OpenOffice.org comes in several editions produced by different groups. Each edition has its own features, performance improvements, bug fixes, and new bugs.
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Graph for Ubuntu, Windows Usage
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Scale is based on the average worldwide traffic of ubuntu in all years.
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Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth named as IT Community Hero of the Year
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CNET Networks UK, the UK’s largest online-only publisher, today announced the winners of the sixth annual UK Business Technology Awards. In one of the most prestigious events in the IT calendar, the finalists were honoured last night at an elite networking dinner, held in London's famous Park Lane Hilton.
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Gettin’ it done: Simple Instructional Video Creation on Linux
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This is the first of a series of short how-to articles for Linux. None shall be overly dense or complex. As the title suggests, it will be about getting the job done simply and easily. Sometimes you go for the big-hack like challenge and others you need something like this.
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Open-source software gets a plug from Congress
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IT’S RARE TO see a concept as technical as open-source software in a federal funding bill. But the House’s proposed National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (H.R. 5658) (GCN.com, Quickfind 1209) includes language that calls for military services to consider open-source software when procuring manned or unmanned aerial vehicles.
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Are Linux and open source really cheaper? Users, analysts weigh in
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Open source is cheaper than proprietary software, right? In the Data Center Decisions 2008 Purchasing Intentions Survey, lower cost was the top reason cited for converting from proprietary to open source software. And lower cost appears to be a primary incentive for Linux adoption that has fueled the rapid growth of open source in general and of Linux in particular.
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The PC in a Console: Linux on the Sony PS3
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One obvious way that Linux beats Microsoft Windows hands-down is in its flexibility. You can run Linux on just about any old crappy PC with a semi-functional processor and a paltry amount of storage. People have installed distros on the Apple TV, Nintendo DS, and—of course—the Mac.
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21 of the Best Free Linux Financial Software
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The repercussions of the credit crunch have continued to occupy headline news in recent weeks.Yet, even in such volatile markets there remain significant profit opportunities for the day trader.
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Live DVD for Linux Games
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lg-live is a live Linux DVD pre-installed with some of the top linux games out there. You just boot from your dvd, select your game and start playing. As simple as that.
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How to make Ubuntu extremely fast
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Old hardware? Want a faster boot up? Need to free some system resources? Want snappier applications? This is for you. Note, I wouldn’t suggest doing anything within this if it doesn’t make sense to you.
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Sometimes Things Just Don’t Work: Announcing Ubuntu’s New Theme: “Pile of Crap”
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First, a little history: Ubuntu 8.04 (the current release) was supposed to have an all new theme, since it is an LTS release. Unfortunately, that got delayed until 8.10, due out in October. Now, in the month of October and past the artwork deadline, what we have is definitely not an all new theme.
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A promising open-source company bites the dust
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Ringside Networks was a very cool company - one of the best new open-source companies, as I wrote earlier this year. The company had a dream similar to Ning's - to make social networking-type applications an integral part of a wide array of websites and enterprises.
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Bash Weather Script - World Update!
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Improved version of our Bash CLI Weather script to get your world forecast!
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New Approach To Malware Modifies Linux Kernel
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Professor Avishai Wool has unveiled a program to watch for malware on servers with a modification to the Linux kernel.
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Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid's Theme
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Ubuntu users were promised a radical new desktop theme with Ubuntu 8.04 and then that ended up getting postponed to the upcoming 8.10 release (a.k.a. the Intrepid Ibex). There was a new brown theme that had appeared early on in Intrepid but many users were dissatisfied with this work and Canonical ended up reverting the theme to that of Ubuntu 8.04 and earlier.
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