<b>Linux User and Developer:</b> "The two fundamental concepts in a Linux operating system are processes and time slice. A process is an instance of a program that is being executed by the computer’s operating system."
<b>The H Open:</b> "Lightweight desktops have a multitude of uses, on netbooks, for mobile devices, for older hardware, for users with limited requirements of their systems, for connecting to applications in the cloud, and for bare knuckled programmers who prefer to work closer to the metal."
<b>Datamation:</b> "Among the promises of open source software is that there is no vendor lock-in. It's a promise that new open source startup ForgeRock is aiming to deliver upon by supporting and extending the OpenSSO open source single sign-on and identity management platform formerly supported by Sun Microsystems."
<b>HowtoForge: </b>"rTorrent is a popular command line based bittorrent client. It provides very powerful features yet it is very light on the system - contrary to other bittorrent clients like Vuze."
In this article we are going to discuss how to use the Axis2 code generation tool to generate client side code that invokes the Amazon EC2 cloud APIs. We'll also look at how to set up that code to invoke a remote service.
<b>The VAR Guy:</b> "While Red Hat, Novell, Canonical and other Linux distribution providers continue to gain momentum, most of the Linux chatter has very little to do with small business success. Consider the facts:"
This installment of Scott Mitchell's multi-part ASP.NET tutorial looks at using Microsoft's free ASP.NET AJAX framework to build interactive, Web 2.0 user interfaces and at how to refresh the content within an UpdatePanel using JavaScript.
<b>LinuxUK:</b> "Take for instance a low powered, possibly mobile/embedded system with limited processing power and memory. A cloud based service for these devices could allow resource intensive tasks to be offloaded to an online server somewhere, greatly improving the UX"
With this new release, Novell's identity management tools/framework cover the move of services and identity floating in the clouds, and more tools for access and security on the way.
<b>eWeek:</b> "The open-source software community is up in arms over claims that IBM has broken a promise by asserting its patents against an open-source project. IBM denies that it has done so."
<b>swpat.org:</b> "201001_acta.pdf is a leaked copy of the full "January 18th 2010 consolidated text" of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Below is a full transcript."
Unified communications is an essential small business technology that tames the wide range of office and mobile devices we use to conduct business every day. Our UC expert explains how it all works.