On Friday, August 15, at 14:30 UTC, Helping Hands is proud to host
Inkscape, presented by our very own jimmac. He’ll introduce you to some of the cool graphics tricks you can do on your desktop.
Inkscape - The next Helping Hands Event
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Linux Virus?
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Ok, so this isn’t really a tutorial or anything, but it really is just plain funny. Whilst browsing the web the other day i was redirect to a helpful site where it gave me a free virus scan, which was obviously very thoughtful of them…
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Is Linux finally ready for the Desktop takeover?
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By attacking from the bottom, where Microsoft can no longer successfully compete, Linux will finally cut itself a large slice of the desktop
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Building an Open Source Community
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Phil Whitehouse of BT has written an article with twelve guidelines to build an open source community: "Some might say that open source communities "just happen", and that they operate on intuition and unwritten social rules, but this logic overlooks the vast quantity of open source projects that fail."
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Ubuntu Linux - Not Ready for Primetime
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First off, for those of you not versed in Operating Systems let’s have a brief overview of the top 3 currently being used.
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Canonical Preparing Virtual Ubuntu Server Appliances
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In a bid to speed and simplify server application installations, Canonical is developing so-called virtual Ubuntu Linux Server appliances, The VAR Guy learned at LinuxWorld Expo.
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Ubuntu really is Linux for humans!
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One summer project that I undertook was checking out Ubuntu, a Linux distro that promises to make the Linux operating system user-friendly for us mere mortals. I was especially prodded to give it a spin after Free Range gave it a friendly nod.
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On Potential
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Regulars of this ‘ere blog will be familiar with my abundant love of all things community. In fact, this has been a long running joke in the LugRadio world where I am accused of saying community way too often. Guilty as charged, m’lud.
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Best Application EVAR!
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so the very kind folks who won the Akademy awards last year ( sebastian trueg, matthias kretz, danny allen ) decided to go ahead and award Amarok with the Best Application award! we are obviously very excited and very pleased to win this award, and want to (tearfully) thank all those users who have been with us through the long dark (teatime of the soul) times of Amarok 1.x....
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Getting involved with GNOME.
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Many people get started “giving back” to the Linux community by getting involved in the community surrounding the distro that they use. However, another great way to get involved is by contributing to the Desktop Environment that you or your distro use.
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2008 Best of Open Source Software Awards
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InfoWorld's annual BOSSIES recognize the best free and open source software the world has to offer to businesses, IT professionals, and productive individuals who rely on computers to get work done.
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5 Useless Compiz Fusion Effects
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Compiz Fusion is the best thing that happened to Linux desktop user experience yet. In the world of Linux bashers who argue that Linux is not quite ready for home users; compiz is one of the few things that really set Linux apart from other OS with major market share.
Read more »There and back again: a narrative of OSCON 2008
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The Open Source Convention, or OSCON as it's more readily known, is an annual confluence of all things open source that has taken place since 1998. From its origins as an informal get together of Perl aficionados, OSCON is now regarded as the place to go for all things open source.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of OSCON, and I was fortunate enough to be a part of that history.
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Interview with Andrew Tanenbaum, Creator of MINIX
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I recently had the opportunity to interview Andrew S. Tanenbaum, creator of the extremely secure Unix-like operating sytem MINIX 3. Andrew is also the author of Operating Systems Design and Implementation, the must-have book on programming and designing operating systems, and the man whose work inspired Linus Torvalds to create Linux.
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Richard Stallman Saw Microsoft’s Plans Against GNU/Linux Back in 2004
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"The following interview from Digital Tipping Point is a quite fascinating. Towards its end and a couple of minutes after the beginning, Stallman mentions that the Linux kernel, which makes up about 0.25% of the GNU/Linux system according to him, was found to have been covered by 286 different US patents. It is not necessarily news that there was such a study, but watch this video..."
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