The majority of servers supporting the Fedora Linux distribution were back online on Tuesday following a mystery disruption.
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Ubuntu + Dell = The Ultimate Ultraportable?
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It's been a pretty incredible year for open source on the desktop. Dell has started selling some of its PCs with Ubuntu pre-installed, which means that even non-technical users can acquire a low-cost, powerful open source system without needing to worry about installation and handling drivers and suchlike.
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Analysts fail on open source
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For open source software to achieve its full potential, people's perceptions must change. Yet how can that happen when open source is so woefully neglected by analysts, asks Martin Brampton.
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Announcing the winner of the OOo splash screen poll
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I'd like to announce the winner of the splash screen poll. We had a total of 789 votes, which is a quite good count! The winner is...
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Identi.ca mode for Emacs
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"Identi.ca is a free software microblogging service, similar to Twitter, based on the Laconi.ca code base. I recently needed to update my status from Emacs, since its faster for me and easier. I’ve been using an an Emacs mode to update my Twitter account, but there was nothing to use for my Identi.ca account.
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A/NZ women in Open Source gain momentum
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With increasing interest and influence in the open source movement, women in Australia and New Zealand are pushing their way into a normally male-dominated arena.
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Use Twitter in Pidgin (download for Windows, Linux and of course a Ubuntu package)
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Previously, the way to connect to Twitter using Pidgin (IM client for yahoo, google talk, msn, etc), was to use a jabber account like google chat, then add Twitter. But Twitter shut down the Jabber service. So it doesn’t work anymore. But now, Pidgin-microblog can do the trick.
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NZ Greens connect to Free Software
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"I released our IT policy on Tuesday just before introducing Richard Stallman at his Dunedin talk “Copyright vs Community”. Richard found my reference to “quote intellectual property unquote” somewhat difficult - you can read it here..."
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Number 10 and the Creative Commons
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Number 10’s new website, from our beloved government who are such strong users and supporters of Open Source Software [NOT], is running on Wordpress. This isn’t actually big news now. There’s plenty of comment about that on the web via Google.
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Open Source: An Open Question for Red Hat and Others
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It's been tough lately for companies like Red Hat and Novell that bet their business on open source. Here's a look at the haves and the have-nots
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4 Ways To Play Windows Game On Linux
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Playing Windows games on Linux is not really a difficult task. Most gamers are reluctant to migrate to Linux because they have this misconception that Windows games cannot be played on Linux. How wrong they are. If you are one of those avid gamers that I mentioned above, here are 4 ways that you can play Windows games on Linux.
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How to get system info in Linux
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Here are some useful commands that you can use to find (almost) every information that you want to know about your system from the command line.
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42 of the Best Free Linux Scientific Software
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To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 42 high quality Linux scientific applications, covering a broad spectrum of uses. There's a mix of graphical and console based applications included. Hopefully, there will be something of interest for all types of users.
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Displaying System Information On Linux or Unix With Cfg2html
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Creating Detailed System Info Web Pages With cfg2html.
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GoboLinux and Replacing the FHS
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GoboLinux is a distribution which sports a different file system structure than 'ordinary' Linux distributions. In order to remain compatible with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, symbolic links are used to map the GoboLinux tree to standard UNIX directories.
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