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GNU/Linux



Free Software/Open Source



  • Software defined networks snare open source spotlight
    Eighteen mainly large communications and software companies have created the Open Daylight Project in the Linux Foundation to develop open source code for software-defined networks (SDNs). The group will develop a wide range of software including an SDN controller and an applications interface for it with the first elements slated for release this fall.


  • Software defined networks snare open source spotlight
    UNStudio will in June relaunch as an "open-source architecture studio" inspired by technology start-ups, the Dutch firm announced today.


  • Web Browsers

    • Mobile trend hurts IE, Firefox
      The growing popularity of Web browsing from tablet devices and smart phones has been a boon for Apple's Safari and Google's Android, but Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox are having a hard time maintaining a hold on usage share, according to a recent report.


    • Chrome

      • Chrome OS may get redesigned windows buttons
        Google's Chrome OS and Android are heading in the direction where they look and feel identical.

        While the company executives have denied merging of Android and Chrome OS they have hinted at convergence and if you are monitoring the Chrome OS development for a while you can notice how the design and layout of Chrome OS is shaping up.


      • Five reasons I really love the Chromebook Pixel
        The other day, while indicating how much I loved the Chromebook Pixel, I wrote a piece on what I would change. Therefore, it only seems fair to more detail what I really liked.


      • Some useful Chrome links




    • Mozilla

      • On Antarctica 80% of users use Firefox
        The project started out as a release of the Netscape browser and email client/suite back on March 31 1998, at which point Netscape Communications Foundation formally created Mozilla.


      • Mozilla Stands Firm on Firefox Cookie Blocking, Despite Protests
        You have to hand it to Mozilla -- the company really does pursue policies that favor users even when commercial interests cry foul. Case in point: Last month, I wrote about the fact that The Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) has accusied Mozilla of "undermining American small business" with its plan to block advertising cookies by default in the Firefox browser. Fast-forward to today, and the pre-release version of Firefox version 22 does indeed proceed with the plan, which will make many users happy.


      • Mozilla Firefox 23 Will Block Mixed SSL Content






  • SaaS/Big Data

    • Rackspace, Magenta Partner on Open Source Ecommerce eCloud Hosting
      What can online retailers do that their brick-and-mortar can't? Besides not charging sales tax (in many instances, at least, and for the time being), they can leverage the cloud to expand into new geographic markets and handle fluctuations in sales volume in particularly effective ways. And a partnership announced this week between Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) and Magento is designed to make it easier to do exactly that.

      Rackspace, which provides cloud hosting services based on flexible open source technologies that it touts as protection against lock-in, already has a strong presence among ecommerce sites. It is the most popular hosting provider for Magento deployments across the world, according to BuiltWith, and is also the No. 1 host for the Internet Retailer Top 1,000 websites.

      The partnership between Rackspace and Magento, which the companies announced Monday, will expand the former's reach into the online retailer space even further. According to a statement, the collaboration aims to provide ecommerce sites with "a low-cost entry into new markets around the world without the cost of establishing a physical presence."


    • OpenStack Gives the Open Source Cloud a Lift
      The OpenStack project itself is not even three years old, but thanks to maturing technology, a growing membership, and the OpenStack Foundation formed last year, OpenStack has matured to the point that it is getting attention from large service provider and enterprise users, including companies in telecommunications, retail and research.




  • Oracle/Java/LibreOffice

    • LLVM/Clang Makes Progress On Building LibreOffice
      LLVM's Clang C/C++ compiler has been making much progress in recent months on being able to build high-priority open-source/Linux software packages. When using the latest LLVM/Clang compiler, it appears to be in good shape for handling LibreOffice.




  • Education

    • A guide to free and open source education
      Nearly every week, if not every day, there are more and more open source and open educational resources available and accessible to us. It's impossible to ignore. It also seems impossible to keep pace with the sheer volume.




  • Business

    • Building a scalable open source business model in the 90s
      Brothers Aleksander and BÃ¥rd Farsted founded eZ Systems with a strong belief in open source in 1999. At that time, there were no scalable open source business models, so they developed and pioneered their own while developing eZ Publish, an Enterprise Content Management System.




  • Funding

    • How to increase donations to an open source project
      Lots of open source projects raise money from their user communities by soliciting donations. Most open source projects will have the ‘Support’ or ‘Make a Donation’ button on their home page or download page. At Eclipse we have had the Friend of Eclipse program for a number of years to solicit financial support for our community.

      Earlier this year, we started looking for ways to increase the number of users making donations. We have millions of people downloading Eclipse but very few making donations. Inspired by Ubuntu’s new donation page and Mozilla’s download page we changed where and how we asked users to make the donation.




  • FSF/FSFE/GNU/SFLC

    • Photos and numbers from LibrePlanet
      The involvement and energy of the free software community make LibrePlanet what it is: brilliant and passionate people coming together around software freedom, drinking lots of coffee and forging the future of our movement. This year, we particularly appreciated your contributions to the theme of "Commit Change": a focus on making connections to other movements and building diversity within free software.




  • Public Services/Government

    • Open Source for America Announces New Leadership
      Open Source for America (OSFA), an organization promoting the use of open source technologies in the U.S. federal government, today announced the election of Deb Bryant and Kane McLean as co-chairs of the organization.




  • Openness/Sharing



  • Programming

    • VB or Qt Whats the difference?
      So back to the title of this article. VB or Qt Whats the difference? As far as I am concerned one is based on BASIC and one is based on C++. Apart from that they are both as easy to use and program with and both are very graphically rich. Oh, one more thing. Qt is cross platform while VB is not. This means that your program done with Qt can work on Linux, Windows, MacOSx, Android, IOs (iPhone, etc.), Symbian, Maemo, Unix or even different CPU architectures like ARM and x86 platforms. VB can only work on Windows.






Leftovers



Recent Techrights' Posts

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