It's been discussed to distraction...whether advertising Linux would do any good or not. Well, we are not far from finding out.
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Howto Reinstall all of currently installed packages in fresh Ubuntu install
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People sometimes have to do a reinstall of their Ubuntu system for various reasons (been playing/experimenting with configuration/drivers/other packages or just because something is badly broken) but remembering all the extra packages you have installed can be a chore - but here is the simple solution...
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The Grill: Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz on the hot seat
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Sun Microsystems' CEO talks about the economy, disruptive technologies and necessity as the mother of invention.
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Novell Pretends Employees Don’t Leave Due to Microsoft Deal
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Motorola moves from Windows Mobile to Android
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Motorola plans to focus on Android development and decrease its commitment to Windows Mobile. According to one Motorola executive, Android is a more competitive platform.
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Microsoft Invades Another Free Software Conference: AsteriskWorld
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Microsoft keeps entering events that it has nothing to do with in order to deliver its sales pitch; Zonker slams Oracle
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Our open source heroes are humans too
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A great deal is being made of the fact that Linux creator Linus Torvalds has switched from using the KDE desktop to using GNOME, something he did many months ago, and something he mentioned in passing during an interview last month.
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Cisco Opens Up To Open Source
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Cisco officials now openly say support for standards used in open source communications software — such as the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) — is a good business strategy for the company.
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Open source developers ride the cloud
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Nearly half of developers working on open source projects plan to offer applications as web services offerings using cloud providers, according to results of a new Evans Data open source development survey.
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SimilarWeb Suggests Related Web Sites
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Firefox extension SimilarWeb is a robust user-driven site suggestion and rating service. A single click from any site yields a list of related sites and data on other surfers' impressions.
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75 pc developers employ open source in APAC
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There was a time when Open Source software was considered has poor man's software. Now, with the economy slowdown in all the industries, adoption of Open source software has increased dramatically and its common to hear from all the big entrepreneurs to adopt Open Source software.
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Common Wine Myths
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Wine is one of the best known, but least understood open source projects. It is a mystic application that everyone knows about, many use, but few truly understand. Reading forum posts, blog entries and tutorials about Wine show that Wine is surrounded by many myths and half truths. In this article, we will attempt to clear up some of the misconceptions about the project.
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Blood Frontier: The Latest Open-Source FPS
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Blood Frontier is based upon the Sauerbraten engine and takes advantage of the features like a 6-direction height field world model, real-time map editing, light-maps, shader-based lighting effects, integrated physics support, and a particle engine. Like Cube and Cube 2, Blood Frontier uses OpenGL and SDL, which makes it multi-platform friendly with binaries for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
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Defense Department sets up its own SourceForge
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The dam holding back U.S. federal adoption of open source just burst with the introduction of the Defense Department's Forge.mil.
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KDE 4.2 : Kmail/Kontact, the killer application !
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I recently went through a long discussion with my boss about linux mail clients usage in corporate environment.
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