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Rare diseases are defined as as those afflicting populations of less than 200,000 patients, or about 1 in 1,500 people. There are about 7,000 rare diseases, the majority of which are genetically related and commonly affecting the very young (infants). At first glance, rare diseases seem to only affect a small number of people, but in reality their aggregate impacts close to 30 million patients in the US, and about 25 million in the EU alone. This impact also extends to the millions of caregivers and families, who also feel and live with the disease, just in a different way.

This guide explains how to install the RoundCube webmail application on a Debian Wheezy server running ISPConfig and nginx, and how to enable the ISPConfig 3 plugins for RoundCube so that users can perform actions like changing their email passwords from within RoundCube. Roundcube webmail is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface; it comes with functions like MIME support, address book, folder manipulation, message searching and spell checking.

We all know Google's Eric Schmidt has said some crazy things, but the other day at the Gartner Symposium/IT Expo he said something that made a lot of sense. He said in the future digitally driven economy programmers would be at the heart of every company. And in that case, mamas may want their babies to grow up to be programmers.

Pat Huff has been working in the software industry since its infancy and started his career as a "rocket engineer" working on launch systems for various companies in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Summary: As a very full-featured free app, Medscape is worth a download. If you have space on your device, I strongly recommend you download the full database so you're prepared in any eventuality.

In late August an open-source AMD Radeon KMS graphics driver was added to FreeBSD after being ported over from the Linux kernel; this new Radeon KMS driver will be a feature of FreeBSD 10.0. DragonFlyBSD developers have now in turn ported the FreeBSD Radeon graphics driver to their BSD distribution.

Updated glibc packages that fix one security issue and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact.

Linux Mint's Cinnamon 2.0 desktop fork of the GNOME Shell has been tagged and is being readied for release...

Silex Technology America announced a hardware/software development kit aimed at easing the task of building WiFi into specialized equipment. The Silex embedded WiFi development kit includes a small module with a Qualcomm Atheros AR6003 WiFi radio and a Freescale i.MX28 application processor, a development baseboard, and an embedded Linux software development kit.

Barnes and Noble, which adheres to the ePub standard enhanced the tool which ensures ePUB files adhere to industry standards

After a few days of wrangling, the very latest Ubuntu Touch images have the Mir Display Server replacing Android's SurfaceFlinger.

Android's open source nature makes it one of the only mobile operating systems that allows its users to swap out the default keyboard—and why not? If you can choose the keyboard for your desktop computer, then surely you should be allowed to do so on your mobile phone.

Zandu version 14.0 is our fastest release ever. With over 10 thousand apps to choose from on the Zandu Store, Zandu Tiger leaves other operating systems in the dust. Zandu is a free OS built by a small team consisting of 2 teenagers.

Surely every country that has learned about NSA spying is hopping mad, and with good reason, but the EU has reacted to these revelations in typical bureaucratic fashion: They have proposed a couple of meaningless cloud regulations.

Today in Open Source: What would happen to Linux without Ubuntu? Plus: How to make a custom Linux distribution, and a first look at Semplice Linux 5

It's time for a new series focusing on the Linux shell. This time around, I'm going to talk about programming in the shell. What I want to do is get you comfortable with the idea of writing small, useful scripts to do your job as an administrator of your Linux domain, no matter how small or large.

A few days back I shared OpenGL benchmarks of Fedora 19, Fedora 20, Ubuntu 13.04, and Ubuntu 13.10. For those not interested in the CPU performance of these four Linux distributions, those results are now available...

It's not just Samsung, AnandTech has found that almost all Android vendors are playing fast and loose with benchmarks.

After announcing a new Linux-based operating system, Valve has recently presented the hardware for the "expansion of the Steam universe". On the one hand, the company has explained its hardware strategy for the coming game devices „Steam Machines“ for the living-room. On the other hand, a new innovative controller to control these "machines" has been presented.

Want to get ready for the next major release of Red Hat's flagship Linux distribution? You're in luck: The beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 is available for testing.