ALT Linux ( ALT implies ALT Linux Team ) is one of those undiscovered and non-famous Linux distribution from Russia which lacks the "Pomp, glamour and glory" like other mainstream distributions.
Read more »credativ pre-paid Open Source Support Card leads the market
Today, credativ is launching its unique pre-paid Open Source Support Card. Businesses using Linux distributions such as Debian and CentOS stand to benefit from expert support without being tied into a contract, in contrast to other commercial Linux support vendors.
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Firefox 3.7 Alpha 3 Released
A Mozilla developer preview of Gecko 1.9.3 has been released. The release comes in the form of a nightly build of Firefox 3.7 alpha 3. The new build introduces several new features.
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Señor de Icaza Meets Other Microsoft MVPs
José, Miguel, and other boosters of Microsoft Corporation have a get-together at the company's annual event
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Empathy: What a Piece of Garbage
The Empathy instant messaging client for Gnome is not yet ready to be the default client on your favourite Gnome-based distribution. In fact, I can’t even make it work!
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Novell Staff Shrank by ~10% and Hovsepian Allegedly Plays Hard to Get With Elliott Associates
It's rutting season for Novell's Ron Hovsepian and Elliott Associates' Singer as the company keeps diminishing but wants to be valued more generously
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Our Top 10 Reasons To Use Fedora
Fedora offers the freedom of changing, replacing, modifying each component in the system; without the concern of the system stability being affected.
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how to upgrade to ubuntu 10.04 beta from 9.10/8.04
In just two steps you can upgrade your ubuntu 9.10 to ubuntu 10.04 beta.
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New FreeDink releases
The past 3 months have been busy -- except in public communication! There are many improvements in GNU FreeDink, the free,
portable and enhanced version of the Dink Smallwood game engine.
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Ubuntu Music Store (coming soon!)
If you have been playing around much with the Alpha releases of Ubuntu Lucid Lynx you may have noticed something special that was announced some time ago is actually coming to fruition. Announced soon after the release of 9.10, the Ubuntu Music Store is a new addition to the Ubuntu Linux desktop and promises to extend the capabilities of the Linux desktop further than it has ever been.
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APA's "Included Assets" Did Not List SVR4.2 - Research Project
A reader asks a question I can't answer, but maybe some of you can. In reading the APA [PDF], he noticed something odd. The schedule of "included assets", Schedule 1.1(a), doesn't include UNIX SVR4.2. Can you take a look with me? I'll show you what I've found so far.
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Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) Beta 1 Screenshots Gallery
The Ubuntu developers are moving quickly to bring you the latest and greatest software the Open Source community has to offer. This is the first Ubuntu 10.04 beta release, which brings a host of exciting new features.
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LiMux review 2009
There are again some rumors about LiMux' dead here in Munich. I don't want to comment on the origin of them, but to the responsible company: This doesn't work out. LiMux is more alive than ever and the story goes on very well....LiMux has achieved one very important goal.
Read more »Revisited: ZFS, Btrfs and Oracle.
This entry is a continuation of one published in May of 2009. In fact it is relating to a comment made earlier today which I responded to in brief words. I am now taking the time to offer my viewpoint on the whole ZFS licensing under the CDDL and the reasoning for it.
Read more »Eric Schmidt confirms Android (Marketplace?) for Tablets
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, recently spoke about large screen Android Tablets at the Abu Dhabi Media Summit keynote (at timecode 10 minutes and 39 seconds). It’s a nice way of Eric Schmidt to indirectly confirm that Google is definitely going to support the development of Android based Tablets as alternatives on the market to the upcoming iPad.
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