Hacao, the Linux-based Vietnamese IT company, did it again. The good news, they have successfully created a Vietnamese language netbook based on Linux. The bad news, Hacao Linux, based on Puppy Linux, comes installed by default on these netbooks.
Read more »Vietnamese netbook runs on Hacao Linux – my opinion
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Top Ten Must See Sites for the New Ubuntu Citizen
So you have unpacked and installed your brand new Ubuntu OS and are wondering what to do or where to go next, well here I am on hand to help you along.
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[Wild Conjecture] Chrome OS As I Imagine It
Everybody's guessing how would Google shape their recently announced OS. I guess the Internet would not break with one more bunch of half-guesses :)
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It's Time for an International Linux Summit
Just like the international gang summits in Los Angeles, Linux needs a collective, "sit-down" to discuss the future of this now formidable operating system. I'm not talking about a nice little get together with keynote speakers with high-powered, 10,000 foot views of where Linux is and where it's going.
Read more »Samba's Jeremy Allison: Take a Cue from Open Source and Drop Some Ego
Jeremy Allison is co-creator of Samba (the other being Andrew Tridgell), and has been working on the project since its inception 16 years ago. Allison is also the Scan Samba Project Leader. He continues our discussion of open source vs.
Read more »Canonical releases source code for Launchpad
London July 21, 2009: Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu project, announced today that it has open-sourced the code that runs Launchpad, the software development and collaboration platform used by tens of thousands of developers.
Launchpad is used to build Ubuntu and thousands of other projects, and its users can now participate directly in the development of Launchpad itself.
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Ubuntu 9.04 Snaps Desktop Visaster
I finally had my fill of Visaster on my office desktop. I got permission from the IT department to go back to doing my own IT admin work.
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Ubuntu 9.04 – A very buggy affair
Just a few months ago, I decided that I would install a linux operating system in my notebook, though being a Windows fan. So I decided that I can directly jump to the latest version of Ubuntu, Jaunty Jackalope, version 9.04.
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What does the future hold for MySQL?
Michael "Monty" Widenius was the creator of the MySQL database, and founder of Monty Program Ab. He recently spoke with Dr. Dobb's Jonathan Erickson.
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Evolutionary Computing — my open-source journey (PDF)
As an experiment, I decided to bring my Evolutionary Computing presentation on making the journey into free, open-source software — a slide show originally created in OpenOffice Impress 2.4 — into Google Docs, which happens to have a presentation app in addition to the better-known Docs and Spreadsheets components.
Read more »The People Behind Penumbra
I want to personally thank those who brought the Frictional Game Servers to the brink of molten metal. As promised, I want to introduce you to the people that brought the frightful Penumbra Trilogy to you.
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Watch Your Back(ground)
They say that beauty is only skin deep - if that is true, then Linux has a good shot at Miss World, as its available skins are many and varied indeed. As the impending release of Ubuntu 9.10 - colorfully named the Karmic Koala — draws near, it's time to begin thinking about its skin, and that's exactly what the Ubuntu Artwork Team is up to.
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linux malware, sure it’s possible
I did a bit of research into it and discovered that a few people have already documented this possible vulnerability, and that it is somewhat legitimate.
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Tip: Using Spotify On Linux
Spotify is a free and legal service which gives you access to millions of songs. They achieve this by licensing the tracks from record companies in a similar way to radio stations, and they pay for it with advertising. When I first heard about it, like many others I couldn’t see what all the fuss was about. I also discovered there was no Linux version, so I pretty much gave up on it.
Read more »The missing piece of every Linux distribution
There are many Linux distributions out there, nay hundreds of Linux distributions, ready and waiting for your computing pleasure. They all have one thing in common, one missing piece.
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