Yet I still wonder. How many people have switched to free platforms after realizing that they already used or could switch to completely free software that did what they needed?
Read more »More Pragmatic Questions about F/OSS on Proprietary Platforms
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Engineering world-class support for open source
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"During my trip to Raleigh, I was fortunate to catch up with Iain Gray, vice president of Global Support Services at Red Hat. With my Alfresco hat on, I wanted to find out how Red Hat manages support, and with my CNET hat on, I wanted to share that insight."
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Slackware: old warhorse is going strong
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The last time I looked at Slackware was nearly seven years ago; version 7.1 was thrown my way by a magazine and I was asked for a review. My usage of the distribution had ended early in 2000 when I moved to Debian after using Slackware 4.0 and then 7.0 for about a year.
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 In Ubuntu...
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Thunderbird is great. I use it everyday to check my three email accounts, all at once. However, the Thunderbird in Ubuntu Feisty’s repositories is a little outdated...
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Liberation Ubuntu Script...
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After recently writing a script to Install Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 in Ubuntu, I’ve decided to write more scripts to complete other tasks. So instead of having to manually run these commands to install Liberation fonts in Ubuntu, you can now run this script to do everything you need.
Read more »Howto Install Irssi...
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Many Ubuntu users will find themselves needing help with their new OS. Many of them will turn to the Ubuntu forums, others will search the web, and then many will simply join the #ubuntu channel on irc.freenode.net. The #ubuntu channel is full of people, and you can get help for most of your...
Read more »Zap2It Labs Discontinuing Free TV Guide Service
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For several years we have offered a free TV listings service to hobbyists for their own personal, noncommercial use. In October of 2004 we posted here an open letter saying the future of Zap2it Labs was at risk because of certain growing misuses of the Zap2it Labs data. Unfortunately this misuse has continued and grown.
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SFLC to Host Legal Summit for Software Freedom - Software Freedom Law Center
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Meeting Will Bring Together Prominent Lawyers of the Free and Open Source Software Community and Provide Free Legal Education to the Public
Read more »Review: Puppy Linux 2.18
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Puppy Linux is a light weight Linux distribution built from scratch and born in mid 2002. It’s creator, Barry Kauler, originally created Puppy Linux as a fun project to do in his spare time.
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Amarok and Digikam ports for KDE 4
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KDE 4 is coming closer, and the 3rd party programs are busy porting. Amarok now unveiled that they will reuse some Plasma techniques to create appealing effects while Digikam reported a first version running on KDE 4.
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NVIDIA GeForce 8: Linux vs. Windows
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With the GeForce 8 series we have come across some unusual issues that are limiting the performance of the GeForce 8 series under Linux and Solaris. In this article, we have additional information on these austere performance problems along with benchmarks showing the frame-rate differences between Windows XP and Linux.
Read more »Howto: Add a new yum repository to install software under CentOS / Redhat Linux
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CentOS / Fedora Core / RHEL 5 uses yum for software management. Yum allows you to add a new repository as a source to install binary software.
Read more »openSUSE gets a new manager
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I'm glad to announce that I have given over my responsibilities for the openSUSE distribution to Stephan Kulow . As from now on Stephan is project manager for the openSUSE distribution.
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SFLC to host legal summit on software freedom
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Meeting Will Bring Together Prominent Lawyers of the Free and Open Source Software Community and Provide Free Legal Education to the Public
Read more »Menhir, the distribution of four free operating systems, is started
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If you look at the Free Software scene you see that most if not all projects - at the operating system level and at the application level - and magazines, blogs and newspapers concentrate on GNU/Linux. Also you can note that most people start with a Linux distribution and then lock himself in the GNU/Linux world.
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