In recent news, the Symbian Foundation announced that "All 108 packages containing the source code of the Symbian platform can now be downloaded from Symbian's developer web site". This is great news!
Read more »Symbian is Open Source - Really?
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Raising Money for Open Source Projects: How Can We Improve?
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One of the things I admire about the FLOSS community is the willingness to dig in and tackle problems facing a project, whether they're technical, structural (hosting, etc.), governance, licensing, and so on. But it would occasionally be a better idea to try to recruit expertise from the outside than to try to re-invent the wheel inside each project.
Read more »W3C proposes hardware interface
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) draft for a "System Information API" specifies JavaScript functions for accessing the battery, CPU, sensors and other hardware characteristics of a device. For this purpose, the window.navigator object's SystemInfo interface has to implement the get, set and watch methods.
Read more »Ubuntu Now Calls Google Docs the Standard
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Ever used OpenOffice? I remember submitting a document once using the open format, only to find that the person I sent it to could not open it in Microsoft Word.
Read more »Packaging Open Source, by Mark Webbink
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There is an article by Mark Webbink, Esq., "Packaging Open Source", in the International Free and Open Source Software Law Review, Vol 1, No 2 (2009) that I think you'll find interesting. It compares various FOSS licenses and how they handle compilations and collective works.
Read more »Recover from a frozen system with the magic SysRq key| Tips
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The magic SysRq key is an old tip to be used to recover from a frozen system, it is advised to be used when the system absolutely locks up - freeze, and when using Ctrl+Alt+Backspace does nothing .
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Linux Mint 8: Polished, Professional and Nearly Perfect
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The last time I wrote about Linux Mint was when version 5, the Fluxbox Community Edition, launched in 2008, and I was mightily impressed. So, what's new in Mint 8? Let's have a look.
Read more »Nokia Goes Even More Open Source, Opens Symbian
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Nokia, the new steward of Qt, and Linux kernel contributor, says it has has completed the largest transition from proprietary code to open source in software history.
Read more »ARM will fly without Windows? Then bring it on!
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He goes on about how ARM will succeed with or without Windows (not ME) supporting it once it starts being pumped into markets in the shape of a new architecture for netbooks.
Read more »Planetarium Software for Young Children in Ubuntu / Debian Linux : Stellarium
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Stellarium is a free open source planetarium Software for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
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GNOBSD - killed by GUI-is-for-wimps hacker culture
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Stefan Rinkes, a big fan of OpenBSD, had decided to make an effort and create something that is now common in the Linux world, but which had not been done in OpenBSD - an OpenBSD-based live DVD with automatic hardware detection which would boot into a popular graphical desktop and which would also have a point-and-click graphical system installer. The result was a "distribution" called GNOBSD.
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Symbian OS goes open source
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Symbian has annouced that it has completed the migration of its entire platform to open source. The move, which was completed four months ahead of schedule, now makes billions of dollars of code available to developers for free
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How to Manage Multiple SSH Connections in Ubuntu Linux with SSHMenu
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SSHMenu is a GNOME panel applet , that helps you for managing all of your regular SSH connections within a single mouse click. Each menu option will open an SSH session in a new terminal window.
Read more »Microsoft Whitewashes Criminal History in the Press and Attacks the GPL Using Allies
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New heights for Microsoft's spin and lies; the latest wave of GPL smears arrives from friends of Microsoft and former employees
Read more »Exaile 0.3.1 Beta Released, Features An Equalizer And A Revamped Tag Editor
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Exaile 0.3.1 beta (a music manager and player for GTK+ written in Python) has been released today and it's a preview of the new 0.3.1 version but should still be pretty stable to use already! The new Exaile version finally adds a long awaited equalizer, but also includes a revamped and much more powerful tag editor (ExFaso):
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