Archive for October, 2009

Posted on October 28, 2009 - by admin

Can Open Source Software Save Democracy? « Science & Technology News

So it’s great news that Lotus 1-2-3- founder Mitch Kapor has just released the country’s first open source voting system software, and even better that major corporations including IBM and Oracle, have offered to contribute code. …

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Posted on October 28, 2009 - by admin

Top Five Open Source Content Management Systems | Linux Plus

There are so many good candidates and you know that no matter which ones you choose, you’re going to make somebody unhappy, but here’s my shot at the top five open source content management systems.

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Posted on October 28, 2009 - by admin

NREL Releases Open-Source Live Solar Mapping Project

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory is mapping the progress of solar installations on private roofs from 2000 on.

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NREL Releases Open-Source Live Solar Mapping Project : CleanTechnica

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has released The Open PV Mapping Project showing the progress of solar installations on private roofs from 2000 to (currently) now, beginning with a flurry of activity in California, …

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Open Source Zenoss Core Project Delivers Cloud Monitoring and …

Zenoss Inc., a leading commercial open source provider of Unlegacy IT systems and network management products, today announced the general availability of Zenoss Core version 2.5 under the GNU General Public License (V2).

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Gentoo Optimizations Benchmarked

Gentoo is a source based distribution which lets the user decide how to optimize their system in many ways.

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Gentoo Optimizations Benchmarked

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451 CAOS Theory » Uncle Sam's open source fair shake makes it official

The DoD memo wisely lays out the idea that open source software should be considered not alongside traditional, commercial offerings, but basically as traditional, commercial software offerings, so that the evaluation process is truly …

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Google Sued Over Patents On Open Source Code | Techdirt

First, he claims that this lawsuit suggests Google’s ” open – source Chrome browser isn’t so open source after all.” Huh? I’ve read that sentence over and over again and I can’t figure out how a patent dispute would mean that Chrome isn’t …

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US Department of Defense Embraces Open Source… (ReadWriteWeb …

At the US Department of Defense, open source and proprietary software are now…

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Posted on October 28, 2009 - by admin

US Department of Defense Embraces Open Source

At the US Department of Defense, open source and proprietary software are now on equal footing.

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US Department of Defense Embraces Open Source