BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA — Wednesday, November 27, 2013 — The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced its 2013 Giving Guide, a resource for conscientious shoppers looking for geeky gifts that respect users’ freedom. Many holiday shoppers will be turning to gadgets and online services as gifts for friends and family, but these gifts are often…
Month: November 2013
The Linux Black Friday Gallery
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Want a high-end, no-compromises Ubuntu Linux laptop? Then what you want is System76’s Bonoboo Extreme. Source: Tech
Commercializing open source software via Shareware
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Many software developers, like myself, have a difficult time finding the right balance between respecting the rights of the users of their software and earning a living developing that software. Source: Tech
5 factors to consider when selecting an open-source vendor
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Government agency adoption of open source in many ways mirrors the path followed by many in-demand technologies in the public sector. Source: Tech
Docker goes broader – supporting more Linux distros out of the box
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Docker, the popular container technology that, in theory, lets developers encapsulate their apps and run them on bare metal, virtualized and private or public cloud environments, now supports nearly all the major Linux distributions right out of the box. Source: Tech
Kickstarter: Raspberry Pi goes robotics
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A new Kickstarter project backed by robotics supplier Roboteq Inc. aims to turn the open-source Raspberry Pi single-board computer into the ideal controller for budget-minded roboticists. Source: Tech
8 Habits of High-Performing IT Teams
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Accenture says higher-performing IT teams are more open to new projects, cloud and virtualization. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
New PubNub App Template for WebRTC
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PubNub on Wednesday released an open source template to allow developers to add Skype-like video chat into their apps. The free template provides a fully functional video chat platform using WebRTC, PubNub and Google Authentication for a global, reliable collaboration solution. “While the WebRTC protocol has created huge excitement as a way to deliver video…
Flexiant Solves the Business Challenges of OpenStack
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Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator Helps Service Providers Commercialize the Cloud by Opening the Platform to OpenStack and Adding Functional Feature-Rich Services London, UK – 20th November 2013 – Flexiant, an international provider of cloud orchestration software, today reveals how it is opening its platform to support OpenStack to solve the business challenges associated with the open…
Ubuntu Linux server with ARM processor rolled out by Boston Limited
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Boston Limited announced a new server based on ARM processors and certified to run Ubuntu Linux 13.10, a move that could further stir up growing interest in ARM servers. Source: Tech