I've been looking in on Tanner Helland's Ubuntu-rich blog for some time, and today I found a virtual motherlode of well-researched and -reasoned opinion on where Ubuntu should be headed.
Read more »The Ubuntu obsession of Tanner Helland
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LinuxCon: Keeping open source open
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Keith Bergelt, CEO of the Open Invention Network (OIN), described the circumstances which led the company to recently purchase 22 Microsoft patents, as part of a talk at the first LinuxCon. While the circumstances surrounding that purchase were quite interesting—and indicative of Microsoft's patent strategy—he also described the mission of OIN as a protector of Linux from patent trolls.
Read more »Shuttleworth: Will Ubuntu Lead Free Software?
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On the surface, Shuttleworth's suggestions are hard to dispute. However, as I analyze his keynote more closely, I wonder whether a couple of his suggestions may not be in the interests of free software, even though he clearly meant them that way. Still others seem to be more in the interests of particular sections of the community than those of free software as a whole.
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Sabayon Linux 5
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Sabayon Linux is a remastered version of Gentoo Linux. I first took a look at it when I was writing for ExtremeTech, back when Sabayon Linux was in version 4.1. This latest release is version 5.0.
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Taiwan-based processor firm DMP Electronics launches US$100 netbook
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Taiwan-based DMP Electronics has launched a US$100 netbook, the Edubook, that will be shipped to overseas markets in component form to be assembled by partners in other countries to save customs duties or meet import requirements.
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25+ Stunning Gnome Desktop Themes for ubuntu users
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Most of you think that Microsoft windows and Mac OS are the only two famous operating systems. But now Ubuntu a linux based operating system is also getting popular. Since most may not know how to install custom themes in ubuntu , here is a quick guide for all those newbies.
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EU Commission Announces Market Test of Microsoft Suggestions on Browser Choice, Interoperability
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The EU Commission and Microsoft have done a draft of a deal. Lunch, anyone? They will do market testing of the browser screen for a while. And they have worked out a kind of draft solution on interoperability standards. Both solutions are working off of two suggestions Microsoft proposed itself. Here's Microsoft's statement...
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Interview: KDE Project's A. L. Spehr
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I co-founded KDE's BugSquad, a bug triage group. I've done all sorts of other little things for the KDE Project as well. Through people I met working with the KHTML (browser rendering) people, I was hired into my current job at froglogic GmBH.
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New (to me) update notifications in Ubuntu 9.04, plus fixing a 'Distribution Updates' issue
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I finally experienced my first "phantom" update notification in Ubuntu 9.04. In previous versions of the system, a little icon on the upper panel would notify me that updates were available. I could either click the icon and open the Update Manager, then do the update. But in this new system (I've been running 9.04 about a week), the icon is gone.
Read more »Does the open source label still matter?
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When it comes to selling a commercial open source product, how different is it really from selling a proprietary product? In the end, if it's a good product, the fact it's open source is probably a minor factor for buyers.
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Open Source and the Fear of Failure
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Yesterday I took part in an interesting event organised by BT called "Accelerating Enterprise adoption of Open Source Software" (disclaimer: filthy lucre was involved.) One topic that elicited much comment was why the public sector has singularly failed to deploy open source.
Read more »Duplicate one hard disk partition to another hard disk
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Using dd to duplicate one hard disk partition to another hard disk:
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Arora Is an Open-Source Browser with Out-of-the-Box Ad Blocking
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Arora is a free, cross-platform web browser built on WebKit (the engine that powers Safari and Chrome) that we've mentioned once before, but its latest release includes some interesting new features by default, including built-in support for ad blocking.
Read more »Verizon signs up for Android
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Verizon Wireless has signed a deal with Google to co-develop two Android smartphones, says eWEEK. In other Android developments, further rumors about a Motorola Sholes phone heading for Verizon have emerged, an HTC "Dragon" phone using Qualcomm's Snapdragon was tipped, and Google announced improved "AdSense" advertising for smartphones.
Read more »Issue # 3 of Opensourc3 Magazine is available
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Opensourc3 is a magazine dedicated to Unified and Cloud Computing using open source technologies. It is published on a monthly basis. This issue looks at: KaOS Linux - a new open source Hypervisor and virtual server platform, Live Migration, PostgreSQL, Virtualizing VOIP and packet analysis and generation with ScaPY.
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