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Yahoo is struggling on multiple fronts. But take a closer look and you may discover that Zimbra -- the open source email system Yahoo acquired in 2007 -- is attracting more and more IT channel partners and hosting partners.
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In this article we discuss the Binding Components and their role within the JBI Container. We also see how the Binding Component provides transport and protocol independence for other JBI components. We see how this enables the JBI container to provide a highly decoupled framework allowing developers and integrators to build resilient SOA applications.We continue to discuss the different binding components (namely file, FTP, SOAP, JDBC, JMS and SMTP) that are installed into the application server with the NetBeans Enterprise pack.
Free Software Awards - Trophees du Libre 2009
The second alpha for Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring (2009.1) is now available. There is information about the new release in various places:
Why are Unix installations hemorrhaging while Linux is enjoying the time of its life?
Microsoft is putting Windows 7 on a diet so that it runs more effectively on Netbooks -- and beats back competition from mobile Linux. So far, Windows 7 seems to run far better than Vista on Netbooks, according to early reviews.
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Windows will never exert itself in the slightest to co-exist with other platforms, but Linux comes with a variety of excellent secure graphical remote desktop applications, so that you can run your Windows PC from Linux, and Linux from Windows. Come on in and let Eric Geier show you how.
The third alpha of Ubuntu’s forthcoming 9.04 distro, dubbed Jaunty Jackalope, has been released. Alpha 3 includes the Linux 2.6.28-3.4 kernel and comes loaded with support for using the Ext4 file system. However, Ext3 is expected to remain the default file system for Jaunty Jackalope.
A good to-do list manager can make all the difference to your productivity. While there isn’t a shortage of to-do managers available for Linux, Tasque obviously pronounced “task”) has a couple of advantages over many other tools.
Evgeniy Polyakov has released a patch to the kernel's out-of-memory (OOM) killer function, which was designed to prevent a system freeze in an OOM condition by sacrificing one or more processes. The patch "tames" the function by defining the specific process to kill.
SCALE Early Bird Registration Expires today; new events added to Expo
Epidermis is a tool that promises to let you easily skin your GNOME desktop in a single click. It sounds great, but how well does it work?
The malicious program, known as Conficker, Downadup, or Kido was first discovered in October 2008. Anti-virus firm F-Secure estimates there are now 8.9m machines infected. Experts warn this figure could be far higher and say users should have up-to-date anti-virus software and install Microsoft's MS08-067 patch. In its security blog, F-Secure said that the number of infections based on its calculations was "skyrocketing" and that the situation was "getting worse".
Amavisd-new is used to allow ClamAv and Spamassassin to scan the incoming mail and then re-inject it into the queue again on a separate port. Since ClamAv and Amavisd-new are not in the repositories for CentOS you will need to add additional repositories to make it easy to install.
LXer Feature: 19-Jan-2009The Wall Street Journal had a piece on Mark Shuttleworth and our own Steven Rosenberg thinks All roads lead to Ubuntu. SJVN goes over Linux 2.6.28's five best features and Sander came across this great piece of FUD called Why Windows 7 will crush Linux and Hans Bezemer noticed and couldn't stop himself from responding with Why Linux makes Windows 7 obsolete.
In a warm Jamaica around thirty KDE developers have gathered for the first Camp KDE. The following article is an impression of the first days of this event, a short summary of what is going on here. Read on for the full report!
The South African Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has made good on its promise to open up its website to free software users. With just three weeks to go to the final voter registration date for this year’s national elections the IEC has removed the error messages that greeted non-Microsoft users and allowed them access to the full site.
Interactive Voice Response (IVR)-enabled telephony platforms are the pivot elements of the telephony industry. You must be familiar with several IVR telephony platform—your cellular provider's top-up system, your bank's call distribution system, or your Internet service provider's technical support line—IVR systems are everywhere. As you may already know, IVR systems can be a hell to use, but as Winston Churchill said, you just have to keep on going to get to your destination. In this article we will learn about the human dynamics of IVR systems, the implementation and the deployment of an IVR environment to your AsteriskNOW PBX system.
This tutorial explains how you can set, change and reset (if you've forgotten the password) MySQL root passwords. Time and again I see problems like mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)'. So I thought it's time to remind you how to solve MySQL related password problems. If you are just looking for a quick fix how to reset a MySQL root password you can find that at the bottom of this tutorial.
The latest vector graphics package for GNU/Linux is a Linux port of a proprietary Windows application called “Xara Xtreme”, which is in the process of being converted to a GPL license. There are a number of sharp broken edges along this path, including non-free library dependencies that need to be free-licensed or replaced with free versions, and support for free graphics standards like SVG in order to interoperate with other packages. As a result, you won’t find this new application, called “Xara LX” in the main distributions yet. In Debian, it is filed under “non-free” in the unstable “Sid” distribution. However, this is an opportunity to get a sneak preview of what’s coming. Read the full story at
Freesoftware Magazine.
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