Slipstreaming GullI've been engaged with the OpenOffice.org community for a number of years, and I'm as aware as anyone that it has had some historic issues with its contribution processes.
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Competitors are chipping away at Microsoft OfficeCompetitors are chipping away at Microsoft Office
When you write a letter, term paper or newspaper column, you'll probably use Microsoft Word. Buffing up a balance sheet? You'll probably use Microsoft Excel. Nodding off during a mind-numbing presentation? You're a victim of Microsoft Powerpoint... Today, however, some powerful challengers are chipping away at the Office edifice...
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Open Source Relational Databases
How many open source relational databases can you name? If you’re like most technical people, you probably don’t know any — just as I didn’t until recently. I can already imagine many of you saying... what about MySQL and PostgreSQL?”, but those are just databases, not relational databases.
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WiFi in Xfce: How to Setup?
Wifi-radar is a tool intended to configure easily your interface wifi, and will allow you to connect to your wifi network. Wifi-radar is available in the menu Xfce, in the Network submenu.
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Raptor! join the fun
What is raptor? Raptor is a an amazing project i have been working in the last few days. It trys to be a fresh new way of finding your desktop applications, and interacting with its users.
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Thunderbird Proces of Change, Part 2
"...When we considered the idea of Thunderbird moving to a private independent company, a number of significant disadvantages emerged. First, this would mean that Mozilla as an organization was leaving the mail/ communications space and hoping that space would be filled by another organization. We weren't ready to do that.
Read more »Entrepreneur Aims to Overthrow TV, Not Get Rich
"Most software entrepreneurs' ambition is to sell out for a huge wad of cash, or maybe go public for an even bigger pile. Not so Nicholas Reville: He wants to overthrow the television industry, and he doesn't care if he gets rich. In fact, as executive director and co-founder of the Participatory Culture Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, Reville is unlikely to make much money at all..."
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Summer of Code 2007
This is the last of four interviews with Summer of Code 2007 students in KDE (read the first, second, third).
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Ubuntu Linux comments
A blog entry on a "windows tips and tricks" blog about how good Ubuntu is. Interesting...
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Quanta: Free IDE Web Development in Linux
For quick and effortless web development - Quanta Plus is steadily becoming a worthwhile competitor to the commercial web editors on the market.
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Thunderbird Process of Change Part 1
"In the coming months there will be a lot of discussion about how mail and Thunderbird will evolve. There will also be more detailed discussions about the new organizational home as we move from plans to concreteness. This seems a good time to describe how we got to where we are today..."
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Why SUSE Why ?
openSUSE 10.3 is the latest offering from this excellent and matured Linux Distro, however, the install of SUSE 10.3 fails to impress. It is simply not modern enough. Most distributions offer LiveCD which double up as install CD, SUSE chooses to follow old style of only install CD, add to that SUSE install tries to download software from internet.
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Python and Pylons
"Pylons is another framework that doesn’t re-invent the wheel, instead relying on other Python projects and instead acts as the glue between them. Or in Pylons own words..."
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Zenwalk 4.8 is ready
"The Zenwalk Team is happy to announce the Zenwalk 4.8 release..."
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Understanding RSS And Its Effect On Viral Marketing
"Viral marketing is one of the most creative ways of promoting a business..."
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