In March, a Tweet from Powerset co-founder Barney Pell set the blogopshere a-burbling about the impending relaunch of Microsoft Live Search, and days later, screenshots of an internal beta - dubbed Kumo - rose to the surface of the web.
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Is Ubuntu Elitist?
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Discussions of Ubuntu with people outside (and sometimes inside) the free-software community often devolve into criticism of Linux advocates as arrogant elitists, endlessly singing the praises of their operating system of choice but frightening away potential new users with their snobbish and intolerant attitudes. This reputation for pretension may be undeserved, but it's something the Ubuntu co
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How to build your own Linux distro
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There have been large distros, tiny ones, bleeding edge and rock-solid stable distros. Easy for the newbie to install, or downright impenetrable to the uninitiated. Created exclusively with free software as a badge of pride, or so proprietary in attitude that not even the toolchain was fully GNU (hello Red Flag Server 4.1, built with the Intel compiler in 2004).
Read more »There's Way More to Linux than Ubuntu: 8 Distros Compared
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Yes, there is more to Linux than Ubuntu. As you are probably aware, there are many different types of Linux to choose from, even though not all get the attention they deserve. These are organized into separate distributions, (distros) and each one is different.
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KDE 4.2.3 released
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The popular Linux Desktop Environment KDE is now upgraded to version 4.2.3. This release contains several bugfixes & enhancements. The most user-visible improvements are: Online IMAP filtering in KMail has been fixed, KMail's system tray.
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Is All Open Source Software Really Free?
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When software developers and architects select open source software over commercial alternatives, there is often a premise that because the software is free, (as in beer vs. speech) there is zero cost associated with the choice.
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Top Current Open Source Games
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Open source games have historically struggled to achieve the user following of proprietary gaming software, but over the past few years open source games have taken a turn for the better in terms of usability, playability, and generally the ability to grasp public interest. Here is an in-depth list of some of the most outstanding open source games currently released and in active development.
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FOSS: Project Busking, Funding Software Development
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What is disappointing to me about the current situation is that I do not believe there is a single company of note which makes software development with FOSS licenses it’s business.
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Songbird in Linux
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Recent “upgrades” to Rhythmbox and Banshee which left either 1) much to be desired or 2) the application unusable made me take a look at Songbird.
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10 Other Great Linux Browsers
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Firefox has been a reliable browser for me for many years and it still continues to be so to a certain extend. However, over the last few releases Firefox has become bloated and slow. I have been looking for an alternative Linux browser. Here are 10.
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Tweak and create new drupal themes like a pro with Drupal 6 Themes
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Geshan Manandhar has reviewed Drupal 6 Themes by Packt Publishing. He says, "The new Drupal theme system is great and to reap maximum benefits from this new and improved themeing system I recommend you Drupal 6 themes."
Visit his blog to read the
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Comparison of Windows 7 and Ubuntu 8.04 Artwork Style
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Interestingly, Microsoft and most of the popular Linux distributions have taken a very different approach to Artwork. I don't intend to state an opinion. Instead, this is simply to point out and compare the two styles.
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U.S. Trustee Moves to Convert SCO Bankruptcy to Chapter 7
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Here it is, the moment many of you have been waiting for: the U.S. Trustee's office, through its counsel, has filed a motion in the SCO bankruptcy proceeding to convert the SCO's Chapter 11 to Chapter 7. And I think this will be your favorite sentence...
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Military-grade workstation braves the elements
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Intergraph announced a Linux-compatible workstation designed to withstand punishing environmental conditions for military, industrial, and marine applications.
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Step By Step Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) LAMP Server Setup
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In around 15 minutes, the time it takes to install Ubuntu Server Edition, you can have a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) server up and ready to go.
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