"...As we reach the 25th anniversary of the GNU project, I’d like to thank GNU and the thousands of free software developers and supporters, past and present.
Read more »The GNU project, the GNU Operating System and the Linux kernel
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Isn't Linux just UNIX under a different name?
http://www.itwire.com –
What's the big deal about Linux? Isn't it at heart just a PC-based version of UNIX – the ‘70’s hit operating system which has outlived the predictions of its demise throughout the ‘90’s? If you’ve come from a Solaris or HP/UX or AIX background isn’t a PC-based UNIX a bit, well, passé?
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Linux popularity across the globe
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The Linux landscape is constantly changing and has a strong community of both developers and users. But where is Linux the most popular, and where are the different Linux distributions the most popular?
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Queinnec's book, at last!
http://exploring-lisp.blogspot.com –
This is a good opportunity to learn Lisp and french at the same time :) => Principes d'implantation de Scheme et Lisp
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5 Great Alternative Linux Music Players
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Amarok, Rhythmbox and Banshee are a few of the popular music players in Linux. They are great in features and have received plenty of good reviews. But what is unknown to many is that there are a lot of other music players for Linux which are also great in features, but are hidden in some corners of the world.
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"Perl 5 to 6" Lesson 02 - Types
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"...Perl 6 has types. Everything is an Object in some way, and has a type. Variables can have type constraints, but they don't need to have one..."
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Blatantly Supporting Linux. Sort of.
http://blog.linuxtoday.com –
More hardware manufacturers than ever support Linux in some way- they supply binary drivers, or support and sponsor FOSS drivers. Even better, some actually admit it publicly. Though some still act like you want to peek up their skirts when you ask about Linux.
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How world-changing are the culture and politics of free software?
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"Geert Lovink interviews Christopher Kely on the issues covered by his book Two Bits, before Kelty’s joining of the UCLA staff in August 2008. This is a really grand interview that poses all the right questions and issues, and I may engage with it further in the future, but here is just the text of the interview itself..." --
Read more »Open source and the ‘fear factor’ mentality
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In the current economic climate, businesses of every size are looking to reduce their spending wherever possible. Open source software, which has no upfront licensing fees, is one way of achieving significant savings.
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Sun's OMS Video codec project is a means to an end
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Sun Microsystems is setting out to create an open source, royalty-free video codec. Given the considerable head start of well-known, royalty-free video codecs like Dirac and Theora, you might ask why the world needs another. The answer, according to Sun, is the process the company will use to develop it -- starting with a full-on, careful examination of the patent situation.
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Open the door to team productivity with kablink
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Organizations have many ways to connect, collaborate, and keep in touch with co-workers, team members, and colleagues -- which can lead to multiple logins and user accounts, services spread across the Web, or services that are simply not accessible to all team members on various types of devices.
Read more »Non-compete, By Association
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Novell's negative impact on FOSS or Linux organisations with shared goals, members.
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Tracing the Web
http://andreasgal.com –
"For the last two months I have been working with Mozilla on a just-in-time compiler for the JavaScript engine in Firefox, and a few hours ago this project (codenamed TraceMonkey) has landed in the main Firefox development tree. TraceMonkey is a trace-based JIT compiler and it pushes the envelope on JavaScript performance..."
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the birth of a faster monkey
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"...The goal of the TraceMonkey project — which is still in its early stages — is to take JavaScript performance to another level, where instead of competing against other interpreters, we start to compete against native code. Even with this very, very early version we’re already seeing some promising results: a simple “for loop” is getting close to unoptimized gcc: ..."
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SUSE Linux GRUB Versus LILO
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Linux supports a variety of open-source and proprietary boot managers, but you can install only two with YaST: the Grand Unified Bootloader (GRUB) and the Linux Loader (LILO). GRUB has been the default bootloader for SUSE Linux since v8.2, but LILO still runs quite a few systems, and you may want to use it instead.
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