"The news is official now: Cisco today announced its intent to acquire privately held Jabber, Inc..." -- The road is still long for Cisco to embrace the Free Software Movement. Hope they'll release their products under the GPL License...
Read more »XMPP getting high profile: Cisco Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Jabber
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Marbelous GeoHistory
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When sharing software, the boring stuff only has to be written once.
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Anticipating Android: Will It Challenge iPhone?
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The first phone to use Google's Android platform is set to debut on Sept. 23. Will it generate the buzz that Apple's iPhone did when it first launched? Unlikely, writes Reuters' Yinka Adegoke. However, developers are looking forward to Android's openness, something iPhone sorely lacks.
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Sometimes it's the little things that make me go "wow"
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I love KDE4 and its look and feel, and am constantly amazed at how it works. But the one thing that made my jaw drop was a relatively simple feature I discovered while using Konqueror the other day.
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Oldham, England Brings Open Source To Schools
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It's good to see news about continuing adoption of open source software in schools around the world. I've written before about how doable it would be for many American schools to reduce costs, increase efficiency and arm kids with Linux notebooks through open source adoption.
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Video: The history of Fedora
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You’ve seen him here before, but it’s been a while since he popped in for a visit. You can enjoy his earlier work here, here, here or here. (Or check out his entire RHM collection). Who is that masked man? It’s the Fedora Project’s Greg DeKoenigsberg. And who better to talk about this history of the Fedora than someone who has been involved nearly every step of the way…
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Bordeaux 1.6 beta 1 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD
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Over the past month we have made some major progress on the BSD port of Bordeaux. Bordeaux for FreeBSD now has a .sh installer, the same one that we use on Linux, so you will need to have py-gtk installed for the installer to work properly.
Read more »Shuttleworth urges calm in Firefox/Ubuntu flap
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Grumpy Ubuntu users are snarling about Mozilla including a largely open-source irrelevant EULA (End-user license agreement) with the latest version of the Firefox Web browser. Indeed, one user went so far as to file an Ubuntu bug report about the EULA.
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Long-lost Click: Wolvix again
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Finding my long-lost Wolvix post got me itching to run it again. I haven't had it on the $0 Laptop (Gateway Solo 1450) in some time. It did a good job there, but I wasn't able to turn off the annoying tap-to-click feature on the laptop's Alps touchpad, and I've been pretty happy with how Debian Lenny is doing that and more, so my use of Wolvix has dropped quite a bit.
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Auto download movie subtitles using subdownloader
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How to install subdownloader deb packages that are available on ppa.
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The double-edged sword of the economy for open source
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When I talk to vendors, I can often tell how truly open source they are based on their response to the question: what has been the impact of the economy on your business? Those that still have a foot or more in the proprietary software world frequently say, ‘Well, times are tough, but we aren’t really seeing any impact.’
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Install wine dev version on ubuntu
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This post explains how to install and get auto updates of latest wine version (non stable).
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5 Cool Apps to Make the Linux Terminal More Productive
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If you work on Linux you’ll know that the command line is the way to go (in some cases at least). If you are in GUI mode than you can access the command line via the Terminal. Here are some applications/utilities that will transform your command line experience.
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Java Sound & Music Software for Linux, Part 2
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In this second part of my survey I list and briefly describe some of the Java sound and music applications known to work under Linux. Java applications show up in almost every category found at linux-sound.org and the Applications Database at linuxaudio.org.
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Grep: RRTFM
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If you've been a Linix/UNIX user for a long time you surely know what RTFM means (Read The *bleep* Manual). I'd like to offer up a new, related acronym, RRTFM, for Re-Read The *bleep* Manual.
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