You know a science story is big when an experiment gets first or second billing on the main evening news—and it’s not even a slow news day. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is up and running as I write and as far as I can tell I’m still here, so it looks like the doomsayers were a little premature.
Read more »The Large Hadron Collider switches on. If it's the end of the world, it will be powered by GNU/Linux
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Why I Can't Wait for PCLinuxOS 2008
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PCLinuxOS, the hottest Linux distribution of 2007 have gone quiet for more than a year now. At the moment, a lot of PCLOS followers are probably anxiously waiting for their favorite distro's 2008 version (if there is any). --There's no definite release schedule, so we are left guessing.
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Sun releases source code for xVM hypervisor
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Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to release the code for its open-source server virtualization software Wednesday, and will make a commercial version of the xVM Server available next month.
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To All Chicago Cubs and Linux Fans: A Tale of Two Analyst Perspectives
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Linux fans are now being compared to Cubs fans. For you non-sports enthusiasts, the cubs haven’t won a world series since 1908. According to Ben Gray of Forrester, “as optimistic as Linux enthusiasts are and will forever remain, they’re beginning to sound like Cubs fans with the never-ending hope of ‘There’s always next year.’”
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The Market Loves Linux (That's Why It's Thriving)
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My wife often rolls her eyes at me, because once I find a new hobby I latch onto it as though life depended on it. The more arbitrary the nature of the hobby, the less she's impressed with it. So imagine her immense delight when, a year ago, the only thing I would talk about with her was Linux.
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The simple and elegant PhotoAlbum extension for OpenOffice.org Impress
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Once I installed this extension, it took me about six seconds to create a presentation based on a directory of graphics, one slide for each graphic.
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Grumpy Gnome-Hater Almost Changes Mind
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I used to think that Gnome 1.4 was the Last Good Gnome. Because when Gnome 2.0 came along, everything I liked was gone. It was dumbed-down to the point of unusability, and the roadmap called for yet more dumbing-down. So I switched to KDE for my main workstation, and IceWM, XFCE, and Blackbox for lower-powered PCs. For all these years I haven't seen much to like in Gnome.
Read more »Second Life Recognizes its Open Source Contributors
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Each year, Linden Labs, the folks behind online virtual world Second Life hold the Linden Lab Innovation Awards, dubbed the Hippos. This year Linden recognized the achievements and contributions of seven members of its open source community.
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The Ubuntu Look Can be Changed, but Linux CAN NOT have a “Look”.
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A Linux distro is basically someone saying: here’s a collection of packages that works well together, now keep it or change it as you wish.
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How Linux is keeping Microsoft honest (and why SBS sucks)
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Imagine a world without Linux. There'd be no cute Tux penguin or any notion of software freedom day. Netbooks would not have come about. But more strikingly, there wouldn't be the modern powerful tools that Windows systems administrators have come to love.
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Participation by the public in international standards development: Opening the black box
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A few days ago, I wrote a blog entry stating that we need a new international standardization body. In this post, I would like to share some of my ideas regarding how to include more people, the general public, in international standardization efforts.
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Analysis: Embracing open source GPLv3 and avoiding hardware lock-in
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It is almost a year since the Free Software Foundation (FSF) released the third version of its General Public License (GPL). Prior to the release there was a great deal of public consultation where several contentious issues were hammered out. The greatest of those was the Tivoisation clause.
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How to setup an intranet with free open source software
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Even the smallest business or organization can benefit from an intranet. Information, documents, communication and more can be centralized in one web-based environment- accessible from anywhere, by anyone within the organization.
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PCLinuxOS September 2008 Released
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PCLinuxOS Magazine, September 2008 (Issue 25) is available to download.
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Interview with Alexandre Julliard - Head of the Wine Project / CTO of CodeWeavers
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In this interview we talk with Alexandre. In specific, we talk about:
* Developing an open source project in cadence with Windows
* Philosophies about how Linux should reach out to Windows users
* The leadership model used in the Wine project and deciding what goes in
* Deciding what applications to support and what to leave out
