Microsoft’s own SourceForge-like repository of open source projects, CodePlex, celebrated its third anniversary recently. According to Sara Ford, CodePlex program manager, the site is accepted and welcomed among the fans of open source and Linux software.
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Should Ubuntu “Software-Store” Be Renamed?
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Ubuntu Karmic Koala will see the first step of the much heralded package-management replacement named “Software Store” – whose name has caused a lot of controversy within the Ubuntu Community.
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Microsoft Licences Grow Unpopular While the GPL — Despite FUD — Keeps Expanding
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A look at unrest caused by Microsoft licensing and FUD which entities close to Microsoft throw at the favoured alternative
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Cross-Platform Google Docs Batch Uploader Lets You Upload All The Files In a Folder To Google Docs
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If you want to upload a lot of documents to Google Docs, it's difficult to upload them one by one. You can send the documents by email, but this option is not very reliable and not all the formats are supported.
Read more »Quick Previews In Gnome & Ubuntu With Globus
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Gloobus is an extension of Gnome designed to enable a full screen preview of any kind of file. Globus currently supports the following files: TXT , PDF, JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG, PSD, MP3, OGG, MPG, WMV, XCF. Finally I can preview PSD and XCF files :D. Using Globus is very simple. Just select the file in Nautilus and hit the key.
Read more »P2P Windows And Linux Client Tixati Supports Both BitTorrent Protocol And Magnet Links And [...]
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Tixati is a free, simple, and easy to use P2P client that is compatible with the BitTorrent protocol and also supports magnet links. I probably wouldn't have read about it if it didn't work on Linux, but that made me take a closer look and so I got to enjoy Tixati.
Read more »OIN Receives Thanks from Many, CodePlex Foundation Receives Thumbs-Down from Many
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Putting in perspective some of Microsoft's latest attacks on GNU/Linux and an apparent deflection
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10 of the Best Free Linux IRC Clients
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Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a type of real-time Internet text messaging (chat) or synchronous conferencing. IRC was born during summer 1988 when Jarkko Oikarinen wrote the first IRC client and server when he was working in the Department of Information Processing Science at the University of Oulu, Finland. This system enables millions of people around the world to communicate in real time.
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Ubuntu Gaming made easy with PlayDeb
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Playdeb is a gaming repository for Ubuntu - aimed to provide titles already available on getdeb.net in an easier to install and update format. This article show you how to install Game from playdeb.net on ubuntu 9.04 jaunty jackalope.
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Does Microsoft Have an Open Source Strategy Any More?
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Whenever I write about Microsoft here I usually get a few comments asking me, with varying degrees of politeness, why I am wasting electrons on this subject on a site devoted to GNU/Linux. The reason I do this – and why I am about to do it again – is that whether we like it or not, Microsoft remains probably the single most important external factor in the free software world.
Read more »Five Best Virtual-Desktop Managers
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Long before multiple monitors were popular (or financially feasible), there were virtual desktops—applications that allow you to swap your entire workspace with another for easy compartmentalization of your work. Here's a look at five of the most popular virtual-desktop managers.
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Ubuntu Report Card (2009)
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The purpose of this article is to bring some perspective to the evolution (or lack thereof) that Ubuntu has experienced between versions 8.04 and 9.04. I write this article in an attempt to help. Linux is reaching a point where it needs less zealots and more (loving!) critics.
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Car harnesses fighter jet technology
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The Ford motor company has harnessed technology from the F22 fighter jet as part of its bid to make its new Taurus "America's smartest full-sized sedan"...Ford said the F22 radar technology which they took and built upon was all open source.
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Ext3 and RAID: silent data killers?
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Technologies such as filesystem journaling (as used with ext3) or RAID are generally adopted with the purpose of improving overall reliability. Some system administrators may thus be a little disconcerted by a recent linux-kernel thread suggesting that, in some situations, those technologies can actually increase the risk of data loss.
Read more »Create a mobile Ubuntu repository with APTonCD
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How many times have you installed Linux only to have something happen which required a re-install? Or you get a machine up and running the way you want it and then you want to re-create the system on another machine? In either of these situations, the last thing you want to do is to have to remember all of the applications you installed and then spend the time installing them all again.
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