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Juergen's Linux Blog January 2005 Archive

By Juergen Haas, About.com Guide to Linux since 2003

Exciting Developments on the Linux Desktop

Monday January 31, 2005
Significant advances in Linux desktop systems are expected for this year. Of particular interest is the increased compatibility with Microsoft infrastructures. While access to Outlook clients and Exchange servers has ... Read More

Support for Digital Cameras on Linux

Monday January 31, 2005
Since digital cameras typically come with software for MS Windows, you may have wondered if you can connect to your digital camera from Linux as well. Robert Bernier at linuxdevcenter.com ... Read More

Alternative Webmail Platform

Monday January 31, 2005
Horde is a PHP-based application framework for building and deploying web applications. It provides application programming interfaces (APIs) for user applications that require authentication, user preference management, browser matching, internationalization, ... Read More

Linux Jobs: Hands-On Experience Beats Certification

Saturday January 29, 2005
An Australian survey shows that organizations favor real-word experience over certification when it comes to hiring Linux programmers. This phenomenon is limited to Linux skills, however. Course completion and certifications ... Read More

Open Technology Receives Mainstream Adoption Boost

Wednesday January 26, 2005
State of Oregon, OSDL, and Others Pledge Support to New Center Focused on Accelerating the Development and Marketing of Open Technology Solutions OPEN TECHNOLOGY RECEIVES MAINSTREAM ADOPTION BOOST WITH CREATION OF ... Read More

Mandrakesoft's EnterpriseLinux products:

Wednesday January 19, 2005
Mandrakesoft has just released two new "enterprise" Linux products: Corporate Server and Corporate Desktop. These products have received specific development and testing efforts to make them as fit as possible for use in ... Read More

Venezuelan Government Migrates To Linux

Tuesday January 11, 2005
The president of Venezuela issued a decree that the country's administration would migrate its computing infrastructure to open source software. The Ministry of Science and Technology will take three months ... Read More

The First Complete Platforms

Tuesday January 11, 2005
NMS Communications, Nuance, Sun, and Avnet Applied Computing Solutions Team to bring telecom developers new open, Standards-based platforms for scalable speech-driven contact center and VoIP applications Competitive Pricing for New Sun ... Read More

Standard Linux Platform For Building Cluster Applications

Tuesday January 11, 2005
Orion Cluster Workstations are the first to offer a standard Linux platform the development community can use for building cluster applications. They offer a consistent platform upon which third party ... Read More

Open Source Virtual Library for Developers

Tuesday January 11, 2005
OSoft's ThoutReader™ is an open source documentation platform that works like a virtual library so developers can quickly organize and search all of their reference documentation at once. OSoft Releases ThoutReader™ ... Read More

Linux News, OS News, Tech News

Friday January 7, 2005
Whether you are a tech news junky or just trying to keep yourself up-to-date, you may want to bookmark this page. It leads you to top news stories on ... Read More

General Public License (GPL)

Friday January 7, 2005
If you are a Linux user, you are familiar with software released under the "GNU General Public License (GPL)". But are you familiar with the GPL itself? Did ... Read More

The Terminator -- "ps" and "kill"

Thursday January 6, 2005
What can you do when processes wear out their welcome and stick around longer than you would like them to? This article introduces commands ps and kill. Combined, they ... Read More

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