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Morphlabs' Yoram Heller: Gearing Up to Beat Amazon

Open source technology is central to Morphlabs' business model. ...

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Chakra: A Simple, Strong Energy Center for Your Desktop

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Kona's Scott DeFusco: Open Source Advocate in a Closed Source Firm

Kona, an innovative social networking platform for businesses and organizations, was launched in late 2012. It grew out of a vision developer Scott DeFusco had for a way to solve communications issues shared in peoples' business and social lives. ...

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Speedy Synapse Fires Up Searches and Launches

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OpenFin CEO Mazy Dar: Bridging the Banks' Technology Gap

Founded in 2010 by trading technology experts, OpenFin is growing on the heels of HTML5 standards edging out ill-fitting older Web solutions. Built onto an open source platform, OpenFin Desktop helps financial institutions to bridge the security gaps in their outdated Web-browser technology ...

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Sigil's E-Book Editor Is a Bestseller

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Black Duck's Dave Gruber and Peter Vescuso: Open Source Is Maturing

Mentioning open source to a typical consumer will no doubt result in puzzled looks or a reference to that "free stuff." Even in some business circles, the open source concept may only be synonymous with an alternative computer operating system known as Linux ...

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NEdit: With Great Power Comes Not-So-Hot Usability

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Precise Puppy Is a Fast, Furious Distro

Puppy Linux is a distro I keep coming back to. No matter how entrenched I become with any flavor of Ubuntu -- sans the Unity desktop -- or Linux Mint's Cinnamon and KDE desktops, nothing can beat the speed, convenience and reliability of Puppy Linux on a stick ...

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'Blender Master Class' Gets A+ in 3D Graphics Instruction

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Fuduntu: An Innovative Old Linux Revisited

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OpenGamma's Kirk Wylie: Open Source Is Busting Out All Over

OpenGammais the developer of the first open source analytics and risk management platform for the financial services industry. Its products help companies explore flexible open source alternatives to conventional and costly risk analytics tools ...

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Fedora 18: Nice Tweaks to the OS, but It's Haunted by a GNOME

Fedora 18, dubbed "the Spherical Cow," was finally released on Jan. 15 after seven postponements that stretched two months beyond its scheduled six-month release cycle. Despite some noteworthy improvements overall to the operating system, I found little about Fedora 18 to justify adopting it over other Linux distros or upgrading to it from an earlier version...

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ZE Rescue Disk Fixes GRUB Bugs

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eScholar's Mike Gargano: Nothing Can Stop Open Source

eScholar's only business is helping state and local education agencies get the best bang for their buck from collecting and using educational data to drive better school performance results ...

The Impossible Quest for the Most Popular Linux Distro

Linux lacks any clear-cut system for determining which is the most popular or the best distribution, or which desktop environment is used more than others. That may be one of the major frustrations among Linux developers trying to spread the word about adopting the Linux desktop instead of Microsoft Windows or Apple's OS X. ...

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This Wink Doesn't Come With a Smile

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KVM: Linux Virtualization That's Halfway There

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Google Open Source Program Manager Chris DiBona: Best of Both Worlds

In 1996, two Stanford University students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, created a unique search engine called "BackRub" that ran on the school's server. After one year, BackRub's bandwidth outgrew the university's needs. Its creators rebranded BackRub into Google, a respelled reference to "googol." It is a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros...

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OpenArtist Is a Linux Distro Prodigy

OpenArtist is an infant Linux distribution that holds impressive promise for users heavily involved in graphic productivity. Based on Ubuntu 12.04, openArtist is infused with audio, 2D and 3D graphics, and video production tools, plus Blender software ...

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