I might as well just stop blogging right now, because it might be over. I've found the perfect distro for me, and it was right under my nose the whole time. I'm writing this from Mandriva 2008, and so far, I don't see any reason to look beyond it (at least, for me to look beyond it) for a main distro.
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On Steve Ballmer on social networks (and more)
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Via the UK Times: "I think these things [social networks] are going to have some legs, and yet there’s a faddishness, a faddish nature about anything that basically appeals to younger people," Mr.
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Sun opens up OpenOffice
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Jim Parkinson of Sun has been listening to critiques of OpenOffice's governance policies and responds with a post that suggests that Sun plans to address the problems.
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UK culture holding back open source
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Industry experts have identified cultural, as well as technical, factors affecting the take up of open source software in the UK.
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Top 40 Linux blogs
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I have a Perl script to check the outgoing links from blogs for me, via planet sites. Yes, the planets aggregate the blogs, and the script snarfs the links from the planets. I'm so meta it hurts. So I have a bunch of link data, going back a little more than a year.
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installing TRAC on Debian Etch
http://www.wains.be –
"This howto explains the steps from creating the SVN project to publishing it with TRAC...."
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HTML5: Offline Web Applications
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"...As should be clear by now HTML5 is not just about providing a markup language. We’re developing an open “platform” for web applications and documents..."
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W3C Launches “Mobile Web Initiative”
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"...the world Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced the launch of the Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) - an endeavor to make Web access from a mobile device as simple, easy, and convenient as Web access from a desktop device..."
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Browser extensions using XUL, Part 1: Create a Firefox browser extension with user-interface features
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"Create extensions that go beyond the built-in capabilities of Web browsers. The Mozilla project's XUL engine is a user-interface language that you can use to extend Mozilla browsers, or to build stand-alone applications. XUL is a surprisingly easy way to build cross-platform browser extensions, and this pair of articles demonstrates how."
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Rails 1.2.4: Maintenance release
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"This release contains additional deprecation notices, security fixes and some minor performance improvements. All users of 1.2.3 are advised to upgrade..."
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Source for linux testers — The Miro Testing Blog!
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"We have a new addition to our testing builds page. Starting today, we are regularly posting the source for any and all of our dedicated linux testers...Here is a link to the build docs for any extra info you might need."
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Seven Companies Decide Open Source Is the Future of Cellphone Technology
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ARM is a British company best known for designing chips for cellphones and licensing them to semiconductor companies. The company’s technology is the most widely used in cellphones, though any company implementing the technology modifies it however it deems best. But now a new effort is under way to exploit this chip technology by creating a standard layer of software.
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Personal Health Records with another perpesctive.
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Open MedicDrive,a collaborative open architecture based application has launched the educational Wiki for advancing and educating users about the role of Healthcare Information Technology in Personal Health Record Management.
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Managing Packages And Repositories With Yum And Yumex On Fedora 7
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This article explains how to improve/optimize/speed up package installation with Yum, install packages with "Yum Extender" (a GUI for Yum with extensive features to manage packages), and manage different external package repositories - with focus on prevention of problems with different repositories - on Fedora 7.
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Installing Ubuntu Or Fedora From A Windows Or Linux System With UNetbootin
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UNetbootin is a tool that allows you to install various Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, OpenSuSE, Debian, ArchLinux) from a Windows or a Linux desktop over the internet (i.e., you don't need to burn the Ubuntu, Fedora, ... CDs). Unlike the Ubuntu installation with Wubi, real partitions are created during the installation.
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