In the beginning was... hacker culture and free Internet software. They existed as outsiders. They were really known by few. But some knew of them and an idea started to grow... it was first only in one person's mind, then two, then it spread to the hacker culture and further into the business world.
Read more »Yes, I'm Free, Said The Open Source Software Idea
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Confessions of an open source free rider
The first time I did it, I didn’t even know what I was doing. In truth, nobody in the team really did. It was in the mid 80’s. The pre-copyleft era. We needed to write specialized compilers for a distributed LISP and a distributed PROLOG. They would compile for dual-core CPUs embedded in blade-like boards each connected to a fast bus and sharing memory. Lots of work; good pay though.
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Software Freedom Day 2008 Team Registration Open
Get your team registered early first 300 teams get a SFD pack, loads of stuff to help spread the open software word. First go here and check out the interactive map. If no team is in your area consider starting up a team yourself. Check out what The New Mexico Ubuntu Team did last year.
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How-to + Benchmark: Playing Prey in Linux with Wine!
In Prey players enter a living spaceship which enslaves alien races and devours humans for lunch. Prey turns the first person shooter genre upside-down with awesome new gameplay features like wall-walking and gravity flipping, making for intense singe-player and multi-player experiences. Prey How-to, Benchmarks, Screenshots and a Gameplay Video...
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Linux Outlaws 40 - Software Freedom, Lawsuits & Poker
In this special episode, we talk to Bradley M. Kuhn of the FSLC & FSC about software freedom, litigation against open source developers, the future and thread of web services that aren’t open, the AGPL and poker.
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JOE Joe’s own editor: a really usable text editor
"Back in the day, when I was new to [GNU/Linux], joe was the first text editor that I managed to quit without having to reboot my machine. That I am still using it today, many years later, goes to show just how simple yet powerful joe is.
Read more »What might come of the OOXML revolt?
It’s late, and in terms of the process it’s hopeless, but the appeals of the ISO vote making Office Open XML (OOXML) an official standard could still have an impact.
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Ubiquitous Linux, or, how to become a household commodity
Whether it was to your taste or not, there’s no denying the ASUS Eee Linux subnotebook was a massive sales success. Demand far exceeded initial production so it’s not surprising competitor models are on their way. And here’s why the hardware manufacturers are going to bring Linux to the masses far in advance of any amount of Ubuntu fanboyism.
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Improving Linux Kernel Janitors Project
In the early days, the project was conceived as a way of getting fresh blood into Linux kernel development by giving new developers fairly simple but generally useful tasks and hoping they'd move more into the mainstream. Currently this process doesn't work very well. Some think bug finding and reporting would do better.
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5 Ways the End-User Desktop Will Look Different in 5 Years
Look around your organization. What does your end-user desktop environment look like? Windows-based PCs? Docked laptops? Some combination thereof? Look around your organization five years from now, and the desktop landscape will appear very different.
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3 GTK Applications I Need on a Daily Basis
was never a fan of GTK applications, at least not since I have switched to KDE (over 2 years now). But there are at least three GTK applications that I need on a day-to-day basis.
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Wine 1.0 RC2 Review
A review on Wine 1.0 RC2 testing World of WarCraft, DC++ and mIRC.
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It Takes a Convert to Make a Convert
The article is about switching from Windows to Linux and what stops Windows users from doing it.
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Will Epiphany be able to compete with Firefox's extensions?
I recently looked at the forthcoming Epiphany browser based-on-Webkit. However, some people told me that Firefox has so many extensions that it would not be possible for a new browser to compete, even among the target audience of GNOME users. Is this true?
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Screencast Presenting Some of the New Features in KDE 4.1
A video which shows you how much KDE 4.1 is different from 4.0. Too many things are going on and it is impossible to make a screencast that shows all the new features and all the stuff. This one will give you an idea of how things are going, and how KDE 4.1 currently looks like.
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