The current state of Ubuntu Studio could be described as losing momentum characterized by limited development in contrast to its substantial potential.
Read more »Open Source Adoption Reaches Tipping Point
Open source software is finding increasing favour, with many businesses now committing to clear open source strategies and policies
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How Microsoft/Proprietary Software Bullies Ruined Digg for GNU/Linux
Digg is shown to be abused by "cabals" of users with agenda, which Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (SJVN) claims are also responsible for burying GNU/Linux news in the Web site
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4 More Ways to Clean Up Your Ubuntu Machine
It doesn’t matter if you are using Windows, Linux or Mac, as long as you don’t maintain it, it will grow out of hand and become very messy. This time, we are going to show you 4 more ways to keep your Ubuntu clean.
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Groklaw Responds to Latest FUD from Florian Müller
Setting the record straight on SCO allegation which Müller is now (re)using in order to belittle his opposition in a fight that overlaps Microsoft's agenda
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Public Service Announcement: Verify your Backups!
There’s only one thing worse than having no backup at all: thinking you have a backup and finding out it doesn’t work when you go to restore. If you've never performed a test restore, you can’t say with any degree of certainty that you'll be able to recover lost data in the event of a disaster, because you've never tried.
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Mozilla plans to silently update Firefox
Taking a page from rival Google's playbook, Mozilla plans to introduce silent, behind-the-scenes security updating to Firefox 4.
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Lightspark VS Flash: Benchmarked
The team behind open-source Flash alternative LightSpark pushed out a new bug-fix release a few days ago. Seeing as we're a few releases in, I felt now was a prime time to see just how well LightSpark performs against its proprietary counterpart -
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Digg, dug, buried: Linux
A liberal blogger has uncovered that a "group of influential conservative members of the behemoth social media site Digg.com has just been caught red-handed in a widespread campaign of censorship, having multiple accounts, up-vote padding, and deliberately trying to ban progressives."
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Purpose-built: Five specialised Linux distributions
We’ve all heard of Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Fedora and Mandriva. But how about RIP, Damn Vulnerable and Zeroshell Linux? Here are five specialised Linux versions worth bookmarking.
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11 free open-source apps your small business can use now
Despite the wealth of free applications out there, many small business owners continue to spend an inordinate amount of their all-too-scarce resources on software. Microsoft Office 2010? That'll be $499.99 -- or $279.99 if you can do without the Professional version. QuickBooks 2010? $159.95 or more. Adobe PhotoShop CS5? A whopping $699.
Read more »Build a Linux Media Center PC
Media Center PCs have been around for almost a decade—even longer if you count earlier forays like Gateway's Destination PC lineup from the mid-1990s. It's not just about PCs, either.
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Mark Shuttleworth announces new Ubuntu 10.10 audio feature
Former Canonical CEO, Mark Shuttleworth, recently announced a new sound feature for Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) on his blog…
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Realtime Linux: academia v. reality
The Linux Kernel community has a proven track record of being in disagreement with - and disconnected from - the academic operating system research community from the very beginning. The famous Torvalds/Tannenbaum debate about the obsolescence of monolithic kernels is just the starting point of a long series of debates about various aspects of Linux kernel design choices."
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The GPL Wins Again
Free software license backers win key legal victory against consumer electronics vendor, with 13 other vendors set to fall in line for compliance.
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