On the face of it, it's hardly news worth noting. On Nov. 27, Eaton announced that its Personal Solution Pac for Linux and Network Shutdown Module v3 are the first UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) power management solutions to receive Ubuntu's IHV (independent hardware vendor) Certification....
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OpenDocument Format community steadfast despite theatrics of now impotent ‘Foundation’
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When in mid-October 2007, the OpenDocument Foundation announced that the World Wide Web Consoritum-backed Common Document Format (CDF) was the heir-apparent to what it believed was a dead-on-arrival OpenDocument Format, many confused the ODf to be one in the same with the ODF and the latter to have one foot in the grave.
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Checking out Org mode in Emacs
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"I’ve been using Planner mode in Emacs for quite a while now but I’ve seen how nifty Org Mode works so I decided to try it out myself..."
http://orgmode.org/
http://dto.freeshell.org/notebook/OrgTutorial.html
http://www.cognition.ens.fr/~guerry/org-column-view-tutorial.html
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Firefox 2.0.0.11 stability update now available for download
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"As part of Mozilla Corporation’s ongoing stability and security update process, Firefox 2.0.0.11 is now available..."
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/2.0.0.11/linux-i686/en-US/
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Green Computing (With Linux): Does Anyone Care?
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Over the past few months, the concept of green computing has become all the rage. But the undeniable fact is that often times with this low impact approach to computing, we end up sacrificing actual computing power, which makes this a tough sell for many. Frankly, to me it just feels like a marketing ploy. Could this perception be felt by others as well?
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Open source's future: More Microsoft, bigger talent shortages
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The open source industry in 2008 will be marked by more news out of Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and other big IT vendors, less start-up funding, more M&A activity, and an increasingly serious talent shortage.
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Sun bullied, used threats to gain control of open source project, former owner says
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Sun used strong-arm tactics and made threats to the owners of an open-source directory project to wrestle away control, according to one of the former owners and creators of the project.
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Opinion: Competing Trends are Creating an Opening for Linux
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Microsoft’s operating systems keep needing more and more resources, but consumers keep wanting cheaper and more portable hardware, hardware for which Vista is not well suited. This creates an opening for Linux, because it does not demand as many resources and is costs nothing.
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Mini list: Christmas gift ideas for Linux users
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Free Software Research and Civil Society: Belgrade, 4th December 2007
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"The Free Software Foundation Europe would like to invite you to a workshop as part of the STACS project (FP6-2005-Science-and-Society-19-044597). The STACS project wants to explore the possibility of joint research projects between civil society and public research bodies.
Read more »Johan Soderbergh on Hacking Capitalism
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"The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement demonstrates how labour can self-organise production, and, as is shown by the free operating system GNU/Linux, even compete with some of the worlds largest firms. The book examines the hopes of such thinkers as Friedrich Schiller, Karl Marx, Herbert Marcuse and Antonio Negri, in the light of the recent achievements of the hacker movement.
Read more »As Wikipedia moves to S.F., founder discusses planned changes
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"Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia created and edited by the masses, is picking up its St. Petersburg, Fla., roots and replanting them in San Francisco, where it plans to grow its operation..."
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CDF: The common format you've never heard of
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"...Okay, now, how about this one … do you work with (or even just read) XHTML? Probably, if you’re involved in XML work, your HTML conforms to a great degree to the formal XHTML standard. Good enough. How about CSS 2.1? Sure, who doesn’t. Okay, here’s a biggy -how about XMLHttpRequest? You do AJAX work?
Read more »Help pick the best free Linux games
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As we begin to slip into the festive season and things begin winding up for the year, we thought it would be an ideal opportunity to check out some of the best Linux games available.
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Post modern mailing with poMMo
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poMMo, the "post modern mass mailer" with the not-quite-right acronym, is a powerful Web server-based mass mailing program firmly rooted on a Linux+Apache+MySQL+PHP (LAMP) base. poMMo has been developed with the end user in mind, which shows in its quick Web-based installation, in its powerful yet simple way of creating and sending mailings, and in its intuitive usage.
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