Microsoft will release Office 2010 in June but until then there are some great alternatives. In June Microsoft will release a final version of its Office 2010 productivity suite. Naturally many users will upgrade, at substantial cost, to the latest version of the popular Office suite, but for those not so eager to hand over their money to Microsoft there are still many great alternatives.
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Top Ten Open Source Legal Developments: 2009
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As the use of free and open source software (“FOSS”) has become more ubiquitous, legal issues relating to FOSS have become more common and important. This year has seen a mix of new and old issues. Even more so than 2008.
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How to Set your Ubuntu Wallpaper as the bootsplash and login screen background
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If you have noticed, Ubuntu Karmic comes with a new xsplash that allows you to set custom wallpaper as the background. Not only is it more visually appealing, it is also much easier to customize than the previous usplash. In this article, we are going to do some thing more interesting – change the bootsplash and login screen concurrently when you change your desktop wallpaper.
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Freescale introduces sub-$200 web tablet reference design
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Freescale Semiconductor is introducing a new reference design for a dirt cheap web tablet using an ARM Cortex A8-based processor and running Linux or Google Android.
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Video: What’s So Great About GNU/Linux?
Red Hat to Partners: Prepare for Hosted Desktop Virtualization
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It’s time for Red Hat partners to look beyond Linux. That’s the key message for Red Hat’s channel in 2010. Sure, plenty of Red Hat resellers have also embraced Red Hat’s JBoss middleware. But now the open source company has something new cooking for partners: Hosted desktop virtualization.
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SCO's IP Rights After Distributing UnitedLinux Under the GPL
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Since Chapter 11 Trustee Edward Cahn's lawyer, Bonnie Fatell, reportedly opined at the most recent bankruptcy hearing that SCO would never have given away its Unix intellectual property rights to UnitedLinux, I thought I would show you exactly what was in UnitedLinux...
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What will it take for Linux and Open Source to dethrone Microsoft?
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We are currently in one of the best situations ever to think about moving to open source and Linux on the desktop. With Windows XP’s end of life, many companies are already considering upgrading to Windows Vista or 7. The user interface has changed, and many existing applications aren’t compatible.
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Microsoft stoops very low to derail GNU/Linux and Free software in education around the world
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Two Step Installation of XBMC 9.11 Camelot in Ubuntu Karmic Koala
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XBMC 9.11 with revamped user interface and many new feature additions is finally up for grabs. Here is how you could actually install XBMC 9.11 in Ubuntu Karmic.
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IBAM - The Intelligent Battery Monitor for Laptops
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IBAM is an advanced battery monitor for laptops, which uses statistical and adaptive linear methods to provide accurate estimations of minutes of battery left or of the time needed until full recharge. This software relies on either APM, ACPI, SYSFS or PMU kernel support to access the battery status.
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Novell Repeats Mistakes of WordPerfect, This Time with Mono
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As the WordPerfect case emits more evidence, Novell seems unable to draw obvious conclusions about Microsoft
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LemonPOS: Linux Point of Sale
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I work with Quickbooks Point of Sale which is considered, by most, to be the de facto standard of Point of Sale systems. But for those clients that don’t have the budget to afford such a system, I have to turn to other choices. Those who need a simpler inventory/POS system, and want this system to run on the Linux operating system, what is the best option? One choice is LemonPOS.
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How Travelers Can Protect Their Data
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This post is not meant to be a sure method for defeating attackers. That you can make the process so tedious and time consuming for the attacker, that he will likely not bother and move to another victim. This post is about those methods.
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Ultimate Edition Linux 2.5
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Some Linux distros sell themselves by being minimalistic. They only come with a limited range of apps and everything is geared toward keeping the file size and hardware requirements absolutely minimal. Then there’s Ultimate Edition 2.5. Ultimate Edition leans the other way and throws in everything including the kitchen sink.
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