Despite my gripe about the Web site's sparse message and design, the message is a good one. The Trusted Computing Project allows its recipients to free themselves from the clutches of Microsoft and find themselves in a position where open source is the way of the land.
Read more »The Future of Trusted Linux Computing
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Where does Linux go from here?
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Linux is now mainstream -- so mainstream, in fact, that two of the top three Linux distributions are commercially successful operations, and the third aims to be.
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Is it easier to hire open source developers?
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Chatting to Steve Raby, UK country manager for open source ECM vendor Nuxeo yesterday, an interesting point was raised around the issue of motivation of open source developers versus developers on proprietary poducts, and hiring them.
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Ubuntu 7.10 + WINE vs. Windows XP
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For those of you who are interested, a comparison between running windows xp and ubuntu fiesty with WINE. It's pretty negative towards Ubuntu, but then, it's basically comparing proprietary software runs so we can't be that surprised.
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Enemy Territory:Quakewars Linux Client released
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A few days after the demo was released, on Friday, 19th of October, id software released the long-awaited linux point release for Enemy Territory:Quakewars. So we encourage everyone to play ET:QW on GNU/Linux. The official homepage contains information on how to get the files. There linux-client is available by torrent, take a look at the tracker here.
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Free Software: Sometimes You Get More Than You Pay For
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All the cooler kids may be Firefox devotees, but I'll happily admit to being a fan of Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista. I like almost everything about it, from its layout to its tools to the way it handles tabs. There is, however, one thing about Firefox I really love and wish was in IE7.
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Linux Projects' Best Kept Secret
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Webpath Technologies, the parent company of On-Disk.com, is proud and excited to report that they have reached a record in pay-outs to developers and software projects. This month's calculations showed that developers have received a total of over 21,000 USD in 2006 and 2007 so far.
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Roy T. Fielding speaks up on REST
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"...At a time where REST is becoming mainstream in our industry, it is important to see Roy involved in the clarification of minds on what is actually REST, and preventing it from becoming an uncontrollable buzzword."
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Wikipedians Promise New Search Engine
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"...Wales made his intentions official at a March 8 news conference in Tokyo, where he said that his new for-profit company, Wikia, would lead a project to launch a community-driven, open-source search site by the end of 2007 [...] Wikia Search has a somewhat confusing genealogy.
Read more »Linux Quick Tip: Keyboard Shortcuts in KDE
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For anybody who's ever used a computer, one of the things that many people find useful is keyboard shortcuts. It's no small task to update keyboard shortcuts in windows and because of this, it sometimes even causes fits for the more experienced users. But in Linux, specifically KDE, assigning keyboard shortcuts is a breeze. Let me show you how.
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Publishing High-Quality Documents with Kile
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TeX and LaTeX produce impeccably laid-out documents, and are the only practical way to show some mathematical equations. This GUI tool acts as an "integrated development environment" for the command-line document preparation tools.
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Medsphere: It's Over
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Medsphere Systems Corporation today announced that all legal disputes involving the company and Steve and Scott Shreeve have been settled and resolved by mutual agreement of the parties.
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Open Source Gains Ground in Survey of IT Pros
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Security professionals favor open source software about as much as proprietary solutions for IT deployments, a vendor survey suggests
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GNU Emacs Manual, Edition 16, by Richard M Stallman (Sixteenth Edition, September 2007)
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"GNU Emacs is much more than a word processor; over the years it has expanded into and entire workflow environment. Programmers are impressed by its integrated debugging and project management features. Emacs is also a multi-lingual word processor, can handle all your email and Usenet news needs, display web pages, and even has a diary and a calendar for your appointments.
Read more »Comcast Blocks Some Internet Traffic
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"Comcast Corp. actively interferes with attempts by some of its high- speed Internet subscribers to share files online, a move that runs counter to the tradition of treating all types of Net traffic equally..."
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