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One of the most exciting developments in the last few years has been the application of some of the core ideas of free software and open source to completely different domains. Examples include open content, open access, open data and open science. More recently, those principles are starting to appear in a rather surprising field: that of government, as various transparency initiatives around the world start to gain traction.
PCLinuxOS Magazine: “PCLinuxOS Magazine, Special issue (Issue 29) is available to download. You can find it at the PCLinuxOS Magazine website.”
HowtoForge: “In this tutorial I will describe how to install and configure MyDNS and MyDNSConfig 3 on Fedora 10. MyDNS is a DNS server that uses a MySQL database as backend instead of configuration files like, for example, Bind or djbdns.”
How difficult or easy is it to obtain one of the much-touted “royalty-free, reasonable and non-discriminatory” licences for Microsoft patents that are part of a technology like Mono? Judging by the frequency with which references are made to such licences by those who back Novell vice-president Miguel de Icaza’s bid to create an open source clone of Microsoft’s .NET development environment, it’s surprising that no-one has ever ventured to test this claim.
Industry titans Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. are getting rave reviews this week about innovative new approaches to Internet search and communications, respectively. Even Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak told a reporter that Microsoft’s new Bing search engine looks “astounding” and that he’s “a big fan, now.” There’s much to like. In a nutshell, Bing does more to surface information you’re probably looking for than Google does. For example, if you search for a company, one of the top results will present links to customer service, store locator — that kind of information.
“Linux desktop roll out is easier than expected for properly targeted end-user groups.” OK, so you’re probably throwing your hands in the air and going “Well duh!” The concept itself is common-sense, and folks like me who administer mixed networks have already been doing it. The revelation is expressing it in a sentence, and then going on to describe some useful ways to figure out which of your users are good candidates to migrate to a Linux PC.
LinuxInsider: “Pure, unadulterated FOSS is, of course, free to distribute as one pleases. What happens, though, when a private company grabs a piece of FOSS, adds a little of its own secret sauce to the mix, and creates a new application?”
Today I’d like to take a quick look at a distribution still in the early stages of development, but one that in my opinion, holds massive potential. That distribution is Chakra Project and it’s based on Arch Linux, which I reviewed not too long ago. The idea to create a liveCD displaying the virtues of Arch and KDEmod is a noble one. I tried out alpha 2 this week to see how they were getting on…
The FBI has confirmed reports that it was forced to shut down it’s external unclassified email network “as a precautionary measure” following the discovery of a virus infection. Wonder if it was a Windows system, bet it was!
