<b>The Register:</b> "Open-source CRM developer SugarCRM has been snared by the dark, so-called brilliance of Apple's whip-tongued chief executive Steve Jobs."
<b>Oracle Press Release:</b> "Today, Oracle announced the latest release of Oracle Berkeley DB, the high-performance, small footprint open source embeddable database engine for mission-critical ‘edge’ applications."
<b>Serverwatch:</b> "What's really exciting is the ecosystem support that we've seen around this release," Canonical CEO Jane Silber said on a conference call announcing the release. "With over 80 vendors announcing support for about 100 applications, that's significant and a recognition of the long term support nature of this particular release."
<b>Linux Beacon:</b> "Although OpenOffice.org Writer and AbiWord top the list of open source software for those who write for work or fun, they are not the be-all-and-end-all of writing tools. In fact, there are quite a few other nifty applications that can help you to collect ideas, manage notes, edit documents, and even improve your writing."
<b>The ERACC Web Log:</b> "The BIOS update procedure, of course, requires a bootable floppy with (Egad!) Windows 98 DOS or higher. What the heck do you do?"
<b>Linux and Whatever:</b> "The HP Deskjet D2680 is very easy to install in Linux. First I installed hplip and then I installed hplip-gui. After that it was as simple as plugging the printer in and then opening the HP device manager."
<b>Handle With Linux:</b> "QNAP VS-5020 VioStor NVR (Network Video Recorder) is a high performance network video surveillance system for high-end IP-based real-time monitoring and video recording. Powered by Intel 1.6GHz CPU and 1GB DDRII memory, the Linux-embedded NVR supports 20-channel H.264, MxPEG, MPEG-4 and M-JPEG recording"
<b>Enterprise Mobile Today:</b> "The Linux-based Android version 2.2, dubbed Froyo (frozen yogurt), isn't even officially out yet and the blogosphere is abuzz with reports that the follow-up, Gingerbread, is due in the fourth quarter of this year."
You've decided to move some of your server room assets to a colo. Now you must decide what to move and how to do so with minimal impact on the business.
<b>Midgard:</b> "The Midgard Project has released the eighth maintenance release of Midgard 8.09 Ragnaroek LTS. Ragnaroek LTS is a Long Term Support version of the free software Content Management Framework."
<b>Cyber Cynic: </b>"Much as I hate to admit it, Microsoft does some things better, much better, than Linux. Number one with a bullet is how Microsoft helps programmers and ISVs (independent software vendors). MSDN (Microsoft Software Developer Network) is a wonderful online developer resource. Linux has had nothing to compare."
<b>Softpedia:</b> "Canonical, the company behind the very popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, recognizes the potential of the emerging market and has partnered with Intel and Eucalyptus to promote its Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) offering as part of Intel's Cloud Builder program."
<b>Datamation:</b> "A hypervisor is a software technology used in virtualization, which allows several operating systems to run side-by-side on a given piece of hardware."
Search giant details plans to begin trials of ultra-high-speed broadband networks in markets across United States, promising open access and net neutrality conditions.
<b>Linux Planet:</b> "Bash error messages, like so many error messages, can be more cryptic than helpful. But the good news is bash has a built-in mechanism for creating your own customized error messages, and you don't have to be an ace programmer to do it. Ubuntu and openSUSE already use this; Akkana Peck shows us how to do it ourselves."
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<b>Scribbles and Snaps:</b> "Of course, renaming each and every photo by hand is not particularly practical, especially if you take dozens or even hundreds of photos each day. This is when digiKam's Rename feature can come in rather handy. You can use it to define rather advanced renaming rules and apply them to multiple photos in one fell swoop."
As it plans to wind down the 3.0.x iterations of Firefox, open source browser backer Mozilla offers a wave of security patches to address a variety of threats.
<b>HowtoForge: </b>"This tutorial describes how to scan emails for image spam with FuzzyOCR on a Fedora 12 server. FuzzyOCR is a plugin for SpamAssassin which is aimed at unsolicited bulk mail containing images as the main content carrier."
EBay has rolled out intelligent customer support on its eBay.com site. We tell you how the VirtuOz virtual agent works to resolve problems for ecommerce buyers and sellers.