Maybe you remember the two posts I made about the Ubuntu Wanted site. The idea now has got 83 votes and I’ve already created a blueprint. Now it is also being discussed at the ubuntu-website mailist.
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Vote for the next open source icon
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Here you can vote for the next open source icon. It is a poll from Groundwork who will be present at Linux World 2008. I voted for the Gnu Gnu. It might not be the cutest, but still I hope you will too.
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Hi BIOS! My Name Is “Linux”, Or Is It?
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A couple of days ago, I read this on Matthew Garrette’s blog, where he tells us about a vendor’s BIOS trying to figure out the OS type/version and setting things around on deciding the OS it is running.
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Sun To Open Source Java System Web Server and Web Proxy Technologies
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Sun Microsystems last week said it will soon open source the core components of Sun Java System Web Proxy and Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 under the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) license. The Web and Proxy source code will be released later this year.
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Voltairenet.org being still down…
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"Thierry Meyssan recently announced that the Réseau Voltaire’s website had suffered attacks by Tsahal. The bad luck continues: voltairenet.org is currently inaccessible, thus depriving the readers of the article “Operation Sarkozy : how the CIA placed one of its agents at the presidency of the French Republic”. We reproduce below a copy of this particularly well documented article...."
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OpenGL Benchmarking On Linux Reaches New Heights
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We have been covering the Linux benchmarking scene since 2004, but one area we have never really been satisfied with have been the OpenGL tests that are available. There are now plenty of free software games that are available for benchmarking, but with most of them being based around the open-source Quake 3 engine, they aren't that demanding upon the graphics processor.
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Banshee 1.2 - Audio Video Podcast last.fm player for openSUSE
http://www.susegeek.com –
Banshee is a simple but powerful multimedia player with Audio/Video playback support, subscribe and playback podcasts and last.fm radio from Banshee. With Banshee1.2 Import, organize, play, share your music and videos using Banshee’s simple but powerful interface. Rip CDs, play and sync your iPod, create playlists, and burn audio and MP3 CDs
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Screenlets - Desktop applications, widgets and screen addons for openSUSE
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Screenlets are small owner-drawn applications (written in Python) that can be described as “the virtual representation of things lying/standing around on your desk”. Sticknotes, clocks, rulers, youtube, gmail and more. Screenlets are free opensource software released under GPL License. Screenlets use GTK2 & Cairo for drawing and windowing.
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A practical experience: Fedora vs Ubuntu
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Linux is out there. In the case of some highly specialized distributions, Linux is WAY out there. Thankfully there are a number of solid disto’s that make installing and using Linux as your every-day OS fairly painless.
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FbTerm: Better terminal windows when you don't have X
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FbTerm provides you with a fast terminal emulator that runs directly on your system's framebuffer. Using the framebuffer brings improved performance while allowing you to render UTF-8 text in the terminal. FbTerm aims to be at least as fast as the normal Linux kernel terminal while providing internationalization support and modern font handling with fontconfig.
Read more »IBM invests $360 million in cloud computing
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Last week iTWire reported how HP, Intel and Yahoo! are joining forces to spearhead a global and open source test bed for the advancement of cloud computing. Now IBM has thrown a few hundred million into the technology as well...
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Network Time Protocol (NTP) Server and Clients Setup in Ubuntu
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The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a protocol for synchronizing the clocks of computer systems over packet-switched, variable-latency data networks. NTP uses UDP port 123 as its transport layer. It is designed particularly to resist the effects of variable latency (Jitter).
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Richard Stallman - to talk at Waikato University
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"...Back in February of this year I saw Richard Stallman talk at KTH here in Stockholm and was thoroughly impressed. I plucked up the courage to go up to him after the meeting and talk to him. The resulting conversation ended with him offering to talk in my hometown of Hamilton in New Zealand..."
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Flying on the wings of freedom
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"Guardabarranco is the national bird of Nicaragua. It’s also the name of a public school that migrated to GNU/Linux back in 2005.
Nationwide, 175 public schools have computer labs, but only Guardabarranco uses Free Software. Their choice of distribution was GnuLinEx, based on Debian GNU/Linux and developed by the government of Extremadura, Spain..."
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32 Ultra-Mobile PCs That Run Linux
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Back in March, I tried to find as many Linux-based UMPCs as I could. At the time, I found 18, which was expanded to 20 with the help of commenters. After many more Linux-based UMPC releases, I decided to see how many more I could find. The first 20 on the list below are from the previous list.
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