Maybe the answer for local schools facing daunting technology challenges lies with the penguins.
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HP to buy slim Linux OS from Phoenix
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Hewlett-Packard will buy Linux-based quick-boot OS and client virtualization assets from Phoenix Technologies for US$12 million, Phoenix said on Thursday.
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Apache and Oracle Android Java fragmentation talks stalled
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Google's Android will continue to run an unauthorized version of Java for the foreseeable future — something the Apache Software Foundation has warned will fragment the community. Talks between the ASF and database giant Oracle on tests that could certify the open source version of Java running on Android have made no progress, the group told us.
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Linux-powered iPad-like tablets can't come quickly enough
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Apple has long had a history of being arrogant. But, more often than not, they've been able to back it up by the quality of their products. But now, with Apple locking out Adobe Flash and Google Ads, not to mention their cute trick of setting up an HTML 5 demo site that only works with Apple's own Safari Web browser, I think Apple has overstepped their authority.
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A new contributor agreement for Fedora
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A little over a month ago, the Fedora Project announced a plan to replace the existing Fedora Individual Contributor License Agreement (FICLA) with something new, which we've imaginatively titled the Fedora Project Contributor Agreement (FPCA).
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Penguin chief: Linux must 'out fabulous' Apple's iPhone
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Apple, not Windows, is Linux's prime competitor on smart phones, according to a top Linux representative.
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Dear FSF, It’s not you it’s me
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I’ve been using FLOSS on my computers pretty much exclusively for about 5 or 6 years now and I don’t see me going back, but I have started to feel some sort of disconnect to one of the leading institutions of FLOSS lately: The Free Software Foundation (FSF).
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Linux infection proves Windows malware monopoly is over
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A story from ZDNET seems to forecast a generalization of malwares on Linux. They argue that official repositories could be unreliable and that there are no anti-virus software against that on linux
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Ubuntu Lucid Lynx: free OS that Just Works
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Today, I got caught up enough from my tour to update my ThinkPad to the latest version of Ubuntu. Lucid Lynx went in like butter. The update ran unattended, took about 1h including downloading the whole OS, updated all of my apps without a hitch, and is running smoothly.
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The State Of Intel's GLSL2 Compiler
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Intel's Eric Anholt has been working on writing a GLSL2 compiler for their open-source Mesa graphics stack. Mesa's GL Shading Language compiler has been limited to version 1.4 support, but Eric is making headway in supporting version 2.0. In response to the recent ATI R300 GLSL discussion, Eric has provided an update on the Intel efforts.
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What price can you put on a user community?
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In a swift decision Sony effectively put a price on one of its user communities. It terminated a sought-after feature in one of its products and with it went a vibrant end-user community.
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KDE 3 vs. KDE 4: Which Linux Desktop Is Right for You?
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Many users are still using KDE 3. For whatever the reasons, several distributions continue to cater to the preference, including aLinux, Knoppix and MEPIS, all of which offer GNU/Linux with KDE 3.0 as the desktop. This raises the question: How do the two series of KDE releases compare?
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Giggle: A Git GUI
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In the roughly five years that the Git distributed version control system has been around, it has gained quite a following. But at its core, Git is command-line oriented, which doesn't necessarily suit all of its users. Along the way, various GUI interfaces to Git have been created, including two Tcl/Tk-based tools that come with Git.
Read more »Parallel Realities: Retro-themed Linux games
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The Parallel Realities website offers a collection of simple, mostly SDL based action games. They're all fairly lightweight and might make good boredom beaters on a less powerful machine, or failing that, a handy distraction while waiting for something to complete in the background.
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Creating Users on Ubuntu
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Creating users in Ubuntu means that you must be aware of the options for home directory, UID, User Identifier options and how to recognize password options.
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