A Tale of Two Suites: Do We Still Need OpenOffice.org?

Would a rose by any other name still smell as sweet? Or would it, perhaps, end up sweeter? That, essentially, is the question at the heart of the forking process, which in turn is at the heart of a key situation today. Namely: Now that we have LibreOff…

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Parties Agree How to Proceed in Oracle vs Google

The representatives of both parties have signed a brief that stipulates how the copyright infringement damages will be treated in the lawsuit. Meanwhile, the jury is discussing the patent issues…

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Report: Several Nexus Smartphones to Run Android "Jelly Bean"

According to The Wall Street Journal, Google is planning to launch Jelly Bean, the next version of its Android mobile operating system, on several Nexus smartphones from a number of different manufacturers…

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Need a Resume Boost? Get Involved With an Open Source Project

There are a lot of excellent reasons to get involved with an open source project. You can learn a new language, improve your existing skills, be challenged by a community that is at the top of their field or even get better at managing complex distribu…

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Linux Mint 13 Nears with Release Candidate

Version 13 of Linux Mint, code-named “Maya”, is based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and offers a choice of Cinnamon 1.4 or MATE 1.2, a fork of the older 2.x branch of GNOME, as the default desktop environment…

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A New NVIDIA Linux Binary Driver Released

NVIDIA has released the updated 295.53 binary Linux display graphics driver for GeForce and Quadro hardware…

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What IT Pros Need to Know about Cloud

Cloud computing promises new career opportunities for IT professionals. In many cases, existing core skill sets transfer directly to cloud technologies. In other instances, IT pros need to develop new skill sets that meet the demand of emerging cloud j…

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Nonfree DRM’d Games on GNU/Linux: Good or Bad?

A well known company, Valve, that distributes nonfree computer games with Digital Restrictions Management, recently announced it would distribute these games for GNU/Linux. What good and bad effects can this have?

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Marten Mickos: Eucalyptus Opens Up Under Agile Model

As part of our ongoing focus on open source cloud, we talked with Eucalyptus CEO Marten Mickos about the commoditization of hypervisors, what’s driving his company’s growth and its plans to release Eucalyptus 3.1 soon, marking the company’s shift…

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Hybrid Computing’s Radical Growth

  Our GTC 2012 coverage continues as Dan Olds examines the growth of the CUDA environment from 150,000 downloads in 2007 to 1.5 million today: More importantly, there are 35 NVIDIA-fueled hybrid supercomputers on the Top500 list today. The NDUT Ti…

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