Over the past decade, companies have been experimenting with a radical concept: openness. Instead of keeping proprietary information close to the vest, they make it available to anyone who wants it, usually free of charge.
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Stop GNOME from Asking to Import Photos from Your iPhone or iPod Touch
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GNOME will detect an iPhone or iPod Touch as a camera, and ask you if you want to import pictures every time it’s plugged in.
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Using ultra-mobile Linux with a Nokia Internet Tablet (video)
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I'm on the go all the time, and sometimes that makes it hard to stay connected. I could carry my laptop with me everywhere, but that can be a pain, especially when I am on my bike. To meet the demands of my daily life I have constructed a lightweight, ultra-portable, Linux-based computing solution.
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Meet Karl Paetzel, HP marketing manager for Linux and open source (video)
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Karl Paetzel is quoted frequently about Hewlett-Packard's ever-increasing Linux and open source efforts, which now include open source licensing detection and governance tools. Here's a chance to see and hear him a little more "up close and personal" than in a traditional text interview.
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How I dumped Windows for Linux - Day 1
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Linux has been getting a lot of press over the past six months, particularly populist distributions such as Ubuntu. Dell has installed Ubuntu onto its Linux PCs and laptops, and let’s not forget the phenomenally successful Eee PC from Asus, which runs the Xandros distro.
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Linux Mint 5.0 is coming
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OK. Rather than complain about Ubuntu (and it’s limited out of the box experience), I am genuinely waiting for Linux Mint 5.0 (Elyssa). And so... After many sleepless nights and a lot of work I am delighted to announce that the first release candidate for Linux Mint 5 Elyssa was released and that it is now available for download.
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BasKet Organizes Your Multimedia Notes and Tasks
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Free multimedia note organizer BasKet takes a page from Microsoft's OneNote, along with a good portion of Getting Things Done-style organization, to offer an all-in-one spot to drop your thoughts and next actions.
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What A New OS Needs
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An interesting open-source project begun in 1996 has led to the alpha release of ReactOS, a clone of Windows XP based on the architecture of Windows Server 2003. I predict these folks can produce a stable, free OS within the next few years if they are encouraged and supported. This could prove to be a bigger threat than Linux to Microsoft 's dominance.
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Changing The Language & Keyboard Layout On Various Distributions
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This document describes how to reconfigure the default language and the keyboard layout on various distributions so that they suit your location. I made this howto for our VMware images where the keyboard layout is always set to German and a few users have problems to configure the language and keyboard layout on these images.
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The Best General Purpose Linux Distributions
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A distribution (also called distro) is a member of the Linux family of computer operating systems. They are built around the Linux kernel and consist of a large variety of software. Here’s a list of some of the best general purpose and most popular open and free distributions
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HTML 5: A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML - W3C Working Draft 13 May 2008
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"This specification defines the 5th major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web: the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).
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Silverlighting your web experience on Linux with Project Moonlight
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Silverlight is Microsoft's foray into building interactive Rich Internet Applications.
Microsoft has released browser plugins for Windows and OS X but it's not a surprise that Linux was left out, as usual. Here’s where Moonlight comes in for the Linux world..
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Zile 2.2.59 released
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"I am happy to announce the release of Zile 2.2.59, the tiny Emacs clone. [...] Zile's web page is at http://www.gnu.org/software/zile/ ..."
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Xubuntu + StumpWM + Emacs = best laptop setup I have ever had.
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"...But try to guess which of the computers I spend most time on. That’s right, not the new “monster” machine but the old laptop running Xubuntu with the Stump Window Manager."
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GNU/Linux Rails Server Using Passenger, part 2
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"Here is the, the long awaited second part of my extensive guide on setting up a rails server running on Ubuntu 8.04. Everything should be going smoothly so far and you should be at the point where we need to setup Apache and link everything together. This guide will be quite verbose and much longer than the first one. This is due mostly to all the configuration that will be required.
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