You'd expect, as my friend Preston Gralla did, that when someone says "proprietary software is eventually going to be doomed," and that Microsoft's future might best be served in releasing its own version of Linux, that he'd be a Linux fan. Wrong: this prophet of Windows doom and gloom was Keith Curtis, a former Microsoft Research staffer. Could he be right?
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Red Hat Virtualization Manager for Windows Only?
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Red Hat execs explain why Linux vendor's Linux virtualization management solution runs only on Microsoft's rival OS. Andy Cathrow, product marketing manager for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, told InternetNews.com. "We spent a lot of time talking to customers to see what their view was on this and I think with the possible exception of Red Hat, everyone has some Windows in their datacenter."
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Linux Got Game: Tremulous
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I had a lot of free time last weekend so I had a chance to annihilate stuff by playing another first person shooter game on my Linux box. The game is called Tremulous and it's not a typical FPS since it incorporates elements of real-time strategy that makes it even more fun and challenging.
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Ubuntu Karmic fail: Pidgin and the new Empathy won't run until you make this fix
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I haven't loaded up an IM client since I upgraded from Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) to Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic). But I did today, and neither Pidgin nor the new GNOMEish Empathy would run.
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Moblin 2.1 released
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Moblin version 2.1 is available for download. This tiny Linux edition is suitable for netbooks & nettops as anounced by the Moblin project steering committee.
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Mandriva 2010 packs a punch
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Ubuntu Linux may get the majority of attention from Linux watchers but there are many good alternatives available. One of those is Mandriva Linux.
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The much misunderstood Ubuntu 9.10 upgrade poll
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Gavin Clark at the Register recently reported that only 10% of people upgrading to 9.10 had a satisfactory experience. Serdar Yegalup at Information Week then reported that 40% of people upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 had issues that they considered unfixable. Both of these conclusion were based on a poll on the Ubuntu support forums.
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Google Tries Transparency with New Dashboard
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The sheer amount of information that Google has on us across its properties can be daunting. The new Dashboard tool is a step toward letting us see what they have.
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Has Google Become a Good Open Source Citizen?
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With its open source release Thursday of its Closure JavaScript tools, Google (GOOG) is starting to suggest that it may eventually become a good open source citizen.
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FSFE to award 36 Fellowship grants over the next 12 months!
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The Fellowship is FSFE's Community dedicated to Free Software. Starting in November 2009, Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) will award three people with a Fellowship grant every month for the coming year. Everybody who is actively working for Free Software but cannot afford the Fellowship contribution can apply for the grant.
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Is Ubuntu's release cycle its downfall?
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With all of these problems raising their ugly heads at each release there comes a noisy round of complaints from those who believe they have a right to complain about FREE software. Like every squeaky wheel these complaints are annoying and contribute towards tarnishing what many believe is a good Linux distribution.
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Setting Up Gitosis On Ubuntu
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Gitosis is a tool for hosting git repositories. Its common usage is for a central repository that other developers can push changes to for sharing. This article is how to setup and manage a git repository.There are some great services out there than can do this for you, but why pay money for something you can easily do for free?
Read more »Kubuntu Linux 9.10 Review
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Desktop Linux Reviews: "Last week I took a look at the latest release of Ubuntu. This week I thought it would be great to continue with Kubuntu Linux 9.10. For those who aren’t familiar with Kubuntu, it’s basically the KDE version of Ubuntu (Ubuntu uses Gnome as its desktop environment)."
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Microsoft Exchange alternatives
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Microsoft Exchange may be one of the most used groupware products on the market but there are also many open source alternatives available.
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Open source design and the OpenOfficeMouse
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The OpenOfficeMouse seems like such a typical product from the open source community. The press release waxes on about the features, implicitly presupposing that more must be better...
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