A contributor to the Debian GNU/Linux project since 1994, Garbee has also been leader of this project, and currently is chairman of the Debian technical committee and also the acting secretary. Hence, it came as no surprise that his talk on "Collaborating successfully with large corporations" at the Australian national Linux conference in Hobart today was well attended.
Read more »Getting FOSS developers and companies to play nicely
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Don’t Use Zypper to Upgrade OpenSuse
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Somehow zypper decided that my computer would function just fine without supporting the harddrive (RAID0) but I was forced to disagree with this point when my computer became unbootable. Luckily the installation DVD (after finally downloading) was able to fix the problem.
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The "Microsofting" of Linux
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While we love to hammer at proprietary companies like Microsoft for "dumbing down" the interaction for users, it's something of a shock when we realize that some Linux distros are doing the exact same thing.
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Some Emacs news
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"This week's emacs-snapshot release (20090118-1) reached a new milestone with more than 700 downloads in just under a week. I guess this is quite an achievement considering that not everyone wants to download 25MB of Emacs packages on a weekly basis, so thanks to all my users for their continued trust and support! ..."
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Corporations are idiots!!!
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Everybody has his/her own reason for using Free Software. Unfortunately, my favorite reason seems to be among the most “FUDed” by proprietary software companies. (Behind “Lowering the TCO”) I personally believe the most important aspect of Free Software is the advancement of society.
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Linux Keyboard Shortcuts: Safe Way to Exit During System Freezes
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In Windows, when your system hangs, you can always press Ctrl-Alt-Delete, wait for the Task Manager to open, and kill the process that doesn’t respond. However, Ctrl-Alt-Delete don’t always work the way you want it to leaving you no other option but to do a hard-reset, and perhaps as a result corrupt your data kissing your important files goodbye.
Read more »Obama administration seeks advice on benefits of open source
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Not from The 451 Group, unfortunately, but from Sun’s chairman and co-founder Scott McNealy, who told the BBC he has been asked by the new administration to prepare a paper on how the use of open source software within government can improve both security and the cost-effective use of technology.
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Move over GNOME, Ubuntu Mobile looks at Qt, other desktop environments
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The Ubuntu Mobile operating system is undergoing its most radical change with a port to the ARM processor for Internet devices and netbooks, and may use Nokia's LGPL Qt development environment as an alternative to GNOME.
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Linux video converter is now available
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Now you can convert your videos in Linux, in the easiest and most straightforward way.
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Open-Source Mobile Telephony Goes Legit
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While big business may be crowning open source as the king of server-based computing, most enterprise movers and shakers vehemently deny any such moves in telephony. Yet, open source in telecom is long past its debut and is, in fact, already in play in much of the Fortune 500. So why is open source a legitimate option in enterprise computing but bastardized so much in telephony?
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Migration from Microsoft to Linux - O, the Joy
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So I finally made the plunge. I've long wanted to be part of that geeky elite who broke from the crowd, stepped aside from their fellow computer lemmings and took a different plunge - not off the cliff, but into an alien and poorly understood (by the masses) computer operating system - Unix.
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Microsoft Deserves Some Credit for Reaching Out to Moonlight
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Whatever you might want to say about Microsoft calling Silverlight "crossplatform" and not making a version for Linux, you have to give them credit for what they did leading up to Obama's inauguraiton.
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The Ubuntu Linux, Possibly Humourous, Religous Marathon Continues!
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Ubuntu continues to obviate the need to buy tacos in order to see the Virgin Mary ;)
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Why Ubuntu Needs Hardware Compatibility Testing
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Something few people seem to realize when they "compare" Windows and Ubuntu is that they are using a computer that was designed and built for Windows, not Ubuntu. Taken to an extreme, this would be like installing OS X on a Dell and saying that it is worse than Windows and recommending people not buy Macs.
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Novell Interoperability and Mixed Environments (Video)
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