple (and other plaintiffs in similar lawsuits) as product perception and reputation.."

In a world of technology openness is often treated as an imperative, something that has to be preserved or promoted as something inherently good. I’ve been a long time believer in this idea myself, but as I watch the evolution of technology I’m beginning to question its value and underpinnings. What exactly is it that makes openness worthy of a pedestal it’s often being put on?

Charles H. Schulz answers some questions about LibreOffice, the Document Foundation and their present and future.

I’ve been a long-time Windows fan like the vast majority of computer users, having been introduced to the world of computers through the Microsoft marvel. But with the growing popularity of Linux flavors, aren’t open source operating systems worth giving a try?

Robert Strohmeyer has recently proclaimed the death of the dream of Desktop Linux, after himself being an author of one of those infamous "This is The Year of Linux Desktop" articles in 2008. Frankly, I wouldn't quite say that the dream is dead, since many people can and probably still do keep on dreaming about it, but as far as the reality goes, it probably is dead, and I wouldn't quite argue otherwise.

Pretending that ownership of software is possible and thus trying to enforce this ownership (as copyright and patent laws do) actually leads us to violations of actual physical property.

As always, high hopes and expectations combined with the suspense of eager waiting inspire some creativity. Here are five interesting Chrome OS fakes that have come out in recent times.

"Whereas GNOME so far made sacrifices to flexibility and power in order to improve usability KDE4 is succeeding in having its cake and eating it too. They merge flexibility with ingenious design to create a desktop environment in which having lots of options to choose from doesn't impair the ease of use and in some cases actually aids it."

"How am I to continue supporting the growth of Firefox if they're gonna chalk it up to Google to control what sites we should visit? They're putting us in a position from which supporting Firefox is getting to be equal to supporting Google's further grip on the market. That's NOT making me happy."

"First of all I want to make clear that I always liked http://FTP. And I still prefer it over uploading my files through a web-interface, but I now have found quite a big reason why FTP really really sucks. And here it is: FTP has clearly not been designed to upload 7000 files."

While Psystar and Quo clone the Apple experience with Mac OS X and PC hardware, we can do it with a Linux based OS. This article presents a few ideas and suggestions for such a project under the fictional brands: "Mond Computers" and "Mond OS".

"I find it impossible to believe that nobody in the Fedora-/Ubuntu-/Debian-/whatever-team has ever heard about this."

"In Windows they are used for a long time already, but most Linux-users probably don't even know that their system supports them too. Access Control Lists (ACLs) extend the regular permissions we all know with the possibility to give permissions for specific users/groups."

The problem lies in the simple fact evident in a logical following of the idea that "software cannot be owned". If software cannot be owned then copyright is invalid as a tool of attaining freedom, period, especially if you actually use it to your advantage. At best your actions contradict your beliefs (in which case you act hypocritically). At worst, you aren't even aware of the gross contradiction you are peddling while genuinely believing that you have it right and that the people whom you condemn as immoral should be punished for what they're doing (as Richard Stallman said "Proprietary software should be illegal").

"So the problem is that with the amount of physical RAM growing people see less reason for huge swap-space, as it usually isn't needed. But then you are at risk that in situations where all your memory actually is in use you will not be able to suspend to disk."

"I would like to make a case for asserting that what we usually refer to as "Linux" (or "GNU/Linux" regardless) is not really an operating system. In fact I believe that referring to it as such and spending money and effort on marketing it as such is actually doing "it" a disservice, if that's even possible."

"Using MinGW it may be possible to develop software in Linux that can also run on Windows and, as it might likely be cross-platform, receive more attention than a program that is purely Windows, thus be of higher quality and in the end possibly contribute to users switching away from Windows."