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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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  • Using KeePass Instead of SAP Logon


    SAP Developer Network SAP Weblogs — Authority Authority: 132
    In this blog I describe, how you can use the Open Source Software KeePass not only to save your user and password of a SAP System but also, how you can logon to a SAP system directly from KeePass without using SAP Logon.
    7 hours ago

  • ToTop Link 1.2 for WordPress


    Dao By Design Blog — Authority Authority: 79
    ToTop Link 1.2 for WordPress is out. This simple plugin gives WordPress-powered sites an easy way to add a “return to top” link to their pages. You can see it in action here, simply scroll down the page a bit and you’ll see a “return to top” link appear. New in v1.2 : You can now completely customize the ...
    7 hours ago

  • RVA Open Source looks into the Dillon Rule, new tools for tackling blight


    Church Hill People's News — Authority Authority: 121
    This past week’s RVA Open Source talks about weed, the Dillon Rule, and taking on blight in Richmond : After that, Jesse Richardson, an associate professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at Virginia Tech, gives listeners an overview of the Dillon Rule and how it effects local governments and regional planning. ...
    1 day ago

  • Cloudera Day in DC


    CTOvision.com — Authority Authority: 114
    Carahsoft hosted a Cloudera Day in the DC area on 26 January 2012. Cloudera executives speaking at the event included their CEO Mike Olson, CTO Amr Awadallah, VP of Product Charles Zedlewski, VP of Customer Solutions Omer Trajman, and Cloudera’s Architect Doug Cutting. Doug is known as the founder of many ...
    1 day ago

  • libburnia 1.2.0


    Open Source Pixels — Authority Authority: 138
    libburnia is a project comprised of libraries and binaries for reading, mastering, and writing optical discs. It provides libburn, a CD/DVD/BD burn library, libisofs, a manipulation library for ISO 9660 filesystems, and libisoburn, a ISO 9660 multi-session library. On top of them there is cdrskin, a cdrecord emulator, ...
    1 day ago

  • GNU xorriso 1.2.0


    Open Source Pixels — Authority Authority: 138
    GNU xorriso creates, loads, manipulates, and writes ISO 9660 filesystem images with Rock Ridge extensions. Files can be copied in and out. The session results get written to optical media or to filesystem objects. Rather than needing external tools for ISO 9660 production and CD/DVD/BD burning, it is a static ...
    1 day ago

  • Unicorn 4.2.0


    Open Source Pixels — Authority Authority: 138
    Unicorn is a Unix and LAN/localhost-optimized fork of the Mongrel HTTP server. It is takes full advantage of functionality exclusive to Unix-like operating systems. It will reap and restart workers that die from broken apps, and there is no need to manage multiple processes yourself. Load balancing is done entirely by ...
    1 day ago

  • MSS Code Factory 1.8.3091


    Open Source Pixels — Authority Authority: 138
    MSS Code Factory is a rule-based expert system for translating application models to source code. Release Notes: In tribute to IBM’s venerable 309x hardware, this release produces clean-compiling code for an exception-throwing approach that provides substantial performance improvements under heavy failure loads, ...
    1 day ago

  • Airtime 2.0


    Open Source Pixels — Authority Authority: 138
    Airtime lets you take total control of your radio station via the Web with intelligent archive management, powerful search, an easy playlist builder, a simple scheduling calendar, and rock-solid automated playout. Features include fades, cues, playlists, a programme calendar, Icecast, Shoutcast, and Soundcloud ...
    1 day ago

  • Social website Setup and Install and Year of Hosting and Domain Name


    My Make Money Blogs — Authority Authority: 152
    Thousands Of People Are Making Fortunes By Selling On Social Websites – LikeTWITTER.COM AND FACEBOOK.COM BUT MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW HOW THEY DO IT!With Your New Social Website -YOU Could Be The One Showing Them How And Be Making Sizzling Profits At The Same Time …. Introducing ‘Your Own NEW Social ...
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  • Hiawatha 8.0 release


    Security List Network — Authority Authority: 103
    Hiawatha is a secure and advanced Web server for Unix. It has been written with security as its main goal. It features a rootjail, the ability to run CGIs under any UID/GID you want, prevention of SQL injection and cross-site scripting, banning of clients who try such exploits, and many other features. These features ...
    1 day ago

  • Canonical Plans to Rewrite Ubuntu Interface Again with HUD


    The VAR Guy — Authority Authority: 563
    Just when I thought Ubuntu developers were going to take a break from reinventing the user interface to focus on other pursuits, such as Ubuntu TV , Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth announced a new endeavor, the Head-Up Display , designed to replace window menus. Here’s a look at the plans and what they could ...
    2 days ago

  • Mapping examples using the Unfolding library


    Code & form — Authority Authority: 394
    While preparing for teaching a course in data tracking I was very happy to discover the excellent Unfolding library for making interactive maps in Processing. Unfolding makes it possible to create just about any kind of tile-based mapping application with a minimum of code, simple map drawing typically coming in ...
    2 days ago

  • Unit testing OSGi Blueprint with Apache Camel made much easier


    dzone.com: latest front page — Authority Authority: 146
    A new camel-test-blueprint component makes the lives of developers much easier, by bringing in the ease of JUnit testing Camel applications to the world of OSGi blueprint. You can now run unit tests in the local JVM which runs dramatically faster in a few seconds, you can easily debug, and run tests from without your ...
    2 days ago

  • KDE releases version 4.8 of Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Platform


    dzone.com: latest front page — Authority Authority: 146
    KDE have released version 4.8 of their free and open source software bundle. It provides many new features, improved stability and increased performance. Highlights for Plasma Workspaces include window manager optimizations, and the redesign of power management. KDE applications released today include Dolphin file ...
    2 days ago

  • Appel à contribution : une autre vision de la ville du XXIe siècle.


    UrbaNews — Authority Authority: 111
    UrbaNews.fr a le plaisir de vous inviter à une table ronde dédiée à la "Ville Numérique", le vendredi 17 février à Paris, Mairie du IVe arrondissement. Cet événement sera loccasion pour vous de rencontrer de nombreux experts en prospective urbaine, à savoir Bruno Marzloff du Groupe Chronos, Thierry Marcou de ...
    2 days ago

  • Linux Mint Team Releases the First Stable Version of Cinnamon


    Techie Buzz — Authority Authority: 598
    Linux Mint has been trying to move away from Gnome 3 and did not even consider Unity as an option, when it comes to the desktop environment. About a month ago, we came to know that Clement Lefebvre at  Linux Mint is trying to create a custom desktop environment  for Linux Mint, called Cinnamon. The latest word is ...
    2 days ago

  • Three new stable kernel updates


    Open Source Pixels — Authority Authority: 138
    The 2.6.32.55, 3.0.18, and 3.2.2 stable updates have been released; each contains the usual long list of important fixes
    2 days ago

  • KDE 4.8 released, wants to sashay its way into your computer


    SEO Consultant — Authority Authority: 140
    Sure, it might not have the marketing flair , nor mindshare of another Linux-based project we know, but that doesn’t mean the folks behind KDE haven’t been feverishly polishing their take on the perfect desktop environment. That dedication has resulted in version 4.8, which brings forth a bevy of tweaks big and ...
    3 days ago

  • News on HP WebOS


    Phones Review — Authority Authority: 574
    If you are a lover of the webOS platform and thought that HP had finally laid the ailing mobile operating system to rest you can think again because HP has now released the first open source component of webOS including a calendar showing when the webOS source code will become totally open. According to an...
    3 days ago

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