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Elasta Helps Enable Managed Private Clouds (source: linux.sys-con.com) November 18, 2009 at 3:59 pm Elastra Cloud Server helps IT organizations leverage the economics of cloud computing, while preserving existing architectural practices and corporate policies. Elastra offers a free edition of ECS running on Amazon Web Services and an enterprise edition f... (source: linux.sys-con.com) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com New Study Identifies Biggest Threats to Citizen Data and Federal Systems (source: linux.sys-con.com) November 18, 2009 at 2:45 pm E-Government initiatives aimed at modernizing federal information systems are fraught with risk, according to a new study sponsored by CA, Inc. and conducted by the Ponemon Institute, Cyber Security Mega Trends: Study of IT leaders in the U.S. federal gove... (source: linux.sys-con.com) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com Large Hadron Collider stolen by joyriders (source: Internetnews) November 18, 2009 at 11:16 am NewsBiscuit: "Swiss police were yesterday involved in a high-speed pursuit after the Large Hadron Collider was hotwired and stolen by teenagers." (source: Internetnews) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com TuxRadar by the numbers 2.0: the rise of Karmic (source: Internetnews) November 18, 2009 at 11:16 am TuxRadar: "...thanks to sifting through 32GB of logs - we have some even more interesting numbers for you this time, showing that Ubuntu 9.10 adoption is outpacing that for both Windows 7 and Snow Leopard..." (source: Internetnews) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com Hitch your wagon to a lizard: dist-upgrading openSUSE (source: Internetnews) November 18, 2009 at 11:16 am TuxMachines.org: "For the first time, openSUSE now officially supports a "dist-upgrade" feature, similar to Debian's. Which is to say, if you've got openSUSE 11.1 installed, you should be able to upgrade to openSUSE 11.2 by updating your list of software r... (source: Internetnews) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com Top Backup Solutions for Linux (source: Internetnews) November 18, 2009 at 11:16 am Intranet Journal: "For years I have watched in amazement as most articles highlighting various Linux backup solutions merely point out the same old list. While their authors enjoy their "FoSS-ness," they fail to realize that, in the real world, not all of ... (source: Internetnews) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com Let Password Gorilla store all of your passwords (source: Linux Today) November 18, 2009 at 11:16 am Ghacks: "So what do you do when you're brain reaches critical mass for passwords? Simple, you let a single application store and encrypt them for you so all you need is a single password to access all of those crucial passwords." (source: Linux Today) - RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com Windows Mobile Possible 28% Loss of Market Share (source: Linux Today) November 18, 2009 at 11:16 am Linux Pro Magazine: "According to a current Gartner study, Windows Mobile has lost 28% of the mobile market share over the last year. Winners at first are Apple and Blackberry, but open source systems are gaining over the long run." (source: Linux Today) - RSS and News widget on Feedzilla.com Interview- Fedora Mini maintainer Peter Robinson (source: Linux Today) November 18, 2009 at 11:16 am Moblin Zone: "By now, you've probably heard that Fedora 12 came out this morning, with a "Moblin Desktop Environment" option. In this interview, Fedora Mini Maintainer Peter Robinson discusses F12's Moblin option today, and what lies ahead for Moblin techn... (source: Linux Today) - RSS widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com kde4.4 coming out in feb 2010 (source: Linux Today) November 18, 2009 at 11:16 am CIO: "Unlike the anti-climax that was the first KDE 4 release, however, KDE 4.4's developers say this new version will actually deliver on many of the original promises of this next-generation desktop environment -- and then some." (source: Linux Today) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com Microsoft FOSSifies .Net Micro Framework (source: LinuxInsider) November 18, 2009 at 6:00 am The latest version of Microsoft's .Net Micro framework is now in the hands of the FOSS community. Microsoft announced at its Professional Developer Conference on Tuesday the release of version 4.0 under the Apache 2.0 license. The license transfer makes go... (source: LinuxInsider) - RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com Maemo Edges Out Symbian in Nokia's N900 Smartphone (source: LinuxInsider) November 18, 2009 at 6:00 am Three months after Nokia announced its N900 smartphone, the device has arrived in the United States. The N900 runs on the Linux-based Maemo platform, and Nokia's hype around it raises questions about whether the company plans to replace its older Symbian p... (source: LinuxInsider) - News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com