Why do some people choose to run Linux as their PC platform of choice while others opt instead for other ways of running their computing experiences?
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Tab Candy - New Firefox 4.0 Innovation That Has Every Potential To Become an Industry Standard
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Though still in its initial stages of development, Tab Candy is an interesting new Firefox 4.0 feature, which has every potential to get adopted by every single browser out there. Like for example, the tabs itself were invented by Opera, and now it's a default and a must have feature in web browsers.
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KDE SC 4 Architecture and What it Means for the Future
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KDE SC 4.0 was released in January of 2008 and KDE SC 4.5 will be released shortly (August 4th, 2010), roughly two and a half years later, and it is time to reflect on what KDE SC 4 seeks to accomplish and how well it is doing in its goals. The critical shift KDE SC took in this series is abstracting the desktop from the underlying system through three pillars, Phonon, Plasma and Solid making the desktop some sort of a virtual platform environment and easily portable to other operating systems.
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Open Source Does Not Need "Monetising"
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While the colourful needs of "open source businesses" may fascinate, we must not lose sight of the true nature of open source communities
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Firebird 2.5 and overview after 10 years
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As you may know, in July 2000, Borland Software Corp. (formerly known as Inprise) released the beta version of InterBase 6.0 as open source. The community of waiting developers and users preferred to establish itself as an independent, self-regulating team rather than submit to the risks, conditions and restrictions that the company proposed for community participation in open source development.
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GNOME Foundation and LiMo Foundation announce partnership
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The GNOME Foundation and the LiMo Foundation have announced a new partnership with the objective of "collaborating closely on open source innovation"
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GitHub reaches one millionth repository
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The GitHub developers have announced that their project repository service has reached a major milestone: the one millionth git repository was created over the weekend
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Linux Kernel 2.6.35 Released
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Support for transparent spreading of incoming network load across CPUs, Direct-IO support for Btrfs, an new experimental journal mode for XFS, the KDB debugger UI based on top of KGDB, improvements to 'perf', H.264 and VC1 video acceleration in Intel G45+ chips, support for the future Intel Cougarpoint graphic chip, power management for AMD Radeon
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Open sound series: Part 3 - Ampache
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While thinking of the next article for the Open Sound Series, I was listening to some music via Ampache. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Ampache, it is simply a piece of software that allows you to upload, download, and stream music (and now videos) from a collection of media residing on a server.
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Mozilla releases Firefox 3.6.8 to close critical vulnerability
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Just days after the arrival of Firefox 3.6.7, Mozilla has released version 3.6.8 of its open source web browser to close a single critical vulnerability which was introduced in the previous update
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Nautilus PyExtensions - Nautilus file manager python extensions
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A graphical handler of the nautilus file manager python extensions, including some useful pyextensions.
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Bordeaux 2.0.6 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD Released
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The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.6 for FreeBSD and PC-BSD today. Bordeaux 2.0.6 is a maintenance release that fixes a number of small bugs and includes many new features.
Read more »WordPress Theme Thesis Maker Backs Down, Adopts GPL
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Chalk this one up as a victory for the free software movement: Thesis, the wildly popular proprietary WordPress theme from developer/designer Chris Pearson, is now available under a split GPL
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winetricks 20100731 released adds Safari and IE 8 support
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Winetricks now supports Safari and IE 8. New verbs eadm eufonts gfw glut ie8 safari secur32 xlive
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Wine 1.3.0 Released
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The Wine development release 1.3.0 is now available.
Whats new in this release:
* Beginnings of a user interface for the builtin Internet Explorer.
* Support for cross-process OLE drag & drop.
* New builtin wscript.exe (Windows Script Host) program.
* Open/save dialogs remember the last used directory.
* Translation updates.
* Various bug fixes.
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