Appeal for BtrFS Inclusion in Kernel
Jan 06, 2009Chris Mason, lead developer of the copy-on-write BtrFS filesystem, has appealed for its inclusion in the Linux kernel.
more »BaseX 5.0: XML Database with Visual Frontend
Jan 02, 2009A team of developers at the German university of Konstanz has released version 5.0 of the XML database. The open source application employs many standard XML features and comes with a graphic user-interface.
more »MySQL Founder Warns 5.1 Not Ready
Dec 01, 2008MySQL founder Michael "Monty" Widenius warns in his blog against putting the current version 5.1 of the popular database package into production. He's critical of the release policy and fears that the product's quality may suffer.
more »MySQL 5.1: New Version of Open Source Database
Nov 27, 2008Sun Microsystems has realized the second quarter announced release of version 5.1 of MySQL.
more »Box Backup Backing up for portables with Box Backup
Nov 12, 2008The Box Backup network backup tool is a simple and secure solution for traveling clients. We'll show you how to get started with this open source tool.
more »Workspace: Funambol Open source syncing, simplified
Nov 12, 2008Keeping contact and calendar data in sync across devices and applications is not a new problem, but it is still a problem. Funambol offers an open source syncing solution.
more »libferris Syncing a libferris filesystem with an XML file or database
Nov 12, 2008With libferris, FUSE, and rsync, you can synchronize a filesystem with a dissimilar data source.
more »Interview with Sun's Chief Open Source Officer Simon Phipps About MySQL, Java, OpenJDK and more
Oct 03, 2008Simon Phipps is responsible for about 750 Open Source projects at Sun Microsystems. Linux Magazine Online spoke with the British developer about topics such as Java and the newly acquired MySQL.
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