The 451 Group has recently published a Spotlight report focused on Novell’s strategy as it relates to open source software.
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Geek Of The Week: Richard Stallman
Many of you are probably asking… who is Richard Stallman? In a nutshell, he is the reason we have freeware today. He is largely responsible for the popularity of the Linux operating system (including Linux-based derivatives like Android), and the open source community.
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Mobile OS guide
A simple guide to the many mobile operating systems available. Android, Symbian, Bada, WebOS. The list goes on. The list of smartphone operating systems is growing by the day. Many are open source, a good number are proprietary and some are barely out of beta.
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How To Find and Resolve IP Address Conflicts
One of the most frustrating problems a network administrator can come across is an IP address conflict, when two or more machines on a network try to use the same IP. It's frustrating because it's a difficult problem to detect and resolve -- unless you know the right tools.
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An appeal to upstream KDE developers
While I have stopped using KDE almost two years ago, I don’t hate KDE per-se… I have trouble with some of the directions KDE has been running in – and I fear the same will happen to GNOME, but we’ll see that in a few months – but I still find tehy have very nice ideas in many fields.
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Eight Ways GNOME Could be Improved
Not too long back, I highlighted my feelings on KDE. I want to show you that the GNOME desktop has a number of issues that need attention as well.
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Virtual Users/Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL, SquirrelMail (Ubuntu 10.04)
This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I'll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier (Courier-POP3, Courier-IMAP), so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database Postfix uses.
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Sensationalism Isn’t Helping Linux
From everywhere in the Linux online community, you will find articles that speak of the time, situation, or market opportunity that has made a perfect storm for market-shifting amounts of people to move from Microsoft Windows or Apple Mac OS to Linux.
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Developer Survey Reveals Greater Linux Development
The Eclipse Foundation has released its 2010 Eclipse Community Survey results, which reveal an interesting snapshot of one slice of the development community.
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Top 10 Avant Window Navigator Themes ” AWN “
My favorite Dock Avant Window Navigator, one of the best Docks available so far, it’s fully customizable with themes, extra plugins, and extra applets. So, lets check Top 10 AWN Dock Themes:
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How To Get The Most Out Of Ubuntu Netbook Edition
Note that the GNOME panel is locked in Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04 so you need to unlock it. As far as I know, this will only work if you installed Ubuntu Netbook Edition, not if you installed Ubuntu desktop and then installed the netbook interface."
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The Leading Enterprise Linux Vendors
The conventional wisdom about Linux is that it isn’t owned or created by any one company, but instead a whole group of players that give and take as needed. That said, there are several major companies that are readily identifiable as the biggest corporate sponsors of Linux.
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Evolution of Linux computing and its implications
Thirty years ago, computers were so physically immense that they often had to have rooms and buildings built with the purpose to accommodate them. Each one had a different, unique operating system. until a collection of information and technology (IT) developers collaborated in 1969 to design a code able to adapt to the multiple systems.
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Why Ubuntu Netbook fails in real life
On paper, Ubuntu Netbook Edition looks great. I mean, what's not to like? It's got a sexy launcher, a lean and mean footprint, fast boot times, ... and it's free!
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New LLDB debugger
LLDB is a modern debugger infrastructure which is built (like the rest of LLVM) as a series of modular and reusable libraries. LLDB builds on existing LLVM technologies like the enhanced disassembler APIs, the Clang ASTs and expression parser, the LLVM code generator and JIT compiler.
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