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World's 'simplest' Linux laptop reaches the UK

French firm Ordissimo is bringing “the world’s simplest laptop” to the UK, a small family of Linux-based computers aimed at the population of holdouts who find conventional PCs and the online world that comes with it too complex to bother with. read more »

CERN's open-source messaging framework is at (nearly) the speed of light

Felix Ehm, a member of CERN's beams control group, has always had a curious and scientific bent. read more »

Open source in government 'could save taxpayers hundreds of millions of pounds'

Open source software in government could save taxpayers hundreds of millions of pounds, an open source advocacy group claimed on the eve of its 10-year anniversary. read more »

Dell to deliver Ubuntu Linux Laptop

Dell has done another u-turn on open source and announced it will again ship a laptop running Ubuntu Linux. read more »

Facebook open-source data centre project gains strength

Facebook's year-old project to develop open-source hardware designs with the aim to build efficient data centres gained momentum on Wednesday, with some top technology companies joining the effort and introducing server designs. read more »

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In Depth

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Open source driving business app development, survey finds

Hardly a month goes by without some fresh evidence of the growing popularity of open source software, and perhaps one of the best examples in recent weeks has been Microsoft's creation of its new Open Technologies division. read more »

Open source the key to cloud innovation

In the 25 years since Richard Stallman wrote the GNU General Public License, free and open source software (FOSS) have become pervasive in computing: Linux, Apache HTTP Server, MySQL and more can be found in large numbers of enterprises across the globe. And open source is now increasingly undergirding cloud computing as well. read more »

10 up-and-coming open source projects you should know about

With so many open source software projects under way at any given moment, it can be difficult to keep tabs on all that's going on. read more »

Linux lovers should try FreeBSD for stable systems

Linux may not yet enjoy the widespread recognition that Windows does, but there's no denying its popularity on servers, its growing use on desktops, or its ubiquity in the mobile world in the form of Android. read more »

Can open source save the planet?

Ambitious open source projects are nothing new. After all, the free software movement started with the GNU project - the creation of free tools to build a free operating system - which at one point many would have considered an impossible dream. read more »

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