rPath does a disservice to itself and to many others by assisting the company which openly attacks GNU/Linux, on which rPath's business is based
Read more »I had an epiphany (about Epiphany)
The GNOME Web browser Epiphany - formerly based on Mozilla's Gecko engine and now based on Webkit - doesn't ship with Ubuntu (though it does with Debian and most GNOME-based distros/projects). But if you're running GNOME, I recommend you add it via your favorite package manager.
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Zabbix - Another monitoring tool for Linux
Zabbix is a network management system application designed to monitor and track the status of various network services, servers, and other network hardware. It uses MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite or Oracle to store data
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How to truly fuel the adoption of Open Source
In a Sunday conversation with Luqman, we discussed what we thought were the best avenues for the adoption of Open Source on a larger scale. We agreed that students and small business could be key influencers in the future widespread use of FOSS.
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I Don't Think Games Have To Be Open Source
I think games, as in video games for computing systems, should not be held up to the same standards of FOSS freedom as other kinds of software.
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16 of the Best Free Linux Game Engines (Part 1 of 2)
Game engines offer huge benefits to game developers. The main functionality they provide is the library of core functions used in a computer game.
Read more »Linux Guitar, a rocking toy
If you are looking for a Linux toy that really rocks, your search ends here. This is a stringless digital guitar and it's powered by Linux This is what is called a "digital guitar" by it's designer. So it's not a electrical guitar but a device for creating digital music.
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The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu Studio 10.04
This tutorial shows how you can set up an Ubuntu Studio 10.04 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.
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Much ado about nothing
When I was freshly elected at the OpenOffice.org’s Community Council the Free Software Foundation approached us with a question related to our extensions web site. Basically they felt that we should not be hosting non Free Software extensions and requested we take those down.
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Bordeaux 2.0.4 A Hands on Review
Competition is an important part of all markets. It drives innovation, keeps prices down, and typically tends to ensure a quality product. Don't get me wrong, I think Crossover is fantastic software, but with Cedega pretty much being dead where is the choice in commercial Wine software? Lesser known than the two previously mentioned is Bordeaux.
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Ubuntu Me Menu not behaving - and I filed a bug on it
Here's the bug I filed in Launchpad for the misbehaving Me Menu in Ubuntu Lucid: Social bar in Me Menu only shows up when I add an account to Gwibber, the next day it doesn't appear (The Me Menu Bugs - Bug #576688)
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The State Of Mac And GNU/Linux Gaming
It’s ‘common knowledge’ that Mac and Linux gaming are so unimportant that they might as well not exist. Everyone ‘knows’ that Mac games sell a tiny fraction of the amount that Windows games sell, and that Linux games simply don’t exist. But are these ideas based on reality?
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Microsoft-funded open-source foundation aiming to diversify
Open-source software veteran Paula Hunter has one of the more interesting jobs in the industry, as the executive director of the CodePlex Foundation, a non-profit, open-source organization that was established with Microsoft as its founding sponsor.
Read more »Bordeaux 2.0.4 for Linux Released
The Bordeaux Technology Group released Bordeaux 2.0.4 for Linux today. Bordeaux 2.0.4 is a maintenance release that fixes a number of small bugs. With this release we have changed the Bordeux UI from a GTKDialog to a GTKWindow, the "OK" button has also been re-named to "Install".
Read more »5 Things Easier To Do In The Command Line
Conventional wisdom states that graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are easy and the command line is hard. Conventional wisdom isn’t always right.
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