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Open Source Software Developers Make More Money

Posted: 03 Mar 2008 01:58 PM CST

If you know open source based application development, you can make more money. A report from New York City-based consulting company Bluewolf says IT salaries across the board will continue to rise in 2008:

The rise of open source software in application development puts developers with a specialization in those technologies in a position to ask for a 30 or 40 percent pay increase, Kirven says. “We’ve gotten more requests from our permanent placement division for open source developers in the last six months than in the last five or six years combined,” he says. “It’s not as easy as getting free software, someone has to get it up and running. LAMP is everywhere now — these types of technologies no one heard of 18 months ago are all the sudden becoming a hot commodity.”

Coming Soon Commercial support for Drupal Web site builder / CMS

Posted: 03 Mar 2008 09:09 AM CST

Drupal is a free, functional and open source modular framework and content management system (CMS) written in PHP. Now a startup company will release the first commercially supported distribution of Drupal, in the second half of this year. Acquia company cofounded by Dries Buytaert, Drupal creator and project leader project leader, will sell annual subscriptions for Drupal software and services:

Our software products will include Drupal core, plus various contributed modules, and, potentially, non-Drupal software, assembled into packaged distributions. Our first planned distribution is code named â€œCarbonâ€, more information is available in the Projects section of our site.

Companies such as Forbes and The Onion have used it this service to build web sites. More information available at Acquia web site (via Yahoo news).

Remove Linux User From a Secondary Group ( Supplementary Groups )

Posted: 03 Mar 2008 02:40 PM CST

Q. User tom is a member of a group called sales and printer. I’d like to remove tom from a group called printer without editing any user configuration text files stored at /etc/ directory?

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How To Upgrade FreeBSD 6.3 to 7.0 Stable Release

Posted: 03 Mar 2008 09:32 AM CST

Q. FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE is now available for the 64 and 32 bit computer architectures. How do I upgrade FreeBSD version 6.3-pX 64 bit to latest 7.0 64 bit system?

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