SOS Open Source News: Redmine, Zarafa and more

June 7, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Roberto Galoppini 

Next week at the Red Hat Open Source Day will be a good opportunity to meet in person, I’ll be charing the final round table with Red Hat and Platinum/Gold sponsors.

SOS Open Source team will be at the upcoming Zarafa Summer Camp 2011, to keynote about Zarafa ecosystem on the 30th of June.

We eventually ended a customization of Redmine for a customer, developed after an evaluation of open source project management tools. As soon as possible we’ll share some customizations, included a long awaited plug-in to assign issues to groups.

After our guide about how to choose Linux distributions, we are working on other comparisons, stay tuned!

How SOS Open Source Evolved in its First Year

May 5, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Roberto Galoppini 

SOS Open Source few days ago completed its first year of life, a good time to look back and and see where we have been and to recognize methods and technologies that have helped us on our journey.

SOS Open Source started back in 2009 as a solution to a customer problem: how to find, evaluate and compare open source projects. Having been looking for years at open source assessment methodologies, our first step was to grab the best from all the existing ones, possibly avoiding common mistakes and pitfalls. Read more

Which Linux Server Distribution?

April 4, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Roberto Galoppini 

We have tried to provide a general guide to choose a Linux (server) distribution, gathering information about both Linux distro built by volunteers (eg.: Debian) and by vendors (Canonical, SUSE, Oracle, Red Hat, and others).

The document – at the moment available only in Italian – is organized as follows:

Linux: a trademark, a kernel, many distributions – some historical background on Linux name and its trademark, and how an elementary kernel in about 20 years gave birth to over 300 distributions.

Who does write Linux, Linus Torvalds? – an overview of who contributes to the development of Linux, , in order to better understand the quality and quantity of contributions made by various players. Read more

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