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If you use Linux for ethical reasons then that may be a reason to be consious of our limited and dwindling resources, if you are interested in saving the environment you can refrain from burning a CD or DVD to install your favorite linux distribution.

Machine learning lies at the intersection of IT, mathematics, and natural language and is typically used in big-data applications. This article discusses the Python programming language and its NLTK library, then applies them to a machine learning project.

Every year, Marbles in downtown Raleigh holds their annual Big Idea Forum. The lunchtime discussion aims to highlight ways corporate and community leaders shape organizations and people through inspiration and innovation. Jim Whitehurst, President & CEO of Red Hat, Inc., opened up to Ron Wilder, a business author and executive coach, this past Wednesday, October 3rd, to talk about his big idea.

Red Hat is still only previewing its OpenShift platform cloud, and one of the reasons why is because it had not yet inked a deal with Zend Technologies, the commercial entity that is to the PHP programming language as Linux Torvalds and Red Hat together are to the Linux operating system.

Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone. Here's how to install Joomla 3.0 with step-by-step installation tutorial.

In this post we will add code to display context menu to “edit and replace”, and “delete” note. Adding a context menu is easy ( well, most of the things are easy once you know how ). Just call registerForContextMenu(b); in for loop in onResume of MyActivity.java.

Server side scripting, web processing services, improved authentication and PostGIS 2.0 are among the improvements in the spatial data processing package

Cinnarch as a distribution based on Arch works pretty well, but the DE it uses (GNOME 3/Cinnamon) requires a lot more work before I could see myself using it regularly.

Samsung’s Flash-Friendly File System is a new file system optimized for flash storage devices, such as SSDs and SD cards

The Raspberry Pi is small, silent and energy efficient, so let’s turn it into the ultimate file server!

Mozilla has uploaded a few minutes ago, October 9th, the final packages of the Mozilla Firefox 16.0 web browser for all supported platforms, including Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.

BoxGrinder is a tool that allows you to build virtual machines (with RedHat, CentOS, Scientific Linux or Fedora as the OS) for multiple virtualization techniques. Currently it supports KVM, VMware, Amazon EC2, VirtualBox, and VirtualPC. This tutorial shows how to use BoxGrinder to create a CentOS 6 KVM guest on Fedora 17 and also how to deploy it to a remote KVM host.

None of Google services - Android, Chrome OS, Google Drive support Open Document Formats. I am left with puzzling questions why is Google not supporting ODF and locking users into an incompatible and vendor-locked OOXML format? Will Google endorse open standards and Open Document Formats or its users will be forced to use Microsoft's OOXML? I

The W3C has called on Adobe, Facebook, Google, HP, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia and Opera to help create a new site which will document open web technologies for the benefit of all

OpenGL 3.1 support on selected hardware is the promise of the new development release of the Mesa 3D graphics library, though there are also new drivers for older hardware too

Mr. Ricci issued an ultimatum: Mr. Phillips could sell his firm to Mr. Ricci or be sued for patent infringements. When Mr. Phillips refused to sell, Mr. Ricci’s company filed the first of six lawsuits. Soon after, Apple and Google stopped returning phone calls. The company behind Siri switched its partnership from Mr. Phillips to Mr. Ricci’s firm. And the millions of dollars Mr. Phillips had set aside for research and development were redirected to lawyers and court fees. When the first lawsuit went to trial last year, Mr. Phillips won. In the companies’ only courtroom face-off, a jury ruled that Mr. Phillips had not infringed on a broad voice recognition patent owned by Mr. Ricci’s company. But it was too late. The suit had cost $3 million, and the financial damage was done. In December, Mr. Phillips agreed to sell his company to Mr. Ricci. “We were on the brink of changing the world before we got stuck in this legal muck,” Mr. Phillips said.

A brief status report was shared concerning supporting the Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) feature of HDMI under Linux...

Wiki site aims to be 'comprehensive and authoritative' – but don't we all? Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft may seem like strange bedfellows, but the four have joined forces with six other organizations to create Web Platform Docs, a community-driven site that aims to be a one-stop shop for free web-developer documentation.…

The eighth alpha release of Unvanquished was released this weekend with some major changes to its graphics renderer...

 "One picture is worth a thousand words" stated Fred R. Barnard.  No quote could be quite as memorable as this nearly hundred year old one when it comes to GIMP.