The purchase of StarDivision, the makers of StarOffice, a German office "productivity suite", by Sun Microsystems in August 1999. The subsequent release to the free software community of the StarOffice code, in the shape of OpenOffice, came as a surprise to many.
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Zapping in Ubuntu
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One of the many changes in xserver 1.6 is switching the DontZap option's default so that the ctrl-alt-backspace option does not trigger X to terminate unless the user deliberately configures it to do so.
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EnterpriseDB and Sun Reaping Benefits from Open Source Databases
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There were new metrics out this week for both EnterpriseDB's PostgreSQL-centric database business, and Sun Microsystems' MySQL business. These players are at the forefront of challenging pricing for databases and surrounding services from competitors such as Oracle, and both are having strong success with strategies focused on open source databases.
Read more »Brilliant Brainstorms #45 - Window Shades
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Brilliant Brainstorms is a (usually) weekly summary of some of the best/most interesting brainstorms from the Ubuntu Brainstorm site. This week: workspace confusion; optimizing screen real-estate on netbooks; Wubi for Ubuntu Netbook Remix; and giving nautilus folder differentiation.
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LGP Is Now Porting Shadowgrounds: Survivor
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These two games were supposed to be released for Linux (they are already available for Windows platforms) by last Spring, but that never came to fruition... Now it appears that Linux Game Publishing has been involved with porting Shadowgrounds: Survivor to Linux.
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Creating USB Startup Disks From Various Linux Distributions With UNetbootin
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This guide shows how you can create USB startup disks (on your USB flash drive) from various Linux distributions with UNetbootin. This is useful if you want to install a Linux distribution on a computer that has no CD/DVD drive.
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Canonical's $30 Million and Redmond's Gathering Storm
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Linux's gains are Microsoft's losses, and there were both aplenty in the past week, despite the best efforts of the Redmond crowd to tamp down enthusiasm for free OSes. Bloggers across the FLOSS world are speculating over what they see as a building storm headed straight for western Washington.
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Easy image resizing and rotating in Ubuntu
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Easy, quick and simple image resizing and rotating is important to many people. When using Windows, you're able to download and install the Image Resizer "PowerToy". You can then manipulate images directly from Windows Explorer. But how do you do the same task in Ubuntu?
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26 Open Source Security Apps with Commercial Support
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A little over a year ago, we took a look at 10 Commercial Open Source Security Vendors. As we set out to update that list, two facts jumped out: 1) the number of open source security apps with commercial support has grown substantially and 2) the line between open source and commercial applications continues to blur.
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Daily Snapshot .debs of Conkeror
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"Keeping track with packaging software which is under heavy development can be time-consuming. I noticed this while packaging Conkeror, because there was quite a demand for up-to-date packages, especially from upstream themself. So recently on the IRC channel #conkeror the idea of automatically built Debian packages came up.
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What’s this X-Zap thing about ?
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They wanna X zapping by default. A lot of discussion followed. Usability here, usability there (yawn).
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Acer to ship 10-inch Aspire One with Linux
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Despite earlier announcing that it would only ship a Windows XP version of its 10-inch Aspire One netbook, Acer now says it plans to release a Linux version as well.
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Carphone Warehouse, netbooks and GNU/Linux: an inquest
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I was browsing around my local Carphone Warehouse shop last week. Unlike the last time I crossed their threshold (November) I noticed that their Ubuntu netbook display had vanished. There was only one netbook on display and it was advertised as running Windows XP. Their website also advertised the Asus EeePC with Windows XP too.
Read more »OpenChange, KDE bring Exchange compatibility to Linux
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Recent developments in the OpenChange and KDE open source projects are set to bridge a "missing link" in messaging and groupware compatibility from Microsoft's Exchange to open source clients.
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Displaying Weather on the Desktop with ConkyForecast
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For a lightweight system monitor, Conky can display an awful lot of useful information. But besides the usual stuff like RAM usage, processor load, and wireless signal strength, you can use Conky to display something more interesting like the current weather conditions and a four-day forecast complete with snazzy weather icons.
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