Linus Torvalds, founder of the Linux kernel, made a startling comment at LinuxCon in Portland, Ore., on Monday: "Linux is bloated." Has Linux failed?
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How to Attract More People to Your Open Source Project
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Do you wish you had more people contributing to your FOSS project? These suggestions have worked for other people. Maybe they can help you, too.
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Fake Linus Torvalds Revealed
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Just after the popular kernel panel roundtable at LinuxCon today, Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin took the stage and announced the time had come to reveal the identities of the Fake Linus Torvalds who had inundated the Linux Foundation's Twitter feed in recent weeks.
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The need to Ubuntize people!
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Last night I was enjoying Florida’s warm night chatting with some non-techie friends, and we ended up talking about computers and OSs (Windows, MacOS, and Linux).
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Database Storage Performance Testing in a Hurry
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I was mainly interested in numbers that were close enough but that I could also have some confidence in. Being able to say that moving from X to Y will give us a 4X boost in performance is sufficient for my purposes.
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Ubuntu's Lucid Lynx sprays sweet perfume at freeloaders
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The founder of Linux distie Ubuntu has outlined plans for the platform’s next release (10.04), which is expected to land in April 2010. Mark Shuttleworth said in a video message to attendees of the open source outfit’s UbuCon Atlanta meeting yesterday, that the next version of the distribution carries the code name Lucid Lynx.
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GNOME and KDE: In Search of the Perfect Menu
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If you believe that desktop features can be intuitive, then a survey of the available menus in free and open source (FOSS) desktops should disabuse you of the notion.
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Desktop Takes Back Seat at Linux Conference
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Leaders in the Linux community seemed resigned to the fact that Linux still hasn't made headway in the desktop market, but they made it clear on Monday that their success in other markets, such as mobile, is at least as important.
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IBM Linux chief: Chasing desktop Windows a 'dead-end'
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IBM says that battling for desktop market share against Windows is a "dead-end" for Linux. Bob Sutor, IBM's vp of open source and Linux for IBM, opened the inaugural LinuxCon conference held in Portland, Oregon on Monday with predictions for the open source desktop, telling developers they won't thrive unless they specialize.
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Earlier this month at the Red Hat Summit where Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 was released with support for the Kernel-based Virtual Machine. At this Red Hat event, virtualization -- particularly KVM -- and cloud computing were the most talked about topics. But how is KVM performing these days?
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LinuxCon: Roundtable – The Linux Kernel: Straight from the Source
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Panel: Bottomley (moderator), Jonathan Corbet, Greg KH, Linus Torvalds, Arjan van de Ven (detained in Holland – NP), Ted T’so and Chris Wright
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Hudzilla Coding Academy: Project Eight
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Can computers learn? That's a deep question worthy of any philosopher's time, but we're not philosophers: we're coders, right? So, rather than try to prove or disprove what exactly a computer is capable of, we're going to pass away an idle hour or two producing a little game that actually does make computers learn - or at least gives the impression!
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Linux botnet discovery points to lazy administrators
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Recently, a Russian security researcher discovered a 100-node Linux "cluster" that was running a botnet which was, in turn, connected to a group of desktop machines. Altogether these machines were serving up malware.
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Coverity® Announces the State of Open Source Software Integrity
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The Coverity open source integrity report is an objective presentation of open source code quality and defect data collected from the Coverity Scan service.
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I’m using Linux since 2001 and it still amazes me day by day. After trying Red Hat, Mandrake, Debian, SuSE and many other flavors (yes, I do have a bag full of Linux distros CDs) I have chosen Gentoo as my main focus. It could be any other distribution, but that’s the advantage:
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