This summer, I'm changing our entire 250+ workstation infrastructure from Fedora to Edubuntu. Under the hood, our computers will be very, very different. Not a single one of my users, however, will notice.
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One-Time Contributers
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Tony Luck offered some statistics focused on the frequency of developers that only contribute to the Linux kernel one time
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What drives a mass Linux migration?
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Nothing warms the cockles of a Linux lover's heart more than to hear that X or Y big company/city is migrating its desktops to the free operating system. And nothing can evoke more bitter insults than the reversal of any such decision.
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France wants to implement Widespread ISP-level Filtering - From Google Translate
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Sarkozy wants to see everything and know everything -- For french readers: http://www.laquadrature.net/fr/big-brother-sarkozy-en-revait-fillon-le-fait
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Tracking movements through cell phones
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RMS: « 100,000 people's movements were tracked through their cell phones for a scientific study.
This is a reminder that Big Brother can track anyone's cell phone. Do you want all your movements to be tracked?
Remember that the only way to stop most cell phones from reporting their whereabous is to take the batteries out.» -- via RMS website
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Top 6 ultra-portable laptops
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The laptop market has been absolutely turned on its head in the last 12 months. It used to be all about how much power you could fit into a small form factor. And yet, in the year that Alienware has unleashed its frighteningly quick Area-51 m15x gaming laptop, all anyone wants to talk about is the latest low-end Eee PC rival to have broken the £300 barrier.
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SELF News May 2008 :: Sharing knowledge about Free Software
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"...Contents:
1. SELF Open Documentary Contest Update
2. SELF Testers needed
3. Pre-conference workshop - July 14, 2008
4. SELF Sprint Sessions during FKFT - July 16-17, 2008
5. Free Knowledge, Free Technology Conference Programme Update
6. Agenda
7. About
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The free-knowledge fundamentalist
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"Jimmy Wales changed the world with Wikipedia, the hugely popular online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. What will he do next? ..."
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Firefox 3 / Mozilla 10th Anniversary Parties
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The Mozilla project has a long and distinguished history of holding global distributed parties to celebrate major events in the project's life, including at the South Pole. I'm pleased to say that we are doing this again - mozillaparty.com is now open for business
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MPower CEO Randy McCabe: Open Source for Nonprofits
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"The nonprofit sector is a huge and vastly underserved market when it comes to CRM," says MPower CEO Randy McCabe. MPower provides open source CRM software to nonprofit organizations, allowing them to download and use it without licensing fees. McCabe sees inherent shortcomings in the proprietary software model -- issues which MPower has targeted with its open source offerings.
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Talking to the Open-Source Pros
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If you’d like to pick [the] brains [of the biggest names in open source], not to mention those of other open source professionals, get yourself over to the CIO Executives Online forum before the end of the week.
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Bulgaria: 'Government's increasing use of Open Source inevitable'
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The Bulgarian government will turn more and more to Open Source software, predicts Krasimir Panayotov, coordinator of the GNU/Linux User Group in the city of Rousse, the country's fifth-largest city.
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Why Google should embrace OpenOffice
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If Google really wanted to deliver a knockout punch to Microsoft, it would integrate OpenOffice with Google Docs, and sell support for the combined suite to small businesses, medium-sized business, and large corporations. Given the reach of Google, the quality of OpenOffice, and the lure of free, it's a sure winner.
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The Battle for Wesnoth 1.4.2 Review
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It's been a while since I made the Battle for Wesnoth 1.2.8 Review, and now the brand new 1.4.2 release is out. What are the new features? What changed or improved since the last stable version? I will try to review most of the new features in the last Wesnoth release, as well as including some in-game screenshots.
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42 More of the Best Free Linux Games
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In response to our request for users' thoughts on their favorite Linux games, we received, as anticipated, a flood of emails. Hundreds of games were recommended for inclusion in this compilation, with a few people eulogizing at great length why a particular title could not be omitted.
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