I audaciously stated that I believe that the Gimp is being sabotaged, and that Adobe is behind it. A much larger crowd is accusing Adobe of sabotaging HTML5.
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MeeGo: Paradise lost for N900 hackers?
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Before today’s news I thought I had Nokia’s open-source strategy all figured out. The Symbian Foundation would be a bullet-proof mobile Linux for carrier customization and Maemo would be a gift from on high for power users.
Now I don’t know what to think…
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Nokia, Intel merge mobile Linux offerings
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Intel has tightened its alliance with Nokia by merging its Moblin mobile Linux platform into the Finnish phone giant's built-on-Linux Maemo OS. The combined platform will be called MeeGo - which will undoubtedly be satirised as 'MeeToo', given its clear intention to fight the rise of Android and iPhone.
Read more »Novell's Motion for Leave to Reply to SCO's Opposition to Motion in Limine # 1
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I told you I thought we'd hear from Novell, and so we have: Novell has filed a motion asking the court's permission to reply to SCO's Opposition to Novell's Motion in Limine No. 1.
Read more »Pros and Cons of the Major Operating Systems
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There are several options when it comes to choosing an operating system for your computer. Of course Windows is the overwhelming heavyweight in the market place and it isn’t a bad choice in some ways. Also looking for users are Linux, BSD and Leopard.
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Sam Varghese Got It Wrong?
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On the 10th of February I updated my original “Is Canonical becoming the new Microsoft?” post to make it clearer that what I was actually asking was about whether the company is becoming the next organisation that we love to hate. Today Sam Varghese has written about a conversation had with Mark Shuttleworth regarding my original post.
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Animated wallpaper pack for Ubuntu
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I was stumbling through the Ubuntu customization websites yesterday and found this awesome wallpaper which changes with the time of the day.
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Ars Technica Guide to Virtualization: Part III
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Virtualization is a key enabling technology for the modern datacenter. Without virtualization, tricks like load balancing and multitenancy wouldn't be available from datacenters that use commodity x86 hardware to supply the on-demand compute cycles and networked storage that powers the current generation of cloud-based Web applications.
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Linux Training Week: Setup and Compatibility
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If you saw our introductory post yesterday, you’ll know that this week on Zath is Linux training week! Over the next week, I’ll be using Ubuntu version of Linux in place of my norm of Mac OS X and Windows 7 to see how it stacks up against its rivals and whether it’s viable for the average computer user to make the switch.
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GNOME screen lock ineffective in openSUSE Linux - Update
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The screen lock of openSUSE 11.2 can be bypassed by the simplest of means
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Are smartbooks and Linux meant for each other?
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Smartbooks are an upcoming mobile computing device category built around ARM’s Cortex A8 and A9 line of processors. These devices are awaited with great anticipation because they promise a mixture between smartphone features (ultra-portable, 3G connected, always-on) and the functionality of netbooks/laptops (>9?
Read more »How To Set Up WebDAV With Apache2 On Ubuntu 9.10
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This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with Apache2 on an Ubuntu 9.10 server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to directly edit files on the Apache server so that they do not need to be downloaded/uploaded via FTP. Of course, WebDAV can also be used to upload and download files.
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MeeGo: Maemo and Moblin merged by Linux Foundation
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The Linux Foundation has announced MeeGo, a merger of Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Maemo projects as a single project under the leadership of the Foundation. The news came in a posting by Linux Foundation's CEO Jim Zemlin who called MeeGo "a next generation mobile operating system designed for the next generation of mobile devices".
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When and how can Free Software really save public money?
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When a Public Administration uses it to reform the way it works, to solve the problem it actually has instead of those authors of proprietary software _think_ it has
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So is ChromeOS a desktop winner? I think not.
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Whatever happens of course the fact is that when somebody of Google's size and impact enters a market, there will be winners and losers, losses and gains. Now that the dust has well and truly settled let' have another look at the potential impact of ChromeOS.
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