Two separate U.S.-based system integrators are shipping Ubuntu 9.04-based netbooks that run on the Intel Atom N270 CPU and offer 10-inch displays and 160GB hard disk drives (HDDs). Denver-based System76 announced a "Starling" netbook, and Berkeley-based ZaReason weighed in with its Terra A20 (pictured).
Read more »Indie netbooks run with the Jackalope
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Reading Multiple Files with Bash
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Reading files is no big deal with bash: you just redirect the input to the script or pipe the output of another command into the script, or you could do it inside the script if the file names are pre-determined. You could also use process substitution to pass in the open files (command pipelines actually) from the command line.
Read more »FOSS vs. the Winged Monkeys: Q&A With Open Source for America's Chris Lundberg
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Prior to that, Lundberg produced Internet solutions for the financial and entertainment sectors as director of applications at Opion. He is an open source user and advocate. Lundberg is pretty sure that access to organizing technology is the only thing keeping the "winged monkeys" at bay.
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Installing a package from source
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Make sure you have all the necessary development tools (i.e. libraries, compilers, headers):
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A default desktop for openSUSE?
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The choice of a Linux desktop environment, typically between the "big two": GNOME and KDE, is one that inspires enthusiastic advocacy—some might even say religious fervor—among the supporters of each choice.
Read more »Red Hat takes on the recession
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Remember about five or six years ago when the open source software movement was going to beat the stuffing out of software giants like Microsoft, Oracle and Sun? That hasn't exactly happened.
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Say Hello to 5 VoIP Solutions for Linux
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Using your computer and a headset to make calls via VoIP seems like a no brainer and there are several applications to choose from that run really well on Linux and are great for personal or small business use. Let's take a look at a few.
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Ear Candy – A nice PulseAudio volume manager
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EarCandy is a PulseAudio volume manager, but a smart one ! It will automatically mute your music when a Movie or a YouTube video starts. And will mute the video when a Skype call comes in.
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Pidgin 2.6.0--It's About Time
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Well, by now most people probably realize that we've released Pidgin 2.6.0. It feels like this has been in the works forever, particularly these last couple weeks.
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Wikimedia receives $500,000 from Hewlett Foundation
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The Wikimedia Foundation, the organisation responsible for the operation of the Wikipedia free online encyclopaedia, has received $500,000 from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, a foundation established by the co-founder of HP and his wife.
Read more »Sixty mobile apps ported to Moblin
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Brazilian independent software vendor (ISV) Handcase says it will port about 60 of its PalmOS applications to the Linux-based Moblin operating system.
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PS3 clusters hit as Sony gives Linux the flick
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Sony's announcement of the new PS3 Slim has excited gamers worldwide, but people wanting to run Linux on the console have been shunned with the removal of its 'Install Other OS' feature.
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These are probably the best Themes you could install in Ubuntu
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And the best part is, you can download these themes directly from PPA launchpad repo itself, which is always the safer bet. This is by far the best collection of themes i have ever seen for Ubuntu.
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Apple’s Third Offense Against Linux-powered Palm Gadgets
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Apple's abuse of Linux and Palm [1, 2] recently led to a formal complaint from Palm. It is part of an ongoing pattern where Apple uses patents, breakage of interoperability, or total lack of interoperability to stifle adoption of GNU/Linux or Linux-powered devices
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Hedgewars: Worms like game
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Hedgewars is a free and open source game. It is cute and very addictive. Definitely worth a download.
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