Archive for January, 2010

Ladies of all ages and backgrounds (its not just for seniors) are invited to join my new chapter in the Red Hat Society called the “Thrifty 50 Hatters”.
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Sometimes tips come in that seem too good to be true. Take today, for example. I got a tip that Bill Gates’ new site, The Gates Notes , was running on a Linux-powered server. This would be ironic since Gates is of course the founder of Microsoft, which is Linux’s biggest competitor in the server market. It would be the equivalent of catching Gates or CEO Steve Ballmer being caught using (and not …
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PC World – Small business has reason the cheer Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, now that it appears OpenOffice.org and MySQL look to do well–perhaps better–under new ownership.
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The VAR Guy: “Each day, the drumbeat for Ubuntu Server Edition is getting slightly louder. In recent weeks, a growing list of ISVs (independent software vendors) has vowed to support Canonical’s Linux server operating system”
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TuxArena: “Finch is a powerful text user interface instant messaging client based on libpurple, and it comes included in the Pidgin source, the popular GNOME IM client. Finch supports various protocols, including AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo and IRC.”
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