A while ago, I was in an Internet café at a tiny mall here in Bohol for a quick check at my Email. The place has around 40-50 desktop computers with decent tech specs and with LCD monitors.
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OpenOffice 3.0 Downloads Reach 10 Million
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At the 6th Annual OpenOffice.org Convention in Peking November 5-7, the project could celebrate a new milestone in their 3.0 release: downloads of their office package have reached 10 million.
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The evolution of open source software
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I am now realizing that the future of open source software looks much different than I first expected. Proprietary software will be quietly built on open source software
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Shuttleworth on Dell, Greg KH, More
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Mark Shuttleworth joined in for a two hour Q&A session, where he answered a wide range of questions regarding Ubuntu and its parent company, Canonical. They ranged from questions regarding Canonical's relationship with Dell, all the way up to Shuttleworth's response to Greg Kroah-Hartman's criticism of Canonical.
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Windows 7 no threat to netbook Linux
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I've been nonplussed the last few weeks as ordinarily sane compu-journalists opine that Windows 7 will somehow kill Linux on netbooks. This weekend, I had a chance to actually see XP running on an EEE 900, and I can tell you, Linux has nothing to fear from Redmond.
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Linux software installation myths
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Ah, hello, it's actually easier to install software in Linux than it is in Windows
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Why do netbook vendors make their own distribution?
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The thing that's disappointing to me is that they all have their own Linux distribution. As a matter of fact, the Eee PC I talk about so much, comes with a custom version of Xandros that is based on Xandros and KDE.
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You can have your computer and save money, too
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Ever wonder how much money you could save on computing if you put your mind to it? PCs and Macs can be fabulously expensive if you want peak performance and bells and whistles. But a fairly modest investment is good enough for the basics of Internet and office applications.
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Red Hat and Ingres Offer Open Source Stack for Independent Software Vendors
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Ingres and Red Hat today announced plans to work closely together with Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) in the EMEA region.
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Is Smolt the Key to Counting Linux Users?
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Linux users are not an easy bunch to profile or to count. Many Linux users download the operating system for free and never perform any kind of systems registration to enumerate their hardware.
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Levolor leverages Talend to better manage floods of data
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When Levolor, a maker of window coverings, was looking for a better way to manage floods of data more quickly and efficiently, it ended up swapping its homegrown application for an open source tool.
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Microsoft Office for Linux - It Just Might Happen
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I bet you never thought you would hear the term 'Microsoft Office for Linux' associated with 'reality,' but it looks like it just might happen - well, indirectly at least.
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IBM Lotus Adds Mac OS X, Ubuntu Linux Support To Symphony Apps
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Expanding its efforts to offer an alternative to Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT)'s Office desktop applications, IBM (NYSE:IBM) is making its free Lotus Symphony office productivity suite available for Apple (NSDQ:AAPL)'s Mac OS X and Canonical's Ubuntu Linux.
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Winemaker wears a Joomla! developer hat
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Dave Whiting, the principal at Red Newt Cellars winery in upstate New York, was tired of chasing vendors to try to get them to support clunky custom content management systems on his site at RedNewt.com.
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Linux threat to Microsoft
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Small laptops are becoming a big problem for Microsoft's Windows business.A new breed of lightweight computers called netbooks are beginning to crack the company's dominance of operating systems
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