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Fire. Flood. Having a five-foot-thick redwood tree fall on your home office. Collectively, these are disasters that can befall your computers' hard drives. At an enterprise level add in dead multi-disk servers, RAIDs that get mixed up, and network storage appliances that don't get backed up. Whether you're a homeowner mourning the loss of your family's digital picture album or an enterprise-level IT director trying to make sure that your next disaster doesn't involved getting canned, there is a solution.

Linus Torvalds wants to tighten up the process for how open source code gets into product-versions of the Linux kernel.

Sun president Jonathan Schwartz has confirmed that the company will at some point make its operating system's code available

Few technology communities are as disparate as the Free and Open Source software (FOSS) communities, especially when passions rise over differences in implementations. Such is the case between two FOSS .NET projects, Mono and DotGNU, even though both have a similar genesis and pursue the same ultimate goal.

CVS users, don't let the next-generation version control system scare you. The basic functionality in Arch can be just as simple as CVS. Nick covers the basic commands you need to get started

"The back-end advantage that people don’t understand about Linux is that it changes the way applications are being developed and the way that organizations are structured,” says IBM’s Sam Docknevich about the growing attention to Linux, which his company is aggressively pushing.

Amsterdam District Court Ruled in Favor of Lindows On All Counts

Computer Associates has revealed plans to make its Ingres enterprise relational database open source. Tony Gaughan, senior vice-president of development at CA, speaking at last week’s CA World user conference with interim CEO Ken Cron, said, "The release of Ingres under open source underscores CA’s commitment to our customers, partners, to the open source community and to Ingres.

Emic Networks announces the availability of version 2.0 of Emic Application Cluster (EAC) for Apache. For organizations that are running business-critical applications on Apache and MySQL platforms, EAC enables consolidation of servers for better control, improving the excellent total cost of ownership characteristics already provided by these platforms. As a result, organizations that use EAC will have greater assurance of business continuity when they run applications on the Apache or MySQL platforms.

Part three: Eric Raymond spells out five reasons why people should choose open-source software - but do they all hold up under scrutiny?

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Novell this week upped the volume of the South African open source campaign during its annual Brainshare conference in Johannesburg.

The open source revolution has taken root in SA. The future for open source software - particularly Linux - is rosy. There are a number of drivers for this phenomenon.Inus Gouws, a senior information management (IM) consultant at Computer Associates (Africa), looks at the trends and patterns that have developed over the past year and makes his predictions for 2004 and beyond.

How does Linux help IT companies make money, while at the same facilitating computer access among the world's "havenots"? In a special session at the CeBIT America, sponsored by the Business Council for the United Nations, representatives from IBM, Red Hat, Oracle and other organizations explored some manifestations of the paradoxical role played by Linux in today's global economy.

By Larry Greenemeier. Linux creator Linus Torvalds last week added a requirement to the process for submitting code for the operating system's kernel.

The JBoss application server and MySQL database will both get a boost from Hewlett-Packard Co. on Tuesday, when the Palo Alto, California, computer company plans to begin offering technical support for the two open-source projects.

Your article describes a very different speech from the one I gave, one that emphasizes primarily how patents would hurt free software.

By RICHARD WOOD. Dick Smith Electronics is the first retailer to join a Linux certification scheme launched by New Zealand's Open Source Society.