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Open Source Makes New Inroads in Asia and Sardinia

Slowly but surely, open source software is making its way to countries that have previously seen very little FOSS adoption, and the good news is that for many of these countries, it's the best technology choice to make. In the past week, a regional government arm in Sardinia passed a far-reaching bill to promote open source software throughout the country, and representatives from nine Asian countries formed an alliance to promote open source.ﾠ What challenges lie ahead?


Gems and Additions from Datamation's Security Software Roundup

Datamation has a good piece out titled 50 Must-Have Open Source Tools for Security. The applications are organized into categories such as encryption, anti-virus and forensics. When it comes to security software, both the open source arena and the freeware arena offer very solid applications. Here are a few open source security apps that I agree with Datamation on, and some top-notch freeware choices to boot.


OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

Motorola is betting the farm on mobile open source and Android.....

Is Canonical overly paternalistic with Ubuntu?.....

Version 3.0 of the Alfresco Enterprise Edition content management system is out, and adds Alfresco Share for online team collaboration.....

Three scripts for package management on Debian and Ubuntu systems.....

Notable open source innovations.....



Camp KDE 2009: Akademy's Satellite Campus

KDE logo

The KDE project has announced the date and some detail regarding its first annual Camp KDE event. This developer conference was conceived at the KDE 4 Release Event that took place earlier this year in Mountain View, California, and aims to get developers all over the world more involved in the KDE project.



Yahoo! Opens Up to Developers

Hey look, it's the open social icon

Today Yahoo! officially introduced their open strategy platform, Y!OS. The Yahoo! Open Strategy platform consists of three development components, the Yahoo! Application Platform, the Yahoo! Social Platform, and the Yahoo! Query Language.

Yahoo! is encouraging developers to start working with these tools, and promises to soon provide information on supplying newly created applications within Yahoo!'s pages.



Open Source Heads Off to School

Today brings a couple of new announcements on how open source software tools are pushing forward in the online education and educational collaboration markets. Fresh on the heels of news of its hookup with Dimdim, a maker of open source conferencing software, Zimbra has announced a new hosted set of services focused on schools. In other news, Wimba, which makes collaboration tools for education, is in a partnership involving the popular open source e-learning platform Moodle. Here are the details.


Android Hits (Normal) Hiccups As it Matures

Now that the T-Mobile G1 phone based on Google's Android operating system is being broadly tested, and now that Android is officially open source, some of the problems that surround first-generation technology are starting to surface. Many observers advised consumers to wait for Android and Android applications to mature before buying phones. Here are some of the problems emerging and moves from global manufacturers.


Linux-Based Instant-On Trend Spreads Out

As noted over at JKOnTheRun Lenovo has joined forces with the DeviceVM folks behind SplashTop to produce a netbook computer with instant-on web capabilities. We've written about SplashTop before, and laptops from Asus using the Linux-based SplashTop operating system. Incorporating applications such as Firefox and Skype, SplashTop lets you instantly get web access via a browser, and run applications such as Skype without having to wait for your system to boot. Here's more on where this trend is headed.


The Kernel as a Model: Why Open Source Works

Linux Foundation Interview w/Linus Torvalds screen cap

The Linux Foundation recently posted a video interview with Linus Torvalds that took place at September's Linux Kernel Summit. Torvalds, the man behind the Linux kernel, and the project's chief coordinator, is always interesting to hear and the ten minute video is well worth watching.

Torvalds' insights range from disarmingly truthful (email is a fine method for communicating, but the Summit is needed because it's good to see people) to keenly introspective (kernel and userland issues are rough, because no one sees things in quite the same terms).



CodeWeavers to Offer CrossOver For Free On Tuesday

You might recall that several weeks ago Jeremy White, president and CEO of CodeWeavers, promised to had out free licenses for the popular commercial version of Wine if at least one of a handful of (seemingly) unlikely economic goals CodeWeavers set were met before President George. W. Bush left the White House.

Surprisingly, one of those goals has been met. Gas prices have dropped below $2.79 a gallon in the Twin Cities and that means free software for everyone tomorrow at CodeWeavers.



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