"My 7-year old has declared Linux is cool," says Alex Hooper. Alex is an individual member of The Linux Foundation and has been using Linux for five years.
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Why Microsoft is Being Nicer to Open Source
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If there was any take-away I got from LinuxCon a couple of weeks ago, it was this: open source has finally become mainstream.
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Fullcircle Magazine issue 40 released
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It’s hard to believe, but we’re already at issue 40! We’ve got a lot of great stuff for you in this issue, including a spiffy new logo redesign by Thorsten Wilms. You might also notice a slight font change-that’s the new (official) Ubuntu font.
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Fedora Users gather together in Switzerland
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This years Fedora Users and Developers Conference (FUDCon) EMEA will happen from 17th to 19th September 2010 on the premises of the ETH Zurich, Switzerland. It features talks, hacking and barcamp sessions related to anything within the Fedora ecosystem. The event coincides with the FrOSCamp which is an annual, multilingual two-day event.
Read more »Canonical Should Adhere to Freedom Principles, Keep Feet on the Ground (Not ‘Cloud’)
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Under new leadership, the Debian-derived Ubuntu sees a push for Fog Computing and further disposition of Freedom values
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How Much Does Linux Need the Desktop?
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Does the true future of Linux on computing devices lie outside of desktop computers? It’s no secret that on the desktop Linux has held steady at only about one percent market share for many years, and that has caused many pundits to proclaim that it will never be a truly meaningful player.
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Interview with Stormy Peters of The GNOME Foundation
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In this interview I chat with Stormy Peters about GNOME, Ubuntu and more. I had the opportunity to ask Stormy for an interview during a brief conversation at OSCON earlier this year.
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Announcing WriteType 1.0.98
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The next version of WriteType (1.0.98) is now available for download! WriteType is a word processor designed to make typing easier and more efficient for young students and students with disabilities.
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Interview with Bradley Kuhn of the GNOME Advisory Board
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Stormy Peters interviews Bradley Kuhn, who represents the Free Software Foundation on the GNOME Advisory Board.
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Ubuntu One taking care of Windows users ... not so much users of other Linux distributions
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A look at the roadmap for Ubuntu One reveals the following feature planned for Maverick — Windows file sync: Addresses the needs of the many Ubuntu users who operate in a mixed platform environment of Ubuntu + Windows ... Will support syncing files between Windows desktops and your Ubuntu One personal cloud ...
Read more »Allison Randal appointed Technical Architect of Ubuntu
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Allison Randal, known for her work as an architect of the Parrot virtual machine, has been appointed Technical Architect of Ubuntu at Canonical by Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth.
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Bossie Awards 2010: The best open source software of the year
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InfoWorld's Test Center picks the top open source platforms, middleware, applications, and application development tools
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Keep the "Linux" out of it Please
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Android and Ubuntu are arguably the two largest Linux success stories to date. Ubuntu with its soaring success over other Linux-based desktop solutions and Android with its seemingly single handed domination of the mobile market. What makes these two distributions so successful?
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Ubuntu 11.04 Developer Summit announced
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Canonical's Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon has announced that the next Ubuntu Developer Summit will be take place from the 25th to the 29th of October, 2010
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Are open source defences crumbling?
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Over time I have heard or read a lot of stories regarding attacks against open source software. In each of those stories open source has vigorously defended itself and occasionally even gone on the attack. Recently however,
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