Early Working Group participants include some of the most innovative thinkers in the Smart TV industry and represent leading service providers, system integrators, hardware platform manufacturers and solution providers that include: Amino Communications, Intel Corporation, JetHead Development, Locatel, MIPS Technologies, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks, Sigma Designs, Telecom Italia, Videon Central,
Read more »The Linux Foundation Announces MeeGo TV Working Group
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Installing Dovecot 2 on CentOS
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Dovecot 2 has new features, including security enhancements that administrators may want to use on CentOS. However, this version of Dovecot is not in the repository so you will need to install several additional packages.
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Who Are the FOSS Police?
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About 70 percent of the time, a mobile app that contains open source code fails to comply with basic FOSS licensing requirements, according to a study conducted by OpenLogic. With hundreds of thousands of mobile apps for platforms like iOS and Android, violations could be quite rampant, if the study's sample is representative of the whole. But who's place is it enforce these licenses, and how?
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Google Books Settlement Rejected
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We applaud the rejection by Judge Denny Chin of the Google Books class action settlement with authors and publishers regarding the digitization of books.
Read more »Install Firefox 4 In Ubuntu 10.04 / 10.10 Via PPA Repository
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Add the Firefox 4 PPA and install FF4 in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat or 10.04 Lucid Lynx using the commands below:
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The King of Linux Distros
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The open source survives and thrives by the sheer number of distros available. Proprietary software is just a small pond compared to the enormous number of distros available for open source. Again, distros are qualitatively superior and robust give developers the powerful tools that inspire their creativity, which they crave. One of the most popular distros ever is the Debian distro.
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LibreOffice 3.3.2 is released! With installation instructions
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Announced today by the Document fundation the release of LibreOffice3.3.2, this is an update release that comes to improve the stability of the software and sets the platform for the next release 3.4, due in mid May.
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Savvy techies helping circumvent politically motivated shutdowns of the internet
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Ham-radios equipped with special modems, foreign satellites, and microwave ovens, ...
Technologies that transmit data under the noses of repressive authorities in this way are spreading like wildfire among pro-democracy groups.
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find with Multiple Expressions
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The find command can use multiple expressions to enable complex searches which permit multiple criterion in the search. This feature greatly enhances the ability for creating precise searches.
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RMS on header files and derivative works
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Richard Stallman says "I've talked with our lawyer about one specific issue that you raised: that of using simple material from header files. Someone recently made the claim that including a header file always makes a derivative work. That's not the FSF's view..."
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Helpful lawyers think Google stole Linux code
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By now you have likely heard the noise about Google possibly violating the GPL by using Linux header files to create a new BSD-licensed library that userspace applications can interface with the Android kernel.
Read more »Updated Debian 6.0: 6.0.1 released
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The Debian project is pleased to announce the first update of its stable distribution Debian 6.0 (codename "squeeze"). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustment to serious problems.
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Mandriva Enterprise Server 5.2 is out
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Mandriva Enterprise Server 5.2 – the simple, high-performance and accessible Linux server – is now available. MES 5.2 features a broader set of drivers to support more devices during the installation process and an updated Linux kernel (version 2.6.33).
Read more »Questioning The Original Analysis On The Bionic Debate
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In short, the question is: Does Bionic (the Android/Linux default C library developed by Google) violate the GPL by importing “scrubbed” headers from Linux? For those of you seeking TL;DR version: You can stop now if you expect me to answer this question; I'm not going to.
Read more »Hotot: A Promising Desktop Twitter Client
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Hotot is a lightweight, python-based, desktop twitter client I tried on my Linux Mint 10 GNOME desktop. I found Hotot to include many features you’d expect in a desktop client and a few you may not.
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