I’ve been reading a lot of articles this weekend. I stumbled upon one called “Do Open Source Licenses Have a Purpose?” which is to be honest a rhetorical question. Ken Hess on Daniweb actually suggests we should throw away our 64 different license CHOICES and just give away our code public domain.
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Red Hat Names 2009 Red Hat Certified Engineers of the Year
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Red Hat, Inc. oday announced the five regional winners of its annual Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) of the Year contest.
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The greatest open source software of all time
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InfoWorld's Open Source Hall of Fame recognizes the 36 most useful and important free open source software projects in history (and today)
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Avidemux Version 2.5.1 Was Released - Fixes A Lot of Bugs
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Version 2.5.1 of Avidemux was released, a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. I've been having some problems with version 2.5.0 and as you can see from these comments, I wasn't the only one experiencing this.
Read on to see what's new and Ubuntu & Windows downloads.
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PCLinuxOS LXDE (PCLXDE) 2009 Review
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Fortunately, the PCLOS community has come out with a new flavor based on the LXDE desktop, so I can stop worrying about a forced KDE 4 upgrade. I opted for the LXDE install. I’d never tried it, much less heard of it, but the screenshots looked nice enough.
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Not too soon: Moonlight 2 finally reaches beta
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The team of Miguel De Icaza has released the first feature complete beta release of Moonlight 2.0.
I must say: it is about time! Silverlight 3.0 for Windows has been released last month. Although I really admire the work of Miguel and his team, Linux is still the poor child when it comes to Silverlight support.
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VDrift, TORCS, SuperTuxKart: 3 Free, Open Source, Cross-Platform Car Racing Games
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VDrift, TORCS and SuperTuxKart are 3 free, open source car racing games which run on Windows, Linux and MacOSX. Read on for more info...
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Happy sweet 16 Debian - where now?
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The Debian Linux distribution celebrates its 16th anniversary this week (official birthday is: August 16, 1993). It sure has been an interesting ride.
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Open source, proprietary or a little of both?
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The Register's latest video webcast, an expert look at open source and traditional proprietary software models, is now available on-demand from the Reg archives. This broadcast explores the relative merits of open source and traditional proprietary software, and discusses how they can best be made to co-exist happily.
Read more »ATI Catalyst 9.8 Released, How To Upgrade Your ATI Drivers in Linux
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With ATI Catalyst 9.8, ATI finally has support for newer kernels. The Linux 2.6.29 kernel was released in March, but it has taken until today for AMD to release any support for this kernel. However, at the same time, they have also released support for the Linux 2.6.30 kernel, which arrived back in June.
Read more »Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 5.3 (LAMP)
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LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a CentOS 5.3 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.
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Enhanced Command-Not-Found Hook in Ubuntu 9.10
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One of the less prominent Ubuntu features that has received an overhaul for Karmic is the command-not-found handle, which helps users find the program they're looking for when they type an unrecognized command in the terminal. Following is a brief outline of improvements made to this tiny utility, and why they matter.
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Gnome 2.28.0 beta1
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The Gnome team has released a Beta version of the Gnome Desktop Environment, version 2.28.0 beta1.
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More on the Mono mischief
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Mono Team Puts MS’s GPL-incompatible Licence & Patents-encumbered Software Inside GNU/Linux
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How to open files as root user via right click
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Follow these steps to open files as root user via right click
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