This is going to be the first time I look at a fresh install of Ubuntu in a long while. The biggest new change is the notification system.
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6 Beautiful ubuntu and gnome black themes
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Whatever operating systems we use, one day we get bored with the default theme or style present in it. To make it more pleasant while working with the computer, we need to do some color, wallpaper, font changes etc.
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Statistically outlier in the MTBF (a sad story)
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In my day job many times I've left the "operating room" to inform the "patients" of the terminal state of their hard drives without fully internalizing the potential for me to be the next person blind-sighted by a statistically outlier in the MTBF. Now that outlier is me.
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Arch User Magazine Issue 3
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Take a walk on the bleeding edge. This month brings you the usual great stuff plus… * Better Fonts for the Web, * Living at the Command Line: History Modifiers, and * and a special interview.
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Open Source Adoption in Italian Public Administrations: Some Real Cases
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The greatest Italian event of and about Public Administration - asked me to chair the only open source conference taking place in the event.
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Test-driving Chrome for Ubuntu
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With an alpha version of Google's Chrome web browser recently released, I've been using it on Ubuntu for a few days. Below are some thoughts on the new browser and its ability to improve the Ubuntu experience.
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Web development made easy with Bluefish and KompoZer
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Creating websites from scratch is a serious business. You need to have an idea. You need to have a design. And you need tools to build the sites with.
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Proprietary games, Free software
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For many years, the games industry has made use of Free Software to help make their products better. A peek at a manual’s copyright acknowledgements (or exploring a game’s installed folders) can yield a number of interesting values.
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Content producers dig Linux too!
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Content creation used to be the stronghold of Apple and it's OSX operating system, but recently there have been signs that content producers are more and more attracted to Linux. What made me realize that creative software on Linux had made it with the content creation crowd is this poll on the DAZ Studio forums: more than 150 Daz Studio users...
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Swiss Government and Federal Computer Weekly: Why the Hostility Towards Free Software?
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Switzerland disobeys FOSS and standards recommendations; FUD is used to attack similar recommendations in the United States
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The Week of the Linux Desktop
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We don’t need to declare the year of the Linux desktop anymore. This week alone was pretty darn good. Having spent the week at Computex, the place where you see all the things, it is clear that Linux has a critical role in client computing.
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OpenSolaris 2009.06 Live CD
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I downloaded and booted the LiveCD version of OpelSolaris 20009.6, more for consistency than anything else I suppose. Is this version fit to challenge Linux?
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Kernel developers don’t get Xen
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The recent bruhaha surrounding Xen on LKML is really disheartening. Essentially, the Linux kernel devs are at a disconnect with users. Some are proposing narrow-minded ideas such as DROPPING software paravirt or merging Xen as a whole into the kernel.
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Kernel Log: What's coming in 2.6.30 - Architecture and infrastructure
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Linux 2.6.30 can be compressed using Bzip2 and LZMA, includes security framework Tomoyo and should boot faster. Tasmanian devil Tuz, who stood in for Tux as Linux mascot in 2.6.29, has been relieved of his duties.
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“Linux Sucks,” “Windows Sucks,” “Macs Suck”
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As demonstracted by this LinuxToday Blog post and my own experience, if you spend time reading Linux news, you are bound to discover a world of people who will do anything possible to say "Linux sucks."
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