Unlike proprietary platforms - and some Linux distributions - Ubuntu doesn't identify primarily with any single country or language. The operating system's developers are spread around the world, and aim to make their product equally available to all users, regardless of their locales. But how well have the challenges of localization been met?
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Sarien open source multi-player game engine released
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Martin Kool, a developer from Web applications specialist Q42, has released his open source multi-player game engine. Sarien.net is a "portal for reliving the classic Sierra On-Line adventure games" and is completely browser based. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome are all supported.
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Report: Customers scrutinizing Microsoft license agreements more than ever
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Tough economic times are leading customers to scrutinize their Microsoft licensing agreements more than ever before — a fact that’s leading Microsoft to provide some substantial deals and discounts.
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It’s all about communication
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"About one week ago the new Fellowship web page was launched. It’s a great improvement over the old one. Finally we have a first-class blogging platform, a first class wiki and a planet to aggregate all weblogs of FSFE’s Fellows. I think this components already show that communication (blogs, planet) and collaboration (wiki) is an essential part of the Fellowship.
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Untangle: OEMs Embrace Open Source Security Gateway
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After exiting the hardware market in mid-2008, Untangle’s open source security gateway business is skyrocketing. What’s the secret to Untangle’s apparent success? A growing list of OEM relationships certainly helps. Here’s the scoop...
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Linux will only ever be niche, says Lenovo analyst
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"LINUX IN NETBOOKS and notebooks I don't think is ever going to happen," Lenovo's world-wide competitive analyst, Matt Kohut, has said in an interview, remarking that the open source software would never attain anything more than niche status as an OS.
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Aaron Seigo Talks About KDE's Past and Future
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Aaron Seigo is one of the most public faces of the KDE desktop. Not only is he a long-time developer, but, for the past three years, he has been president of KDE e.V., the German non-profit that handles the project's financial and legal affairs.
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Kubuntu Fail
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I started playing the CD and rocking out and left the parking lot only to realize that mplayer found it necessary to pause every five or so seconds for about two or three seconds. Since I'm driving there really just wasn't anything I could do about it, so I had to listen to choppy audio all the way home.
Read more »Aussies, Kiwis enter Google Summer of Code
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Eight Australians and five Kiwis have made the cut for the 2009 Google Summer of Code, announced today.
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This is Why Lenovo Sucks at Linux
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I had to read this story Lenovo analyst: Linux on netbooks is doomed" several times because I couldn't quite believe what I was reading. Was this really Lenovo's Worldwide Competitive Analyst saying things like "You have to know how to decompile codes and upload data"? Really?
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Book Review: Object-Oriented JavaScript
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Klaus Kommenda has reviewed Object-Oriented JavaScriptbook by Packt. He says, "If you are a Web Developer with several years of experience on the job and with JavaScript and you want to move your knowledge level up a notch or two, this book is for you. If you want to play with the cool kids, then get this book."
You can read the full review on his website, Klauskomenda.com
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Puppy Linux woof!
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Roll up Puppy Linux. Yet Another Linux Distro!?! No, it's not just another distro, this one is different and this is why. It runs off a live CD but the coolest thing is that you can now make your own custom cut-down Puppified linux from the distro of your choice using Puppy Woof!.
Read more »When Would You Use OOXML and When ODF? -- What is OOXML For?
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Can anyone tell me what OOXML is for, other than for opening legacy Microsoft documents? What else is it for? When would you choose OOXML and when would you choose ODF, if you were, let's say, a government or a government agency?
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The Oracle open source credibility gap
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Oracle has an open source crediblity gap.
Fact is that many in the open source movement distrust Oracle’s motives in buying Sun and taking over such blue-chip open source names as Java, mySQL, Open Solaris and OpenOffice.org.
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Kernel Log: What's coming in 2.6.30 - File systems
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The patches adopted in Linux 2.6.30 introduce many significant changes affecting data security and Ext3 and Ext4 performance. Support for the EXOFS and NILFS2 file systems is new, as is the cache for the AFS and NFS network file systems. There are also a few fixes for the almost forgotten ReiserFS file system.
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