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The wave of migration to open source in business has the potential to cause a tremendous porting traffic jam as developers move the ever-pervasive Windows application to the Linux platform. In this three-part series, get a mapping guide, complete with examples, to ease your transition from Windows to Linux. Part 1 introduces processes and threads.

What's the easiest way to ensure that GPS tracking technology doesn't become the tool of an evil elite? Make sure everyone has access to it! For people already thinking along these lines, the availability of tracking technologies such as RFID tags and (GPS) chipsets is confirmation that we're all living in a Panopticon. The saving grace is that the CIA and the Trilateral Commission don't have a monopoly on these technologies -- maybe we can turn a world of mass observation to our benefit.

Feedster's founders were concerned about server reliability and support for their databases, since downtime can often result in lost revenues. After an extensive evaluation, Feedster decided against basing their business on one of the free Linux distributions because of lack of support and accountability. They chose SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server because of the comprehensive ecosystem of support and training offered worldwide by Novell. Feedster also runs MySQL* with AMD64 Technology, both of which are certified for SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server.

The Brazilian government will force public departments to migrate to open source software, but Linux vendor Conectiva says the move is unlikely to work

With an open source implementation or migration, it may not simply be a matter of discerning the right software features, there is another dimension to the peculiar and nifty benefits in opting for the open source route. For example, open source solutions may be apt to offer industry-specific versions of a system that partners have branched from the core open source project.

A report due out after the general election is expected to highlight the lower support, hardware and software costs associated with open source software

Astronaut, entrepreneur and founder of popular Linux operating system, Ubuntu -- Mark Shuttleworth is in Sydney this week for the Ubuntu Down Under conference. He was also one of the speakers at Linux.conf last week and took some time out with LinuxWorld to discuss life, the universe and everything open source.

Potential move toward testing and certification of open source software puts Oracle up against Kim Polese's SpikeSource.

System administrators regularly work from the command line, but there's more to the console than managing servers. You can even have a basic office suite, complete with a word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation program, all in the absence of a GUI. Here are 10 applications to try. Here are 10 applications to try.

Groovy Builders allows you to side-step the details of markup languages and focus on your application content instead. Groovy Builders can mimic markup languages like XML, HTML, Ant tasks, and even GUIs with frameworks like Swing.

The [Australian] federal Government has entered the open source software market, "whitebranding" a free website content management system for use by government agencies and not-for-profit groups.

The company hires Jeremy Allison, co-author of the Samba open-source software suite, and vows to bring greater integration with key open-source projects.

Bavarian city passes over Novell's Suse Linux for a high-profile, 14,000-computer installation.

roundup Linux specialist MontaVista raises its game in both software and sales, while VCs open up their wallets.

How do you get mainframe performance on an embedded budget? Just learn the secrets of the mainframe gurus and apply them in your own designs. Architectural decisions define the ultimate feasible performance of any product. This article covers features that can help you improve your system's performance.

Company that sells Linux for unconventional devices brings new software foundation--and more-traditional sales model--to product line.

Almost everyone who agrees that technology training would benefit African society, also presumes that success is predicated upon significant funding. Linux helps overcome many major barriers including funding. This article introduces the key principles necessary for successful national IT education, using Linux.

SUSE LINUX, With the AMD Opteron* Processor, Lowers Hardware Costs and Provides High Availability and High-Performance Computing for Mission-Critical Databases

We're doing Readers' Choice Awards a little differently this year, to try to make them more fair.

The code examples in these tutorials are in Python and C, but translate well to other languages. Part 1 covers the basics, such as an echo server and client, which connect over TCP/IP, fundamental network, layer, and protocol concepts. Part 2 is an intermediate level tutorial that demonstrates how to write UDP sockets applications.