Novell happily considers itself and even describes itself as a Microsoft partner, which possibly makes it part of that self-serving channel or the Microsoft ecosystem. Just watch the recent story from China for enlightening examples
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Xubuntu Hardy Heron is Ready for Takeoff
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“So far, so good.” That is all I can say when I tested Xubuntu 8.04 RC last night on my Macbook Pro. I didn’t want to wait for tomorrow’s distribution release because I know the download will be slow during that time due to expected heavy traffic. Anyway, the Release Candidate version will almost be the same as the finished product, I think.
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Smooth upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on my Linode
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A few days ago I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on my Linode VM (the machine which hosts this blog). I had upgraded to 7.10 a while back, so it was unlikely to be much of a challenge… But it was great to see another very smooth upgrade, without any manual workarounds required at all.
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Google Summer of Code 2008 Takes 1,125 Developers
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Every year Google somehow finds a way to up its contributions to the open source community and 2008 looks to be no different. For Google Summer of Code (SoC) 2008, Google is paying for 1,125 student developers, which is an increase from the 900 students the program took in 2007.
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Wubi do bee do, installing Ubuntu now so easy but Hardy Heron still too hard
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Thanks to a wonderful new open source tool called Wubi, downloading and installing the latest version of Ubuntu Linux is now a snap for Windows users. It’s a pity the Ubuntu development team still hasn’t taken the hint with its latest release, Hardy Heron.
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The Perfect Server - Ubuntu Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server)
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This tutorial shows how to set up an Ubuntu Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS) based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Courier POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.
Read more »Virtual Folders in KDE - Introducing Nepomuk virtual folders
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From the page: "You can tag files, you can annotate them, Strigi indexes your files, I showed how to create new information types and things, but you could not really use it. I suspect you want to find the things again by searching for it. Well, I don't think we should search. We should simply find! OK, enough of the bragging. Introducing Nepomuk virtual folders."
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Latest Server Release Expands Ubuntu Enterprise Profile
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Canonical Ltd. announced the upcoming availability of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition for free download on Thursday 24 April. In related news, Canonical also announced the simultaneous release of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition.
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Hardy Heron nVidia Drivers
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Yesterday I’ve updated my Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy system to the new 8.04 Hardy Heron. The only problem I faced after the install was with the nVidia drivers.
I decided to install them by hand and here is the process in nine easy steps.
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Google App Engine: Is it evil?
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The Google App Engine doesn’t really advance the cause of evil all that much, but it’s not exactly good, either. Google makes a big deal about its corporate motto, “Don’t be evil”, but at the end of the day, Google really is just another corporation, no matter how well-intentioned its founders may have been.
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Ubuntu makes second stab at enterprise servers
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Canonical, the Linux distribution maker best known for the Ubuntu Linux desktop operating system, has taken the wraps off a new release of the server edition of its product.
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Microsoft Goes Visiting South Africa Shortly After Pro-ODF Policies (Updated)
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A reader has just sent us a little valuable headsup about the recently-reported news of South Africa adopting ODF.
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Identify speakers with sndpeek
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Use sndpeek and custom algorithms to match voices to a pre-recorded library. Create applications to let you know who is speaking in teleconferences, podcasts, and live media events. Build basic assistance programs to help the hearing-impaired identify speakers in a bandwidth-limited context.
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How to Cut MP3 files under Ubuntu
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If you want to cut MP3 files under Ubuntu,follow this instructions first you need to install poc-streamer package.poc is a suite of MP3 tools and MP3 streaming programs. It can stream MP3s over HTTP, RTP multicast (RFC 2250 and RFC 3119) and a special multicast protocol to enable the use of Forward Error Correction to protect the MP3 stream against packet loss. It can also stream OGGs over HTTP.
Read more »Hugin: Create a panorama under Ubuntu within 2 minutes
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You’ve always dreamt of making panoramas of your holidays pictures. You’ve never done it cause you’ve never found the good software into Ubuntu or it was too complicated to set up? Me too. Until recently and the discovery of Hugin.
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