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- SourceForge Grows Up - and Out - SourceForge, a media services and e-commerce company that provides open source software downloads and development, is [...] visitors per month -- and it reported more than $40 million in earnings for its last quarter, with no outstanding debt.

- Smartbooks: Embracing Linux With Open ARMs - Asus notwithstanding, netbooks have received a great deal of attention in the Linux community for their role in gaining [...] -- featuring ARM processors and a low price point -- the blogosphere had no choice but to sit up and take notice.

- Wind River Releases Hard and Heavy Hypervisor - Wind River on Tuesday announced the availability of a high-performance Type-1 hypervisor as the latest addition to its [...] Multicore Software Solution for device development supports virtualization on single and multicore processors.

- EnterpriseDB Smooths Way for Oracle App Migration - EnterpriseDB, which has commercialized the PostgreSQL open source database, announced on Tuesday the fifth version of [...] database management system is designed to let users easily migrate more Oracle applications in order to cut costs.

- Trolls and Astroturfers and Shills, Oh My! - There has been plenty of news and excitement on the Linux blogs in recent days, including the release of Linux kernel [...] first OS to support USB 3.0. Woohoo! In an ordinary week, such news would be sure to put a smile on any geek's face.

- Yahoo's Hadoop to Run Free in the Wild - Although it's struggling against both giant rivals like Google and smaller ones like Microsoft's new search venture [...] source distributed file system and parallel execution environment that lets its users process massive amounts of data.

- Leeches or Users? Should Enterprise IT Have to Give Back to FOSS? - When an enterprise adopts open source software, that's generally cause for celebration in the eyes of most Linux fans, [...] all that is FOSS. Not everyone sees it that way, however, as a recent debate on the Linux blogs made patently clear.

- 'MobMovs' Give New Meaning to 'Community' Theater - Think the only way to see a big-screen movie is while slurping a 64-oz. soft drink, eating a five-dollar candy bar and [...] people like John Young, part of a loosely knit network of celluloid renegades resurrecting the drive-in for a new age.

- Struggling US Businesses to Get Help From Crowd-Funding - Kiva.org has spent the past 3 1/2 years raising money on the Internet to finance destitute entrepreneurs in 44 [...] economy's spreading despair, the online microlender is reaching out to low-income entrepreneurs in the United States.

- Fedora Sets Leonidas Loose, Builds Collaboration Portal - The Fedora Project on Tuesday announced Fedora 11, the latest version of its free open source operating system. Code [...] Red Hat, is working hard to carve out a niche. It also has several features that make things easy for desktop users.

- Ruminations on the Chrome-to-Linux 'Clusterf*ck' - It may be natural for Linux aficionados to get upset when someone criticizes their favorite operating system, but that [...] by none other than Google Chrome developer and ex-Firefox lead Ben Goodger -- many Linux bloggers were dismayed.

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