That title, makes you all fellow Linux users wanted to know why someone would like to go back to Windows, really?
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OOXML BRM Convenor Admits British Standards Organisation (BSI) is Essentially a Fraud
Now that the gig is done, those who were responsible spill the beans
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Waiting Before Trying Ubuntu 9.04 Test Release Is Advised
As if on command, the latest Ubuntu 9.04 release has a final test version ready to go and something tells me that despite the good, there will be some bad to overcome as well.
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Thoughts from a two-day-old Gentoo newbie
I remembered there was some of jokes or such like, which depicted major GNU/Linux distributions as in cartoon pictures. As for Gentoo, if I recall correctly, it is a broken old-school CRT monitor with some funny words like “You broke, fix it.”
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OggVorbis in RTVE
"...there is an initiative to ask RTVE to publish the audio contents in the free OggVorbis format. There is an open thread in the "Suggestions" section of the RTVE forum. We are asking the people to left a comment there asking RTVE to publish their contents using OggVorbis..."
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My First Tryst with Ubuntu: Things Worked. Mostly
I mentioned wanting to try out Linux, specifically Ubuntu. After much consideration and with the help of the Ghacks readers, I decided to try the Ubuntu LiveCD before actually installing it.
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The Linux Foundation Abandons Xen After Microsoft/Windows ‘Hijacked’ It
It's time to standardise on KVM, decides the Linux Foundation. For those who are new to this discussion, here is necessary background on Ignition Partners, XenSource, Citrix, and Microsoft. It's reassuring to see that not only Canonical and Red Hat (in that order) realised what was going on.
Read more »Afraid of the command line interface? Try Fish!
Often I get ideas when working on a PC, ideas for things that would be nice to have on my system. Most of the time I sooner or later discover someone else had the same idea and build the thing I was thinking of only better.
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Possible Microsoft Influence in FOSS Press, ISO, India, Portugal, and South Africa
THIS IS A SET of new observations about Microsoft's affairs in international establishments and governments.
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What do piracy and porn have in common?
It might seem like something of an odd question, unless your idea of a good night in is a box of popcorn and a copy of some dodgy DVD featuring a Captain Jack lookalike doing unmentionable things to his crew. Yet the answer is that these two things, the illegal file-sharing we commonly refer to as piracy and the porn business, have loads more in common than you might imagine.
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Debian Lenny from a USB Drive
There are various ways to try Debian before you ‘buy’ it. One is the live CD either Debian or Ubuntu, and the other is to run a self contained install from a USB drive. Seeing as these handy little gadgets are getting larger and cheaper as time goes in, this is a pretty viable method of doing things.
Read more »Dual Booting Debian Lenny
If, like me you were a little dubious about your first forays into Linux, then dual booting is an option I would suggest. I wanted to try Debian, but wasn’t confident enough to leave my precious XP behind completely. I decided to go down the dual booting route, and although it may sound complicated it actually isn’t.
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Microsoft-Hired Lawyers Attack Open Source Journalist via Editors
Badmouthing of open source, of its flag carriers, and the Microsoft connection
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Novell Won’t Coordinate Releases with Canonical/Ubuntu
Mark Shuttleworth speaks to Novell about coordination, but it does not work out
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SCO's mobile hopes
SCO has represented to the court that their mobile business is going great guns, and that it has great hopes for it. Mentioned specifically is the new FranklinCovey application for iPhones, a day planner app called FCTasks, also called FCmobilelife Tasks on FranklinCovey's website.
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