"I am very happy that 19 contributors who were waiting for their accounts, sometimes for a very long time, became Debian Developers today. This is great news for them, and for the project as a whole. Many thanks to all people involved for making this possible, including Joerg Jaspert, Steve McIntyre and James Troup. And congratulations to (using their account names)..."
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How Microsoft Will Play the ISO Card
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One of the arguments adduced in favour of making OOXML an ISO standard was that it would place control of the former in the hands of an independent ISO group, which was a much better situation than the present one. Anyone who believes this has clearly learned nothing from Microsoft's history of unremitting subversion of practically every independent standard it has been involved with.
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OOXML Protests Are Back, Lots of ODF FUD Seen Abound
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Last week we saw Norway taking it to the streets where highly respectable figures spoke against OOXML. This was no mob action, but a case of sophisticated individuals speaking on behalf on those in their country who do not understand what is going on.
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Tim Bray Calls the ISO Process “Brutal and Corrupt”
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Tim Bray was clearly dissatisfied the last time his words were carefully selected and then used to describe the terrible state of the OOXML BRM in Geneva [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. To be more specific, it was the “cherry-picking” as he later called it that had him disappointed by articles quoting him.
Read more »MySQL and "commercial extensions:" Core, complements, and semantics
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MySQL has placed itself in the middle of a rising furor over its allegedly diminished commitment to open source. To be fair, it has only itself to blame.
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Linux development on the PlayStation 3, Part 3: Slimming down X11 with tiny tools
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The Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) runs Linux®, but getting it to run well requires some tweaking. In the third and final article of this series, on PS3 Linux, Peter Seebach talks about ways to get X11 slimmed down to fit on a smaller memory budget.
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Phtos of Candle Light Vigil at Bangalore
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Photos from the Candle Light Vigil for Document Freedom organised by Free Software Users Group Bangalore. Many carried placards and banners in support of Open Document Format and against OOXML.
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Broadcast your music with Icecast
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You can stream your music collection to the whole Internet from your favorite Linux distribution. Take some playlist files, add in the functionality of the Icecast server, and you have your own Web-based radio stream. Use it to listen to music remotely on your home machine, or tell your friends and become the next Internet radio phenomenon.
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Give Me 3 Synths
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In my next three articles I'll profile three native Linux software synthesizers (a.k.a. softsynths). I'll introduce their basic synthesis architectures and program operations, then I'll guide my readers briefly through the process of creating a new sound for each synth profiled. Our voyage begins with Nick Dowell's Analogue Modeling SYNTHesizer, better known as amSynth.
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MySQL chief recommits to Linux under Sun
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Under its new owner, Sun Microsystems, MySQL will remain true to its Linux roots and won’t be pulled towards Solaris or become overshadowed by the Solaris-distributed Postgres.
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Why Mac OS X Sucks and Linux Rocks
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As some of you may know, I had my very first taste of Mac a few weeks ago. I got a Macbook Pro (Penryn) which comes with the standard OS X Leopard. But for the sake of sanity, I immediately installed Linux, in particular Xubuntu “Gutsy Gibbon” on that new Apple hardware of mine with the aid of BootCamp.
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Newsflash: Grannies Need Linux
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Chances are, Granny's computer hardware is fine. Since Linux will run on anything from a toaster oven to a space station -- unless there's actual physical damage, the upgrade to Linux should cost nothing but some of your time. (And maybe some of Granny's cookies.) Here's a quick list of suggestions to make life easier on you both
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Red Hat drops consumer Linux desktop
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"Red Hat's desktop software unit has revealed it won't be launching desktop Linux for the consumer market any time soon."
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Tips & Tricks from PCLinuxOS Forum
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Here is a list of some important tips and tricks directly from PCLinuxOS Forum.
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Linux for Grandma - Part III, Finale
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Okay, it has been a few months since I have set my 83-year old grandmother with a desktop PC running Kubuntu 7.10. Just to recap, she has never used a PC before. She doesn't know Windows or Mac or Linux. It was the first time she used a mouse, though she is a touch-typist. I configured everything in advance. I removed everything that I thought would be distracting or not used.
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