Over the years, I’ve grown quite fond of KDE for my Linux desktops. To me, it offered the right combination of ease of use and access to Linux’s power-user resources. Now, though, one of the forthcoming changes in KDE 5.1 is already annoying me and it’s barely in beta.
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Open source on the wire
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Once upon a time, using open-source servers and applications for business was frowned upon in many circles. Today, you’d be hard pressed to find any sizeable infrastructure that doesn’t leverage open-source code in some form or another, be it a few MySQL databases, Apache on the Web servers, or a pile of Perl, PHP, Ruby, or Python applications holding things together.
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Set a Firefox World Record!
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The New York Times ad…Firefox Flicks…the Firefox crop circle…Operation Firefox…you name it! The Firefox community is always up to some cool, collaborative way to declare their passion for Firefox. What better way to do this than band together to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours?!
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Mozilla guns for Guinness world record with Firefox 3.0
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Mozilla aims to make Firefox 3 a record breaker. It wants the release of the next version of its flagship open source browser to be accompanied by a record for the most software downloads in a single 24-hour period 1.
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Managing Firm-Sponsored Open Source Communities
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This is the page for my master thesis at the University of Oslo. The thesis carries the title: Managing Firm-Sponsored Open Source Communities - A Case Study on Novell and The openSUSE Project.
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Order From Chaos: Choosing A Linux Distribution - PART 1
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Choosing a Linux distribution from the dozens, if not hundreds, of available options can be a daunting and confusing proposition. What is the best distro? What are the differences between distros? How do I choose? These are all good questions. In this multi-part article, I will give you my opinion and guidelines for choosing.
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Ubuntu 8.04 - keep up the good work
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Let me admit that I’m not an Ubuntu fan. This is not because that it’s getting all the limelight in the Linux world and I am a Fedora user. I don’t use it much becuase it’s too user-friendly. Yes, it’s so user-friendly that I’m not getting the fun of using Linux. No doubt after a brief stint with RedHat9 in my teens, it’s Ubuntu 6.04 which made me Linux lover again.
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CSIR to switch 2300 users to Ubuntu Linux
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Parastal CSIR, South Africa’s national science and technology research organisation, is readying to switch most of its more than 2300 staff to using Ubuntu Linux as their default desktop.
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Gaming With The Open-Source R500 Driver
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From the release of Mesa 7.1 Release Candidate 1 to Multi-Pointer X being merged to master to the R500 3D milestone, it's been an exciting past 24 hours for the X.Org community.
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Microsoft Exchange dumped for Linux-based clone
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Taking a page from the doctors at Moses Taylor Hospital, IT staff at the Scranton, Pa., facility last year diagnosed their messaging system and came up with an effective treatment that's turned out to be a life saver.
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Getting the right kind of contributions
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Most free software projects encourage contributors—it is the rare project that has an overabundance—but contributions vary greatly in quality. Encouraging good submissions, or those likely to lead to useful contributions down the road, is an important part of any project. But it is a delicate balance.
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Organize information with Zim
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After this brief hiatus, originated by a small trip, I’m back to review a software I use on a daily basis: Zim. It’s a personal organizer based on a wiki. However, It’s not a regular wiki web based. Zim is a desktop application with no dependencies to servers or databases and in its core there’s a wiki engine.
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Discover the Best Ubuntu Resources on the Web
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Whether you are trying Ubuntu for the first time or you are a long-time Ubuntu power user, you will find below a list of the best Ubuntu resources on the Web. You name it: websites, forums, wikis, blogs and podcasts.
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Hard Times: Is It The New York Times or Microsoft Times?
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We take a good look at the New York Times' lip and app service to Microsoft.
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Office and OOXML Under Pressure, So Microsoft Retaliates with ODF
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Come to realise the true motives for Microsoft public 'endorsement' of ODF.
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