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International Judges Reward Innovative Character of the Leading Open Source Collaboration Server

One of more modest goals of the Open Source and Linux software community is World domination. Well, it seems we might just be doing it. We take a look at the Status of Linux and Open Source projects in Southern Chile, after the recent Latin American Linux Install fest in South America.

A new polls website is born.

The site is brand new, and so doesn't have many opinions yet. It appears to be more of a fun site than a serious one, as there seems to be little effort to authenticate voters. Still, it could be interesting, and should prove to be a lot of fun.

If you have a couple of old Linux boxes sitting around, then you've got the makings of a supercomputer. Dust them off, install Secure Shell (SSH) and Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM), and start your complex algorithms.

Launched in December, Portableapps.com is a community site in which Haller and other developers offer versions of standard software that a person can take with them on a flash drive, a storage device that uses flash memory and is small enough to attach to a keychain. The hardware runs off a PC's USB port.

On tech.moneycontrol.com, reader Aalaap Ghag has collected two ways to reduce memory usage in Firefox.

In his post, he links to two articles: One about a tweak in the preferences and one about http://tech.cybernetnews.com/2006/04/04/reducing-your-memory..."> extensions .

Macraigor Systems has ported its proprietary OCDemon on-chip debug technology to the Linux platform using the newly introduced usb2Demon and debug interface.

This new port gives engineers who prefer developing on a Linux host platform the high speed and flexibility of using the usb2Demon to successfully debug, test and program the target system.

April 10th, 2006: One of the world's most popular message transfer agents is going Open Source. A surprise, as most people thought it was already.

SYNOPSIS: World's largest open and supported distance learning university standardizes on SQL Anywhere for relational databases course.

Nokia 770 Internet Tablet Bundled With Linksys Wireless Routers and Gateways To Create New "Go Wireless at Home" Solution

The widely-used Debian GNU/Linux distribution has a new project leader following an election process spanning several weeks.

Microsoft stunned LinuxWorld attendees last week by pledging to support Linux virtual machines on its Virtual Server and revealing free virtual machine additions for Red Hat Linux and Novell SUSE Linux. It wasn't the only dogs-playing-with-cats kind of moment last week: Apple offered up software to let Windows run on Intel-based Macs.

No matter what technology you might be considering as part of your Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementation, there's sure to be a hefty number of mundane data integration tasks required within your enterprise.

Tux needs to get laid more, at least if free open source software is going to mature and grab its place in the multi-billion dollar sex tech industry. As this candid and highly personal interview with Wired.com Sex Drive columnist Regina Lynn explains, the sex tech industry is a vast and important business network, driving billions of dollars and millions of lines of code every year into technology that interoperates with the desktop PC. For the short term, much of that code is proprietary, and much of the content is DRM'd. It's time for Tux to grab that situation by the balls, and turn the sex tech industry upside down, in much the same way he has done in other areas of high tech.

An Interview with Kenneth Wesley Wimer II

That's right, for the first time you don't have to choose between buying an Apple Mac or a Dell or a HP; the Apple Intel-based Macs give you operating system variety like never before.

After Oracle acquired Innobase in November, speculation was rife as to whether Oracle, which competes with MySQL, would renew the agreement with the open-source database company.

Developers are voicing complaints that Canonical is not supporting them.

An expert in deploying open source throughout the enterprise tells us how to wean ourselves off the Microsoft drug forever.

Three open source "centers of excellence" were recently established to aid research and development, and advocate the use of free or open source software in the Asia Pacific region, INQ7.net has learned.