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I just read about... SharpOS 0.0.1 ...which is an Open Source project attempting to write an Operating System (OS) in C# based on Microsoft .Net technology. I'm not sure about the .Net part of the statement. But, I downloaded the 840KB...

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The operating system on your computer is becoming less and less important. Really. In the next three to four years, I think the desktop OS will become a minimal consideration. Why? Because most...

The other month I blogged about OpenOffice and the fact that it tends to be marginalized in the face of free and commercial products. Most readers did not particularly like that stance. Lou Dolinar just blogged about OpenOffice, but focused instead on...

Apache released their HTTP Server 2.2.9 on Friday the 13th last month (obviously no superstitious people on the release team). Apache HTTP Server 2.2.9 Released Every now and then, I install the latest Apache web server on a Windows server just to...

Just spotted this by Paula Bach over on Microsoft's Port 25 site... CodePlex project developers wanted The data from the project will be used for Paula's PhD dissertation project which looks at usability support features in Open Source projects....

Teaching Open Source development requires Open Source ways. I teach at Seneca College in Toronto, and we've been teaching inside the Mozilla community for the last three years with some very good results (I'll be talking about this at OLS in a...

When I saw this ZDNet blog headline in my RSS feed the other day... ZDNet - Dana Blankenhorn & Paula Rooney: Will Bill Gates’ departure usher in open source friendly era at Microsoft? ...my first thought was: Here we go again, another...

I read about the U.S. government's USAsearch.gov site using the Vivisimo engine for search federal, state, and local government sites in the U.S. This is the same engine used by the Clusty search site (which somehow always reminds me of Krusty the...

I read about the U.S. government's USAsearch.gov site using the Vivisimo engine for search federal, state, and local government sites in the U.S. This is the same engine used by the Clusty search site (which somehow always reminds me of Krusty the...

Here's something that's a bit dated (a few weeks old) but something I've been meaning to mull over and comment on. On May 28, Microsoft's Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie said that... Open source a more disruptive competitor than Google (as reported...

The first Linux Plumbers Conference has just been announced. It takes place on September 17-19 in Portland, Oregon, back-to-back with this year's Linux Kernel summit. The main topics of this conference are laid out in advance, but the organizers are leaving time for last-minute additions and have set aside rooms for ad hoc meetings. There will also be a few tutorials (for which a Call for Proposals is open).

The Open Source Census is a collaborative project that collects Open Source usage information from companies that volunteer the information. The OSS Discovery tool requires Ruby to be installed on a system to be run. The tool collects fingerprints of many Open...

The brand new IronRuby.net Wiki fired up yesterday (June 18). This wik.is Deki Wiki based site. This is the place to go for information about IronRuby. IronRuby currently requires you to download and build from source. But, as soon as the...

This is by no means new news, but I just read a blog from Matthew McKenzie about WRT54G-based open source routers and it got me thinking. First though, for those not in the know, the Linksys WRT54G can be loaded with a...

Anandeep just wrote a little blog questioning the long-term link between High Performance Computing (HPC) and open source. His logic boils down to this: 1. HPC, like many other technologies, starts with the need for a small set of people to do...

Handle Unix-style filename comparison with the fnmatch module....

Mastering Perl tutorial at OSCON ...

Vim is incredibly powerful, but it has the downside of a steep learning curve. Once that is surmounted, however, it's easy to do a lot of powerful tricks with it. Many of these are things that one sees in full-blown IDEs. My...

I have cut things down to the essentials as I finish up the book I am working on ...

Not exactly “new” news but there is a reasonable article by Gary Morgenthaler at Business Week about Apple and Microsoft. Definitely well worth the read. Gary discusses how Apple is developing a multi-pronged strategy to battle Microsoft. In all honesty, the strategy...