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Key Organizations in Free & Open-Source Software – Microsoft
June 27, 2010 – 1:44 pm | No Comment

Microsoft Corporation is an American software company, best known for its Microsoft Windows operating system, and Microsoft Office, office suite software. In recent years the company has diversed into Internet publishing and video game consoles, among other fields. The company was originally founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

Windows vs. Linux Clusters
June 26, 2010 – 7:10 pm | No Comment

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In the world of high-performance computing, the usually ubiquitous Microsoft, which dominates almost every other area of computing, has been ironically absent from life science clusters.

Microsoft Open Source Strategy is Upside Down
June 25, 2010 – 3:31 pm | No Comment

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Last April I was on a Microsoft interoperability and Open Source conference in Ecuador (South America). On this conference Microsoft spread the word that they support Open Source Software and they do have an OSS …

Open source media player embraces HD
June 25, 2010 – 11:00 am | No Comment

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The VideoLAN project is shipping version 1.1 of its open source VLC media player, adding hardware acceleration, WebM support, and faster HD decoding, but deleting Shoutcast support.

Red Hat releases cloud computing software tools
June 24, 2010 – 7:31 am | No Comment

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Spencer Dalziel THE INQUIRER Clouds get open source support LEADING LINUX VENDOR Red Hat has announced the release of several cloud computing tools in what it calls Cloud Foundation: Edition One . The company said …

Linux Foundation Announces Linux.com Store T-shirt Design Winner
June 22, 2010 – 7:25 pm | No Comment

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Linux.com: The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced the winning design in its Linux.com Store T-shirt Design Contest, “The People’s Product.” The design won by a large …

Linuxables: Intro to Linux Command Line
June 22, 2010 – 1:41 am | No Comment

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Linux.com: “This is the first in a series of a “Linuxables,” short, quickly consumable tutorials that can provide easy reference while at work or at home. We hope they’re useful for you.”

Build Your Own Tablet for $400
June 20, 2010 – 8:20 pm | No Comment

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Sure, won’t be as sleek as the iPad but for DIY enthusiasts, open source hardware company Liquidware releases a tablet kit that comes with a 4.3-inch OLED screen and a BeagleBoard processor.