July 8, 2013
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I took my time kicking the tires of the public preview build of Windows 8.1. I thought that after the Windows 8 fiasco surely Microsoft would get it right the second time around but I wanted to make sure.
It didn’t.
July 8, 2013
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After Citrix bought Xen in 2007, the core of this popular open-source hypervisor remained open source, but some of the rest became proprietary software. Now Citrix has decided to take all of its virtual machine manager and cloud XenServer software back to its open-source roots.
Citrix goes all in for open-source XenServer cloud. More >
July 3, 2013
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We knew this day was coming. It was clear years ago that Yahoo was going to close down its Alta Vista search engine. On July 8, Yahoo will shut this once mighty search engine’s doors for good. Alta Vista expired with a single line for its obituary.
July 2, 2013
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The famous quantum reality thought experiment Schrödinger’s Cat, may or may not exist, but the latest version of Red Hat’s community Linux Fedora 19 nick-named Schrödinger’s Cat is alive, well, and ready to be downloaded.
July 2, 2013
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Well, this is different. Jim Jagielski, a co-founder of the Apache Software Foundation; a director of the Open Source Initiative; and currently a consulting software engineer for Linux giant Red Hat is now president of the Microsoft-sponsored, open-source friendly Outercurve Foundation‘s Board of Directors.
Microsoft-sponsored Outercurve Foundation turns to Apache for leadership. More >
July 2, 2013
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t’s been nice knowing you, Google Reader. Google has pulled your plug, and the most popular really simple syndication (RSS) news reader of all is now dead as a doornail.
We’ve known this has been coming for months, but people being people, many of you still haven’t switched to another RSS reader. Here’s my list of three good replacements.
Before jumping into them, you should know what I think is important in an RSS reader.
First, I prefer my newsfeed to be delivered via a Web site rather than by an application. That way I don’t have to worry about whether my RSS reader app on Android is synced up with the one on my Linux box and so on.