Does the true future of Linux on computing devices lie outside of desktop computers? It’s no secret that on the desktop Linux has held steady at only about one percent market share for many years, and that has caused many pundits to proclaim that it will never be a truly meaningful player.
Read more »How Much Does Linux Need the Desktop?
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Android: the return of the Unix wars?
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Your editor was recently amused to encounter this ZDNet article on "Android's dirty little secret." According to that article, the openness of Android has led to anincrease in the control held by handset manufacturers and wireless carriers and the fragmentation of the platform.
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Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Beta Has Been Released! Screenshots And Videos Inside
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Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Beta has been released seconds ago.
Read more »Bordeaux 2.0.8 for Mac Released
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The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.8 for Mac today. Bordeaux 2.0.8 is a maintenance release that fixes a number of small bugs.
Read more »The New Wallpapers and Theme of Ubuntu 10.10
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Seventeen new beautiful wallpapers and a lightweight and eye-candy theme will please every existing and future Ubuntu 10.10 users!
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The Dawn Of The Age of Open Source 4.0
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Some say we are entering a new "golden age" of open source. Open Source 4.0
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How to Choose a Desktop Linux Distribution
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With all the many reasons to use Linux today--particularly in a business setting--it's often a relatively easy decision to give Windows the boot. What can be more difficult, however, is deciding which of the hundreds of Linux distributions out there is best for you and your business.
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Online collaboration with Feng Office - the ultimate OpenOffice.org alternative?
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Project management and task scheduling made easy, from small teams to massive organisations. Join Richard Smedley as he demonstrates the power of Feng Office in this excellent step-by-step guide…
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Interview with Stormy Peters of The GNOME Foundation
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In this interview I chat with Stormy Peters about GNOME, Ubuntu and more. I had the opportunity to ask Stormy for an interview during a brief conversation at OSCON earlier this year.
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Turn your Linux computer in a wireless access point using hostapd
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A few weeks ago I was living in accommodation that provided internet access via a wired router. This obviously meant no wireless access for some of my devices. This was especially bad for my Nexus One phone which because of the lack of wireless received all data via mobile network causing me to go over my fair usage policy!
Read more »Next Generation of Btrfs Nears Prime Time
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Mason said he would like to see Btrfs ultimately replacing existing Linux filesystems like the popular Ext3 and Ext4 systems that are often the default on enterprise Linux distributions.
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Review: Backupninja backups for Linux
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When you hear the word “backup,” what do you think? Critical? Complicated? Costly? When you think of backing up Linux desktops or servers what do you think? You don’t? You run screaming? Thankfully that is not necessary. There are tons of tools.
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Announcing WriteType 1.0.98
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The next version of WriteType (1.0.98) is now available for download! WriteType is a word processor designed to make typing easier and more efficient for young students and students with disabilities.
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Red Hat: New cloud strategy
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The vendor plans to extend its Cloud Foundations, which were introduced in June; a virtual machine with JBoss is to be the Platform-as-a-Service on which developers can base their applications
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Native ZFS Is Coming To Linux Next Month
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Prior to the emergence of Btrfs as a viable next-generation Linux file-system, Sun's ZFS file-system was sought after for Linux due to its advanced feature-set and capabilities compared to EXT3 and other open-source file-systems at the time.
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