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OpenGL (the open standard graphics library originally developed by SGI, pioneers in computer visualization) is fully supported under Linux, meaning that accelerated viewport previews, such as rotating around a textured and shaded model, and real-time or near real-time playback of scene... Nov. 29, 2004 Reads: 25,966 Replies: 2 | Linux is coming to a desktop near you. In the last year the question being asked has gone from 'Can it happen?' to 'When and how do we get there?' Nov. 24, 2004 Reads: 18,639 Replies: 4 | The Free Software Foundation was founded when software was becoming increasingly proprietary and restricted, with software vendors asserting more and more control over what customers could do with their software. Nov. 14, 2004 Reads: 11,997 Replies: 1 | Linux.SYS-CON.com's senior contributing analyst, Bill Claybrook, spoke with John Loiacono, executive vice president of Sun Microsystem's Software Group about his new job, and what he has in store for Sun's Linux strategy. Nov. 12, 2004 Reads: 37,118 Replies: 17 | Penguinistas have long loved to ruminate over a beer about the potential reversal of market share between Microsoft and companies offering open source solutions. But such ruminations were often left to discussions at the pub or the local LUG meeting because in a corporate business sett... Nov. 12, 2004 Reads: 29,686 Replies: 19 | The JFC/Swing API, natively precompiled on Linux for the first time, delivers measurable improvement in Java GUI performance. The Excelsior Engineering Team has ported Excelsior JET, a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) with an ahead-of-time compiler, to the Linux/x86 platform. Nov. 11, 2004 Reads: 36,276 Replies: 5 | Telecommunications service providers face a tough challenge in today's marketplace. To stay competitive and profitable, they must rapidly introduce new voice and data services while, at the same time, continue to reduce capital expenses and operating costs. Oct. 29, 2004 Reads: 9,671 | In August, as the proverbial dog days of summer were upon us, I found that news in the Linux world slowed as many people went on vacation with their families. Consequently, these Linux users spent a considerable amount of time snapping large numbers of pictures, capturing memories of l... Oct. 29, 2004 Reads: 18,135 | This article describes how an industry-leading online pharmacy safely and successfully fills thousands of prescriptions each day using an ordering and workflow system built on top of SUSE Linux and Emic's clustering application solution. Oct. 29, 2004 Reads: 13,631 | While many paranoid system administrators and users still consider any WLAN to be a gaping hole, these networks can be successfully secured against snooping and unauthorized access with a little thought and effort. Fortunately for us, Linux provides some flexibility when it comes to ch... Oct. 29, 2004 Reads: 24,253 | As the Linux and open source communities continue to expand, there's a lot of discussion happening around the ideas of open source and open standards. It's not enough, people say, to just have the software code be open source - the standards themselves need to be open too. Oct. 29, 2004 Reads: 17,221 | Data Center Linux (DCL), one of four OSDL initiatives, has the goal to accelerate Linux adoption in corporate data centers. DCL provides a center of gravity for developers, users, vendors, and the open source community to work together to improve Linux capabilities and feature requirem... Oct. 29, 2004 Reads: 14,927 | First things first. This is a tale of addiction. It isn't pretty. If you have small children, you should probably keep this out of their hands until they're ready to deal with the frankly mature material involved. Oct. 29, 2004 Reads: 11,263 |
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