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KDE Momentum Continues with New Updates, Features
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:12:58 -0400
The KDE community has released KDE 3.5.10, a maintenance release for the KDE 3.5 series of the popular Linux desktop. Meanwhile, KDE developers continue work on bringing service-oriented computing to KDE, as well as a new Amarok media player and enhanced Qt support. KDE also has adopted the Free Software Foundation Europe's Fiduciary License Agreement. - The KDE Community has announced the availability of KDE 3.5.10, a maintenance release of KDE, the free desktop for GNU Linux and other Unix flavors. The KDE desktop is the system of choice for a broad array of Linux users. And although the KDE community released KDE 4.1 at the end of July, K...
Microsoft to Pay Novell $100M More for Linux Support
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:33:46 -0400
The pact between Microsoft and Novell, however, stirred up quite a controversy in the open-source community. - SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft plans to pay software maker Novell up to $100 million in additional subscription fees due to strong demand for Novell's open-source Linux software that partners with Microsoft's proprietary Windows software. The payment to be made by Nov. 1, announced by the companies ...
Microsoft, Novell Expand Interoperability Partnership
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:43:03 -0400
Microsoft and Novell expand their interoperability partnership with Microsoft buying up to $100 million in SUSE Linux certificates. The partnership helps enable SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Windows Server to work together in the datacenter. Moreover, the companies will continue to work collaboratively on virtualization, systems management, directory and identity federation, document format compatibility, accessibility technology, and the Moonlight multimedia framework. - Microsoft and Novell have announced an incremental investment in their partnership to promote interoperability between the SUSE Linux platform and Windows, with Microsoft pledging to purchase up to $100 million in certificates that customers can redeem for support. The goal of the Microsoft/Novell ...
Ubuntu Linux-Maker Canonical Joins Linux Foundation
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:00:41 -0400
Canonical, maker of the Ubuntu Linux Distribution, has joined the Linux Foundation. Canonical has advanced Linux on both the desktop and server and should be a good fit for the Linux Foundation, dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux. Canonical supports several other open-source projects including Bazaar, Storm and Upstart, and by joining, it should be able to support and benefit from other Linux community members in the Linux Foundation, including IBM, Novell, Oracle, Intel, Red Hat and VMware. - Canonical, maintainer of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, has joined the Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux. By joining, Canonical can both contribute to and benefit from the foundation that features many of the Linux community's leading comp...
LinuxWorld 2008: Enthusiasm Up, Attendance Down
Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:53:18 -0400
The shakiness of the macroeconomy plus general problems with travel arrangements caused many usual attendees to sit out this year's LinuxWorld Conference Expo in San Francisco. More than 7,500 people signed up, but about half that actually showed up, some estimates said. But there was no lack of enthusiasm for new product releases especially in the data center, mobile and cloud computing sectors. Those who stayed home missed a lot of good new products and plenty of good networking opportunities. - It was apparent early on that this was not going to be a sold-out LinuxWorld Conference amp; Expo at San Francisco's Moscone Center. Malaise in the macroeconomy and general travel difficulties were generally thought to be the culprits. Only 7,500 people registered, and perhaps half that ...
Microsoft Site CodePlex Turns 2
Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:15:03 -0400
Microsoft's CodePlex celebrates its second year of helping .Net developers dabble in open source. The Microsoft open-source site enables developers to contribute to and share code for such projects as IronPython. - The Microsoft community development site, CodePlex, celebrated its second anniversary in early August. On Aug. 6, S. quot;Soma quot; Somasegar, senior vice president of Microsoft's Developer Division, blogged that CodePlex had reached its second year of operation as a Microsoft-run hosting site. T...

 

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ASPSeek - An Internet search engine, consisting of an indexing robot, a search daemon, and a CGI search frontend. (C++) [GNU/Linux, FreeBSD]

Authena Open Source DRM - Devoted to fostering an open source digital rights management system.
Meta Description: [ Marrying Open Source Digital Rights Management (DRM) to Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS) ]

B.Y.P. Server - A server for applications running into thin-clients PCs. It resembles the Web in many ways, but supports stateful sessions. (Python)

Binc IMAP - Open source xinetd/tcpserver based IMAP server for the Linux platform, with support for Maildir.
Meta Description: [ Binc IMAP is a rock solid IMAP server for Maildir, licensed under the GPL. ]

Bind - Widely-used DNS server software, and related tools. (C) [Many platforms]

Board-tnk - Discussion board with admin page in english, french, german, italian, spanish, dutch. (PHP4)

Caudium - A single process multi-threaded webserver with a built-in pre-processing language and XSLT-support. (C, Pike) [GNU/Linux, Unix]
Meta Description: [ Caudium is an feature rich, open source webserver with many unique features like on-demand image creation and advanced server-side parsing and threaded design. PHP4 scripting is also integrated by a Thread pool. ]

Courier mail server - An SMTP/IMAP/POP3/HTTP (webmail) server, implementing SMTP extensions for mailing list management and spam filtering. (C, C++, Perl) [GNU/Linux, Unix]

Cyrus IMAP Server - An IMAP server developed at Carnegie Mellon University. (C, Perl) [GNU/Linux, Unix]

DataparkSearch Engine Tool - Open source search engine tool released under GPL and designed to organize search within a website, group of websites, intranet or local system.
Meta Description: [ DataparkSearch Engine is a full-featured open sources web-based search engine released under the GNU General Public License and designed to organize search within a website, group of websites, intranet or local system. ]

dnsadmin - A web control panel for dns administrators. DNS information is stored in mysql and can be output to either BIND or tinydns files. (C) [GNU/Linux, Unix]

Dnsupdate - An IP address update program for dynamic DNS updates as defined in RFC2136. It submits dynamic IP address update requests to a name server automatically. (Perl) (Linux)
Meta Description: [ dnsupdate - An automatic IP address updater ]

Domain Technologie Control - A set of PHP scripts for domain administration, MySQL management database, backup scripts generation and scripts for statistic calculation.
Meta Description: [ GPLHost, GPL Host, Domain Technologie Control (DTC) is a GPL control panel for hosting. Using a web GUI for admin and accounting all hosting services, DTC can delegate the task of creating subdomains, email, and FTP accounts to users for the domain names they own. DTC manages a MySQL database ... ]

Exim - Mail Transfer Agent - Message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the Internet.

Ganymede - A system for managing a variety of directory services, such as NIS, DNS, Samba, Sendmail, and tacacs+. (Java)

ht://Dig - A complete world wide web indexing and searching system for a small domain or intranet. (C++) [GNU/Linux, Unix]

HTML::Embperl - Gives you the power to embed Perl code in your HTML documents and the ability to build your Web site out of small reusable objects in a OO-style. (Perl)

ihttpd - A tiny and simple http server that runs under inetd. It supports HEAD/GET/POST, and IPv6.

IRC Services - Provides IRC networks with definitive nickname and channel ownership, allows messages to be sent to offline users, and gives IRC operators more control. [GNU/Linux, Unix]

MnoGoSearch - Search engine software for Internet and Intranet sites. The index can be stored in any of the popular SQL Databases.
Meta Description: [ mnoGoSearch - Internet Search Engine Software storing data in SQL Databases ]

MyServer - Web server administration supporting HTTP, CGI, ISAPI, WinCGI and FastCGI protocols.
Meta Description: [ MyServer Project ]

OpenProtect - Open source e-mail filtering solution for Linux e-mail servers. (C, Perl) [Linux, BSD]

Postfix - A compatible, more secure replacement for sendmail program, which transfers mail over the internet. (C) [GNU/Linux, Unix]

Smarty - A template engine for PHP. It converts the templates into native php scripts upon the first execution. (PHP)

Teapop - An RFC1939 and RFC2449 compliant POP3-server, with virtual domain support and the possibility to authenticate users in several different ways. (C) [GNU/Linux, OpenBSD, Solaris]
Meta Description: [ Teapop is an open source POP3 server software ]

tlsproxyd - Daemon which proxies TLS connections into services which don't support TLS themselves. Readme file, change log, man page, and tarballed source. Requires OpenSSL. (C) [GNU/Linux, Unix]

tpop3d - Pop 3 server designed to be fast, extensible, and secure. Version history, FAQ, overview, and tarballed source distribution. (C) [GNU/Linux, Unix]

UnrealIRCd - An IRC daemon with SSL support and WebTV support. (C) [GNU/Linux, Unix, Windows, Amiga]
Meta Description: [ UnrealIRCd •» News/Announcements ]