Blog Profile / Open Source
| URL : | http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Technology | |
| Posts on Regator: | 1111 | |
| Posts / Week: | 6.3 | |
| Archived Since: | February 3, 2010 | |
Blog Post Archive
Oracle who? Fedora & openSUSE will replace MySQL with MariaDB
Both Fedora and openSUSE will be replacing Oracle's MySQL with its open-source fork MariaDB.
Google challenges hackers to take on Chrome OS
Google is offering a pi—that's $3.14159 million—in prizes for cracking Chrome OS.
Chrome OS gains on Windows 8's pains
After only a few months Acer's Chromebook already accounts for 5 to 10 percent of Acer's US shipments and HP will soon be launching its own Chromebook. In the meantime, Windows 8 PC sales remain anemic.
Torvalds slams prosecutor for Swartz's suicid
Linux founder Linux Torvalds claimed that Carmen Ortiz zealously prosecuted 24-year-old hacktivist Aaron Swartz starting in 2011 and that this led in part to his untimely death by suicide
LibreOffice 4.0: The big changes will be under the hood
There's a new major version of open-source LibreOffice office suite on its way, but developers, not end-users, will be the ones who will notice the real changes.
OpenSUSE also considers switching from MySQL to MariaDB
MariaDB, the MySQL fork, continues to pick up steam as openSUSE is also considering using it as the Linux distribution's default database management system.
Fedora Linux considering switching out MySQL for MariaDB
Fedora Linux's developers are considering replacing MySQL with MariaDB. That, in turn, might lead to Red Hat abandoning MySQL for MariaDB.
Red Hat expands cloud management services
Red Hat recently acquired ManageIQ, an enterprise cloud management company, and now the Raleigh, NC-based company is integrating its administative services with its Linux-based cloud systems.
OpenSUSE 12.3 beta is ready to run
OpenSUSE Linux is on track for an on-time, March 13th delivery of the next version of its operating system.
With Lenovo's entry, Chromebooks are gaining popularity fast
As Windows 8 and RT devices stumble out of the starting gate, Google's Linux-based, Chrome OS-powered Chromebooks are gaining in popularity.
Facebook's Social Graph, Neo4j show rising use of graph databases
Facebook's Social Graph -- the database underlying its Graph Search engine unveiled yesterday-- is just one of many graph databases being employed for complex, connected data. Neo4j is another leading graph database that is open source and used by Cisco, Adobe, Squidoo and Intuit.
Apache moves Flex forward, should Flash be next?
Some say Macromedia-developed Flex framework and Adobe Flash are now irrelevant. But not current steward of Flex, Apache Software Foundation, which this week elevated the Flash SDK to a top level project and updated the code for Flash 10.2-11.5 and Java 7
Fedora 18 finally arrives
It took its own sweet time, but the latest version of Red Hat's community Linux distribution, Fedora 18, is finally here and ready for you to use.
The 10 oldest, significant open-source programs
Does open-source software still seem "new" to you? Think again, its roots go back decades.
Top 5 Reasons the Ubuntu Linux phone might make it
True, Ubuntu on the phone has many obstacles in its way, but it also has many things going for it as well.
Microsoft launches VM Depot to ease Linux deployment on Azure
Microsoft's Open Technologies subsidiary will attempt to bolster the company's cloud platform by launching a catalog of open source VMs that allow developers and users to more easily build, share and deploy Linux configurations on A...
Red Hat ships Enterprise Linux 5.9
Linux leader Red Hat announced an upgrade of its Linux that offers better support for the latest hardware, OpenJDK, security, Samba 3.8 and Microsoft Hyper-V
Lenovo: Have your Windows 8 cake and run your Android apps too
Lenovo is joining forces with Bluestacks to bring Android apps to some of its Windows 8 PCs.
Amazon's top selling laptop doesn't run Windows or Mac OS, it runs Linux
According to Amazon, the number one selling laptop isn't a Windows PC or a Mac, it's the Samsung Chromebook, which runs Google's Linux-based Chrome OS.
No, Google is not making the Android SDK proprietary. What’s the fuss about?
The Free Software Foundation Europe is claiming that recent changes to the Google's Android Software Development Kit licensing terms has made the SDK into proprietary software. But if you look closely, that doesn't appear to be the case.