The Linux operating system has already been proven to be very reliable and secure. It is often the most popular operating system found on web servers largely accredited to its track record in security, but can it be improved?
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Boycott Novell attacks itself to get attention
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Am I the only one out there who thinks this is an admission that Boycott Novell did it to themselves to get attention? Several blogs out there have already started talking about it so it seems to have worked.
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Review: gNewSense Version 2.2
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The gNewSense project today announced version 2.2 of its free GNU/Linux distribution. This is the second point update to the release codenamed 'deltah'. We're especially excited to see that, as a result of the cooperation between SGI and the FSF to relicense the core 3D library code as free software, today's release re-introduces GLX.
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Why are we pinning Linux desktop hopes on netbooks
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Consumers already have a user experience in mind when using a device focused on personal computing tasks. That experience is largely Microsoft Windows-based.
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Wireless Linux group chalks out ambitious plans
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Open-source wireless Linux foundation LiMo aims to grow its share of the mobile phone operating system market, dominated by Nokia, by adding about 10 members and launching 20 new models this year.
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8 Essential OpenOffice Extensions
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OpenOffice is already a complete desktop office suite that is at par in terms of features with the proprietary Microsoft Office.
Read more »Black Duck to Promote Microsoft/Windows-only Code
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BLACK Duck Software, a proprietary software company which was founded by a (former) Microsoft employee, has just entered an agreement with Microsoft.
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Big Strides for Free Software in the Browsers War
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A roundup of browsers news with focus on Internet Explorer's demise
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SCO’s Chapter 7 and Novell’s Response to It
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SOME TIME ago we wrote about SCO and Chapter 7. SCO is at the stage where saying "goodbye" to it would be reasonable.
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Cube 2: Sauerbraten FPS game
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Great free FPS game. It has in game level editor. Single player and multiplayer game play is available. Nice action and graphics.
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Microsoft Does Not Think it Will Buy a Company Like Novell at This Point
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Interview with a Microsoft executive and another Red Hat speculation from Jefferies
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The Merits of Control-Alt-Backspace, or Geeks vs. Reality
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For the release of Jaunty, the Ubuntu developers decided to disable the control-alt-backspace shortcut for killing the graphical X session. This move prompted a lot of complaining from advanced users. Although I personally sympathize with these people, their grievances reflect the all-too-common tendency of a minority of geeky users to rise up in arms about trivial features, impeding the progr
Read more »Reclaim The Commons
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"...The signers of the present Manifesto, launched in the World Social Forum of 2009, call all citizens of the world and their organizations to get involved to recover and put in common humanity's and Earth's actual and futur goods, so that their management shall be assumed in participative and collaborative ways by those concerned : individuals, communities and at the level of the humanity in the
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Do We Need Separate “Netbook Remixes”?
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Almost every major Linux distribution now has an official or unofficial netbook version that has been optimized for one particular netbook or for netbooks in general. This usually largely means adding bigger buttons to make them easier to press on the tiny screen.
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Hands-on: Intel brings rich UI to Moblin Linux platform
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Intel has unveiled the next-generation user interface of Moblin, the company's open source Linux platform for netbooks and mobile Internet devices. We tested it on real netbook hardware so that we could give you a detailed hands-on look.
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