Mozilla has succeeded beyond its wildest dreams, receiving more than its hoped for 5 million downloads of Firefox 3 in less than 14 hours. So for the first day of the new browser's life, it's onward to 7 million!
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A visit to the Microsoft Newseum
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There’s an old saying: those who refuse to study history, are doomed to repeat it - and, in the IT version, this says that people who base IT decisions on popularity are doomed to forever accept recycled ideas as new and advanced.
With that in mind I want to dig out something from last January discussing a plan by one Mark Whitehorn to blog his company’s transition to the wonders of the 1980s coded into Microsoft’s Server 2008 stack.
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Linux Development Thriving
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There was a time when developers were clamouring all over Microsoft, but latest figures from Evans Data shows that fewer than one in ten software developers are writing applications for Windows Vista this year – just eight percent. To rub salt in the wound, the data shows that 49 percent of developers are writing applications for Windows XP.
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Copyright, Technology, and Access to the Law: An Opinionated Primer
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Recently, the state of Oregon has used copyright law to threaten people who were publishing its laws online. Can they really do that? More to the point, why would they? This essay will put the Oregon fracas in historical context, and explain the public policies at stake.
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Damn Small Linux 4.4 Review
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DSL 4.4 was just released on June 9th, so this past weekend I installed it on my Compaq Deskpro Pentium III 800 Mhz machine. It only has 256 megs of RAM, so a lightweight distribution like DSL is a good choice for it. Their site claims you can run DSL 486 DX with 16 megs of RAM, so even this old Compaq should fly with what it’s got. A link to the release notes is here.
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Bridging the African digital divide - with a ‘toaster’
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Canadian Firm Shows Faith In Ubuntu Server
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While most major server vendors take a “wait and see” approach to Ubuntu, a major Canadian Web host says the server operating system is ready for prime time. Indeed, Cirrus Tech is now offering Ubuntu on its server hosting plans. Here’s a closer look at Cirrus Tech’s announcement, and the state of Ubuntu on the server.
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China in anti-monopoly probe of Microsoft
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China has begun an anti-monopoly investigation into US giant Microsoft and several other global software firms, the country's intellectual property watchdog said Wednesday.
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Windows on Linux
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Under Linux, it is possible to run a number of Windows applications without having Windows installed at all. This is done with Wine. I'm not talking about the fermented beverage some of us are quite fond of, but a package that runs on Linux. Allow me to paraphrase from the Wine Web site . Wine Is Not an Emulator.
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Stabilisers for freedom: Wine 1.0
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Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) acknowledges the importance of the work being done by the Wine developers, whose efforts help many users to migrate to Free Software.
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Changes to Gobuntu
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The Gobuntu development team would like to announce that after 8.04 release of Gobuntu, the project will aim to merge many of the Gobuntu changes into mainline Ubuntu, such as our “Free Software Only” installer option which only installs software considered free by the Free Software Foundation’s definition of software freedom.
Read more »Parallelize applications for faster Linux booting
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One of the biggest complaints about Linux®, particularly from developers, is the speed with which Linux boots. By default, Linux is a general-purpose operating system that can serve as a client desktop or server right out of the box. Because of this flexibility, Linux serves a wide base but is suboptimal for any particular configuration.
Read more »Amarok 1.4.9.1 Review - Probably the Last 1.x Release
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Since Amarok 2 is on its way with all the fuss around it and the currently stable 1.4.9.1 version will probably be the last in the 1.x series, I decided to make a review of the last stable Amarok. Debian Lenny will ship with this version (or any later version before Amarok 2), probably making it the most stable Amarok experience up to date.
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How To Block Ads And Banners In SafeSquid Proxy Server
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Ads and banners not only unnecessarily consume bandwidth, but also distract users, and can be exceedingly irritating at times. Few ads and banners keep rotating and fetching new contents, and keep consuming bandwidth in the background.
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Lessons learned from NCSU FOSS class
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Free and open source software (FOSS) is only beginning to find a foothold in computer science departments in North America. FOSS tools may be used in teaching or be the subject of research or special committees, but few departments include courses that introduce students to the FOSS community.
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