Linux publisher Mandriva has unveiled a version of its platform designed specifically for the new breed of mini laptops.
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Sugar everywhere
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55,000 Sugar/GNU/Linux XO machines are being shipped every month to kids all over the world. This is a generation getting ready to break the bonds of digital dependencies and building a commons for themselves on free and open source software and open content and standards. In the meantime, Microsoft announced a pilot study to run Windows XP on these very machines.
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Ubuntu's BulletProofX Takes Simpler Step Forward
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Introduced in Ubuntu 7.10 was a feature known as BulletProofX, which provides a fail-safe mode that is by default used when the X server fails to properly initialize. In this original implementation, it would default back to using the VESA display driver with 256 colors and then proceed to run the displayconfig-gtk utility.
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A new Linux landscape
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A FEW years ago, the open-source operating system Linux was well known to techies, and barely known to the person on the street. That was for good reason - while it had enormous popularity for its reliability and flexibility running servers at the back end of organisations, it wasn't the easiest system to install or use for typical computer users.
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Welcome to the new browser wars
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It's like the '90s, but this time there are three competitors, and the music isn't as annoying.
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Switched From Ubuntu To Gentoo!
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Ubuntu has served me well for a few months, I think it was April when I started using it. I have to say Ubuntu is one of my favorite Linux distributions. It’s great for people who are new to Linux or have been using Windows for a long time and want to try out something different or more reliable.
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Latin American Nearshoring is Side Effect of Progressive Open Source Policies
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The near-shoring trend to Latin America is an incidental side effect of progressive social policies that have put migrating to open source as a priority in countries such as Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela and this has created an enormous pool of free software programmers that are being discovered by Bay Area companies looking for an alternative to Indian or Eastern European off-shoring.
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Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex Alpha 6
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Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 6 has been released as the final alpha build for Intrepid Ibex. This release ships with the latest GNOME 2.24 and Linux 2.6.27 bits along with X Server 1.5.0. Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 6 also supports Samba 3.2 with clustered file server support, encrypted network transport, IPv6 support, and better integration with recent versions of Microsoft Windows clients and servers.
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What Mozilla Means to Me
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When I talk to my friends and family about Mozilla, I notice that they all have different perceptions of what Mozilla is. Looking at Mozilla’s Wikipedia entry doesn’t shed much light on things either, as it’s largely a glorified disambiguation page that attempts to clarify the word’s many different meanings over time.
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Sphinx: Open Source Speech Recognition
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Have you been frustrated with speech recognition software in the past? I've used the top proprietary products, such as IBM's ViaVoice and Nuance's Dragon Naturally Speaking in the past. I've found limited good uses for them, but they're not entirely accurate, and they're reasonably expensive.
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Minds Meet to Mull Linux Marketing
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We are in the forth year of our "mission" here. Here being HeliOS Solutions. Our mission is to let everyone who uses a computer know that they have a choice in the way they operate their computer.
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Mobile robot packs web-cam, runs eCos
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Get ready for Rovio, a small three-wheeled mobile robot that offers audio/visual telepresence via its built-in wireless web-cam. An onboard webserver enables access from anywhere in the world, according to Wowwee, which plans to ship the product soon.
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Why GNU/Linux needs slick marketing
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In the wake of the Firefox EULA issue, the well-known GNU/Linux news accumulation website, Linux Today, ran a very short editorial which came to the rather hurried conclusion that the free operating system does not need what it characterised as "slick marketing."
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Invitation for all Open Source GPS software developers and users to join FOSS-GPS mailing list
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Yesterday I wrote about this idea to start a mailing list to gather Open Source developers and users to a single mailing list to share their ideas, announce releases, share patches and so on on a single list. Only a day later it’s reality so now I warmly welcome all FOSS GPS software developers and users to foss-gps@lists.osgeo.org
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Singapore holds string of open source events
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SINGAPORE--Ahead of celebrating global Software Freedom Day on Saturday, several of the country's open source user interest groups have been busy jointly hosting a number of related events this week.
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