'Not cool, guys' -- Torvalds bemoans size of RC7 for Linux kernel Version 3.5

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	'Not cool, guys' -- Torvalds bemoans size of RC7 for Linux kernel Version 3.5 A host of small modifications and a large number of system-on-a-chip and PowerPC fixes inflated the size of release candidate No. 7 for Version 3.5 of the Linux kernel, according to curator Linus Torvalds' RC7 announcement, made on Saturday. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Sparqlight Get Work Done! - Free Enterprise Social Workflow Sparqlight, the Enterprise Social Workflow Application, is a smart, simple and better way to measure, improve and get work done. Now any enterprise can deploy social workflow to every person and every system in your organization. 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We asked SourceForge's new community manager and longtime open source coder, Rich Bowen, to sniff out a few of the cool, lesser-known projects he thinks IT folks will love. What follows are his picks, along with a few of our own. Read More Open source offense could be our best defense against cyberattacks A core dilemma for IT today is how to properly protect the organizations' information systems and assets given security tools often seem like a black hole sucking down both time and money. But a strong defense doesn't have to be expensive, and a good place to start is assessing what information is publicly available and figuring out how to safeguard it from attack. Read More WHITE PAPER: Oracle Why do I need a standby database environment? Read the Study that Adds Up to a 2,000 Hour Time Savings Versus SQL Server. ORC International, a global leader in market research, conducted a comparison study between Oracle Database Appliance and Microsoft SQL Server measuring productivity differences between the two solutions. Learn More Want your MTV? Let's open source television Late last night/early this morning over 20 million homes that subscribe to DirectTV (including mine) were no longer able to watch 17 different channels that are owned by Viacom. Most of the channels I frankly don't give a hoot about not having. Read More From tech to toilet paper, Berliner tries to live completely open source for one year Open source computer, open source mobile phone, open source toothbrush, open source jeans, open source video codec, open source camera, open source beer and even open source toilet paper: these are just a few things you need if you decide to make every aspect of your life open source for a year. A 28-year-old filmmaker from New Zealand living in Berlin is going to try just that. Read More How to get started with ActiveMQ A message broker facilitates passing information between applications. The open source Apache ActiveMQ message broker routes, transforms, aggregates, or stores messages based on rules you specify. Read More Linux is culprit in leap-second lapses: Cassandra exec A number of high-profile outages that took place last weekend can be traced back to how the Linux OS kernel mishandled a leap second added to the official time, charges the CTO of DataStax, a company that manages the open source Cassandra database. Read More
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