Ivan sees the OLPC as an educational tool while RMS views it as a vehicle to lead millions of kids away from a world of non-free software, besides being an educational tool. If porting Sugar to Windows on OLPC XO has the effect of strengthening MS, it should be avoided at all costs.
Read more »OLPC and Windows: A Reply to Ivan Krstić
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First look to Thunderbird 3 (a.k.a Shredder) Alpha 1
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It turned out that a few weeks were really more like a few minutes. Mozilla Messaging has released the first alpha of Shredder (icon wanted), the code name of Thunderbird 3.
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STFUbuntu - The HOT New Linux Distro
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Have you ever wished your computer had the balls to tell you to STFU? Have you every wished it T4LK3D L1K3 7H1S? Have you ever dreamt of saying STFU every time you tell people about your HOT new distro?
Read more »ODF Going Strong Despite Microsoft’s War Against It
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To those who think that Microsoft’s OOXML scandals are over, looking a little further is recommended.
Read more »How to add an internationalized keyboard to your Web site
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JavaScript VirtualKeyboard provides a virtual keyboard entirely written in JavaScript with more than 130 supported keyboard layouts allowing you to enter text in a variety of languages.
Read more »PHP 6.0: More to Love, Less to Hate
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Programmers are snobs. Not all of us, mind you, but many of us. If you're not convinced, ask a programmer what programming language he or she uses. And then ask them what they think of another language -- say, C, or Java, or Perl, or Ruby
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Call for action/trans-european action-day in September for civil rights, against mass-surveillance
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"Hi friends, Finally and as mentioned at the last meetings at 24C3 in berlin and Fosdem in Brussels, were are now ready to call to the trans-european action day in September 2008. The plan is to call to demonstrations, street parties, art actions, sit-ins, happenings, blockades in every european capital at the same day.
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Ubuntu Stealing Linux Thunder?
http://www.osweekly.com –
There is a growing identity crisis in the Linux community. In simplest terms, is Ubuntu taking the spotlight away from other deserving Linux distributions?
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Gentoo Foundation Reinstated
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"In case you missed it, the Gentoo Foundation has been reinstated, so we're all nice'n'legal again..."
Read more »How To Change Your Login Screen In Fedora 8
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This is a simple howto on changing your log on screen. This will also work with other distros. This is a very easy way to add more eye candy to your Linux system.
Read more »Firefox 3 Themes
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If you are reading this post odds are you are one of the 1.2 million people currently enjoying a beta or nightly build of Firefox 3. However are you a big enough Firefox fan that you like to run it simultaneously on 4 different platforms?
Read more »Find files fast with Referencer
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From time to time I have the need to organize the files on my disk. Documents, Mp3s, pictures…all of them get scattered all over the disk after a while. You can prevent this if you’re organized from the start. And sometimes I’m a little lazy on that task.
Read more »Watching Live-TV On Your Ubuntu Desktop With Zattoo
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Zattoo has developed a software program that allows you to watch TV on your computer. All you need is a broadband connection and a current operating system (Windows XP or Vista, Mac OS X, or Linux). The service is legal and free of charge.
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Worst Hardware For Your Linux Desktop
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I have been asked this over and again - which hardware should be avoided before installing Linux? The list is actually smaller than you might expect, but it is helpful if you would like to remain in a headache-free zone.
Read more »Linux’s biggest victory so far - Splashtop to ship on ASUS motherboards
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In what I think is the biggest victory for Linux so far, DeviceVM’s Splashtop Linux desktop will ship across the entire P5Q range of motherboards, with more to follow by the end of the year.
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