Open Source

Magazine articles on open source efforts such as Linux and GNU.

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D-Lib Sep/Oct 2015 Rosenthal et al.	Enhancing the LOCKSS Digital Preservation Technology The LOCKSS Program develops and supports libraries using open source peer-to-peer digital preservation software.
CRM August 19, 2015	X2CRM Releases Version 5.2 of Its Open-Source CRM Software X2CRM 5.2 adds new Workflow Macros, Topics Discussion module, and Platform features.
Fast Company John Paul Titlow	GitHub Is Still Under The Biggest DDoS Attack In Its History In the biggest DDoS attack in its history, GitHub is facing an onslaught of malicious inbound traffic from what appear to be China-based sources.
Chemistry World March 19, 2013 Ilia Guzei	OLEX2 v1.2.1 OLEX2 is a program for small-molecule structure solution, refinement and the preparation of publication material in the field of single-crystal x-ray crystallography.
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2012 Algee et al.	Viewshare and the Kress Collection: Creating, Sharing, and Rapidly Prototyping Visual Interfaces to Cultural Heritage Collection Data Viewshare is a free, open-source visualization platform developed by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress and its partners.
IEEE Spectrum May 2012 Ryan Leavengood	The Dawn of Haiku OS How a volunteer crew brought a crack operating system back
National Defense March 2012 Eric Beidel	Teams Look to Crowd-Source Military Vehicle Design The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has given contracts to the Georgia Institute of Technology, Vanderbilt University and General Electric to come up with open-source software that allows for easy widespread collaboration.
IEEE Spectrum January 2012 Mark Anderson	Data Mining Scrabble Using an open-source artificial-intelligence crossword game program called Quackle, a visiting assistant professor of statistics at Carnegie Mellon University ran nearly 10 million simulated games to discover which Scrabble letter tiles confer the most value to a player.
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