This article compares and contrasted recent innovations and functionality improvements of UNIX
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Encuentro Centroamericano de Software Libre
"Yup — Over a month ago I was contacted by Norman García (who I met via the various EDUSOL activities), and René Mayorga (who I met thanks to his Debian involvement) inviting me to join them for the First Central-American Free Software Encounter. I had insisted to several Central American friends on setting up such an encounter for several years, and I am really glad I was invited.
Read more »Gnome Elections: meet the candidates
Gnome Foundation elections are getting near, and the candidacies have already been submitted to the mailing list. Here’s an overview of the candidates, along with the copy paste of their candidacy mail.
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LinuxCon promises to bridge developer and business communities
As the founder and program chair for the Open Source Business Conference, I know what a business conference looks like. And as a regular attendee of the excellent O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON), I know what a great developer event looks like, too.
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Review: System76 Pangolin Performance laptop
If you had the chance to try one of the Wal Mart or Zonbu machines you will remember well that the hardware was second-rate at best. On top of that, the hardware BARELY supported Linux. But System 76 to make good on all of the promises these companies have failed to deliver on.
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Linux Distribution Companion Services
Mandriva and Ubuntu both seem to think that companion services to complement their distributions are a good idea, and I agree. These services, which, so far, usually involve paid cloud storage and/or backup, offer a potential revenue stream for companies that may not otherwise make much money.
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Open for nominations
In Fedora, we have two main bodies of governance that take care of the lion’s share (yes, that was a Leonidas pun, sorry) of decision making where we need specific accountability. One of those is the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee, or FESCo. The other is the Fedora Project Board.
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KOffice 2.0.0 tagged for release
After nearly two years in the making, the KOffice project will release version 2.0.0 of if its cross-platform office suite of the same name this week, adding features like scripting support and a new shape library.
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Forget Moblin! UNR rocks on the Classmate
Last week I fired up the latest beta of Moblin, the open source netbook/MID/nettop operating system originally spearheaded by Intel, but now shepherded by the Linux Foundation.
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Ubuntu’s Mono Booster Calls it “Monobuntu”
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Microsoft and Romania: Follow the Money
European Commission fines allegedly returned to Microsoft via Romania
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Intel Allegedly Colludes with Microsoft (Again) to Elevate Profit, Promote Windows
Intel and Microsoft defend their cash cows with artificial limitations
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JDownloader 0.5.859 - New Interface, Firefox Addon and Many other Changes
JDownloader, the java-based (thus multi-platform) download application for services such as Rapidshare and Megaupload released a new version which includes a new interface.
The new version also comes with a Firefox plugin which can automatically handle the download links.
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Gnote Explodes in Popularity
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