What's ahead in the coming year? Open source giants' latest releases and security- and energy-conscious networks, to start!
Read more »Shifts for Enterprise Linux, Green Networks in '09
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3 Tips For Getting More Out Of Creative Commons
Creative Commons is becoming a web force to be reckoned with. I recently switched to a Firefox browser from Internet Explorer (a revelation in many ways, but that’s another article) and didn’t even have to modify my toolbar to create a Creative Commons search shortcut.
Read more »Text Web Browsers in Linux
These are the text webbrowsers in linux. That means you can search web or surf the net using these. You can also view html from console using these text browsers. Here is the list
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How To/Roundup: Widgets on Ubuntu
Windows Vista has gadgets, Mac OS X has widgets, KDE users have plasmoids, but what if your an Ubuntu user? Don't worry, you have a number of opinions, you just have to install them yourself.
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Try Mozilla’s Fennic Mobile Browser on Windows, Mac or Linux
Hot on the heels of a mobile device browsing tip, I see that Mozilla has outed the next alpha version of their Fennic browser. Fennic is the mobile version of Firefox that’s currently targeted at the Nokia Internet Tablet line, but that’s likely just the beginning of device support considering the vast amount of mobile phones out on the market.
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Bullies of Linux
Lately I've been reading a lot of bad news about Ubuntu. Saying that they aren't giving back to the community, and how they are going to be charging for non free software. I don't know specifics here but I know the Debian community is pissed off with Ubuntu because they don't give back to the community as much as other distros do.
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Microsoft and Jimmi Hugh: Wikipedia Censorship or Just Vandalism?
Microsoft's history of dirty (or even illegal) tactics is 'airbrushed' out of Wikipedia
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Interclue and the pitfalls of going proprietary
The Interclue extension is supposed to give you a preview of links in Firefox before you visit them, saving you mouse-clicks and, with a little luck, allowing you to move quickly between multiple links on the same page.
Read more »Installing RPM Packages on Ubuntu
If you happen to have .rpm file package that you would like to install on your Ubuntu machine, you will have to convert that file to .deb first for it to be installed. How will you do it? --Use the package converter application called “alien”.
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New Year,s Eve News: Unix And Linux Users Beware
Hope everyone has a great night and, please, browse safely ;)
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Ubuntu vs Windows
While i focus on web development in my articles this post is not related to web development in anyway, however i feel the need to post it here, after reading a bunch of articles comparing Windows and Ubuntu. For me it seemed that, authors writing this articles never used Ubuntu, they just installed it because manager told them to compare this two operating systems.
Read more »The beam in their eye
It seems great blood sport to report on the problems of Novell while ignoring the larger problems with those companies deemed worthier than Novell. So in the interests of "fair and balanced" reporting, lets look around the Linux world at a few of the other major players.
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Do women matter in FOSS projects?
When will women be taken seriously in the FOSS community? That's a question that needs to be asked after the Debian GNU/Linux project garnered headlines earlier this month over an offensive mailing list post that had at least two women considering whether they would continue their involvement in the project.
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Cool Linux Projects that Need More Publicity
Always when a type of application is missing, there is bound to be a version in development.
Read more »The Window Manager Dilemma
One of the thing's that's been picking at my brains lately is the mess surrounding KDE4. Now I'm not here to scream at the developers and say how much of a fool they were to have released KDE4 so early, and so broken like others are apt to. I'm here instead to attack this issue from another angle. That angle is the dilemma we have with the wide array of existing Linux (and BSD) window managers.
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