Development distributions play a crucial role in the free software ecosystem. They are the proving ground where much new software is first exposed to a wider user community; they are also the place where this software demonstrates how well it plays with other packages.
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It Can Now be Cheaper to Shop Using Firefox
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It can now be cheaper to shop using Firefox. Vouchers.Im Indicator for Firefox is a new add-on which will keep consumers aware of all promotions and discounts available on the websites they visit.
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Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Review: Video of Plasma Netbook UI and Qt KDE Lab in South America
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The KDE team are to work closer with Kwin developers to reinforce the integration of the KDE window manager into the project. The announcement was made at the end of the joint Gnome and KDE Gran Canaria Desktop Summit that came to a close July 11.
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Community Live - Online Gaming High Scalability
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The inaugural meeting of the Online Gaming High Scalability Special Interest Group was a one day conference on the theme of "Should you bet on the Cloud".
Read more »Canonical seeking desktop backgrounds for Ubuntu 9.10
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Kenneth Wimer of the Canonical Design Team has announced that the team is seeking high quality desktop backgrounds from "anyone and everyone" for the upcoming Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" release. The team have created a Flickr photo group pool where users can submit or simply browse the proposed backgrounds.
Read more »The Business Of Free
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At the recent Gran Canaria Desktop Summit in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Amarok developers Bart Cerneels and Nikolaj Hald Nielsen gave a talk about how a community-developed Free Software project like Amarok can work with businesses in a way that benefited both, without compromising on the spirit or openness of the project.
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Commands that Should not be run in ubuntu
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These are some of those command which is likely to damage your Ubuntu operating system!
Please DO NOT use any of them with out proper knowledge , just read it!
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Howto find Disk usage of Packages in ubuntu
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The following command help you to find the disk space used by different packages in ubuntu
open a terminal window and run the command
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the home desktop, the the work station and the school desktop, oh my!
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It is the dream of untold OpenSource developers to have OpenSource and Linux dominate the home desktop market. To banish Microsoft Windows from the the 'adults' table over to the 'kids' table forever. What is it that Linux and OpenSource need to offer to accomplish even a portion of that dream?
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Open Source vs. Proprietary - Who Are The Real Zealots?
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Linux is at war. Linux is under attack. Do you, dear reader, have any enemies? Who, pray tell? Your mother-in-law? That one manager at work? An ex-partner? You know who Linux's enemy is?
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Fedora 11 vs. Ubuntu 9.04
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The First Church of Linux
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If I hadn't already known--or at least had some idea of the religious zeal I was about to face, I would have been more shocked at the response to my 2009's 10 Worst Linux Distributions post from the other day.
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Ubuntu NGO team set up – it needs your help!
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It’s been five weeks since I started some research around the topic and I’m quite happy with the comments and the subsequent discussion at UDS.
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Diversity in open source
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There are a ton of different groupings where you hear "Why aren't there enough XYZ's in our (community|profession|hobby|party)?" Those in the majority wish to be more inclusive of whatever the minority is, but don't know how.
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An Interview with Valerie Aurora: File System Evangelist
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Jeff Layton talks to Valerie Aurora, file system developer and open source evangelist, about a wide range of subjects including her background in file systems, ChunkFS, the Union file system and how the developer ecosystem can chip in.
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