Call it a brilliant idea. Call it a crazy whim. Call it a stupid waste of time and money. I guess time will tell which one it is: After thinking about it for several weeks, this morning, I registered the domain names DiamondLinux.com and DiamondLinux.org. I think Diamond Linux is a great name — a prestigious name, packed full of all kinds of positive connotations.
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CLI Magic: Viewing system information
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GNU/Linux is bursting with information about the system on which it runs. The system's hardware and memory, its Internet link and current processes, the latest activity of each user -- all this information and more is available. And, despite such desktop tools as the KDE Control Center or GNOME's System Monitor, the easiest place to get all the system information available is still the command line.
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eZ Publish CMS 4th version : all the features you need
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CMS are Content management systems created to make creating a website an easier task. Among many others, eZ Publish has some unique criteria. It's a flexible and extensible CMS created by eZ Systems, a Norwegian company was behind the PHP eZ Components Library, eZ Publish is an ECMS ( Enterprise Content Management System) distributed under both GPL and proprietary licenses.
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FCC to Probe Comcast Data Discrimination
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"The Federal Communications Commission will investigate complaints that Comcast Corp. actively interferes with Internet traffic as its subscribers try to share files online, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said Tuesday..."
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9 Characteristics of Free Software Users
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"Operating systems come with cultures as much as codebases. I was forcibly reminded of this fact over the holidays when several family members and neighbors press-ganged me into troubleshooting their Windows computers. Although none of us had any formal computer training, and I know almost nothing about Windows, I was able to solve problems that baffled the others -- not because of any technical brilliance, but because the free software culture in which I spend my days made me better able to cope..."
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OLPC to Dual Boot Windows/Linux
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The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project and Microsoft Corp. are working together to develop a dual-boot system to put both Linux and Windows on laptops aimed at kids in developing countries, the head of OLPC said in an interview Tuesday.
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How to make Jabber calls using Jabbin
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Jabber is the only mainstream free (as in speech) instant messaging protocol. Unfortunately, most Jabber clients for GNU/Linux only provide options for messaging and group chats, overlooking the audio chatting portion of Jabber (powered by the Google-funded libjingle). Enter Jabbin, the free Qt-based Jabber VoIP client.
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Quick and easy FTP backup with lftp
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No matter what Linux distribution you are using, chances are that you'll find more than one graphical FTP client in its repositories. But if you are looking for a powerful command-line FTP tool, your best bet is lftp.
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Ruby logo available
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"The official Ruby logo is available to download under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license now..."
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Syllable Desktop 0.6.5 Released
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"After an extensive development period, the Syllable project has released Syllable Desktop 0.6.5 with improvements all over..."
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Weblocks: starting with a blank slate
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This is an introductory review of Weblocks, a web framework written in Common Lisp...
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The Hidden Costs of Linux Ownership
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Linux might be free to download and install, and it might offer you freedoms that aren’t available from commercial software, but don’t let that fool you into thinking that everything about Linux is free. You might save money, but there are still hidden costs that need to be taken into account.
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Disable internet access for particular user in Ubuntu
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This is very useful if you want to block internet access to your kids or particular users. First you need to edit the network interfaces file using the following comamnd
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Interview with OLPC's Founding CTO Mary Lou Jepsen, by Sean Daly
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Mary Lou Jepsen will go down in history as the founding Chief Technology Officer of One Laptop Per Child. She has recently announced that she is starting her own for-profit company, Pixel Qi, to commercialize some of the technologies she invented at OLPC while extending them. She calls it "a spin-out from One Laptop per Child." And so naturally we had questions. Does this mean we will all soon be able to get an XO-like laptop for adults, no matter where we live?
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SCO Gets Leases OKd Despite Novell Objection: "SCO's Spending $$ by the Boatful - There'll Be Nothing Left"
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The hearing on Novell's objection to the leases was today, and Groklaw had two observers there. The outcome was that SCO's leases were approved. Novell no longer objected to the Utah lease, because now they see the terms, and probably also because that's the one that is for only one year. That left the New Jersey lease, the one that will last until 2010.
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