I just read a rather alarming article claiming that Oracle aims to destroy open source software industry. This article is in the tone of chicken little. As in the sky is falling and all is doom and gloom. It is written in such a way to ring every alarm bell it can find. It is, I believe, on the border of FUD.
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Installing CentOS Server for Production
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Installing a Linux server is easy, especially if you download one of the latest CentOS ISOs. There’s a nice wizard to walk you through the installation process, and it’s perfectly acceptable to do a standard default install.
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Mozilla Sees You Using Chrome Alongside Firefox
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If you're like me, you're using more than one open source browser these days. That's why I was absolutely heartened to see Firefox guru Chris Blizzard, from Mozilla, endorse the concept of using those exact two browsers in a recent interview.
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KDE 4.5, through my GNOME eyes.
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So I’ve had a play with the KDE 4.5 Live CD and thought I’d share my first impressions, coloured by the fact that I’m currently using the GNOME desktop environment on my installation of Linux Mint.
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Planning for a Revolution: Call to Designers
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Working on design for the openSUSE project is indeed a hard thing to do. I am not a Novell or openSUSE employee. I do what I do with my free time, which will be drastically reduced soon, because the school year is starting at the end of the month.
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Lawsuit Raises Questions about Open Invention Network, Linux Foundation
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There's been some talk this week that the lawsuit between Oracle and Google proves the ineffectiveness of the OIN (of which both companies are licensees) and the Linux Foundation (in which both companies are members). If either organization had been effective, the argument goes, then this lawsuit would not have happened.
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VLC Media Player: The Cone Knows Its Formats
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In the world of media player applications, the little orange traffic cone that VLC uses as its icon signifies ease of use, a deep set of features, and the versatility to play almost anything you can throw at it.
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Fontasia: View and categorize your fonts
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We were talking about fonts again on IRC, and how there really isn't any decent font viewer on Linux that lets you group fonts into categories.
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How Oracle might kill Google's Android and software patents all at once
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Oracle likes Linux so much that it funds Btrfs, a GPL licensed, futuristic and advanced new file system that supports pooling, snapshots, checksums, and other features that sound a lot like Sun's ZFS, which Oracle now also owns.
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75 Awesome Android Apps
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Unlike the rigidly controlled Apple App Store, the Android Marketplace is a bit freewheeling. It can be hard to tell the gold from the dross. To help you find the gems, here's a list of 75 of the best apps the Android Marketplace has to offer.
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Linux Mint 9 Xfce Screenshots
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This week Linux Mint 9 Xfce was released featuring many of the features we looked at in my Linux Mint 9 KDE review and a few of its own. Linux Mint 9 Xfce includes the Linux Kernel 2.6.32, Xfce 4.6.1, Xorg 7.4 and is based on Ubuntu 10.04.
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Boxee Now Support Live News, Time to Ditch TV?
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Boxee is an Open Source cross platform media center application which is again based on another Open Source media center application called XBMC. The latest boxee comes with live news support via Livestation.
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The KDE 4.5 Semantic Desktop
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My last article I spoke about the new KDE Activities features Search and Launch Containment Activity. This is the first visible sign of KDE’s use of the Nepomuk Semantic Desktop. Nepomuk is a system that uses metadata throughout the desktop to aid in file search and peer to peer collaboration. So far the project has yet to reach its full potential.
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Oracle dooms its prospects in open source business
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Oracle’s ill-advised patent infringement case against Google will backfire, and hurt its prospects in the growing open source business market. That, according to Ubuntu creator and Linux giant Mark Shuttleworth, is the natural outcome of Oracle’s case against the Linux-based Android operating system.
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