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Tweet Free software isn’t freeware: why Linux and FOSS have a higher standard Microsoft’s recent survey proclaimed nearly half the population believe it is ok to use pirated software for personal use. This diminishes the argument by Linux advocates that you can use their operating system without any cost. Yet, you can’t confuse free as [...]

Tweet Adobe Advances Flash Platform with New AIR, Cloud, Flex Solutions At its annual MAX user conference, Adobe puts on the dog and serves up new tooling and other support for Flash. Adobe introduces Flex Builder “Gumbo,” Flash Catalyst – formerly known as “Thermo,” the availability of Adobe AIR 1.5 and a pre-release of the [...]

Tweet Linux Eee Box now available, MS giving away XP? Two months ago I commented on the non-availability of either of the two Linux versions of the Asus Eee Box 202 that had been announced months ago along with its XP-equipped sibling, which has been shipping for two months already. It appears you can now [...]

Tweet Musical tips (red) hat to life after 50 Milestone birthdays can be unsettling-and 50 is a biggie. MaryAnne puts on the brakes as she approaches that mark, declaring herself to be a 49.999-year-old, in “Hats! The Musical,” being presented by The Kirk Players weekends at Cuneo Museum and Gardens, through Nov. 16. Beverly Johnson [...]

Tweet Red Hat Unveils Integrated Linux-Based HPC Platform Red Hat, a provider of open source solutions, has announced the delivery of an integrated Linux-based High Performance Computing (HPC) platform with the global availability of the Red Hat HPC Solution, an all-in-one stack that customers can leverage to deploy, run and manage their HPC clusters. Historically, [...]