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28 Mar 08

cairographics.org

"Cairo is a 2D graphics library with support for multiple output devices. Currently supported output targets include the X Window System, Win32, image buffers, PostScript, PDF, and SVG file output. Experimental backends include OpenGL, Quartz, and XCB"

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The Total Growth of Open Source

"the total amount of source code as well as the total number of open source projects is growing at an exponential rate.... Our work shows that open source is expanding into new domains and applications at an exponential rate."

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FreeBSD 7.0 review

"7.0 has been widely anticipated as the release that FreeBSD fans can have confidence in. I wish I could say that FreeBSD 7.0 lived up to the hype. I've long since lost the hope of returning to FreeBSD as a desktop or server operating system"

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open-source scripting environment Komodo Edit 4.3

"Komodo edit uses Scintilla for its editing component but offers a few unique twists... it comes with passable Vi and Emacs keybinding schemes. The Vi scheme doesn't just shift around a few key bindings, it completely changes the way the editor operates

arstechnica.com/...vironment-komodo-edit-4-3.html - Preview

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03 Mar 08

Jonathan Schwartz's Blog: MySQL is Officially a Part of Sun

"the spectrum describing the marketplace spans those with more time than money, who form the user and developer communities around free software; and those with more money than time, who purchase commercial support contracts"

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29 Feb 08

VirtualBox : OS Technology

"install VirtualBox on your laptop - running Windows, MacOS X, Linux or OpenSolaris -[and] you can then run most any other popular Operating System on the same machine. Or several at the same time, depending on what hardware resources are available"

blogs.sun.com/...virtualbox - Preview

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Giving away software makes good sense for Sun Microsystems

"MySQL has approximately 11m deployments around the world. The number that actually purchases a service contract is in the thousands. The number that purchases servers and storage is in the millions."

www.guardian.co.uk/...print - Preview

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13 Feb 08

Welcome to virtualdub.org! - virtualdub.org

"VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms ... licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor ... but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video."

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07 Feb 08

Lout

"Lout is a document formatting system [...]. [It] reads a high-level description of a document similar in style to LaTeX and produces a PostScript file"

lout.sourceforge.net - Preview

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10 Dec 07

Microsoft and the Commoditization of Software

"It no longer fits Microsoft's business model to have many individual offerings and to innovate with new application software. Unfortunately, this is exactly where free software excels and is making inroads."

www.synthesist.net/...onleavingms.html - Preview

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22 Nov 07

Open Source Java 6 on Leopard - Announcing Developer Preview Release 1

"I'm pleased to announce the first Developer Preview Release of the open-source port of Java 6 to Mac OS X. This release includes support for 32-bit and 64-bit Intel machines running Mac OS X Leopard (10.5)"

landonf.bikemonkey.org/19 - Preview

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23 Oct 07

svn-time-lapse-view - Google Code

"SVN Time-Lapse View is a cross-platform viewer that downloads all revisions of a file and lets you scroll through them by dragging a slider. As you scroll, you are shown a visual diff of the current revision and the previous revision."

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02 Oct 07

Kexi Project - "Microsoft Access for Linux" - Home

"Kexi is a Free/Libre and Open-Source integrated data management application, a long awaited Open Source competitor for products like Microsoft Access."

www.kexi-project.org - Preview

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28 Sep 07

Empire or Freedom?

"If a government has the power to arbitrarily take anyone into custody and torture and kill him, how can the citizenry in that society truly be considered free?"

www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18276.htm - Preview

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