As Ubuntu Lucid is preparing for its grand launch on 29th April 2010, I am sure you should have already known what to expect in this release.
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Shaping IP Laws by Not-So-Gentle Persuasion: The Special 301 Report
Since 1989, the USTR has used the Special 301 Report to intimidate other countries into adopting more stringent copyright and patent laws by singling out particular countries for their "bad" intellectual property policies, naming them on a tiered set of "watch lists,"
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Mobile Devices are Long-term Key for Chrome OS and Android
Google CEO Eric Schmidt shed some light on the company's plans for Chrome OS in tablets and mobile devices at the Atmosphere Cloud Computing Summit. Cloud computing is the cornerstone of Chrome OS, as the platform runs entirely on cloud servers and all user data is automatically backed up to the same remote server network.
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Linux Shedding Indie Status is a Good Thing
Having watched people advocate the Linux desktop for more than 10 years, it's always surprising to see the same people arguing against the things that will help bring Linux (and software freedom) to a larger audience.
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Lexicon Alpha works with Linux
Recently I had a chance to put my hands on Lexicon Alpha usb recording interface and I must say I was surprised to discover that it works out of the box with Linux.
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Ubuntu 10.04 Integrates All Your Inboxes
This morning I woke up and checked my email. There were 13 messages. Though this isn’t overwhelming enough, I needed to monitor the ice hockey pool I moderate, check Twitter, Google Voice, and several messages left on my IM program. This is the cardinal problem for modern computer users: too many inboxes.
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Tutorial: consuming Twitter's real-time stream API in Python
Twitter is preparing to launch several impressive new features, including a new streaming API that will give desktop client applications real-time access to the user's message timeline. The new streaming API was announced last week at Twitter's Chirp conference, where it was made available to conference attendees on-site for some preliminary experimentation.
Read more »The Thing about Volunteers and Civility
The thing about volunteers is that they don't have to do what they're doing. If you're getting paid to hang out in an IRC channel and answer questions all day, that's one thing. If you're hanging out on an IRC channel all day because you want to, that's another.
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Obama open sources custom White House code
Dave Cole, a senior advisor to the CIO of the Executive Office of the President, announced the code release this afternoon during a keynote at the DrupalCon trade show in downtown San Francisco.
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SETI Releases Data for Open Source Search
SETI director Jill Tarter is asking people around the globe to get more involved in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by opening up SETI's servers to the public calling for a worldwide, open source contribution to the search.
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Proof In Steam's Mac Client Of Linux Support
We have our hands on the bash launcher used by Valve's Steam client for Mac OS X that was recently announced. While such scripts are usually insignificant, there is something interesting within it and that is explicit support for Linux.
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Installing nVidia Driver in Ubuntu 10.04 with PAE
Upon upgrading to 2.6.32-21 I rebooted to that wonderus "Ubuntu is running in low graphics mode" message I have seen oh so many times before. After much banging my head against the wall this is how I got my nVidia drivers working again with a PAE kernel on 10.04
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Novell and IBM team up on software appliances
IBM is to use Novell SUSE powered software appliances to deliver some of its range of applications to customers
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Red Hat announces beta of Enterprise Linux 6
LEADING US LINUX VENDOR Red Hat has given the public a first look at the next version of its Enterprise Linux distribution.
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Ubuntu’s Indicator Menus – Ayatana bearing fruit
When we set up Project Ayatana to improve the usability of the whole desktop, we called it Ayatana because we were focused on the "sphere of consciousness", one's awareness of what's going on outside of the current application. There are two key aspects to the work...
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