Hello everbody. The title says it all. The good people at SCALE (Southern California Linux Expo offered our readers a super-discount: just mention the coupon code FSM8X and receive a 40% (forty percent!) discount on your SCALE tickets!
Merry Christmas, and enjoy SCALE!
Cheap SCALE tickets: a present to Free Software Magazine's readers
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It's the eye of the beholder
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. We all look at different operating systems through our own personally tinted shade of rose coloured glasses. What we see in an operating system may not be what another person can see.
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Open Source developers giving Linux users the “Linux” treatment
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Oh yes. I said it. Isn’t it odd how OpenOffice.org runs pretty smooth on Windows in comparison to OpenOffice.org on Linux?
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Gifts for Gamers: Some End-of-Year Recommendations, Part 1
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Christmas is a time for rest and contemplation. To intersperse the period with some distraction on long winter evenings, a number of Linux games can prove some diversion, as this article will show.
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KDE Community Invited to FOSS Nigeria 2010
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A few days ago The Dot received an invite for the KDE community to FOSS Nigeria. FOSS Nigeria 2010 will be the second Free Software conference in Nigeria, following the successful event last year (as reported on The Dot).
Read more »mintCast Wallpaper Challenge
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The mintCast team has announced a “Wallpaper Challenge.” Create an original mintCast inspired wallpaper and win prizes. First and second place will win a laptop.
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Monty launches frantic 'save MySQL' web campaign
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In a desperate last gasp bid to stop Oracle buying Sun Microsystems and its precious MySQL kit and kaboodle, the database's co-creator - Michael ‘Monty’ Widenius - has launched a campaign to "help keep the internet free." As we reported earlier this month, the European Commission welcomed a series of promises made by Oracle about the future of the MySQL database, all of which signalled that th
Read more »Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming
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The reviews on the first edition of this book were overwhelmingly favorable, so you'd expect Sobell's second edition to be at least on par. What I want to know before handing over my hard earned green, is why I should buy the second edition? What has changed so much in the world of Linux in 4 or 5 years that makes a difference?
Read more »Linux 2019
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And, please, don't get me started on people wearing iContact lens! At least when you saw someone with smart-glasses on you knew they might, or might, not be actually looking at you.
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Open Source in 2010: Nine Predictions
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Even though this is the end of the decade only for those who can't count, retrospectives seem more common than predictions in the last days of 2009. Or maybe, after a year of recession, all the pundits are nervous about the future.
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Linux and windows people are the same
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There is a common belief propagated around the web that Linux users are a different breed of people than windows users. In the beginning of Linux history that would have been true. These days it is not.
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Open source in 2009
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Free software made steady progress in 2009, even if it didn't have the excitement of previous years.
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The Top 5 Web Technologies of the Decade
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Where did the last 10 years go? At the end of 1999 we were living in fear of the millennium bug and the dotcom bubble was about to burst. This decade has seen the web mature from an awkward precocious child in to a competent but unpredictable teenager.
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Linux on the cusp of 2010
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We’re almost at 2010 and so I thought I’d revisit my 2010: The year of the Linux Desktop post. But rather than start with Linux, I want to start with Apple…
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Letter from the President of the FreeBSD Foundation
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A public letter from the President of the FreeBSD Foundation which discusses the future of the organization, it's value/worth and other items. In 2009, the FreeBSD project had the misfortune of losing two long time contributors: John Birrell and Jean-Marc Zucconi. I chatted with John recently, during this year's BSDCAN, so his death was all the more shocking.
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