If you don’t want to wait until Banshee 1.0 is added to Gutsy/Hardy repositories, just add this to your software sources (System > Administration > Software Sources -> Third-Party Software and click Add), for Hardy:
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More Bills and a Hearing Schedule as SCO's Money Flies the Coop
Lots of filings in the bankruptcy, but not many that matter. The SCO enablers want their money, and I would guess they'd like it sooner rather than later, all things considered. Mesirow has filed another bill, and so has Berger Singerman, and Tanner has an Order that it can expand its role on SCO's behalf. We have also the hearing schedule for the June 17 hearing.
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What Open Source Means to Microsoft, Nokia
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10 Best Windows Games That Can Be Played on Linux
For most hardcore gamers, Linux is taboo since they probably think that they cannot play their favorite Windows-only games with it. They do have a point of staying away from Linux, but if they knew that they can play some of their most wanted games on Linux, will they take the switch?
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Mark Shuttleworth Interview by Linux-Magazine Italia
Vincenzo Ciaglia from Linux-Magazine Italia sent me a few questions related to the release of 8.04 LTS. Since he was going to translate the conversation into Italian this week, he was happy for me to blog the English version here.
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Software Patents Roundup and What Novell Should Have Done
Another variety of more analytical pieces: Red Hat did right where Novell did wrong; Microsoft abuses the system; ACTA is above the law.
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ODF for Canadian Library Association, More Application Support for ODF
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PLT Scheme version 4.0 released
"PLT Scheme version 4.0 is now available from http://plt-scheme.org/ -- This major new release offers many improvements over version 372, and we encourage everyone to upgrade..." -- Personally, i recommend using GNU Guile from within Emacs ;-)
* http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/
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The elephant in the room
Continuing the ongoing discussion about open source software business models, Rich Sharples of Red Hat’s JBoss division weighs in on an issue I have with Savio Rodrigues’s categorization of open source users: namely the fact that it does not take into account the value of the application in question.
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SITA braves open source
The State IT Agency (SITA) is transferring its entire technology infrastructure to free, open source and open standards software (FOSS).
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They Say a Picture's Worth a Thousand Words...
Iconic logos from the GNU/Linux world (GNU, Debian, Tux, Ubuntu, Fedora, Slackware, OpenSuSE etc)
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Eye Candy: So Bad, Yet So Good
Even though I consider myself a fairly advanced Linux user, there are some things in Linux I haven't gotten around to yet. This isn't usually through inability to do something; it's usually a matter of not seeing the need for it. So it is with Compiz--I realize that I'm very late to the party, but I finally got around to installing it this week on my Kubuntu machine. First impression?
Read more »Using NTSYSV To Manage Linux Services
How to use ntysyv, rather than chkconfig, to manage Linux services at specific run levels.
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Debian — troubling signs; can Slackware teach us anything?
An opinion piece that tries to provide a contrast between 'the Debian way' and 'the Slackware way' when it comes to distribution management and keeping consistency with upstream projects.
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Open Source PLUS Open Standards are a “Smart Business Decision” Says E.U.
The New York Times reports today a hard rebuke from European Union’s competition commissioner, Neelie Kroes, against Microsoft’s tactics in Europe. In her speech she offered up some advice worth heeding; “I know a smart business decision when I see one — choosing open standards is a very smart business decision indeed,” Ms. Kroes told a conference in Brussels.
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