Open Source

Open source is a set of principles and practices that promote access to the production and design process for various goods, products, resources and technical conclusions or advice. The term is most commonly applied to the source code of software that is made available to the general public with relaxed or non-existent intellectual property restrictions. This allows users to create user-generated software content through incremental individual effort or through collaboration.

Popular open source projects include the Apache web server, MySQL database, and Firefox web browser, as well as many others.

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation formed to educate about, and advocate for, the benefits of open source. OSI works to build bridges among different constituencies in the open-source community.

One of the OSI's most important activities is as a standards body, maintaining the Open Source Definition for the good of the community. The Open Source Initiative Approved License trademark and program creates a nexus of trust around which developers, users, corporations and governments can organize open-source cooperation.

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• Only 8 Bugs Stand In The Way Of Chrome For Mac Beta

  
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• Psystar’s predictions… they’re a bit off

  
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• Chrome OS Running on Another Netbook

  
  Between the Poles — Authority: 129
  It has been reported that an employee of Dell has gotten Chrome OS, which Google released to open source Nov 19 , to run on a Dell Mini 10v netbook.  I blogged earlier that Ed Parsons has Chrome OS running on his Aspire One netbook.
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• Fmod4Perl 0.01

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 158
  Fmod4Perl is a Perl extension for the FMOD music and sound effects system. Changes: There are 5 examples rewritten from the original Fmod examples. Tags: Sound/Audio Licenses: LGPL
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• MP3 Diags 1.0.00

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 158
  MP3 Diags finds problems in MP3 files and helps the user fix many of them. It looks at both the audio part (VBR info, quality, normalization) and the tags containing track information (ID3). It has a tag editor, which can download album information (including cover art) from MusicBrainz and Discogs, as well as paste ...
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• sqlamp 0.5.1

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 158
  sqlamp is an implementation of Materialized Path, an efficient algorithm for working with hierarchical data structures. sqlamp uses (and depends on) SQLAlchemy. Materialized Path is a way to store (and fetch) trees in a relational databases. It is the compromise between Nested Sets and Adjacency Relations in respect ...
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• Psystar’s predictions… they’re a bit off

  
  F-Default — Authority: 541
  -: Apple Corporate , Open Source More and more information is coming out about Psystar and their legal issues with Apple . Continued here: Psystar’s predictions… they’re a bit off
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• Psystar’s predictions… they’re a bit off

  
  F-Default — Authority: 541
  -: Apple Corporate , Open Source More and more information is coming out about Psystar and their legal issues with Apple . Some new documents have been leaked with some numbers and predictions from Psystar themselves More here: Psystar’s predictions… they’re a bit off
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• Psystar’s predictions… they’re a bit off

  
  Sell Off Music — Authority: 166
  Filed under: Apple Corporate , Open Source More and more information is coming out about Psystar and their legal issues with Apple . Some new documents have been leaked with some numbers and predictions from Psystar themselves. According to these documents, the company planned on selling 1.45 million Mac ...
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• Psystars predictions... theyre a bit off

  
  The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Authority: 768
  Filed under: Apple Corporate , Open Source More and more information is coming out about Psystar and their legal issues with Apple . Some new documents have been leaked with some numbers and predictions from Psystar themselves. According to these documents, the company planned on selling 1.45 million Mac ...
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• Will the Adult Industry Drive Android Adoption?

  
  Tech Broiler — Authority: 519
  The Adult Entertainment industry drove the adoption of DVD and the streaming media technologies that everyone now enjoys and takes for granted on the Internet. Will pioneering in mobile porn also accelerate adoption of Googles Android mobile OS?
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• check_logfiles 3.1

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 158
  check_logfiles is a plugin for Nagios which checks logfiles for defined patterns. It is capable of detecting logfile rotation. If you tell it how the rotated archives look, it will also examine these files. Unlike check_logfiles, traditional logfile plugins were not aware of the gap which could occur, so under some ...
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• Open source fleet management and vehicle tracking system

  
  Software for Enterprise — Authority: 123
  Most organizations these days own at least a few vehicles for various purposes. A construction company would have several trucks and tractors while a travel agency might own several vans and multi purpose vehicles (MPVs). Just like equipments in the office such as printers and servers, vehicles too needs to be ...
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• Rootkit Hunter 1.3.6

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 158
  Rootkit Hunter scans files and systems for known and unknown rootkits, backdoors, sniffers, and malware. The application consists of the main shell script, a few text-based databases, and optional Perl scripts. It can recognise and run external applications like ’skdet’ and ‘unhide’. It should run on almost ...
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• Open Source Personal Finance Software | twit88.com

  
  The Wealthy Soul — Authority: 154
  Open Source Personal Finance Software. By admin on Nov 29, 2009 in Java, open source · Buddi is a personal finance and budgeting program, aimed at those who have little or no financial background More here: Open Source Personal Finance Software | twit88.com
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• Lbzip2 0.18

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 158
  Lbzip2 is a Pthreads-based parallel bzip2/bunzip2 utility, with a command line resembling that of the original bzip2. It is usable both on its own and as a filter passed to GNU tar with the –use-compress-program option. It isn’t restricted to regular files on input nor output. Successful splitting for ...
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• RipTcl 0.4.3.6

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 158
  RipTcl is a front-end to various programs that rips audio CDs and encodes/transcodes to FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV, or AAC under Linux . It provides extended meta tagging features, detects and saves files to USB storage players, burns CDs in DAO mode, plays audio, and supports freedb. Changes: Continuing support ...
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• Pentabarf 0.4.3

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 158
  Pentabarf is conference planning software written in Ruby (using the Rails framework) and PL/pgSQL. Changes: Granting conference permissions by conference admins has been fixed. The conference selection page has been fixed. The broken URLs on the conference search page have been fixed. A bug in the schedule table ...
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• Decibel Audio Player 1.02

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 158
  Decibel is a GTK+ audio player designed for GNU/Linux. It aims at being very straightforward to use by means of a very clean and user-friendly interface. It aims also at being a real audio player and, as such, it does not include features that are not meant to be part of an audio player. Changes: This release ...
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• QtFindReplaceDialog 1.0

  
  Open Source Pixels — Authority: 158
  QtFindReplaceDialog is a Qt implementation of a Find/Replace dialog to be used in Qt text editing applications. A simple Find (only) dialog is also provided. The dialogs can be used as a library or simply by importing the sources into your own applications. Changes: This is the initial public release. Tags: ...
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