The department at the French Ministry of Education that is handling purchasing of software and software licenses is increasing its Open Source offerings to some 1.5 million teachers and education workers in 250 institutes France.
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IIT Bombay, Microsoft at loggerheads over standards
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Embers from the fiery debate over the International Organisation for Standardisation's (ISO) acceptance of Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) file format as an international standard refuse to die out in India.
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Flickrfs – a virtual filesystem for accessing Flickr photos
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Adding photos to Flickr using web browser can be a very annoying procedure. Thus, the better solution is to use tools, which enable us to maintain our Flickr account directly from the file manager or desktop application. Linux users may choose several solutions. I will present Flickrfs and Desktop Flickr Organizer.
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Why I Prefer Linux Past to Present
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Todays rant will be based upon my history with linux, why I prefer linux, and some Windows desktop administration. Although I am 90% linux/unix in every aspect of computing, every once in a great while I get drawn into a situation that allows me to spend a few hours in the shoes of the windows desktop administrator.
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The Ebox from ASUS: Looks great, costs little, runs Linux
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From the rumor/leak mill comes ASUS' move of its eee platform to the desktop. Just look at this thing. Yes, it's cooler than a Mac. And way cheaper.
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Google defends open source from 'poisonous people'
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A poisonous person would be anyone who puts a drag on collaborative coding, from cruel souls who enjoy tossing a wrench into the works to social misfits who screw things up simply by being themselves.
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Got Vision?
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Seven years ago this week I published my first online commentary piece. The topic was the predicted death of the Linux desktop brought on by the demise of Eazel, the original developer of GNOME’s Nautilus file manager. A lot has happened since that time, but not precisely how I would have predicted it would. Let’s review.
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Novell’s SUSE: Xen Exclusive for Citrix and Microsoft
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Xen's Novell bias, the Citrix 'branding police', and FUD against Java revisited.
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The New Default Plasma Desktop Theme for KDE 4.1
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Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you the brand new shiny Plasma theme that will be used for KDE 4.1. You can see the new applet and KRunner backgrounds, the new panel, our brand-new carbon fiber clock and some items that once upon a time weren't themed at all, like the pager and the taskbar. The theming support is now even more extensive.
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Do-No-Evil Saturday - Part III: Zen is Ten, Other Miscellany
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Just a few leftover stories that are worth documenting but not much more than that.
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Dell and Novell a Match Made in Hell? (Video)
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An amusing new video that shows Novell's failure on a Dell PC (with Windows).
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Geek of the Month: Eric S. Raymond
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If you ask me who's the proudest hacker in the world, I would say that it's Eric S. Raymond. ESR, as he is often called, is a computer programmer and open source software evangelist. He is also a well-known author and has been very influential in giving the term 'hacker' a positive image.
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Full Circle Magazine: Issue 13, out now
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This month:
* Flavor of the Month - Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron.
* How-To : Organize an Ubuntu Demo Day/Party, TV Feast for Ubuntu, Using GIMP Part 2, Create Your Own Server Part 5 and Automatic Backup via Email.
* My Opinion - What is Web 2.0?
* MOTU Interview - Luca Falavigna
* Letters, Q&A, MyDesktop, Top5 and more!
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The A-Z of programming languages: AWK
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Computerworld Australia recently spoke to Professor Aho to learn more about the development of AWK, in the first of a series of investigations into the most widely used programming languages.
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Pamela Jones: Microsoft Will Be the Next SCO Group
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Fat Man and Little Boy: A decent article has just been published by Heise and you can view it right here. To quote just a fragment:
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