I’m constantly vigilant, assesing how much of the general public who are not technically minded use Ubuntu. Here I found an interesting anti-Linux movement forming.
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A Taste of Spring: The Mandriva One 2009.1 Experience
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I just got the news last week that Mandriva released their latest and greatest version, 2009.1 a.k.a Spring. For convenience sake, I decided to get the Mandriva One KDE CD image.
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DFEY - Logo Competition - Cash Prizes
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DFEY needs a logo.
Top Prize: £40
First Runner Up: £10
Anyone, of any age or nationality can enter...
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Peer-to-peer (P2P) Architectures - Internet-Draft - Expires October 20, 2009
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"...In this document we provide a survey of P2P (Peer-to-Peer) systems. The survey includes a definition and a taxonomy of P2P systems. This survey also includes a description of which types of applications can be built with P2P technologies and examples of P2P applications that are currently in use on the Internet.
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Gnote Enters Fedora
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Gnote will be included in Fedora 10 and Fedora 11, which is out shortly
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Adobe Releases 64-bit version of Air - Linux Only!
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That’s right Linux only, if you want it for 64-bit Windows you will have to wait a while. According to Adobe’s Matt Rozen ”We have seen much stronger interest from the Linux community for a 64-bit version of Adobe Air, so that has been the focus of our efforts.”
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5 Ways to Get Involved with Ubuntu–for Non-technical Users
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If you are not a technical user of Linux but want to get involved with the sweeping wave of Linux/GNU operating system, Ubuntu offers you some great opportunities.
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Creating A Fully Encrypted Para-Virtualised Xen Guest System Using Debian Lenny
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This document explains how to set up a fully encrypted para-virtualized XEN instance. In this howto, the host system is running Debian Etch, while the guest system to be installed will be using Debian Lenny.
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Tech Evangelists and open source
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What I thought I wanted to do was take a look at how tech evangelism really effects the IT industry - especially open source. We have all been evangelists at one point or another, but for some of us, especially in the open source world, being an evangelist is looked upon poorly.
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ReactOS works! Sort of …
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On a whim, I installed the latest pre-release release of ReactOS today. I tried it a long time ago and had no luck whatsoever — black screens, nonbooting or just generalized irregular behavior — and so I rarely give it a thought.
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10 Different Ways to Use TYPO3's tt_news
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Sometimes clients need to present news articles out of TYPO3 is a manner other than list, latest or single view modes. This article covers 10 variations and enhancements to the TYPO3 tt_news system.
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The Android name kerfluffle
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The media is absolutely filled with “oh noes” stories concerning Google, and its partners in the Open Handset Alliance, being sued by Erich Specht of Palatine, Ill over its use of the word Android to describe its mobile phones.
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Why Desktop Linux isn't profitable
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One of the more popular videos making the tech news rounds is Bryan Lunduke's Linux Sucks! video from LinuxFest NW. He makes several valid points, and covers one of my biggest problems with Open-Source development, the sheer number of duplicated efforts.
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The future of PowerDevil (and of power management)
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PowerDevil has proven to be quite a solid software, and I’m both proud and happy about it: the 4.2->4.3 transition has happened almost with no maintainance. The problem is that PowerDevil GUI does suck, big time, because it’s way too cluttered.
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