It could happen. For the curious at heart, Linux is just around the corner for Windows 7 users.
Read more »Novell’s Vice President Could be Tweeting for Microsoft Dollars
Miguel de Icaza shows excitement over proprietary Silverlight, proceeds to promotion of closed-source software paradigms for developers; Microsoft's strategy with F/OSS is explained
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SAP/Microsoft Attack on Java, OpenOffice.org, Other Libre Products Culminates in Alliance
SAP/Microsoft lobbying against Oracle and Sun leads this former (proprietary) pair to an alliance which the European Commission ought to scrutinise
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When a Convicted Criminal Accuses Others of Crime
Microsoft is again pretending that it does not tolerate the very same practice it thrived in; Pequot-Microsoft story returns
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Microsoft Can Only Wish it Was as Popular as Linux (on Phones)
Mainstream press heralds the decline of Windows Mobile while Linux phones are selling exceptionally well
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digiKam and Kipi sprint
The developers of digiKam and the Kipi project came together in Essen, Germany on November 13-15 for the second coding sprint for KDE photography applications. With digiKam preparing for the 1.0 release shortly before Christmas, plans were discussed and work began already in feature branches for the following release.
Read more »Novell Strips BitTorrent DHT Technology from openSUSE
The Pirate Bay’s tracker closure has spurred several discussions about DHT, BitTorrent’s fallback technology for when central trackers are unavailable. According to some, DHT has some problems of its own. Novell, for example, decided to ship openSUSE with the BitTorrent client Transmission, but not before stripping DHT support.
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Pegatron's Ubuntu-equipped netbook spotted in the wild
It's not shocking that we're super tantalized by the prospect of yet another netbook flooding the oversaturated market in the near term. The sub-$200 price point that's being floated about definitely has us interested, though the Ubuntu operating system is likely to fend off any non-adventurous would-be buyers.
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Urban Terror 1st person Shooter on Linux
Urban Terror is a great 1st person online team shooter with great graphics, and a whole heap of maps. Whatsmore, the online community is very active, I had no problem at all connecting to a server.
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Smooth sailing with the Karmic Koala
When Ubuntu 9.10 ("Karmic Koala") came out, the first reports were somewhat discouraging. So, it was with some trepidation that I decided to finally give it a go, about a month after it came out.
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The Future of Linux
So here we are. Windows 7 launched and it isn't like the whole world changed. We knew it wouldn't. Snow Leopard launched with much less fan fare, but it brought some changes that someone needed to make. A fully 64bit OS that focuses on multi-core technologies as well the disposal of the Power libraries that permeated the Darwin landscape.
Read more »Jolicloud Linux OS review
We have seen plethora of Linux variants based on Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch and so on. The people behind JOLICLOUD, a Linux OS say that we, the netbook owners will soon be ‘Jolicloud-ed’. But, is being Joliclouded beneficial at all?
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Parting with my partitions part one
Knowing how to partition your disks is very important to our line of work. To further explain what I missed out on regarding the cylinders, head and sectors I am going to use an analogy.
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Docky gains panel mode network docklet
Docky gained a sleek new panel mode and a network manager docklet in an update to users of the Docky PPA yesterday.
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Google Chrome OS 0.4.22.8 Screenshots
Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS.
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