February 27 Open Source News

Intel and Yahoo! spawn open-source 'Tashi' cluster Register s 4000-processor M45 cluster, meant to promote research on Hadoop, the open source distributed number-crunching platform. Juiced with CPU and cash donation ...

Linux and Open Source ZDNet (blog) Today Matt Asay urges government buyers to support open source, open data and open standards. Why? Because it's better. Because it promotes competition. ...

Another Day, Another Illogical Attack On Open Source OStatic (blog) With regard to India, the report says that "the industry is also concerned about moves by the government to consider mandating the use of open source ...

Cassidy: Geek Girls Make a Point at Linux Conference San Jose Mercury News Which is how they found themselves last week standing before a crowd of people giving a presentation during the Women in Open Source segment at the Southern ...

Open-source alternatives bring flexibility to textbooks Web Devil Students can access open-source textbooks online for free or purchase a printed version through Web sites of open-source textbook providers. ...

Open Source Starter Kit Builds Runtime Repository for VS 2010 Dotfuscator Suite Redmond Developer News The Runtime Intelligence Endpoint Starter Kit is an open source reference project for building a repository based on SQL Server Express 2005, ...

OSQA.net - Every Question About Open Source Answered KillerStartups.com (blog) It deals with Open Source and its every ramification. The site is absolutely free to join, and it can be entirely used at no cost too. ...

Ten of the best free open-source apps for Windows ZDNet UK The open-source community has much to offer in terms of tools — and not just to Linux users, says Jack Wallen. Most people associate open source with Linux. ...

The Nature and Importance of Source Code and Learning Programming with Python SYS-CON Media (press release) So I thought I'd share some thoughts about programming, its relationship with FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) management and why Python is a good ..