It is common knowledge amongst my friends that I am a Linux gadget freak, especially in regards to mobile phones. I have been using Linux-based mobile phones for nearly 6 years now.
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Linux’s Twenty years of Achievement and Success
If you think about it, most of us have grown up using Linux. Linux was not how software was done, 20 years ago. There was only paid software, as Stallman so famously said in 1983 and went on to lay the foundation of the Free Software Foundation with the GNU Project that was compatible with all available software
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Portugal: Open standards become prerequisite for government IT
Portugal's parliament adopted a law last Wednesday requiring the country's public administrations to use open standards, including for their electronic documents. Portugal's government organisations will now be required to implement open standards in all digital documents that they publish, exchange, and archive.
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The if then Statement
Use the if then statement to test for conditions in a Bash shell script. If the test is true, run commands and if it is false stop.
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Desktop design and marketing BoF at Gnome Asia 2011
You don't have to look at the Gnome 3 desktop with a microscope to see that it's radically different. We manage to trick key members of the design team (Allan Day, Andreas Nilsson, and Vincent Untz) at the Gnome Asia Summit, and make them look up from behind their laptops, to dispel some of the misconceptions about the far-out changes in the milestone release.
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The until Loop
The until loop continues looping through the information provided until a requirement is met. Once the requirement exit status equals zero the loop stops.
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Intel sets up MeeGo research center with China's Tencent
Intel is establishing a joint innovation center with Tencent, one of China's largest Internet firms, to develop products and services around the chip maker's MeeGo Linux mobile operating system and devices using its Atom processors.
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Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 11.4
Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on an OpenSUSE 11.4 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.
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Project Contour — a new and innovative usage paradigm for digital devices
Contour is part of Plasma Active - the project of the KDE community to create a desirable user experience encompassing a spectrum of devices such as Tablets, Smartphones, in-car or Set Top Boxes.
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Interview with Vincent Untz at the Gnome Asia Summit 2011 in Bangalore
Vincent Untz is the uber-geek release manager for Gnome. We catch him at the Gnome Asia Summit in Bangalore for a quick chat on all things Gnome 3 (and some things not).
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5 More Intriguing KDE Apps
Ever so often, I take a stroll over to KDE-Apps.org and look at some of the fantastic creations people from the KDE community develop. There are a wide range of apps in nearly every category, but I have selected 5 that stand out and would be very useful additions to my desktop and hopefully yours too. All of these apps are either new or have been recently updated within the past few months.
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Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 11.4
Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on an OpenSUSE 11.4 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support.
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Foresight Linux 2.5 review
Foresight is an rPath-based, desktop-oriented Linux distribution. It is a rolling release distribution, so there is no need for frequent releases associated with other distributions that do not have this feature. In fact, this release, Foresight 2.5.0, is the first major release since February 2009 when Foresight 2.1.0 was released.
Read more »Fusion Linux 14 review
Fusion Linux is a (desktop) Linux distribution derived from Fedora, with some inspiration from Linux Mint and Crunchbang, a Linux distribution based on Debian. It is developed by Valent Turkovic, a Fiber optics and Networking Engineer from Croatia. This release, Fusion Linux 14, aka Thorium, is the project’s second stable release.
Read more »15 Day Software Industry Oriented Training Camp
Swecha, part of Free Software Movement of India will be conducting a “15 Day Software Industry Oriented Training Camp” in the Summer from June 16th to June 30th of 2011 on Free & Open Source technologies (FOSS).......
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