It used to be that finding a PC with pre-installed Linux was harder than finding a needle in a haystack. Now, though, all the major PC vendors are offering Linux-powered PCs.
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Exclusive First Look: NimbleX 2008
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Our good friend and developer of NimbleX, Bogdan Radulescu, gave us an exclusive copy of his new distribution, NimbleX 2008, which will be available for all of you tomorrow! I was really thrilled this morning when I saw the e-mail from Bogdan regarding the new version of NimbleX, I immediately downloaded the ISO image and gave it a try, to see what's new.
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Richard Stallman at GGG
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"...Richard Stallman, of GNU.org and the Free Software Foundation is at GGG on 13th August and will be speaking on Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks - join UP for a lively discussion on copyright from 3pm in the Level 2 Council Chambers, Wellington Town Hall, 111 Wakefield Street, Wellington, New Zealand..."
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Create Tomboy notes in Firefox with Tomfox
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Tomfox is a very cool Firefox extension. With Tomfox, you can directly create Tomboy notes in Firefox.
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Explaining Lisp to my Father
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"Anyone who read my post last week knows that I’ve been trying to learn Lisp in my free time. My Dad has also noticed, and he occasionally checks on my progress.
A week or two ago, he threw me a curveball: ..."
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Run emacs in batch mode to byte-compile elisp files
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"emacs is my favorite text editor. (No flame please.)
Little known and used perhaps is the fact that emacs does run in batch mode. By batch, I mean emacs accepts and executes commands in the command line, without any user interaction..."
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Don't Forget UOF: Here Comes EIOffice 2009 (Updated)
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Long time followers of the ODF-OOXML story will recall that there is a third editable, XML-based document format in the race to create the documentary record of history. That contender is called UOF - for Uniform Office Format, and it has been under development in China since 2002, although I first heard and wrote about it back in November of 2006.
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Linux on mobiles will put the squeeze on MS, says Zemlin
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Once it was the desktop, now mobile phones and embedded devices represent the future of Linux, according to open source fans.
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Cognos taps Novell SUSE Linux for mainframe debut
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IBM's Corp.'s Cognos segment has chosen Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise to debut its Cognos 8 business intelligence software on the mainframe. Cognos 8, which already is available on IBM Systems p and x, Windows and Unix, consolidates all business intelligence functions such as reports and queries in one platform, and is easy to deploy and manage,
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Fan-Created Linux Hardware
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I very much feel that part of the key to Linux gaining mainstream adoption is to have various interesting, innovative pieces of hardware that ship with Linux.
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The Patent Comedy is Real
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New examples of the sad state of the USPTO. It is important that everyone recognises just how misguided and flawed the patent system has become.
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What Might Happen to ISO After Self Humiliation, Microsoft Abuse
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Call for a replacement to ISO in developing nations that are discriminated against.
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Panel discusses openness at OSCON
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he first two days of O'Reilly's Open Source Convention (OSCON) are dominated by technical tutorials, but there are sessions that buck the trend. Monday's most interesting event was Participate 08, a panel discussion sponsored by Microsoft. Panelists debated the meaning of the buzzword "openness" as it applies to source code, services, data, and business models
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Why not learn a little language while you work, Amigo?
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Books, CDs, flashcards, classes -- there are a lot of tools to help you learn a foreign language. If you spend much of your time near a computer, software may be one of the better options. Ian McIntosh's Amigo is a friendly language utility for the Linux user, notable for how well it integrates into the desktop.
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Ubuntu to get open-source Java heart implant
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Canonical has been in talks with Sun Microsystems and SpringSource to support one of their open source Java application server stacks in the Ubuntu core, to increase Ubuntu's enterprise adoption.
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