The take up of free, open source software in the public sector is painfully slow despite the Government's Open Source Action Plan...are we to blame?
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Gmail translates my spam into English, automatically
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Great, thanks Google. It is bad enough you deliver foreign spam but now you are going to translate it into English. Jeez...
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Open-Source Software Gains As Moneymaker
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Free open-source software is not so free anymore as more companies — including longtime makers of conventional software — strive to make money on the technology.
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Ubuntu One (Am I Missing Something)
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This is Canonicals first atempt at user level services. I for one think they are doing the correct thing by linking this service to Ubuntu as that is the intended market. New users may know the Ubuntu Name but not that Canonical are their sponsor.
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deluge torrent - sort of like uTorrent for Linux
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Today I’d like to share with you another great application that has replaced uTorrent (which I ran in WINE for a while and disliked), Deluge. What I love about deluge is that it is a native application with an interface that looks and behaves much like uTorrent does.
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Slackware 64-bit released
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Slackware has now gone 64-bit with an official x86_64 port being maintained in-sync with the regular x86 -current branch. DVDs will be available for purchase from the Slackware store when Slackware 13.0 is released.
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Why Canonical Will Succeed Where Most Do Not
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Free software, and especially desktop Linux, is a difficult place to run a successful business since your main product is, of course, free. Canonical, though, looks like it might succeed.
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Temporary Fix for ‘Keyboard Not Working’ Error in Ubuntu 9.04
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...there's a fairly serious (aka, annoying) bug in Ubuntu 9.04 that causes a certain combination of buttons - most commonly, the Fn+UP/DOWN and volume buttons—to render the keyboard completely dead, as well as the system menus and the right-click menu that appears when using the mouse.
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Video overlay controller offers Linux-ready SDK
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Advanced Micro Peripherals announced a PC/104-Plus-format multi-channel video controller board with a Linux-compatible software development kit.
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Why People resort to Arch Linux
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Arch Linux is a Linux enthusiasts dream. It has a rare reputation of being very basic at the same time very user friendly.
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How to make a virtual computer real
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When I want to set up a new GNU/Linux computer, rather than set it up on the hardware I’m going to use, I find it more convenient to create a virtual machine on which I do all of the setting up and then convert the virtual computer to a real one by copying the virtual disc to the real computer’s hard disc (if this is the opposite of virtualisation, is it “realisation”?).
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Linux, shminux
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I keep waiting for the day Linux becomes easy to use for the average person and not just college computer science graduates who have probably been weaned on it.
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Ubuntu One: Free Online Storage
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Canonical has just released a new "cloud" service for all users: Ubuntu One starts today as an invitation-based Beta. There are two storage options momentarily: a free 2GB account and a $10/month 10 GB one. If you are familiar with services like Dropbox, Ubuntu One apparently does the same job.
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Managing Ubuntu Linux on the cloud
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It's actually pretty darn easy to run a virtual operating system on a server or on the cloud. The real trick is managing them. That's why I'm excited that Canonical, Ubuntu's Linux commercial backer, recently released Canonical Landscape 1.3.
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Linux Netbooks: Hit Microsoft where it ain't
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In open source or in product development generally, one of the biggest mistakes is to take on a deeply entrenched incumbent on its own turf. Almost inevitably, if you play someone else's game, even if you're a little cheaper/faster/better, you're going to lose.
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