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Department of defense and Linux

By Johan Louwers

The US Department of Defence has done a study on OpenSource software and prepared a document to give guidance. The document is giving guidance on how to approach opensource and by this making it valid for the military to use and consider opensource besides closedsource software. For a long time the US military was... »

100% of 50% to Linux switch

By Johan Louwers

As some people may know I did a switch from windows to Linux at my previous employer and was very happy with it. After some troubles I had running all the tools I needed on a Ubuntu instance running on top of a Dell laptop. Now I have spend the past time working... »

Fun with Linux find

By Johan Louwers

sometimes finding out the way a Linux or UNIX command is working can be fun. For example I have been looking into the way how the find command is working and I have had a lot of fun with it. find can give you a great option to locate exactly the files you want... »

Oracle Sun integration roadmap

By Johan Louwers

As we all know Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems some time ago. One of the big issues that will currently be on the table in those offices is what to do with some of the products. For example Sun is and always have been a big supporter of MySQL and this is a direct competitor... »

Sun Solaris manual pages

By Johan Louwers

We are now providing again a option to check UNIX manual pages from our website. Special thanks to the University of Alabama, University of Athens, SGI and the University of Southampton »

No .NET in Linux

By Johan Louwers

Richard Stallman has opposed against a single app, Tomboy, which has become part of the current unstable release of Debian Linux. Reason for this is that it is depending on MONO. Mono is a cross platform, open source .NET development framework and his concern is that Microsoft might someday stop with .NET and as... »

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Johan Louwers is for more then 10 years working in the IT world in several roles. As a Java and PL/SQL developer, UNIX and Linux administrator, Oracle Consultant, Oracle DBA, network consultant, storage admin and much much more.

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