Exploring the role of a Microsoft-sypathetic Corel leads to its Xandros spinoff, acquirer of a spinoff of Microsoft's partner, H-P (now an authority in GNOME)
Read more »A Quick and Dirty Guide to Poedit
Poedit is a cross-platform gettext catalogs(*.po files) editor. Usually, translators use conventional editors such as gedit, vim or kate for translation. These are basically text editors and there is possibility of making mistakes easily. Poedit offers several features which can help to translate the files much faster and in an efficient way.
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Microsoft and BECTA’s Secret Deals: Case Study in Exploitation of Taxpayers
BECTA is explored yet again by a reporter. who is turned away without answers to key questions
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When Is More Open Source Too Much?
It seems like once every few months there's another round of muttering about whether or not the open source world is just too diverse for its own good... is more really too much, especially now that Linux is edging into the mainstream?
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10 Linux Commands You Use More Offen
The ten linux commands you use more offen - also alphabetically . I would have preferred to put them in order of how often i use them , but that would make locating them a quite difficult.
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Linux is a tool.
Ok, the talk lately of cute likening of Linux to other areas and items is interesting but still not getting through to many folks. Here's the guts of it. Linux is, not is like, but IS, a tool.
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What the…? Fork KDE?
Bashing KDE has become the new black. I’m pretty sure that it started out as legitimate concerns about KDE’s direction, and then some out-of-control internet flamers/trolls/foaming at the mouth crazy people jumped on the bandwagon. By now, KDE4 is actually the AntiChrist and we will all be murdered in our beds.
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Using Mkfifo For Monitoring And Enhanced User Activity Logging
A look at some more security on-the-cheap, using mkfifo.
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Colbert Bump - Firefox 3 Proves its Existence
Many of us at Mozilla and within the Mozilla community were excited when Stephen Colbert gave Firefox 3 his “Colbert Bump” on the day of Firefox 3’s launch (a big thanks to Jonathan Zittrain). You can watch the video here.
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Fedora, meet OLPC. OLPC, meet Fedora.
Did you know that the OLPC project is the largest single "customer" of Fedora in the entire world? The rumours of OLPC's death have been greatly exaggerated.
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Firefox 3 features you may not know
While the awesome bar, download pause and resume, malware protection, the new themes, and serious performance improvements are perhaps the most representative features introduced with Firefox 3, here are some other useful ones you may not be aware:
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Will Alienware Ship Linux-Based PCs?
Alienware, the PC manufacturer known for their high-end gaming notebooks and desktops, has been evaluating the business opportunity in providing a Linux OS option for some of their products.
Read more »Checking In with An Ubuntu “Switcher”
About a year ago, I installed Ubuntu on the laptop owned by a friend of mine who lives back east. Here’s her Ubuntu story … back in 2007, and today.
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The Most Puerile of the FOSS Aficionados
The website Planete Beranger recently published an interesting post "Wrong ways to promote the FOSS", from which the title of this post was taken. The core observation of the Beranger argument is: I'll only say that there is no such thing as a "troll". This is a word invented by the most puerile of the FOSS aficionados, unable to cope with the existence of:
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An earthshaking use of open source
A German scientific research institute is using an open-source database running on Linux and x86 hardware to store global seismic activity data and to interpret that data. The purpose is to ensure that countries around the world are in compliance with the terms of the nuclear test ban treaty.
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