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Recently I began a process to convert a small office of ten staff over to Linux, after implementing two servers and a shop floor machine for over a year.

The company says it has taken three years more than 1500 Linux programmers and developers and 37 key hardware manufacturers and researchers to write L OS.

Once foreign intelligence agencies of other countries realize we are doing that, they just put a few people in the Linux project and start adding some code in

Open-source proponents and a Microsoft official had varying perspectives on the value of the open-source model during separate discussions at the 2004 SIIA

Linux creator Linux Torvalds and Andrew Tanenbaum, the man who created Minix for the study of operating systems and software at Vrije University in Amsterdam

Thomas Edison claimed that genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. Likewise, James Hughes, senior fellow at StorageTek, discovered the same to be true when he had the idea for an advanced encryption technology standard that protects data at rest. It took Hughes 10 years from that first inspiration for an encryption standard before he created what is now called P1619 technology.

Java Desktop System, or JDS, is built around Linux, the computer operating system created by volunteer engineers and represented by a cute penguin mascot named

A study questioning the origins of Linux states that the open-source software frequently is taken or adapted from material owned by other companies and

Digital audio players running Linux have typically left configuration and support to the geeky masses. But now, with the latest

Miguel first became interested in open source as far back as 1991, but his biggest impact came in 1997, when he founded the Gnome project with his friend

warranty disclaimers. In the other camp is the "general public license" (or "GPL") maintained by Free Software Foundation. The GPL

Software vendor BEA Systems is planning to create an open source application framework, called 'Beehive', based on its WebLogic Workshop Java Development tool.

There are a couple of new certifications in town, and they call themselves MySQL Core and Professional. The Core certification was released in March 2003.

Part II breaks down the boot process into nine steps and analyzes the time cost involved in each.

When Miguel de Icaza spoke at the 2000 Ottawa Linux Symposium, he opened his talk with a blunt message:"Let's make Unix not suck."

Open-source products are proving to be cost-effective alternatives to proprietary, packaged software. But is the availability of

BGC was also an early adopter of Linux as its network infrastructure for e-mail, DNS, and file-sharing is hosted on Debian GNU/Linux dating back about six years