The truly great thing about laptops and netbooks is that you’re not bound to your desk. You can bring them with you anywhere. Some people are taking that to the extreme, bringing their laptops with them to places where most of us wouldn’t.
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How to save the Internet from Windows
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After last week's near-collapse of the social networks, such as Twitter, due to a Windows-based, botnet DDoS attack, I made a modest proposal: Throw Windows off the Internet. Here's how we can do it.
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Filmaster switches to Mercurial
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Filmaster.com, the open source movie recommendation service and film buffs community website, was just fully switched from Subversion to Mercurial for version control software.
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From Windows to Linux... Is it that hard to adapt?
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And in all honesty it does require a bit of effort and willingness to adapt to a new Operating System and its applications. But in reality, it is no more difficult than learning to use a computer for the 1st time.
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Firefox: Hearing Chromium’s Footsteps
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The open source version of Chrome is far from perfect; the recently enabled plugins which permit the usage of Flash and so on are regularly disabled and/or non-functional, the rendering engine still has its occasional issues, and too many poorly designed browser-sniffing sites give it a hard time. But it’s just so damned fast.
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So Many Linux Desktops: Which One is Best?
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Linux offers a wealth of graphical environments to choose from, from lean barebones window managers to massive colorful desktops full of applications and special effects. Which one is for you? Bruce Byfield compares XFCE, KDE, and Gnome.
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Netbooks, Microsoft, a Turning Point
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Far from showing strength, the wide availability of Windows on netbooks is a sign of weakness.
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OLPC Australia trying to burnish its image
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Following my last piece about OLPC, wherein I made reference to the fact that it seemed impossible to get a response to media queries sent to the Australian arm, I was approached by one of the many personable young women who dot the PR landscape and asked if I would have a chat with Srikhanta.
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OpenOffice.org: Cross-References Revisited
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Four years ago, I wrote an article about OpenOffice.org writer called "Fielding Questions, Part 2 - Cross References and User-Defined Fields." I regularly receive mail about it, but these days I have to preface each reply by explaining that the article is obsolete. Repeating the explanation gets old quickly, so I decided that an update is necessary.
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IBM: UNIX to Linux Migration Rate Growing
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Community-cation: "The new question should be: how long will it take for Linux to supplant Unix's place in the enterprise?"
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Linux Weather Forecast
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Current conditions: the 2.6.30 kernel was released on June 9. The 2.6.30 development cycle saw the addition of almost 12,000 individual changes from over 1100 developers representing some 200 different companies. 2.6.30 has 624,000 more lines of code than 2.6.29.
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PCLinuxOS 2009.2 Review
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After running into Problems with Mandriva 2009.1 with my sound cutting out and making static sounds and sometimes not working at all I decided to give PCLinuxOS a try.
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Does GPL still matter?
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Jeff Haynie reached a crossroads last summer. Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator, a firm that develops open source cross-platform application development software, made a decision filled with implications for his company's future.
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I heard about Linux Mint numerous times and even tried out a few releases. The major “selling” point of Mint is its main focus: to provide a ready-to-go, user-friendly desktop.
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Microsoft vs. Linux: If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em?
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This year Microsoft has been making changes to the way it approaches Linux and open source in ways I had never expected. Some of the areas that Microsoft made changes in are significant, while other aspects of their changes are, to be honest, predictable...
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