Practical Technology

A recent Washington Post story observed that Twitter loves open source. Twitter’s not the only ones. Most, if not all, social networks are built on top of Linux and open-source software. When the writer wrote that Twitter loves open source he wasn’t exaggerating. He was quoting from Twitter’s About Open-Source page. There, Twitter states that, [...]

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People have always been able to build their own Linux distributions. That’s one reason why there are over a hundred Linux distributions today. But, building them easily to do a particular job and with major vendor support…. well, that’s not so easy. But now Novell has made it downright easy and-pay attention ISVs (independent software [...]

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It’s not easy going from being number one of a small company, MySQL, even one worth a cool billion, to being one of many number twos in an even bigger company, Sun. Many former CEOs in that position quickly quit and it sounds like Monty Widenius, founder of MySQL, will be the next to leave [...]

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Let’s say you want to write an easy-to-install program for any Linux distribution. That’s a a problem. There is no single, easy way to install software for all versions of Linux OpenSUSE thinks it has an answer: the openSUSE Build Service. The openSUSE project, the community Linux distribution supported by Novell, announced the release of [...]

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Would you to talk to some of the biggest names in open source? No, not me! You know how to talk to me and I’m not exactly a big—or even middle-sized—open-source developer or executive anyway.

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