The development of the next version of Ubuntu continues with the third alpha release of Karmic Koala. According to the announcement, this alpha contains software updates which "are now ready for large scale testing". Alpha 3 is one of a number of milestones which the Ubuntu developers release as they progress towards the final October release of Ubuntu 9.10.
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Microsoft’s Goodwill is to Obey the Law
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Microsoft's Linux module was made GPL-licensed only because the law required it after accusations of GPL violation
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Foresight Linux - Tough love
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Foresight Linux advertises itself as a modern operating system, featuring intuitive user interface and a wide range of innovative applications intended to make the desktop experience instantly pleasurable. One of the way Foresight Linux achieves this is by blending free and proprietary software.
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SUSE Studio: The Do-it-Yourself Linux
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Linux is well known for being very customizable, but with SUSE Studio, things are taken to an entirely new level. Imagine taking a base template, building on top of it with your personal software choices, and then building it as a bootable ISO.
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Red Hat educates profs
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This week a fourth-floor meeting room at the company's Centennial Campus headquarters in Raleigh is the site of a boot camp for faculty from a half-dozen universities, including N.C. Central and Elon.
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Setup Xen 3.4.1 Dom0 via xenified 2.6.30.2 kernel on top Ubuntu 9.04 Server
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Following bellow build Xen Host on top Ubuntu 9.04 Server.It is based on direct clone via “hg” and build Xen 3.4.1-rc8 from xensource.com , applying Andrew Lyon’s 2.6.30 patch set V3 to vanilla kernel 2.6.30.2 along with tuning patched kernel via “make menuconfig” and building xenified aka Suse kernel in Ubuntu 9.04 environment.
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Open Space
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There are more than a few of us who would be overjoyed to see Open Source take over the world. For the geeks at NASA, though, the world is not enough. Open Source is nothing new for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration — Linux Journal looked at Linux use in NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratories way back in May 2000.
Read more »My KDE 4.x Desktop Activities Tutorial
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Desktop Activities is a desktop usability concept that allows you to have multiple style and other settings for your desktop or desktops. There you have it, my attempt at a one sentence definition.
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Faux-pen Source Fundamentalists
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These people are not interested in improving Linux, they are only interested in stroking their own egos. They want power more than anything else. Power over other people. Power to destroy anyone or anything that does not do what they demand.
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Communicating requirements to kernel developers
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Recently, the question of how user-space programmers can communicate requirements to the kernel community was raised. The ensuing discussion was short on definitive answers, but it did begin to clarify a problem in an interesting way."
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Okay, Linux Gamers Are REALLY Excited!
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It seems as if Linux gamers are indeed really excited for having new games on Linux, well, "really excited" may still be an understatement. About 24 hours ago we talked about Heroes of Newerth, a game being developed by S2 Games, was coming to Linux and we were able to hand out beta invitations to begin playing the game immediately as part of their closed testing process.
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Qualcomm Hiring Ubuntu Talent for Smartbook Project
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You’ve heard of Smart Phones and Netbooks. Now, get ready for Smartbooks — mobile 3G wireless devices that appear to be slightly larger than the iPhone. Qualcomm is rallying OEMs to introduce Smartbooks sometime in Q3 or Q4 2009. And here’s the twist: Qualcomm is hiring Ubuntu talent to help drive the project forward. Here's the scoop.
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Liferea First 1.6.x Stable Version | How To Install It in Ubuntu
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Liferea developers have announced the availability of the first stable version of the 1.6.x series. Liferea (Linux Feed Reader) is an aggregator for online news feeds. There are many other news readers available, but these others are not available for Linux or require many extra libraries to be installed.
Read more »Five Open Source Apps to Manage Your Collections
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Comic books, DVDs, old vinyl albums, Star Wars figurines -- collecting things is fun. What's not fun, though, is keeping track of it all. Here are five open source collection management apps to help you organize your stuff.
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Howto install VLC media player 1.0.0 in Ubuntu
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VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
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