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The Open Source MySQL database, which is now maintained by Sun Microsystems after Sun's acquisition, benefits from a performance boost and easier management following the update to version 5.1.
Open Source software is likely to dominate the Software as a Service (SaaS) segment for reasons of economy and community building says market researcher Gartner: Open Source is cheap, and communities keep it popular.
Rob Glidden of Sun Microsystems reports in his blog on two new Open Source projects by his employer which will lead to a free media solution with video and audio codecs.
The results of the election are confirmed: Debian veteran Steve McIntyre has won the Debian Project Leader (DPL) election in the third round of voting.
The Debian project has just announced the end of support for the “oldstable” version Debian 3.1, alias Sarge parallel to the release of the update number 8.
According to reports, the department of education in the Australian state of New South Wales has decided to install Open Office on its 41,000 computers.
For over a year now, the Linux Driver Project (LDP) has offered free development of hardware drivers. Novell gave its employee and the project initiator Greg Kroah-Hartman a sabbatical for driver programming; Kroah-Hartmann recently published a status report.
Automation tools save time and keep your systems awake.Cover Stories:
Pacemaker: Use the popular Pacemaker high-availability monitoring tool to relaunch failed services.
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Free Video Archives! CeBIT Open Source Forum 2012
The presentations were streamed live from CeBIT and are now available in the Linux New Media video archive!
