Australian immigration authorities have denied a business visa to a Sun MySQL developer travelling to Australia to attend Linux.conf.au in Hobart next week.
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The beauty of AUR
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In my not-so-important opinion, one of the shining stars of Linux is Arch Linux, and one of the crowning points of Arch Linux is the AUR, which is so delightfully simple and and the same time terrifyingly powerful, that I am at times amazed that it isn’t a fixture in every distro, across the board.
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New Volume Control Interface For GNOME
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One of the items being worked on by Red Hat for Fedora 11 is making the GNOME volume control and sound preferences area more intuitive and easier to use.
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"Horrors" of Ubuntu
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A local news station covers a story about a woman who somehow accidentally bought a dell with Ubuntu on it, then was too dumb to get on the internet or figure out that OpenOffice does the same thing as Word.
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Firefox to use Chrome-like tabs
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Mozilla has announced a subtle but significant change to Firefox, tweaking the way tabs work on the browser.
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Linux is the Engine Under the Hood of Instant On
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Waiting for a laptop or desktop to boot has to be one of the biggest time wasters for the majority of computer users no matter what the operating system. You would think with faster CPUs that the problem would just go away, but it hasn't. In fact, if anything, it has gotten worse.
Read more »Whither Fedora?
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I suppose that the calm is also a reflection of the fact that Ubuntu has matured but there is a sense that some changes may be on the horizon. For one thing, there are the opinions of a certain Mark Shuttleworth but the competition is progressing too.
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Emacs todo-list-mode
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"Although it wasn’t on my todo-list, I really had a hankering to add some auto-color highlighting to mine. So I created a pretty basic major-mode for Emacs which I call todo-list-mode..."
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Linux Succumbs to Creeping Windows-Itis
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I've been using Linux since 1995, and while that doesn't quite elevate me to grizzled geekbeard status, it's long enough to have observed a whole lot of growth and changes. Most of them are good; but some of them are rather alarming. The changes that bother me the most are the ones that make it harder to understand and control your own system by adding needless complexity and layers of obscurity.
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Malaysian Government Saves Big with Open Source
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Open Source in the public sector seemed to be all the rage in 2008, with government agencies all over Europe — not to mention agencies of the EU itself — adopting, and in many cases, mandating Open Source software and standards.
Read more »Wanted: A Career as a Linux Admin
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Here is a unique Linux Career Opportunity. We are currently looking for 1-3 people interested in developing into Linux Admins/Trainers. Our interest is in people we can train and develop over a 60 week course. What is unique about this course is that you will work for us while you are training. This will offset the cost of the course by as much as 50%.
Read more »Create SSL Certificate with godaddy.com
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I had a client who needed an official SSL Certificate and had an account at godaddy.com. I have to confess, I really did not want anything to do with godaddy.com, based on their advertising methods and responses students and clients had made about them, nothing criminal just hard to get things done or changed.
Read more »Linux Guy and Windows Guy Walk a Mile in Each Other's Shoes
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What would happen if a Linux user switched to Windows. How about if a Windows enthusiast tried Linux? The results were surprising to both, and they illustrate just what needs to happen in order for Linux to finally break into the mainstream PC market.
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Free Software or Open Source? You Choose
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“Free software” or “open source”? It's a perennial question that has provoked a thousand flame wars. Normally, the factions supporting each label and its assocated theoretical baggage manage to work alongside each other for the collective good with only a minimal amount of friction. But occasionally, the sparks begin to fly, and tempers rise.
Read more »Linux institutionalized, a little look back
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Linux as an Operating System, not just a specific distribution, but all of them. The collective. has been an institution in and of itself for several years now in the server world. Linux and FOSS server software together has developed a dominating presence in the business/server world.
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