10 Linux Distros Every IT Manager Should Know – Linux and Open Source – News & Reviews – eWeek.com

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Nov 272011
 

Interesting slideshow at eWeek.com, by Fahmida Y. Rashid…

The ability to customize Linux to run on various types of hardware and to suit specific user needs means there are more flavors of Linux-based operating systems available than Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream. While administrators generally stick with the well-known ones, such as Canonical’s Ubuntu, Attachmate’s Novell SUSE and Red Hat Enterprise Linux for their servers and desktops, they are beginning to see other flavors sneaking into the enterprise.

via 10 Linux Distros Every IT Manager Should Know – Linux and Open Source – News & Reviews – eWeek.com.

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What a classroom will look like in 10 years | opensource.com

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Nov 272011
 

Sarah Fudin confirms parts of several ongoing conversations in higher education.  Students want to spend time in class getting help solving problems, not receiving lectures that could be recorded and provided asynchronously.  Students also want the option for electronic textbooks.  Traditional classrooms are not as preferable as small group spaces.

By Sarah Fudin at OpenSource.com…

Technology is rapidly evolving. This evolution is occurring because people are sharing ideas, resources and themselves online 24/7.

So what does this mean for our education? Education has long been seen as a vertical un-adaptive to change. Fifty years ago schools had individual desks, a blackboard in the front of the room and a teacher who administered lessons and testing in accordance to their specific state. Today, schools have individual desks, Smartboards instead of blackboards and a teacher who administers lessons and testing in accordance to their specific state. What has changed?

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Cohuman + Mindjet = Idea management from inception to execution — Online Collaboration

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Nov 252011
 

I’m fascinated the last few years with Mindjet and how people are using it and other mind-mapping software.

By Jessica Stillman at GIGaom.com…

A year ago at Net: Work the audience crowned social task management product Cohuman with the people’s choice award (here’s a screencast explaining how it works). The company was also a Net:Work Future Ideas Launchpad finalist.

So what’s happened to the company since it made a big splash at last year’s conference? (This year’s Net:Work conference in San Francisco is just a few weeks away on December 8th.) In short, they’ve become a piece of a larger puzzle, being acquired by Mindjet to help create a broader solution that takes ideas all the way from inception to execution.

via Cohuman + Mindjet = Idea management from inception to execution — Online Collaboration.

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Virtual Reality Past, Present, and Future: Part 2

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Nov 252011
 

By Dillon Behr at CTOVision.com…

This post is a continuation of last week’s post, which outlined the history and current state of Virtual Reality. Today, I look forward into the future of the technology and examine its potential national security implications. To read part 1 and catch up on the topic check out last week’s blog here.

via Virtual Reality Past, Present, and Future: Part 2.

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9 Best Practices for Successful IT Projects CIO.com

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Nov 232011
 

By Michael Cooney at CIO.com…

Most often when the watchdogs at the Government Accountability Office are called into to check out an agency, process or project they are looking for something that has gone wrong. This week, however the group took a look at some government IT projects that have gone right and came up with some best practices other government agencies or in public corporations could emulate to achieve success in their own IT projects.

via 9 Best Practices for Successful IT Projects CIO.com.

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