The scene comes up with Larry David (creator of Seinfeld and star of TVs “Curb Your Enthusiasm”) sitting at a desk in front of a laptop. He’s obviously having a bit of trouble (in the way only Larry David can have trouble). He’s getting frustrated at something. He’s growing verklempt over an issue with his laptop. He’s picking it up and shaking it saying “No, no, no, no, no!”
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Not sure what Linux is
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When people are talking about "The year of Linux Desktop", it seems that there is a large crowd with no knowledge of Linux. People who use computers for a long time also replied the same thing when I talked about Linux with them. This screenshot shows the reply from an user when someone posted a reply in a form with a reference to 'Linux'
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Canonical Contributing Too Little to Kernel Development?
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This week the Linux Foundation published statistics of the persons and companies behind the kernel development. Canonical is not mentioned at all.
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Reading “The Art of Community”
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Jono has been active and visible in various communities and, I expected his enthusiasm to reflect in the writing. The book is a good one and, definitely worth a read.
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10 habits of superstitious users
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For some users, the computer is unfathomable - leading them to make bizarre assumptions about technology and the effect of their own actions. Here are a few irrational beliefs such users develop.
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What We Use
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I wanted to take a moment to admire the software we use everyday. There is something beautiful in the power we are granted. We can change any piece of our software to suit our needs. We have tens of thousands of software packages available to use at any point in time, and those packages can run on a platform that is radically diverse.
Read more »This Day in Tech: Aug. 25, 1991: Kid From Helsinki Foments Linux Revolution
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1991: Linus Torvalds, a 21-year-old university student from Finland, writes a post to a user group asking for feedback on a little project he’s working on. He’s built a simple kernel for a Unix-like operating system.
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On the PySide - interview
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Recently the dot carried an article about the first public release of PySide, LGPL python bindings to Qt. We conducted a short interview with one of the people behind PySide, Nokia employee Matti Airas
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The Joy of Linux Myth Debunking
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It was with much joy that the Linux community saw two harmful myths about open source get put in their places recently. Myth #1: Linux is bad for business. Linux Foundation: More than 70 percent of work on the kernel today is done by developers who are being paid for their efforts. Myth #2: Linux netbooks have a high rate of customer returns. Dell: No more so than Windows netbooks.
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Five Things I Dislike About Gnome
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Gnome is a great desktop environment. But it's not perfect. If I could pick five things for the Gnome developers to change or improve, here's what they'd be.
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FSF Launches Windows7sins tomorrow
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Tomorrow the Free Software Foundation plans to launch the windows7sins campaign, similiar to the BadVista campaign that ran for Windows Vista. From the info-member list:
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Open source and cloud computing - when Worlds collide
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I recently attended Open Source World, concurrent with Cloud World in San Francisco and naturally, a good place to converse on and consider the intersection of open source and cloud computing and what it means for vendors, customers and the software.
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Response Tuxmachines.org, okay why Linux and Open Source will not take MS
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I got some interesting feedback on tuxmachines.org about my Linux article. Either I was not clear enough on my article, or some people have simply not read it, so let me make my points even clearer for those who choose not to read the whole article.
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KDE struggles with feature requests
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Sometimes developers have a prickly relationship with their users. Users may have unrealistic, or overly demanding, requests that can be difficult to respond to. The most vocal of these users are often unwilling to take "no"-or even "not yet"-for an answer. Some KDE developers are currently struggling with that problem, and trying to find ways to smooth the dialog between users and developers.
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openSUSE Radios KDE
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The KDE vs. GNOME debate - which we sincerely hope we aren't sparking anew - is one of the great legacies of the Linux world. Everyone seems to have an opinion, whether it's passionate support for one coupled with vehement odium for the other, a more general sense of "This is what I started with," or a love of an entirely different, less mainstream desktop environment.
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