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Why IBM Should Open Source Notes and Domino

The Register has an item up that caught my eye regarding a letter to IBM's software group, suggesting that it would be a good move for Big Blue to open source the Lotus Notes/Domino e-mail, calendaring and collaboration suite. The letter is from Ian Tree, the chief architect at IT consultancy Hadleigh Marshall Netherlands b.v. of Eindhoven, The Netherlands. It argues that IBM's software group and the software market as a whole would be better off with an open source Notes/Domino offering. Here is why this makes a lot of sense.


OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

Rival web development frameworks Rails and Merb are to join forces.....

The year of the mobile app.....

Software Freedom Law Center doubts Microsoft's Sam Ramji.....

Linux 2.6.28 kernel benchmarks.....

The Interclue Firefox extension and the pitfalls of going proprietary.....




Alan Cox Bids Farewell to Red Hat, Moves to Intel

Alan Cox, long-time kernel developer at Red Hat, announced last week that he would be leaving Red Hat in January for Intel, where he can concentrate more on areas of low-level development.

As you'd imagine from such a statement, this doesn't end Cox's involvement with the Linux kernel or open source development.



Tips for New Netbook Owners

Did you get a new netbook over the holidays or buy one recently? Our sister blog JKOnTheRun has a good roundup of a whole lot of great resources for optimizing your new system, and if your netbook is Linux-based, you can also find parallel Linux applications for many of the programs discussed there. There are tips on lean applications and utilities ideal for the limited hardware resources on netbooks, ThinkFree's mobile application suite for Windows and Linux, and more. Also take a look at our popular post 25 Free, Game Changing Open Source Resources ? for many free, open source applications, tutorials, and other customization ideas.


Open Source Plus Microsoft: A Christmas System Overhaul

On Christmas Eve, I saw my 18-year old cousin, who has just started college. Knowing that he was going to see me, he had brought along an old Dell Latitude notebook computer, circa late 1999 or so, and running Windows 98--a dinosaur. The notebook had once been used by his father for work, but was unneeded by him and unwanted anymore by his company. My cousin couldn't get it to boot past the Windows logo. My cousin's idea was that it could be fixed up and upgraded so that it might be like a netbook that he could use at school, with a few extras such as a nice large screen and full-size keyboard. This overhaul, it turned out--including getting the notebook to speak Wi-Fi--was my job.


OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

MediaPortal 1.0 released, brings open source DVR to Windows....

The openness debate hits data portability....

When bandwidth is free.....

Installing Ubuntu on a 2GB Eee PC.....

 



Pundits Weigh in On Open Source's Future

InfoWorld has has a thoughtful piece up on the future of open source. It features a slideshow with interesting, Confucius-worthy input and predictions from many open source pundits, including Alfresco VP and blogger Matt Asay, Google's opensource chief Chris DiBona, and Bruce Perens, creator of the Open Source Definition. Here are some of the points they made that really stood out.


Unify and Notify: Shuttleworth Explains Proposed Notification Changes

If you were unable to attend (or follow along with) the events at the Ubuntu Developer Summit, the highlights and more controversial proposals are now being discussed in the wider community.

One proposal for Ubuntu's Jaunty release was to unify notification display and interaction between GNOME and KDE. It's an idea that's been met with nearly every reaction imaginable, but Mark Shuttleworth has a very reassuring post on his blog that explains some of the reasoning behind this proposal.



Open Source Developers Want Sandy Back

There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth when Twitter-based reminder service I Want Sandy went offline earlier this month. While many people search for a replacement service, some users have stepped up to the plate and are working on putting an open source version together.



No #!@&! Documentation?...More OSS Tutorials Than You Can Shake a Stick At

Linux.com has an interesting item up today on FLOSS Manuals,an effort to produce comprehensive, free documentation for popular open source software titles. As the post notes, documentation is one area in which free/libre/open source software (FLOSS) is weakest. That's true, and FLOSS Manuals looks like an excellent learning and reference resource for titles such as OpenOffice, Firefox, Audacity, Blender, Inkscape and more. Here are some of the details on what's available there, and 16 other open source learning and tutorial resources that we've compiled.


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