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Midnight Commander: Small Update, Big Enhancements
The MC team has released a new version 4.7.1 version of its Midnight Commander for download that, despite a minor release change, has numerous improvements.
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Alfresco Grows Distribution via LGPL
John Newton, founder and CTO of the Alfresco Software content management system (CMS) company, has announced a licensing change from GPL to LGPL for the software. The change should go into effect the next Alfresco community version.
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Mandriva Enterprise Server 5.1 builds on KVM
The French Linux distributor Mandriva, has updated its Enterprise Server 5 that first appeared mid 2009.
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Sun Web Chief Tim Bray Moves to Google
Good-bye, Oracle: XML coauthor Timothy William Bray did well to control his anger toward the new Sun owners and accepted a job at Google -- raving about Android.
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Swiss Canton Makes E-Government Solution Open Source
The Swiss canton Zug has put a collaboration solution called iZug under GPL licensing.
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NagAconda: Python Instead of Perl for Nagios Plugins
The NagAconda Python tool helps when writing plugins for the Nagios monitoring tool and is available in its first open release.
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TRAFFIC SHAPING
This month we check out some new tools and take a closer look at some classic system administration utilities.
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SERVE ME RIGHT
The RPM package manager Yum has its own advantages over other tools.
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25c3 Introduces Open Source Tool for PLC Monitoring
Two French developers have introduced a configuration software for Intellon-based Power Line Communication devices (PLC) at the 25c3 in Berlin. Simultaneously, the developers declared the software, called Faifa, as Open Source.
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Zend Server 5.0 with Faster Troubleshooting
Zend Server, the enterprise application server from the Cupertino CA company, provides code tracing and asynchronous job execution in its new version 5.0.
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Finnix 93.0 Fresh from Debian Testing
Finnix, a LiveCD Linux distro for system administrators, is available in version 93.0.
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Sun Web Chief Tim Bray Moves to Google
Good-bye, Oracle: XML coauthor Timothy William Bray did well to control his anger toward the new Sun owners and accepted a job at Google -- raving about Android.
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