About 12 hours ago, I was notified of a thread on Ubuntu's forums: Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment - LXDE is back!. It's about LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment), whose future is seriously questioned, should we read the Current Status and Future Plan of The Project — a message from his author, the very maker of the PCMan File Manager PCManFM is very much alive, having the latest release (0.3.6 stable) on 2008-02-23, but LXDE is a different matter, it seems...
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Choosing the Best License for Wiki Content
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Many types of open or general public licenses govern online collaborative spaces like wikis. The popular choices seem to fall under three categories: CopyLeft, Creative Commons, and Public Domain. All open licenses allow some use of content that would normally be covered by full copyright protection.
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Patent Pledge for Open Source Developers
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Microsoft irrevocably promises not to assert any Microsoft Necessary Claims against you as an open source software developer ("You") for making, using, importing, or distributing any implementation of a Covered Specification ("Covered Implementation"), subject to the following.
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"Tackling the Big Issues" at the FSF Annual Associate Member Meeting, Saturday, March 15
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"...Keynote speeches from FSF board members Mako Hill and Henri Poole and the director of the FSF-backed End Software Patents campaign Ben Klemens will each address the 2008 theme, "Tackling the Big Issues." They will look at the projects that will demand the Free Software Foundation's attention in 2008: from software patents to freedom for web services, from advancing free software adoption to the changing relations with the entertainment industry brought about by this year's Hollywood writers strike..."
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Linking Open Source to SaaS
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What does Software as a Service (SaaS) have to do with Open Source? Not much, you might think. Or maybe you've noticed that the FSF extended the spanking new GPL3 to the Affero Licence--to deal with SaaS providers? It does not help Open Source Software makers to make more money, so who cares? Well, OSS makers should care, as SaaS may finally give them a business model that may finally bring them some money.
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10 Slick Linux Desktops, and How To Make Them
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So you thought Vista’s desktop looked slick? Or the latest Leopard desktop is coolest thing after sliced bread? Well you probably haven’t been properly exposed to Linux’s customizability.
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Funny Computing Image: You computer is at risk
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A Skype user received a message about security problem with his Windows machine. The funny part, is he was running Linux!
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Can Linux make an impact on phones?
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One of the major themes that emerged from this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona was Linux, with new Linux-based handset platforms on show and various applications and services for mobile Linux. Could this mean that Linux is likely to be a major rival for other mobile operating systems such as Symbian?
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How do you define ‘commercial open source’?
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Adobe has announced that it is sponsoring the SQLite public domain database engine project by joining Mozilla and Symbian on the SQLite consortium. The news is interesting in that it balances Google’s recent sponsorship of efforts to support Photoshop on Linux, while it also raises an interesting question about Microsoft’s attempt to define commercial open source.
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Solid Drives
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If you haven't heard, Linux is taking a leap forward. It's becoming available at many stores as the primary operating system on several computers. Just recently I was shopping online at best buy and saw they have a $400 laptop that comes completely suited with Linux as its ONLY operating system.
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VMware rains hardware deals on Microsoft's parade
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VMware today inked a quartet of software deals with server giants Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Fujitsu Siemens. The agreements will infuriate Microsoft which is struggling to get its own virtualisation offering onto the market.
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Video - using KRename from within Konqueror
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A few days ago, I took a look at batch renaming application KRename. In this short video tutorial, I show you how to invoke KRename from within Konqueror, and walk through a simple renaming workflow with a folder of images.
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Specsavers sees clear benefits in open source
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It has become a commonplace perception that the UK is rather unenlightened when it comes to open-source software.
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Firefox 3 final beta to be released in March
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Firefox 3 edges closer to release, with the fourth and final beta of the web browser out "in a couple of weeks", according to Mozilla's vice president of engineering, Mike Schroepfer.
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New search powers lead Firefox 3
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The latest version of web browser Firefox will make changes to the way people search for information online, says its developer.
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