...when it comes to open source adoption, Germany has a long tradition of leading the world. For example, a study of Linux contributors by Paul Jones of iBiblio in 2000 found that Germans were the second largest contributors.
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Simple Cumulative Math Using Awk On Unix or Linux
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Using Awk to do incremental, or cumulative, addition, subtraction, multiplication or division, etc.
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The state of WoW on Linux
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During the dev panel a few minutes ago, Tom Chilton told us something interesting about playing World of Warcraft on the Linux platform -- Blizzard has actually had it working. For "compatibility purposes," they apparently had an internal build of the game that worked on Linux.
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OpenSUSE 11: nice kid, bad custodians
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Sometime back, I had a couple of encounters with OpenSUSE, the so-called community distribution which was started by Novell in 2005. Neither of them was exactly salutary. For example, in October last year, version 10.3 was released and my efforts to see what it was all about were frustrated to a large extent by the downloads themselves.
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Linux still super in Top500
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I’ve long followed and blogged about the prominence of Linux in supercomputing and the twice-annual Top500 Supercomputer List. In a relatively short time frame, the open source OS has shot to the top of the Top500 list thanks to its free availability, flexibility, stability, scalability and conduciveness for clustering.
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Beating Sandvine on Linux with iptables
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If you are tired of Sandvine (the application used by Comcast to throttle Bit Torrent with fake TCP packet resets) screwing with your BitTorrent and a user of GNU/Linux, then this is for you. I will tell you how to take your bandwidth back.
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Getting started with KWord Development
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About 2 months ago, I started working on KWord ODF support. Getting productive working on KWord is no mean task - apart from the mandatory C++/Qt knowledge, one need to know Scribe, KDE, KOffice libs and KWord. I knew only C++/Qt and basic Scribe.
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SCRUM in OpenSource Projects?
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This article will deal with some ideas about "How to manage an OpenSource Development Project". So for this, you should know a bit of management structures, not only in OpenSource Businesses or Projects, but also in commercial software development environments. If you are not in this business I'll provide some links at the end of this article.
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Nokia’s Open Source Response: The Symbian Q&A
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Sun’s Jonathan Schwartz, in discussing Java specifically and Sun more generally, is fond of highlighting the volume of the mobile market relative to the PC. Here’s what he had to say on the subject back in 2006
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Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex" Alpha 1
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The first development snapshot for the forthcoming release of Ubuntu 8.10 (codenamed Intrepid Ibex) is coming out two weeks late -- likely due to Canonical's focus on getting the Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS update out next week -- but what matters is that it's finally here.
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Install software on Linux - a minor conspiracy?
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Sometimes media people are not ashamed to look like incompetent idiots. The only explanation I can imagine is that there is some purpose to pursuer. Going an mass for a hidden goal is a conspiracy by definition, right?
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Which version of Linux? We offer a simple guide to Linux distributions.
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Ubuntu Linux
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I've been a user of the Linux operating system since kernel 0.99 in 1994. I've watched it improve steadily over the past 14 years, but there was always some function or application missing that meant I had to keep at least one PC around with a current version of Windows on it. Linux could do 95% of the job, but sometimes I needed that other 5%.
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Battle Royale: Ubuntu 8.04 vs. openSUSE 11
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All things are set for today’s epic battle. Two major release versions of two major Linux distributions will take the stage for what could be the fight of the year. Dubbed as the Battle Royale, it’s Ubuntu 8.04 vs. openSUSE 11 for our mega main event.
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Is Mule Really Open Source?
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Most Open Source Projects (Not the namesake open source projects) are released under an OSI approved license. The open source definition of OSI states that "Open source doesn't just mean access to the source code.
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