There are a plethora of opportunities for geeks to meet and greet one another throughout the year: linux.conf.au, Linux Congress, OSCON, Linux Plumber's Conference, LinuxCon, the list goes on. There is one, however, where the focus is purely on the customer, so-to-speak — the end user.
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GNU/Linux Offers Free Security, Too
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Microsoft is selling defective software and then offering security separately, stomping on former partners in the process
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Puppy Linux 4.3 and Woof
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Puppy Linux 4.3.0 was released several weeks ago and with it came several interesting developments. First, this release saw the return Barry Kauler, founder and project lead of Puppy Linux. Second, 4.3.0 includes some great new tools.
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The Linux Foundation Announces Second Annual End User Summit
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The Linux Foundation today announced the speaker lineup and details for its second annual End User Summit. The Summit is a unique opportunity for corporate end users to learn and interact with leaders from within the Linux community, including the highest-level maintainers and developers.
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Chromium test (two days without Firefox)
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With Firefox becoming fully-fledged, I wasn’t on the look-out to try another browser. Curiousity, however, creeped in short of my expectations and I have been taken quick glimpses of Chromium the last two months.
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Interview: OpenSUSE's Joe Brockmeier
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Previously at the OpenSUSE Conference we chatted with Program Manager Andreas Jaeger. Later on we caught up with Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier, the distro's Community Manager. Read on for his thoughts on the KDE-as-default-desktop choice, lessons we can learn from Apple's iPhone App Store, and why Linux is like The Ramones...
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Linux saves Aussie electrical grid
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QUICK THINKING open sourcerers might have saved an Australian power supply system after its electrical grid control room network got infected with a virus.
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SSL trick certificate published
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On the Noisebridge hacker mailing list, security specialist Jacob Appelbaum has published an SSL certificate and pertinent private key that together allow web servers to avoid triggering an alert in vulnerable browsers - irrespective of the domain for which the certificate is submitted.
Read more »Microsoft Plans Port of Silverlight to Moblin
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Among the countless announcements in the Intel Developer Forum regarding Moblin was a joint press release from Intel and Microsoft. In it is announced that Microsoft wants to port Silverlight to Moblin.
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Five Features We Want to See in Android
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As with our Ubuntu wishlist, we can't actually tell everyone contributing to Google's open source Android mobile phone software what to do. All we can do is suggest five things that would make its smartphones even smarter.
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Linux on the Air - or Not?
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Got Linux? A radio ad touting the benefits of "Linux" is airing on a station in Austin, Texas, but is it a good idea?
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Celestia 3D Space Simulation Software For Linux
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Celestia is a real-time visual space simulation astronomy program. NASA and ESA have used Celestia in their educational and for interfacing to trajectory analysis software.
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FOSS: War is over (if you want it)
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Aside from the ongoing adoption of open source, one of the trends that has defined FOSS in 2009 has been the numerous declarations that the war between open source and proprietary software is over - and moreover that open source has won.
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IOzone Performance Exploration, Part 2
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In our previous Part 1 of this series we looked at the IOzone performance for ext3, ext4, and reiser4 using larger size record lengths (1MB, 4MB, 8MB, 16MB). In this article the number of file systems is extended to add most of the major file systems in Linux, even the experimental ones. This article adds ext2, jfs, xfs, btrfs, and reiserfs.
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DK: Lyngby-Taarbæk moves schools to OpenOffice
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The administration of the Danish municipality of Lyngby-Taarbæk is installing OpenOffice on some 1700 school desktop PCs, the administration announced yesterday. The first school where OpenOffice will be installed is the Lindegård school. At the school earlier today mayor Rolf Aagaard-Svendsen showed the first desktop running the open source suite of productivity tools.
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