Mandriva always stands one step ahead of other distribution in terms of overall experience.. Though ranked #6 in Distrowatch.. Mandriva features and utilities makes it one of the best newbie friendly distro out there.. The best feature of Mandriva is that the developers try to re master the new release from the scratch.. Not only in terms of Hardware and Software..
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Novell’s CEO is Dissing Red Hat (Again)
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Ron Hovsepian misleads investors in order to defend SUSE while bashing Red Hat with FUD.
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Ubuntu Customization - Changing the Login Screen Theme
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Customize easily your Ubuntu Login screen with different cool themes. [Watch the quick tutorial]
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Rails 2.1: Time zones, dirty, caching, gem dependencies, caching, etc
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"Rails 2.1 is now available for general consumption with all the features and fixes we’ve been putting in over the last six months since 2.0. This has been a huge effort by a very wide range of contributors helping to make it happen..."
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"New Enclosures"
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"Corporations are developing a variety of new mechanisms to secure monopoly control of biotechnology and other emerging technologies. These new mechanisms - what ETC group refers to as "New Enclosures" - will supplement or even replace intellectual property as a means of strengthening corporate dominance over new technologies.
Read more »Perl Script To Help Solve the "M I U" puzzle on Linux or Unix
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A Perl script for Linux or Unix to help solve the "M I U" formal systems puzzle of getting from MI to MU.
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Firefox Or Flock? Or Both?
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With a release candidate of Firefox 3 upon us and the final version set to drop sometime in June, I'm finding myself a bit torn: Do I upgrade to FF3 once it's fully baked, or stay with my current browser?
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Transmission Asia-Pacific - EngageMedia and Ruangrupa
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News from alternative media: Transmission Asia-Pacific is a meeting of video activists and free software developers using online video distribution for social justice and media democracy. - Sukabumi, Indonesia, May 19-25, 2008. http://transmission.cc/txap ..."
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How Microsoft lost the office file format battle
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When MS announced that SP2 for Office 2007 would support ODF and not OOXML, it suffered defeat at its own hands
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Killing With Kindness
http://www.linuxtoday.com –
I read the Boycott Novell (BN) site fairly regularly, even if I don't always agree with what it has to say. I consider Roy Schestowitz, one of the site's creators, a good guy and (thus far) we have had a very cordial relationship. But the tone of the BN site is almost always in rant mode, which is not my preferred reading style; and Schestowitz and I have some other core differences too.
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Change Firefox 3's URL bar behavior
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Mozilla, makers of Firefox, a popular alternative to Safari on many users' machines, will very shortly release Firefox 3--the product is currently at release candidate stage, which typically means a final release is imminent. The latest version of Mozilla's browser includes a number of new features to make browsing faster, easier, and perhaps even more fun.
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Interview: Joel Cohen, writer and associate producer of The Simpsons
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Joel Cohen is an Emmy award-winning writer and associate producer of The Simpsons. He’s also a keynote speaker at the Red Hat Summit this June. Enjoy this sneak preview of Joel, and then join us in Boston to hear more from him about The Simpsons and keeping innovation alive for 420 episodes over two decades.
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A Fine Piece: Rhythmbox 0.11.5
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Today I decided to review Rhythmbox 0.11.5, the GNOME audio player. At first glance, Rhythmbox made me a good impression: the layout is simple and clean, similar in many ways to many other players for GNOME, like Banshee, Listen or Exaile.
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Touchpanel PC boots Linux in two seconds
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Technologic Systems is readying a rugged WVGA touchpanel PC based on a fast-booting ARM9-based single board computer (SBC). The TS-TPC-7390 Touch Panel Computer incorporates the Debian Linux-based TS-7390 SBC, which is equipped with a 200MHz ARM9 CPU from Cirrus and a Lattice FPGA (field-programmable gate array).
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VIA’s unfortuante open source deja vu
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Deja vu, the experience of experiencing something that you feel you’ve experienced before, hit me while reading about hardware maker VIA and its latest forays and fumbles in open source.
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