Today I came across a nice article by cnet on Linux user interface. The article obviously was geared towards new users who might be interested in Linux. This is a welcome change where everyday more reputable blogs and technology websites are opening up to Linux and introducing it to their reader base, who otherwise probably would have never have known about linux or dared to try it out.
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Figuring out the meaning of “community”
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I’d like to keep improving the ways we describe Mozilla in general. It would be helpful to have some greater specificity around some key concepts we use regularly. “Community” is one such concept.
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Canonical and Valusoft bring Ubuntu plus support to Best Buy
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If you walk into a BestBuy this week you may spot some new software peeking out from the shelves. Yes, Ubuntu is now available as a spiffy boxed set in stores and on-line.
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Xandros & Linspire: Not making waves
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"Being easy to install and easy to use is not enough. The first lesson of "open source business" is that your first debt is to your user and developer communities, from which everything else grows".
The biggest problem for Xandros and Linspire has been the "patent covenants" that both companies signed with Microsoft.
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Is Linux Getting the Shaft?
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As I recently reported, there is an order of magnitude difference between the market share of Linux "out there" in the world, and the market share of LInux on Scienceblogs.com and on this very blog. Subsequently, I was trolled by my very own brother "...
Read more »Linux HOWTO: Secure Your Data with PGP
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In today's time of rampant information crimes, including identity theft, security is more important to the average computer user than ever. This tutorial shows how you can use GnuPG to secure and verify data on your Linux box.
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Can Open Source Drive Sustainable Innovation?
http://www.thevarguy.com –
One innovation is easy. But sustainable innovation — building lots of worthwhile new things again and again, even as you maintain your old products — is challenging. The VAR Guy wonders: Is open source the key to sustainable tech innovation?
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ISO’s Self Abuse: The Morning After
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Monitoring network performance with GNetWatch
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GNetWatch is a network monitoring and performance testing tool that lets you can see the status of hosts on your network, send ping requests of varying size and quality of service to hosts, and investigate SNMP information. GNetWatch includes support for using Wireshark and nmap to snoop packets and investigate hosts on the network.
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winetricks 20080710 released adds Schroedinger support!
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winetricks 20080710 released new verb ogg, fixes for firefox and divx. Schroedinger support! The big news is that Maarten now has a good directshow filter for the Schroedinger codec, and that it runs on Wine finally
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Google ratproxy Web Application Tool
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A semi-automated, largely passive web application security audit tool, optimized for an accurate and sensitive detection, and automatic annotation, of potential problems and security-relevant design patterns based on the observation of existing, user-initiated traffic in complex web 2.0 environments.
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DebConf 8 website: a call for help
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"DebConf 8 is approaching and our website is clearly not what we’d like it to be. It turns out that compiling all the useful stuff that travellers might need is not easy, so we kindly ask you —dear lazyweb—, to lend us a hand..."
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Bank of America may finally embrace Firefox
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The largest bank in the United States has officially ignored the second most popular Web browser--until recently.
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Enable Timed or Automatic Login on Ubuntu 8.04
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If you are the only user on your machine and you’d like to enable automatic user login at boot time this post will outline how.
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Introducing wattOS - A Lightweight Ubuntu!
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wattOS... the last frontier, the lightweight Ubuntu-based operating system is now here! Faster than anything else out there, wattOS is not just another Ubuntu clone, it is powered by the Openbox window manager, a standards compliant, fast, lightweight and extensible window manager.
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