I wrote a preview of Fedora 9 "Sulphur" during its release day and said that I'm going to post an update soon. Now that I have tried and tested F-9 on my 4th gen. Macbook Pro (Penryn), it's time for me to give you a concise summary of the Sulphur experience and how it compares to that of Hardy Heron.
Read more »Dual-booting Fedora 9 and Xubuntu 8.04 on Macbook Pro
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Open source must co-op to win govt contracts
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Google architect Grant Allen joined Labor Senator Kate Lundy and analyst Sam Higgins at Open Cebit 2008 to debate how the open source community can compete with software giants in a market geared to splurging millions on IT in return for SLAs and vendor liability.
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'PatentGate' one year later: MS against open-source world
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Microsoft has played the 'good cop, bad cop' routine with the open source camp since claiming a year ago that users of open source software were violating its patents.
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Enterprises grow more savvy over open source
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Open source icon Stormy Peters says enterprises have embraced open software, but often need help with troubleshooting it
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Red Hat, SUSE update their enterprise Linux OSes
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Linux vendors Red Hat and Novell's SUSE division Wednesday unveiled updates for their enterprise Linux operating systems, adding new capabilities and hardware support in between the next major releases of their products.
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Fight Microsoft with their own weapon
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So, Microsoft puts out its hand and offers help with porting open-source software, to make it run best on the Windows platform. How mean. Understandable from marketing and business point of view, but mean anyway (and hey, that's my opinion!).
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How To Run Linux From A USB Flash Drive
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Want to run Linux any time, any place? Here's what to do with popular distributions like Puppy Linux, Ubuntu, and Fedora, so you can boot up directly from your thumb drive.
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Lundy: Time is right for open source in government
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Open source might get a better look-in within government, says Senator Kate Lundy, if those responsible for purchasing decisions were forced by policy to evaluate all the options on the market.
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What's the "Linux Tax" Worth to You?
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In When Do You Trade in Your Gibbon for a Heron?, I mentioned that I’m considering upgrading my System76 laptop from Gutsy Gibbon to Hardy Heron. A commenter named Scummy suggested that a similarly configured Dell system is cheaper: "Dude - you just paid a $350 ‘Linux Tax’ by NOT going mainstream in your hardware…" Maybe so, but I think not. It depends on what you value.
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Homeland Security Helps Reduce Open Source Flaws
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Two years into the effort, new report sheds light on how effective your tax dollars have been at improving open source security.
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ZFS Coming to Linux?
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It seems like we're really on the subject of filesystems and related technology the past few days. We had an interview with the man behind BeServed, an item on WinFS' current status, and now we - possibly - have news on ZFS coming to Linux. Possibly, because it's all speculation from here on out.
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New Ubuntu Version Fixes A Lot of Linux Problems
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Hardy Hero, a new version of Ubuntu, was announced a little while ago, and the features for this release of Ubuntu are actually rather compelling to me. Because Gutsy only wowed me on two levels - a better wireless stack and the inclusion of tracker by default, here’s some of what I would like to see with Heron.
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How large is your .emacs?
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"I've been reading lots of blogs and opinions about emacs the last few days. What strikes me is all of these people who brag about how large their .emacs files have become. So let me make this very clear: If your .emacs file is longer than a page YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG. Why?
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Worry About Integration, Not Installation
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Over the past few months, several potential clients have asked me to configure and install open-source programs. That's not unusual in and of itself. I have been consulting for 15 years, and always enjoy receiving calls from people with problems that I may be able to solve.
Read more »Bazaar becomes a GNU project
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"The Bazaar version control system recently became a GNU project. We set out several years ago to build a version control system that would suit the collaboration and cooperation at the heart of free software, and Bazaar is the result of that effort.
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