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Another idea came to me after reading Software AG Deputy CTO Mike Miko Matsumara's blog, who thinks that with this deal collapsing, we might see the return of Sun Co-founder, Scott McNealy. Whether that happens or not, the company should also pursue an option of going private. The four Sun co-founders - Scott McNealy, Bill Joy, Vinod Khosla and Andy Bechtolsheim - swing enough clout in the Valley to help put together a rescue package. Given how easily Palm has been able to raise additional funding, I don't think Sun will have trouble raising the capital. Bad as it is - down 10.7 percent from fiscal 2008 - Sun will post revenues of just over $12 billion. And it still has a few billion dollars in cash.

At this years UKUUG's annual Large Installation Systems Administration (LISA) conference I gave a talk on OpenLDAP Replication Strategies. You can grab the OpenLDAP Replications Strategies PDF or SlideShare version. Other presentations regarding OpenLDAP that day (including one from Howard, the Projects Chief Architect and Symas CTO), OpenLDAP and MySQL: Bridging the Data Model Divide and Andrew Findlays Writing Access Control Policies for LDAP

Novell is starting to connect the dots between SUSE Linux and two recent product acquisitions: PlateSpin and Managed Objects. Here's the scoop from The VAR Guy.

Could President Obama get the power to shut down the Internet? That's the concern of some digital rights groups, who fear that last week's sweeping cybersecurity bill could give the government overly broad power to regulate the Internet in times of crisis -- or even pull the plug on it entirely.

That's why the tech admin at the hospital told the Medical Professional to just relax and go back to Windows. Linux just wasn't ready for mainstream use. She told him to go PUAR. She told him that she refused to go back to a buggy, insecure system that enslaved her to maintenance and worry. She had been a GNU/Linux user for a week and refused to "downgrade to Windows". They would indeed GIVE her a laptop with the required wireless and closed software she needed to connect for work. She refused to put Windows back on her computer at home. Mint Linux had spoiled her. But it gets better.

EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow once said that "relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds." Guess who has just put the new blinds up in Britain?

Local business Suretec teams up with world experts at Digium to bring ‘eccentric and entertaining’ professional trainer to north-east Scotland.

I was working for Digital Equipment Corporation when I first met Linus and facilitated the port of Linux onto the Alpha processor.

The Linux Foundation (LF) announced that it will help companies excise the Microsoft FAT filesystem from their systems to avoid the fate of TomTom, which recently settled with Microsoft over alleged patent infringements over FAT. Meanwhile, other open-source leaders are suggesting a standardized FAT substitute may be in the offing.

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst has issued a statement praising President Obama for bringing a culture of inclusion and transparency to the United States government. Whitehurst also takes the opportunity to encourage broader open source adoption.

Google Web Toolkit (GWT) applications, apart from connecting to servlets in time-honored Java™ fashion, can also use PHP Web services to send and receive data in XML. You'll explore methods to generate XML documents and process them, both in the Java language and in PHP.

Even though the ECMA standard allows the index of arrays to be a long, .NET on Windows64 does not support this and Java would require modifications to the bytecode format. Altering Mono became the natural choice for those looking to host very large arrays in an advanced and managed VM.

President Obama came to office with the promise of change. His administration has pledged to create an environment of openness and participation. Some have already called him the “open source president” such as consultant and CNN contributor Alex Castellanos. There’s no better time than now. Transparency builds trust. Participation solves problems. And we believe that open source provides an answer. Red Hat is excited that the Obama administration recognizes the value of open source beyond software. Open source principles are changing how we learn, how we share information, how developers create, and how companies do business. Now it has the opportunity to change our government.

Europe is opening up by leaps and bounds, from the Gendarme in France to German embassies around the world. There is one more to add to the score, as last week the Hungarian government announced it too will be going Open Source, in a big way.

PHP is one of the most popular languages for Web development and is a critical component of the LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) (define) stack. Now PHP is getting a stack of its own, thanks to the new Zend Server, which packages PHP for Web application deployment and monitoring. While Zend Server could be thought of as PHP middleware, in the same sense as Java middleware, Gutmans sees it a little differently. "I personally wouldn't call it middleware exactly -- but it is," Gutmans said. "PHP is the back end of the front end, and front end of the back end, depending on how you look at it. It can definitely be used and is used as middleware, but I typically just say Web application server because I think that's how people best understand it."

After almost a year of development, a new version 2.5 of the free Nexuiz open source action game has come out. What awaits users are some updated graphics and numerous fan-developed game levels.

What Microsoft really wants from TomTom isn't money, but building fear about Linux in other companies. Microsoft wants you to believe you need a Microsoft license to deploy Open Source software. Bruce Perens analyzes the unfortunate outcome of the TomTom/Microsoft patent settlement.

The other day I was speaking to a buddy of mine. I asked him how cool would it be, if you could just get the port on a switch that you are plugged into, in one line?? So since I thought about it... I figured why not.... I just finished writing the first revision ( I'm assuming more to come). I must say that I am quite pleased with it. Right now you can pass the switch you want to talk too, the community string, and either the MAC or IP address of the host device. In return you will get the MAC Address, IP Address, Port Description (VLAN), and Port you are plugged into.

A shell is a command interpreter which allows the user to interact with the computer. The way things work is simple: the user types in commands, the shell interprets them and performs the tasks it was asked to do, and finally it sends the result to the standard output (which is usually the screen). For example, the output of the ls command can be something like:

Back in November Intel had formally launched the Core i7 series, but Linux benchmarks were not to be found. However, in the weeks that followed, results began to emerge through the Phoronix Test Suite and Phoronix Global. Over time there were many more Linux test results from the Phoronix Test Suite community, but now we have posted some of our own Intel Core i7 numbers from Ubuntu Linux.