Modern all-purpose Linux distributions require a lot of RAM and disk space. What's going on, is it lard? Functionality? Have the bytes themselves gotten porky? Paul Rubens investigates the Case of the Portly Linux.
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Don't Miss the Boat
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If you're in the mood for Linux — and who amongst us isn't - September may be your month, as the Linux Foundation presents the inaugural LinuxCon in Portland. Just shy of two months ago we sounded the call to rise, shine, and catch the early bird rate - sadly, the early bird's worm is no more. It's still possible, though, to grab yourself a spot and shave a nice slice off the price.
Read more »Canonical Announces Inexpensive Phone Support
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Canonical has announced consumer-oriented phone and email support for Ubuntu Desktop Edition. Ubuntu offered phone support before, however it was priced for enterprises managing large install bases. The new support plans are targeted at consumers and start at about $50 per year.
Read more »Opensourc3 Magazine publishes it's first issue
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Welcome to the premier Unified Computing magazine for Information Technology Professionals. Published on a monthly basis, opensourc3 is available for FREE download in PDF format, or can be read on-line. This first issue contains articles on Hypervisor and Cloud Technologies, Virtualization and KVM, Deploying iSCSI in Linux, Management with Puppet and more.
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Twitter, Linux, Red Hat, Microsoft "honored" with Pwnie Awards
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Think of the annual Pwnie Awards delivered at the Black Hat conference as a geek version of the Oscars – if they were combined with the tongue-in-cheek Razzies that celebrate the worst of Hollywood.
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Firefox to reach 1 billion downloads today
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Mozilla's popular Firefox web browser is quickly approaching one billion downloads for all versions since it was officially launched. According to the Firefox Download Guesstimator, the total number of downloads should reach one billion between 13:30 and 15:00 GMT today.
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FireFTP: No mindshare for Ubuntu?
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The fact that FireFTP only currently links (easily) to the FireFTP version designed for Firefox 3.5 leads me to believe that they don't really have Ubuntu in mind in the same way they do Windows and Mac OS X users.
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Debian adopts time-based releases -- somebody check the temperature in hell
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You may have seen that the Debian project (my particular GNU/Linux distribution of choice) has decided to schedule fixed time-based releases in future. This has come as a surprise to many - including possibly some Debian developers - largely because of Debian's long-standing "we ship when it's ready" policy. So what caused this change of heart and is it a good idea.
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Firefox nears 1 billion downloads
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Mozilla's Firefox is nearly a major milestone - 1 Billion downloads. That's BILLION with a B.
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Why Code For Free? Yet More Linux/FOSS Devs Speak! (part 3)
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The headline says "Why Code For Free", but it's really more complicated than that because there are many FOSS developers who are paid to work on FOSS projects. In this final part of our series, more developers speak on the rewards of being part of the FOSS community.
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Is TomTom Really an Open Source Software Company?
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The only references to software source code that I found in TomTom’s prospectus related to a discussion about copyright protection of source code (as opposed to “object” code, not open source code). I searched via a .pdf “find” and admit that even after apparently illegally obtaining the TomTom prospectus, I did not read it.
Read more »WFTL Bytes! for July 29, 2009
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This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Wednesday, July 29, 2009, with your host, Marcel Gagné. On today's newscast . . . an unholy alliance (or a really good one, depending on who you ask), Yahoo turns B-movie monster, Alfresco cosies up to Ubuntu, TUX is in your pocket, and "What are you? Color-blind!"
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Why writing a Windows compatible file server is (still) hard
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Interoperability with Windows is hard. But somebody has to do it. And if you're going to do something, you might as well try and do it well (and try and have some fun at the same time) :-)
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Red Hat Enterprise clone poised to 'die'
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According to six concerned CentOS developers, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone is poised on the edge of the abyss. In an open letter posted to the CentOS website and the project mailing list, six fellow developers accuse project co-founder Lance Davis of putting the entire project at risk by disappearing from everyday involvement without ceding control to others.
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PortableApps.com reaches 100 million downloads
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PortableApps.com founder John T. Haller has announced that his site for portable applications has reached its 100 millionth download milestone. PortableApps.com allows users to easily install various popular open source applications to a USB flash drive or external hard drive. Once installed, the applications can run completely from the drive and be used on any Windows computer.
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