Clearly, meritocracy is one of the myths that the FOSS community tells itself. By "myth," I do not mean that the claim is a lie, but that meritocracy is part of the story that community members tell themselves to establish and maintain a common identity.
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Wine 1.1.34 Released
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The Wine development release 1.1.34 is now available. The source is available now, Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.
What's new in this release:
- Many fixes for crypto certificates support.
- A lot of MSHTML improvements.
- Various fixes to support the Left 4 Dead 2 DRM.
- A number of OLE marshalling fixes.
- More Listview improvements.
- Various bug fixes.
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Chromium: Why it isn't in Fedora yet as a proper package
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Google is forking existing FOSS code bits for Chromium like a rabbit makes babies: frequently, and usually, without much thought. Rather than leverage the existing APIs from upstream projects like icu, libjingle, and sqlite (just to name a few), they simply fork a point in time of that code and hack their API to shreds for chromium to use.
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Bells & Whistles
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What are the defining features and characteristics of Ubuntu? Or Mandriva? Or openSUSE? What are the killer features that are born to illuminate point-of-sale material and tedious slideshows the world over? What’s – heck, why not? – the ‘killer app’ that’s going to get the world excited about Linux?
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Acetone: Mount and manage your CD/DVD ISOs
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I have been working with the Acetone ISO manager and have been in awe at how much this tool can do. The creators of Acetone call it a CD/DVD image manager, but from my perspective it is much more than that.
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Interview With Louis Landry – Joomla Development Lead
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If you look at any list of open source content management systems, you'll find Joomla right in top. In this interview, we talk with Louis Landry, who started as the principal architect of Joomla and today acts as the development coordinator.
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Red Hat Linux without the Red Hat
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Red Hat is the number one Linux company on the planet by a wide margin. Their flagship distribution, RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), is great, and they have excellent technical support. That hasn't stopped other companies from trying to ride on their coattails, and lately more businesses are adopting Red Hat's Linux code base and offering support for it.
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Under the Hood of Native Web Apps for Android
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Web Development for Mobile Devices is the latest rage. But what if you want an "off-line" web application? No problem!
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Open Source Tweeting
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Can we liberate tweeting from Twitter? It's an open question. And it's one that Dave Winer hopes we can answer, in response to his post We need: An open source Twitter shell. He begins, It would do more or less exactly what the twitter.com website does.
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Kroes Stepping Down as EU Antitrust Chief
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Neelie Kroes, the chair of the European Union's Commission on Competition, has been given a new job that takes her out of the regulatory area and into a less powerful role than the one that netted her so many headlines.
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Ubuntu Tip : Reinstall Ubuntu automatically
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There is a very simple command that reinstalls all the distribution packages and reconfigures them automatically. This is particularly helpful when you have done a partial upgrade and eventually have broken the system dependencies tree.
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Top 10 Google Chrome Extensions
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Not long after Google Chrome was released, we've featured here a few sample extensions. Now that there are plenty of Google Chrome extensions available, I would like to share to you some of those that I think adds important functionality to this fast and simple browser.Here are my top 10 favorite Google Chrome Extensions
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Install Chrome OS On A USB Stick [Complete How-to For Windows and Linux]
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How to install Google Chrome OS on a USB stick in Linux and in Windows.
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Cisco Expands Linux-Powered SMB Push
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At the heart of Cisco's new SMB products is a different approach and a different operating system than that which it has traditionally delivered to big enterprise customers. As opposed to Cisco's own IOS operating system, the open source Linux operating system is the mainstay in the new SMB products
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Concurrent unhoods RedHawk Linux 5.4
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With Red Hat, Novell - and now Intel, thanks to its $884m acquisition of Wind River - all crowding into the real-time Linux space, Concurrent has to keep on its toes and keep its RedHawk Linux, well, current. With RedHawk Linux 5.4, announced Tuesday, Concurrent is slipping into Linux 2.6.31 and offering full compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 update 4.
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