At first glance, Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) appears to be having a bit of trouble: Big layoffs, a stock that is down 80 percent in the last year, and constant rumors about its demise or takeover... However, there are some glimmers of hope at the company.
Read more »Can Sun Rise on Open Source Storage?
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Ubuntu's Ubiquity Gains Home Encryption Support
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Ubuntu 7.10 had introduced support for install-time encryption to provide a fully encrypted LVM. However, this feature was only available through Ubuntu's alternate CD installer and not Ubiquity, Ubuntu's popular LiveCD installer. We had hoped the disk encryption support would be added in Ubuntu 8.04 and then later Ubuntu 8.10, but that never occurred.
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The enterprise value of modifying open source
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Open source is critical for us, because on our old [proprietary] content management system, we were completely dependent on the vendor if something went wrong. Alfresco's open-source CMS enables us to get into the code and start working on a fix to any problems immediately, then join up with you to ensure the fix makes its way into your supported product.
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i will not drink the PulseAudio koolaide.
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When I started using Phonon everything Just Worked(tm), including Skype and Firefox and mplayer and DragonPlayer and Amarok and ... everything cohabited and was beautiful.
I upgraded my operating system and was "blessed" with PulseAudio. Now nothing Just Works(tm).
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Making KDE's Konqueror Obey You
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I am a proud KDE-lover, and I think Konqueror is the best file manager there is. It's a pretty good Web browser too, though it tends to gag on certain script-heavy, poorly-scripted sites. But that seems a rational response--spit 'em out and move on.
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OpenOffice Lives, More Involvement Needed
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Free office solution OpenOffice.org is still in the best of shape, based on reactions from project members to Novell developer Michael Meeks's recent pessimistic view. The Linux Foundation is one of many who are concerned. All want one thing: more.
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The Secret Lives of Ubuntu and Debian Users
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Using free and open source software (FOSS), advocates like to say, is not a popularity contest. It's about doing what's right. However, the Debian and Ubuntu Popularity Contest projects might disagree.
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A Sound of Thunder
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Windows hasn't been my desktop environment for about seven years now. I have found I have no need for it, a Linux desktop does everything I need to do very well... Yet Microsoft's recent announcements about "Windows 7", the new version of Windows, find me sitting here feeling I have no choice but to discuss it, or be drowned out as a hopelessly irrelevant columnist.
Read more »Why we need Edubuntu to succeed
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The reason I say that is that Ubuntu and Linux/FLOSS in general needs advocates on behalf of students, educators, and the next wave of technolgy users. People generally tend to stick with the OS they first learn so one of the best ways to make Linux maintstream is to get it into schools.
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Extracting Different File Types On Linux And Unix - Guest Post
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A nice little function for bash to get the week kicked off right :)
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7 reasons why Windows 7 will not wreck Ubuntu
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One of our competitors has a review of the Windows 7 beta which claims that desktop Linux is doomed — doomed!
Not exactly. Not even approximately.
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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #125
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #125 for the week January 11th - January 17th, 2009.
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How to Create a Profitable Desktop Business for Linux
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I've been involved in Linux since the early 1990's, worked at one of the mainline Linux distros some years ago and have been an Open Source author of two projects. Over the years, the Linux environment has made great functional progress, yet mainline Linux vendors have struggled continuously to create a profitable desktop business around it. Many have tried, some have just given up on the desktop.
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Epidermis Theme Manager: Promising for the Future, Problematic for Now
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Epidermis is a project that promises to bring together all the aspects of a complete GNOME theme in to a single interface, allowing you to install and apply a completely new theme in a single click.
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Kdenlive - Free opensource video editor in openSUSE
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Kdenlive free open-source non-linear video editor for KDE. Kdenlive is an intuitive and powerful multi-track video editor, including most recent video technologies.
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