It's easy to argue that Ubuntu's success is because there's an unlimited supply of investment from its super-rich parent company, Canonical. But Linux isn't like any ordinary software stack.
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Linux users wanted: non-geeks welcome
There’s an article in Computerworld with an interesting observation. Interestingly, despite Linux’s reputation as a techies’ tool, the survey respondents found that Linux migration was best achieved when it was aimed at non-technical users. This actually fits with my experience.
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Lxadmin (web control panel) going opensource [News]
Lxadmin (aka Kloxo) is one of the best free (as in beer) alternatives to Cpanel and Plesk. Due to the unexpected death (R.I.P.) of its author, its family has decided to make it opensource.
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KOffice 2.0
The long-awaited upgrade to KOffice has arrived. It looks good and provides a great base for its future evolution.
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Google to release Linux based ChromeOS
The blogosphere is aflame with news that Google finally decided to go after Microsoft and release it's own Linux based Operating System targeted at netbooks: ChromeOS. The frenzy was started by a post on the official Google blog were Sundar Pichai announced the new OS. But is it really a new OS? I don't think so!
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Software SmackDown: SoftMaker Comes Out on Top?
How could anyone expect a less well funded commercial competitor, much less an open source project, to equal Office for features, performance and interoperability with other office suites?
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Pushing ahead with Fedora 12
The days of summer may be hot, but they’re anything but lazy in Fedora. The Fedora 12 release, as many community members already know, is a somewhat tighter schedule overall.
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News You Might Have Missed: FreeSCI Merged Into the ScummVM Project
A look at the colorful history of two Free Software implementations to get classic abandonware adventure games running across all software platforms, especially free ones such as GNU/Linux and FreeBSD. Also includes links to FOSS source code to a dev IDE for the abandoned SCI platform.
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Interim decision in Swiss open source case
The Swiss Federal Administrative Court has issued an interim verdict in a legal action brought by a group of open source companies against the Swiss Federal Office for Buildings and Logistics (BBL) for awarding a software procurement contract to Microsoft without a tendering process.
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Open-source Bias Cheered, Booed in Planned EC Rules Review
Industry groups criticized and praised on Monday what they consider is a bias in favor of open-source software in the European Commission's plans to update the rules governing industry standard technologies.
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Attempted Break-In on www.centos.org
CentOS is reporting that there was a break-in attempt made on the www.centos.org server. Due to an "administrative error", the Xoops content management system was abused to put some content onto the web server.
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DebConf9 schedule
The schedule for the upcoming DebConf9 is available. Most of it should be set already, but of course there still can be small changes until the conference starts, and honestly, until it ends.
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Use Gnome-Do To Control Rhythmbox, Banshee, Exaile and XMMS2 [Full Howto]
This is a full tutorial that explains how to use Gnome Do to control Rhythmbox, Banshee, Exaile and XMMS2. It includes: how to install Gnome Do, how to make Rhythmbox use multiple sources for the library, what keyboard shortcuts to use to control the music player behavior.
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KDE and Gnome Formulate Common Goals
When KDE chiefs Adriaan de Groot and Sebastian Kuegler, together with Gnome's Dave Neary and Federico Mena met the press, Kuegler explained the idea for a joint desktop conference was born two years ago and is meant to save developers from having to travel to two conferences.
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Interview with Amanda McPherson of LinuxCon in Portland
I had the pleasure to talk to Amanda McPherson, one of the minds behind LinuxCon, "LinuxCon is a new annual technical conference that will provide an unmatched collaboration and education space for all matters Linux". Where and where: September 21 - 23 2009, Portland.
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