Posted in Hardware, Ubuntu on March 21st, 2012 by tsmith – Be the first to comment
Not exactly Open Source but interesting…
Dell today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SonicWALL, Inc., a leader in advanced network security and data protection. SonicWALL’s industry-leading Next-Generation Firewalls and Unified Threat Management (UTM) Firewalls complement Dell’s security solutions portfolio, enabling it to offer customers a broader range of enterprise offerings.
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Dell and SonicWall
Posted in BLUG on March 3rd, 2012 by tsmith – Be the first to comment
Enjoy this Tech Comic from datamation.com
Posted in BLUG, Ubuntu on March 3rd, 2012 by tsmith – Be the first to comment
For those who enjoy living on the bleeding edge, Ubuntu has a released 12.04 LTS. It is available for download at Ubuntu
For a sneak peak check out the article at UNIXMen
Posted in php on March 3rd, 2012 by tsmith – Be the first to comment
Article by Sean Michael Kerner of InternetNews.com
PHP 5.4 has just officially been release – and it’s a really big deal.
I’ve been tracking the development of PHP 5.4 since at least November of 2010 and the early alpha milestones. This is the first major PHP update since PHP 5.3 came out in June of 2009. In alot of ways though, the PHP 5.4 release is more important since it will be an evolutionary step forward that likely won’t require code rewrites.
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Posted in BLUG, Hardware on March 3rd, 2012 by tsmith – Be the first to comment
What is a Raspberry Pi and why you should care? February 29th, 2012, the technology world’s eyes are on the release of the Consumer Preview of Windows 8 or on the latest iPad 3 rumors. We don’t know exactly how these products will turn out but we can be sure of one thing: They’ll cost a pretty penny. On the same day, the non-profit Raspberry Pi Foundation released a bare-boned, Linux-powered computer that costs between $25 and $35.
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Posted in Hardware on January 5th, 2012 by tsmith – Be the first to comment
It’s the 30th anniversary of the Commodore 64 this week – news that will make some of us who grew up in the early 1980s feel some nostalgia.
Who can forget loading programs on cassette tape? Of course, if you could afford it, there was the 1541 disk drive (who remembers using a hole punch to turn single-sided disks into double-sided?)
Read more at PC Authority
Posted in RedHat, Virtualization on May 5th, 2011 by tsmith – Be the first to comment
Red Hat is preparing to release a major upgrade of its KVM-based virtualization server — the first without the strange Windows server requirement — in late 2011, execs said at Red Hat Summit.
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Posted in Open Souce Applications, OpenOffice on May 5th, 2011 by tsmith – Be the first to comment
It’s hard to believe that it was only about six months ago that LibreOffice was born.
The free and open source productivity software suite was created, of course, in response to Oracle’s (Nasdaq: ORCL) unclear intentions regarding OpenOffice.org, which had long been the community’s suite of choice. At the time, Oracle chose to keep OpenOffice to itself, but now — fast forward to just a little more than a week ago — it appears to be giving it up after all.
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Posted in Misc from Lxer on March 5th, 2011 by blugadmin – Be the first to comment
The Wine development release 1.3.15 is now available. The source is available now, Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.
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Posted in Misc from Lxer, Ubuntu on March 5th, 2011 by blugadmin – Be the first to comment
Fuduntu 14.9 Release Candidate is ready for testing. We need testers to help validate the updates before pushing them to the stable repository and releasing “stable” media. Lots of cool stuff in this release like kernel 2.6.37.2, new wallpaper, compiz auto-detection, AWN, and more.
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