Many people using GNOME (either in Ubuntu or elsewhere) feel that they are missing icons to their beloved 'Computer', home folder, network servers and trash can on their desktop, but did you now they are actually included into GNOME and that you just have to enable them?
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SPARQL will inherit SQL’s lot
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"...I doubt that a query language as general and flexible as SPARQL will be the best basis for it... what’s needed is a query language where the result is another graph."
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Review: Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon takes on Mac OS X Leopard for the OS of the Year
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Today we have a technological cage match involving two operating systems, both UNIX- based, both mature, both with passionate detractors and even more passionate defenders, and both released just a week apart.
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Distribution Release: Litrix Linux 7.12
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"A new stable version of Litrix Linux, a Brazilian desktop distribution based on Gentoo Linux, has been released..."
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Development Release: Parsix GNU/Linux 1.0r0 Test 1
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"Alan Baghumian has announced that the first beta release of Parsix GNU/Linux 1.0r0 is available for testing..."
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Julian Oliver: The Art of Gardening
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"Appropriately, for an artist whose work has long been about exploring boundaries and intersections ( of media, artforms, of technologies ), Julian Oliver’s latest work is situated in that long celebrated interface between art and nature, between order and disorder, the garden. Across cultures, throughout time, the garden has been designed / created / explored / experienced as a place resonant with meaning, our relationship with the world probed through the use of symbolic themes and features. In Packet Garden, we are invited to map the world of our daily screens, to create our personal media landscapes. Creating order from our own disorder, we discover our own topologies, media patterns, our habits..."
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Annual Free Software Foundation Fundraiser
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"It's an end of year tradition for non-profit organizations to do big fund-raising and membership pushes. As I mentioned several days ago, I am personally giving to two organizations this year: the Wikimedia Foundation and the Free Software Foundation..."
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Being Open about Being Closed
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"...When they’re marketing Flash as a platform, Adobe likes to list out all the amazing graphical and video capabilities, but when they don’t want people to think too hard about the fact that writing to Flash is committing yourself to proprietary platform..."
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Integrating Ubuntu with a Windows-based network is harder than it should be
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I've been using and advocating free software for around six years. When studying and then working as a freelance writer, migrating an office seemed so simple -- draw up a list of comparable programs and, over a reasonable period, move your staff across. But over the past few weeks I've been trying to use Ubuntu Gutsy on my desktop PC in a Windows-based office, and whilst most things work just fine, it's far from the seamless integration I was hoping for.
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Linux phone heavyweights select common dev tools
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An influential industry group collaborating on a common Linux-based operating system for mobile phones has standardized on a common toolchain. The Linux Mobile Foundation (LiMO) will standardize on Wind River's commercial Linux technology as a "Common Integration Environment" (CIE), Wind River announced.
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A Peek Behind the Ecma OOXML Curtain
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As the date for the February BRM (Ballot Resolution Meeting) on ISO/IEC JTC1 DIS 29500 (a/k/a Ecma 376, a/k/a Microsoft OOXML) approaches, more and more attention is being paid to how Ecma will propose the disposition of the comments submitted during the general voting period. This level of heightened interest is legitimately urgent, due to both the great number of the comments that need to be resolved
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Adobe to open-source Flex back-end connector
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Adobe Systems on Thursday released the code for messaging software designed to connect back-end data sources to rich Internet applications written with its Flex development tool.
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Red Hat delays new software for PCs until January due to codec issues
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Red Hat Inc has postponed until January the launch of a new Linux software product for personal computers that would directly compete with Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) Windows operating system.
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Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring Alpha 1 "Barlia" released
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Kicking off the 2008 Spring development cycle in earnest, the first alpha is here. This alpha features X.org 7.3, KDE 3.5.8, KDE 4.0 RC2 (in /contrib), GNOME 2.21, kernel 2.6.24, OpenOffice.org 2.3, new NVIDIA and ATI proprietary drivers, PulseAudio by default and more.
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IRC channel related to the MySQL packages in Debian
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" If you're interested in the MySQL packages in Debian, join #debian-mysql on OFTC. Most people involved into the packages are hanging around there."
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