Open Web Journal
Last weekend I had the pleasure of presenting at the Central Pennsylvania
Open Source Conference on the topic of Contributing to FOSS (slides available
here).
In the talk I explored the many ways individuals can get involved in FOSS
(Free and Open Source Software), briefly covering everything from programming
to artwork to documentation. As diverse as these contributions are, the
common thread is close collaboration with the project itself. In particular,
following the procedures in place for contributing to the project is
essential. The talk also reviewed some of the benefits of contributing to
FOSS, which include career advancement and the ability to expand your
professional network.
Although my presentation focused on individual contributions, these... (more)
Virtualization provides the facility to run multiple isolated computer
operating systems on one piece of computing hardware. There has been a huge
increase of interest in virtualization technology because recent advances in
multi-core technology provide significantly more computing power in each
machine with ever decreasing costs. Virtualization is one of the best ways to
take advantage ... (more)
Open Source Journal
Welcome to our new blog.
This blog is part of a new educational initiative to foster a deeper
understanding of the capabilities and issues involved with administering FOSS
(Free and Open Source Software) to deliver concrete business benefits.
Although our subject will sometimes become technical, we will strive to
address the business benefits at the beginning of each ... (more)
If you know the history of LinuxForce, you know that we’ve been doing
remote systems administration using FOSS (Free and Open Source Software)
since our founding in 1995. And we’ve called our remote systems
administration service Remote Responder℠ for a long time too. But the
website RemoteResponder.Net is new.
The new site is part of our educational initiative to explain the issues
inv... (more)
Mary Hayes Weier wrote an interesting article in this week’s edition of
InformationWeek on "Alternative IT: CIOs are more receptive than ever to new
software models". What is great about her article is how she captured the
divergent views on IT models (such as SaaS, cloud computing, etc.) and gave
nice vignettes of different organizations trying different parts of various
models. I espec... (more)
CJ Fearnley was an early leader in the adoption and implementation of Linux and Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in Philadelphia.
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