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KDE e.V. and the GNOME Foundation to co-host flagship conferences
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The boards of KDE e.V. and the GNOME Foundation have issued a call to co-host Akademy and GUADEC, the flagship conferences of the KDE and GNOME projects respectively, during the Summer of 2009.
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Setting up a Mercurial VCS on Ubuntu
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"I’ve been meaning to set up a Version Control System for a long time now. VCS as a concept has been around for a while but recently a new paradigm in VCS called DVCS (for distributed version control system) has emerged. This new paradigm has cured or at least mitigated the warts of the old “centralized” version control systems and brought new benefits.
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Mozilla Build and Test Integration
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"Lately I've been investigating how Mozilla's build and test system works (there's a number of pieces that tend to have a pretty tight integration and I wanted to learn more). I asked developer Ben Hearsum and he kindly obliged. I've included the questions and information here in the hopes that others will be able to learn from it, as well..."
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Howto Connect to Windows VPN server (PPTP) with Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)
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This tutorial will explain how to Connect to Windows VPN server (PPTP) with Ubuntu Gutsy.Ubuntu makes it simple to connect to a Microsoft Windows VPN server at your workplace with NetworkManager and the pptp plugin.
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Create a mirror of a website with Wget
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GNU’s wget command line program for downloading is very popular, and not without reason. While you can use it simply to retrieve a single file from a server, it is much more powerful than that and offers many more features.
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Novell expands Microsoft alliance with China deal
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Linux software vendor Novell Inc. of Waltham is expanding its alliance with Microsoft Corp. into China, in a bid to encourage Chinese companies to start paying for the software they use to run their businesses.
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Exciting arcade action in glorious ASCII!
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Low tech games for a high tech world . . . Who says you need a fancy high-end graphics card to play some great Linux games? Heck, who says you need graphics at all? Seriously.
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Two Gnus tricks
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"I’ve added a couple of tweaks to my Gnus config lately. Nothing earth-shattering, but in both cases i was writing my own elisp for something that was already in there. So, i’ve thought i’d share them and, maybe, save you the trouble..."
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Vyatta Scaling Linux Up For Networks Big and Small
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Linux software router vendor rolls out new release with an aim to open up both service provider and enterprise networks.
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Wirelessly Sync an iPhone or iPod Touch with Ubuntu
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Apple has made it as difficult as they could to sync the iPod Touch and iPhone to any application other than iTunes. As a result, syncing an iPod Touch or iPhone in Linux is still no easy task.
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The Biggest Blunder: Or why Red Hat and Novell just left the door wide open to Ubuntu
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In recent announcements both Red Hat and Novell made it pretty clear that their foray onto the desktop would be delayed quite a bit longer. What they do not know is that they just left the door wide open for Ubuntu to conquer the desktop and the server space.
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Add faceted search to Thunderbird with Seek
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Do you struggle to keep tabs on your Thunderbird inbox? The SIMILE Seek extension might be the answer to your problems. The extension adds faceted browsing to Thunderbird, which allows you to search and manage your email messages in a radically different way than you are used to.
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Is it lift off for Linux?
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I had a very interesting conversation with Mr Ubuntu, aka Mark Shuttleworth, at the end of last week...His main point was that Linux, and use of Ubuntu, was on the rise. He also had lots of interesting things to say about open source more broadly, the Microsoft-Yahoo deal etc, which I thought I'd detail here as a Q&A.
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Frankly Speaking: Microsoft's woes are like IBM's of old
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Gartner says Windows is "collapsing." Well, sure. Strictly speaking, Windows itself isn't in a state of collapse -- Windows XP is still useful to a huge population of customers. But for Vista and the Windows franchise as a whole, things do not look good.
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