We use HootSuite at the Los Angeles Daily News to manage a growing herd of social-networking accounts across Twitter and Facebook. But the one thing that HootSuite doesn't do is update Identi.ca, the free, open-source microblogging service powered by Status.Net that many FOSS advocates, including myself, use in addition to (or in some cases instead of) Twitter.
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The consistent failure of Linux to grab even 1% of the desktop OS market
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Linux has been around for almost two decades now. It has become a resounding success as a server OS (for example as the L in the famous LAMP stack), and more recently as a mobile OS (Android). But what about on the desktop?
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Using iSCSI On Ubuntu 10.04 (Initiator And Target)
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This guide explains how you can set up an iSCSI target and an iSCSI initiator (client), both running Ubuntu 10.04. The iSCSI protocol is a storage area network (SAN) protocol which allows iSCSI initiators to use storage devices on the (remote) iSCSI target using normal ethernet cabling. To the iSCSI initiator, the remote storage looks like a normal, locally-attached hard drive.
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Desktop Linux: Great for the Environment, Bad for Economy?
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Is using desktop Linux better for the environment than say, running Microsoft Windows or Apple's OS X?
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Play Beautiful game Frogatto in ubuntu
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Frogatto is a platform game in two dimensions. The protagonist of this game is a funny frog can jump, run, swim, while avoiding being hurt by the various monsters in each level.
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Open Source Software Scripting in Vim
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I've been using the open source editor Vim for an alarming number of years now, but I only very recently encountered its scripting capabilities. Here I'll look at writing a quick script in Vim's built-in scripting language
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Five Tips To Get The Most Out Of KDE 4.5
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To help you make the most out of this new version, I decided to compile a list of tips that I feel makes the most of this revolutionary desktop.
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Create scalable Swing desktop applications on the NetBeans Platform
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NetBeans Platform 6.9 Developer's Guide is a new book that helps developers build a robust Swing applications using the features of the powerful NetBeans Platform 6.9 along with example code and screenshots. Users will Visualize their data quickly via the NetBeans Visual Library API and create applications that can be easily deployed to Windows, Linux, and Mac.
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Ubuntu and the importance of community
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Canonical developer Dave Walker investigates the importance of governance in a community as rich and diverse as Ubuntu’s…
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Working On The X.Org 7.6 Katamari
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If all goes according to plan, X.Org Server 1.9 will be released in about two weeks, but after that there still is the X.Org 7.6 release "katamari" to be done.
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KDE SC 4.5 final arrives
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Following a one week delay, the KDE Project has released version 4.5 of the KDE Software Compilation, the latest major release of the popular Linux and Unix desktop
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Ubuntu Linux provisioning automation with Cobbler
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Cobbler is a Linux installation server that allows for rapid setup of network installation environments. It glues together and automates many associated Linux tasks so you do not have to hop between lots of various commands and applications when rolling out new systems, and, in some cases, changing existing ones.
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Short Rekonq 0.5.0 user review
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Lately I've been trying Rekonq to see what all the fuzz's about. In short it's an alternative web browser for KDE, which uses WebKit[1] and aims to be lightweight.
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2010 Gentoo Screenshot Contest Results
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As the quantity and quality of this year's entries will attest, Gentoo is alive, well, and taking no prisoners!
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Linux safer than Windows
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SOME time ago, the Financial Times reported that Google was phasing out the internal use of Microsoft Windows because of security concerns after the company’s operations in China were hacked. Here’s another story about the security debate.
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