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	10 last-minute gift ideas for Linux geeks It may be better to give than it is to receive, but that doesn't mean geeks the world over don't have virtual sugarplums dancing through their heads. Read More WHITE PAPER: Quest Software Combating Security and Compliance Challenges Don't wait for a security breach or compliance issue to damage your company. Ongoing monitoring can proactively identify and reduce threats. Learn how you can successfully stop security issues before they become serious problems. Read More In this Issue Have yourself a very Linux Christmas Yahoo! Please open source Del.icio.us so it can live on! Unholy alliance: Microsoft teams with Apple, Oracle and EMC on 882 Novell patents Cloud computing is careless computing and ChromeOS pushes people into it, says open source father Stallman Easy Linux for your grandparents Hackers get Ubuntu Linux booting alongside Google's Chrome OS CMS: A look ahead at open source CMS in 2011 WHITE PAPER: Dell & Intel Shifting to the Revolutionary Cloud Prepare for the future and enter the new world of private clouds. As more enterprises move from public to private clouds, scaled-out applications will become more prevalent. More scalable apps means more efficiency, better response time and enhanced end-user experiences. Join the cloud revolution. Read More! Have yourself a very Linux Christmas There are gifts for geeks, and then there are gifts for Linux geeks. Read More Yahoo! Please open source Del.icio.us so it can live on! One couldn't help but shed a tear with the news that Yahoo! as part of its latest round of layoffs was killing Del.icio.us, along with MyBlogLog and several other properties. While they may not be money makers or strategic to Yahoo! anymore, Delicious and the others still have plenty of fans out there. Read More PODCAST: Novell Easy as Pie: Migrating from Solaris to Linux Tune in to Rick Ashford, technical specialist for Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise, as he gives the lowdown on what you can expect from the process. He also points out that your biggest risk is if you don't migrate to Linux. Find out why now. Unholy alliance: Microsoft teams with Apple, Oracle and EMC on 882 Novell patents When the news of the Novell acquisition broke, there was intense curiosity around CPTN Holdings, the shadowy consortium that was "organized by Microsoft" which bought certain IP patents for $450 million dollars. For $450 million you had to figure that there was something of value there. Read More Cloud computing is careless computing and ChromeOS pushes people into it, says open source father Stallman Richard Stallman, the legendary founder of the GNU and FSF, is notorious for his disdain of anything not open sourced. It seems that disdain extends to storing any data in the cloud as well. Read More WHITE PAPER: Dell & Intel Wanted: An Ultra-Efficient Enterprise Data Center Make the data center efficient. That's the mandate of late for enterprise IT. Here's how to do it: Start with a simple, standardized infrastructure, add flexibility, solid management and support as well as strategic spending decisions, and you're on your way. Find the details here. Read More! Easy Linux for your grandparents Does Linux need a 1 button OS solution? Read More Hackers get Ubuntu Linux booting alongside Google's Chrome OS I've been testing out a prototype of Google's Chrome OS laptop for about a week now, and while I love certain things about the device my mind keeps coming back to the fact that it would be so much nicer if it could boot a "real" operating system as well. Read More CMS: A look ahead at open source CMS in 2011 As I wrote last week, few markets are as well represented by so many quality open source solutions as the CMS or Content Management Systems space. I had a chance to sit down with three thought leaders in this space. Kathleen Reidy, analyst with the 451 Group, Shaun Walker, CTO and co-founder of DotNetNuke and Todd Barr VP of Marketing at Alfresco. Read More
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