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Posts Tagged Free Software

CouchDB accepted as Apache Software Foundation Incubator project

I’m surprised this hasn’t received more news yet: CouchDB has been accepted as an Apache Software Foundation (ASF) incubator project! Here is the email:
On Feb 9, 2008 11:09 AM, Sam Ruby <rubys@apache.org> wrote:
> We’ve had an initial discussion, which attracted a number of messages
> of encouragement, and identified no issues or concerns. Then we
> [...]


McAfee is McScrewed

McAfee, the security company, is warning its investors that the alleged ambiguity of Free Software licenses may put its business at risk:
“Use of GPL software could subject certain portions of our proprietary software to the GPL requirements, which may have adverse effects on our sales of the products incorporating any such software“
No shit, sherlock!
Let’s review [...]


El-Cheapo Community LPI Exams on 15th March 2008

We’re happy to announce that we’ll be organizing an LPI certification session. The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is a non-profit organization geared to provide professional certification for the Linux Community. This would be an excellent opportunity for working professionals, students and interested individuals to get certified at a low cost.
(More information about LPI available here: [...]


Upgraded Fedora Core 6 boxen to Fedora 8

I updated cassini.gathani.org to Fedora Core 8 from Fedora Core 6. It took the better half of the afternoon, thanks to yours truly having used some non-Fedora repositories.
Seems to be working now, with over 400 packages needing an update post installation. I notice a suspicious lag in rendering of GTK windows which clearly needs more [...]


FreeBSD ekhtml, pecl-html_parse, pecl-mdbtools ports

Submitted ekhtml, pecl-html_parse, pecl-mdbtools ports. Within hours, pecl-mdbtools was committed, thanks to Miwi! I’ve never seen such fast turn around time
For some reason, nobody’s touching my CouchDB port . My AstmanProxy port had some troubles building on AMD64 but I sent in a patch for that. I must say that the FreeBSD automated [...]


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