There are several options when it comes to choosing an operating system for your computer. Of course Windows is the overwhelming heavyweight in the market place and it isn’t a bad choice in some ways. Also looking for users are Linux, BSD and Leopard.
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I'm Not The Only One Suspicious Of Adobe
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I audaciously stated that I believe that the Gimp is being sabotaged, and that Adobe is behind it. A much larger crowd is accusing Adobe of sabotaging HTML5.
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Free Software Foundation Europe says I ? Free Software
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It might be a day too late for Valentine's Day, but it's never too late to show your love for Free Software. The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) asked users to show their love for Free Software on Valentine's Day — but there's no reason why that can't run all year long.
Read more »LCA 2010: Using a public platform for personal attacks
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When Red Hat employee Matthew Garrett stood up to deliver a talk at the recent Australian national Linux conference on "The Linux community: what is it and how to be a part of it", he wasn't prepared for at least one of the questions that followed.
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Bad Karma with the Koala
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No, this is not about Linux Mint itself. What it is about is the Ubuntu underbelly of Linux Mint. Karmic Koala (or 9.10) is seriously flawed!
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Ubuntu single sign on service launched
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We are pleased to announce the launch of the brand new Ubuntu single sign on service. The goal of this service is to provide a single, central login service for all Ubuntu-related sites, thus making it more convenient for Ubuntu users and community members.
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Open source against piracy
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There are a few good reasons why open source fans should support the Business Software Alliance. I've never made a secret of the fact that I dislike the Business Software Alliance (BSA). It's questionable statistics and its sweeping generalisations make for annoying reading at the best of times. But recently I've been thinking that perhaps open source advocates should get behind the BSA.
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Listen Now: Luc's Heated Talk From X@FOSDEM
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The most heated talk this year during FOSDEM in the X.Org development room was certainly the talk by Luc Verhaegen with his ambitions to clean up the Linux graphics driver stack. Building the entire X.Org stack can be a mess and there is certainly areas to improve upon in the development process and making it easier for end-users and others to test out this latest code.
Read more »PHPers prefer Windows desktop to Linux
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PHP might have put the "P" in LAMP - the all open-source server stack - but on the desktop, it seems that those using PHP generally prefer the "W" to the "L." In a recent study from Zend Technologies, forty two per cent of PHP programmers named Windows as their primary development operating system. Linux came second, with 38.5 per cent, while Mac's OS X was third on 19.1 per cent.
Read more »Lucas Rocha Resigns from GNOME Board
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So, considering my priorities now, I feel that I would be more useful to the Board by stepping down and letting another person with a lot of energy to take my position.
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Is RHEL5 the New XP of Linux World?
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If you blamed Redmond for late release of Vista (almost 6 years after XP) then think again, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is the new XP of Linux World. And the same user-reaction is building towards it.
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Linux Training Week: Ease of Use
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For most consumers, the number one factor when buying a computer is for it to ‘just work’ without them having to play around with various settings or install drivers for various hardware components.
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Barbie the Computer Engineer
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Maybe it is time to retire that "math class is hard" speech chip once and for all and replace it with some often-used Linux shell commands.
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Video: Android and Linux Kernel
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At FOSDEM 2010 in Brussels, Linux Magazine Online pulled Android commentator Jan Wildeboer and kernel staging tree maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman away from the daily events to talk with them on camera.
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Please Don’t Compare Microsoft Vapourware to Today’s GNU/Linux
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Improper comparisons even from Linux-branded Web sites are only helping Microsoft sell fantasy
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