Archive for March, 2009

Posted on March 31, 2009 - by admin

Open Source Study Reveals High Level of Code Reuse | tuxmachines.org

An analysis of 1311 open source projects revealed that open source developers reused code from those projects in other projects more than 365000 times, saving the open source community over 316000 staff years and tens of billions of …

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Posted on March 30, 2009 - by admin

The Volokh Conspiracy – Open Source and Free Software:

I am disappointed that you describe my work as ” open source “, because I disagree with that camp and I constantly struggle against the misinformation which labels my work that way. You might as well call my work “Republican”

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Posted on March 30, 2009 - by admin

Free and Open Source Alternatives to Photoshop « Doodle Kit’s Blog

NET has become the de-facto replacement for the popular MSPaint and has transformed into a fully featured open source image editor with large community of support. To run Paint.NET you will need Windows. …

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Posted on March 30, 2009 - by admin

Open Source CFML: Railo! » Oğuz Demirkapı

There is a new open source CFML engine now! Railo open source version has been announced today! Accelerate Your CFML Development Railo is a free, open – source alternative for ColdFusion application development. …

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Posted on March 30, 2009 - by admin

Poll: Are you enjoying Steve Lake’s novel "The Oort Perimeter"?

Tell us your opinion via our poll! Original Story: Raiden’s Realm

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Poll: Are you enjoying Steve Lake’s novel "The Oort Perimeter"?

Posted on March 30, 2009 - by admin

News: Help people without broadband around the world

Here’s an small list of ideas you can use to help share Linux with others around the world (or even your local neighborhood).

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Posted on March 30, 2009 - by admin

News: Microsoft deeds are the problem

Dana Blankenhorn of ZDnet blasts recent comments from a Microsoft spokesman at OSBC and does a great job of showing how two faced Microsoft has been, saying one thing, but doing something entirely else.  So if they’ve been lying to you about

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Posted on March 30, 2009 - by admin

News: Diagnose and fix network problems yourself

TuxRadar has a great and detailed article on ways you can diagnose and fix your own network connection in Linux.

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News: Diagnose and fix network problems yourself

Posted on March 30, 2009 - by admin

News: The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates a Decade of Open Source Leadership

Congratulations to the Apache Software Foundation on 10 great years serving the FOSS community! … Original Story: Raiden’s Realm

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Posted on March 30, 2009 - by admin

News: Nvidia considers porting PhysX to OpenCL

It looks like Nvidia is planning a pretty big gift for the FOSS community by porting their PhysX technology to OpenCL.  That’s going to be a huge shot in the arm for Linux fans wanting better physics support under Linux. …

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