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Web browsing behaviors are constantly changing. As a result, analysis of those behaviors must evolve to match those changes. A recent change that has become more prevalent over the past few months is tabbed browsing. The Firefox browser made tabbed browsing much more common, and now Microsoft has added it to Internet Explorer.

A new development build of the Puppy Linux live CD was released Aug. 28 for testing, founder and maintainer Barry Kauler announced on the project website. Puppy Linux v2.10 alpha uses the JWM desktop environment and is based on a 2.6.16.7 kernel.

Although server virtualization is an equal opportunity platform for all operating systems, it is and will continue to be a boon to enterprise Linux adoption, says VMware Inc.'s director of data center products Patrick Lin.

IBM has published the following new technical articles, tutorials, and downloads on its DeveloperWorks website. They cover a range of interesting (though not necessarily embedded) technical topics, primarily related to Linux and open source system development. Some require free registration.

My boss wanted OCS Inventory NG. That is a cross-platform inventory and software deployment program, licensed under the GNU GPL, and freely available from Sourceforge. And tho the server comes in versions for Linux and Windows, he wanted the Linux version. So here is what I did to get it running..

As a project, Debian is heavily committed to the ideals of free software. That's not news to anyone reading this, I'm sure, as it's something we've constantly worked to improve, whether that be by establishing our Social Contract and the Debian Free Software Guidelines or by working with other organisations such as Software in the Public Interest, the Free Software Foundation, the Open Source Institute, or Creative Commons to further promote those ideals.

Elo TouchSystems, the global leader in touch technology and a division of Tyco Electronics Corporation, has developed a new range of touch drivers for both Linux and Mac OS X. These new offerings complement Elo’s already extensive range of touch drivers for Windows, Macintosh, and legacy operating systems such as DOS and OS/2.

The GNU General Public License (GPL) is one of the most widely used software licenses -- and, undoubtedly, the most misunderstood. Some of this misunderstanding comes from hostile propaganda, but some also comes from a lack of experience in licensing issues on the part of both lawyers and lay users, and the use of standard language in conventional end-user license agreements that are unthinkingly coupled with the GPL. In all cases, the confusion is frequently based on misreadings, rumors, secondhand accounts, and what is convenient to believe.

The trend among application vendors to bundle required third-party components with their offerings limits the market for pure-play open source stack providers, 451 Group concluded. This development is forcing stack providers to adapt.

Official Fedora Live images are something we all have been looking forward to seeing in the Fedora Community. Kadischi will be the tool to create such live images. Fedora Unity has recently joined forces with Kadischi to help provide testing and to release live images which we are calling "Live-Spins."

an open source integration solution that minimizes the cost and complexity associated with connecting applications, data and partners, today announced major new additions to its Jitterbit Professional and Jitterbit Community business integration solutions.

More than 20 BarCamps were held around the world this weekend as part of BarCampEarth, a celebration of the first anniversary of the first BarCamp. To understand the spirit of the events, and the traditions that have already sprung up around them, I spent last Friday and Saturday at BarCamp Vancouver in Vancouver, Canada. Having literally been there, done that, and got the T-shirt, I can safely say that the quality of the presentations and the chances to make connections are at least as good as at a formal conference that would cost at least 20 or 30 times more to organize or attend.

The entertainment industry's open-ended war against online piracy -- both real and imagined -- has spawned its share of unintended consequences. But perhaps the most interesting of the bunch, and arguably the most troubling for groups such as the RIAA and MPAA, involves the race to create a new breed of tougher, more secure

The OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project reported Aug. 27 that Brazil is finalizing plans for "all aspects" of its $100 laptop roll-out. Along with Argentina, Nigeria, and Thailand, Brazil had previously indicated interest in purchasing 1 million of the machines for needy children.

We've just released a milestone 1.1 version of Mirth, and have just launched our new site at http://www.mirthproject.org. Head over and contribute to the messages boards, wiki, and submit any bugs to our issue tracker. As always, thanks to our users and contributors!

When Linux was in its infancy, hardware support was one of the biggest issues for the open source operating system. Good drivers for everything from video, audio, network cards, human interface devices, and the like had to be reverse engineered and written from scratch by hackers. Broader support these days by major PC hardware and peripheral manufactures has made the Linux hardware compatibility more widespread, but no one's claming "mission accomplished" on this yet.

Instalinux.com is a handy Web site from which users can create customized installation images for a handful of different Linux distributions.

The hard-disk recorder (HDR) is the central component of the modern digital audio studio. The most basic feature of a high-quality HDR is the capability to record and play multitrack/multichannel digital audio at various sampling rates. However, with the addition of software amenities such as non-linear and non-contiguous editing operations, support for a variety of soundfile formats, and audio digital signal processing via plugins or built-in modules the HDR is no longer simply a more or less sophisticated record/playback device.

The next version of the Palm operating system will be based on Linux, as Access attempts to keep the pioneering software alive.

Recently I wanted to make sure I had enough space to back up my home digital videos and pictures, so I purchased a new hard drive to add to my home Linux server. I moved all the files I wanted to save onto a single hard drive and repartitioned the old hard drive so I could upgrade to a newer version of Linux. After going through the process of reinstalling the operating system, I mounted the backup hard drive and discovered that it was empty. I had some how mixed up the hard drive I used to back up all the data with a hard drive that I wanted to wipe.