<b>ZDNet:</b> "The continuing conflict between Google and China, which may be a proxy for deeper conflicts over economics and values, could easily impact open source."
<b>Computer Weekly Blog: </b>"Grynzpan reckons that Brazil has to find a unique selling proposition and its vast pool of knowledge in open source software could be the real advantage of the local IT industry."
<b>Tech Source:</b> "Due to popular demand, we will give you another round of some of the best free and open-source Content Management Systems (CMS). This new set of CMS is as good as the previous list that we have so this should be interesting."
<b>Datamation:</b> "FOSS is an abbreviation for Free and Open Source Software. In other words, FOSS is software whose source code is openly available. People can install and even modify FOSS as they please, so long as they follow a few basic requirements listed in the license."
<b>Developer.com:</b> "The cloud isn't just for network administrators looking for scale, it's also a key development area for developers building applications with open source dynamic languages."
Tip of the Trade: A reader weighs in on the backspace/delete terminal problem. Although the solution doesn't solve the problem at hand, it does lead to some interesting open source software troubleshooting.
Oracle's ADRCI extended commands provide valuable scripting and file viewing options, with about two dozen commands that you can use to look at and manage diagnostic information.. ADR is the future of Oracle diagnostics and it's essential that database administrators understand it.
<b>Blog of Helios:</b> "Nils Grotnes emailed me about 20 minutes ago with some pretty cool news. Aquaria by Bit Blot ,Gish Published by Chronic Logic, Lugaru HD by Wolfire, and Penumbra Overture of course by Frictional Games have pledged to go open source."
<b>Worldlabel:</b> "MyPaint is a lightweight, easy-to-use open source painting application that you might not have heard of before. It's not a photo editor, it doesn't bother with paths, geometric shapes, text manipulation, or fancy masking options. Instead, it focuses on one and only one use: painting."
I've been reading a lot about entity-component design but every article talks about the philosophy behind such design, leaving a lot of details and implementations outside. I'm looking for an open source game that uses the entity-component design so I can study the concrete implementations and see how they deal with things such as
How (and if) they deal with inter-component communication
How much logic each component has or doesn't have
How a subsystem can change it's behavior depending on an entity's state (the screen darkens depending on the player's health)
<b>VoIP Planet:</b> "Open source software is being used today by all types of companies and organizations—even the Republican Party is an adopter."
Traditional Chinese IME on Android is a 20% IME project initiated in Google’s Taipei office and it is now open sourced on Google Code . It includes Zhuyin...
<b>Network World:</b> "There's a large selection of free and open source (FOSS) operating systems available these days, and choosing the right one for any given circumstance can be quite a challenge. This article outlines the key factors you need to consider in order to pick the best operating system for your needs and experience level."
<b>ZDNet:</b> "Important examples are to be found in the world of open source. Linux crossed the chasm on servers. It failed to do so on desktops. Yet Android, a Google-developed Linux distro, seems fated to succeed."
In a perfect world everyone has the right backups to be able to recover within the downtime and data-loss service level agreements when accidental data loss or corruption occurs. Unfortunately we don’t live in a perfect world and so many people find that they don’t have the backups they need to recover when faced with corruption.
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<b>Tech Source:</b> "Pandora, the Linux-based handheld game console that is aimed to take advantage of free and open source software is finally shipping."
<b>Businessweek:</b> "Open-source software provides an important example of how companies can leverage external sources of innovation. In practice, however, big high-tech companies often have a difficult time collaborating and sharing control."
<b>The VAR Guy:</b> "The company previously positioned itself as an open source IP PBX phone system provider. But going forward, Fonality is pitching itself as a leading provider of cloud-based phone systems and unified communications for small business."
<b>Techworld:</b> "Two exhibitors at the event last weekend showed off open source 3D printers that can build objects based on your instructions, another one introduced 3D design software."
With each revision, SharePoint becomes more a SQL Server Database application, with everything that implies for planning and deployment. There are advantages to this: SharePoint can make use of mirroring, data-compression and remote BLOB storage. It can employ advanced tools such as data file compression, and object-level restore. DBAs can employ familiar techniques to speed SharePoint applications. Bert explains the way that SharePoint and SQL Server interact.