openSUSE Community Week runs from May 11 through May 17. Our community week is a chance to get people from around the world together at the same time to focus on specific topics, and to transfer knowledge about openSUSE.
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If You Love Your Desktop, Buy A GNOME
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Financial troubles are an ever more common reality as the economic climate continues to venture through the monsoon season, and not-for-profit organizations are no exception. Such appears to be the case for the GNOME Foundation, the forces behind the venerable GNOME desktop, as the organization's 2009 budget is finalized and thoughts — and worries — turn to 2010.
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Adopting newcomers to FOSS/Linux
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Just remember the time when you started off with Linux or FOSS. You felt that you can’t find out a solution to your problem. What next? You tried asking for help on forums or any other help channels. Since you were noob, you didn’t even know how to ask questions or what exactly went wrong. You just knew that what you expected to happen, didn’t work.
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Which Distros Would You Use If Ubuntu Vanished?
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Like many of you, I live in an Ubuntu world. Sure, I also have a Debian box that I run as a file server on my home network, but most of my desktops/notebooks are fully dedicated Ubuntu machines.
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WorksWithU Vodcast, Episode 1
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In this edition, Josh and Nick discuss recent Ubuntu developments - including the launch of Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope), plus some key Canonical initiatives and directions.
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How Shall the Commons Be Governed? New Challenges Facing the Digital Commons Sector
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"David Bollier will discuss the rise of the commons paradigm in the digital environment, the subject of his new book, Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own (New Press). The book traces the origins of free software, the Creative Commons licenses and the online “sharing economy” ..."
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Is the Linux Foundation Our NRA?
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I wonder if the Linux Foundation is prepared to go to task for us, the Linux users, the Linux supporters, the Linux developers and the Linux Foundation members?
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Give Linux for the holidays
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Now that Microsoft is evidently going to try to ship Windows 7 for the late 2009 holiday season, I see this as a challenge to the Linux comunity.
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Does GNU/Linux need cult figures like Jobs
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Does GNU/Linux need a cult figure like Steve Jobs to spread the word and convert the doubters? And does FOSS lend itself to the development of such egos, where technical merit alone does not count?
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Karmic Koala new design postponed ?
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Healthcheck: Ubuntu and Debian's special relationship
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"The two things that Debian Developers absolutely agree on are – first, the uncompromising emphasis on free software, and second, the joy of Sid."
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Open, Free, Functional, and Wrapped In a Strong Sense of Self
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Over at the Lynx blog, Dougie Richardson cast his vote for the best comment made during the course of Ubuntu's Open Week.
Read more »Another linux jerk down
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As you surley know linux is crap, cobbled together by some amateurs. Well at least many trolls on the internet know. Sounds like prejudice and intentional offense, right?
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Brilliant Brainstorms #60 - Newbie Security
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This week: adding a system for detecting security issues; alerting brainstorm contributers that their ideas/solutions have been commented on or added to; and
making it easy to revert to the default GNOME menu setup.
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Switching My Dad to Linux - Part One
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I take a live-and-let-live approach to computers that aren't mine. But this changed a few days ago when my father got a new laptop that had Vista pre-installed. He asked me to set things up for him and, to cut a long story short, he got Ubuntu 9.04.
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