The introduction of KDE 4.0 was met with such an avalanche of outrage and criticism that Gnome developers can be forgiven for being a bit gun-shy. Gnome 2.28 appears to be almost a stealth introduction of Gnome 3.0; will anyone notice?
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Getting Stanford's "Karel the Robot" to Run in Debian's Eclipse
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I'm taking Stanford's Open Courseware "Programming Methodology" this semester, but I got stumped early on by the problem of setting up the special Stanford class libraries in my Debian-standard Eclipse installation. The instructions and files available from the website are only available for Windows and Macintosh platforms.
Read more »Seeking a Stallman for open source
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In one of my earliest blog posts here I called Richard Stallman, a father of the open source movement and almost immediately got a personal nastygram. From Richard Stallman. I appreciated it and have sought to be more careful. Stallman believes in free software, which he calls Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS). (It’s also called Free Open Source Software (FOSS).)
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Install 150+ Games on OpenSuSe using 1 click
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Wouldn’t it be great if there was an application which would allow users to browse through games, filter them by genres or names, view the screen shots and read the information about the games? Players using Windows can already use “Games for Windows” or “Steam” from Valve, but they also have to pay.
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Ubuntu 9.10 - Almost Perfect
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I can be a rather harsh critic. It’s been quite some time since I’ve given a really glowing review of any Linux Distro on the Computer Action Show. But Ubuntu 9.10 is as close to perfection as any version of Linux I have ever seen.
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Howto Install KDE 4.3.2 on ubuntu Jaunty
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KDE Community Ships Second Translation and Service Release of the 4.3 Free Desktop, Containing Numerous Bugfixes, Performance Improvements and Translation Updates .October 6th, 2009.
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Nonprofit Runs On Open Source
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It's not easy to run an organization with 1,500 PCs on almost no Microsoft products, but that's what Mosaic is doing with the help of open source and cloud computing.
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Netgear responds to open source concerns for WNR3500L router
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We contacted Netgear to receive their perspective on the issue, and they wrote back to let us know that their Senior Product Line Manager Som Pal Choudhury has written a post which describes Netgear’s stance.
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Ubuntu 9.04 — I'm feeling pretty good about it
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I resisted upgrading from Ubuntu 8.04 LTS — the project's "stable," long-term-support release — to version 9.04 because everything worked pretty well, my hardware was fairly well-recognized, there were no showstopping bugs. But upgrade I did, and here's a rundown of Ubuntu 9.04 compared to 8.04 on my rig.
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25 Awesome GIMP Brush Sets (1000+ FREE Brushes)
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On my sort of GIMP vs. Photoshop post, a lot of people through comments have expressed that GIMP is highly capable graphics design/editing software that can be used professionally.
Read more »LinuxCon Presentations Available Online
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End of September was a meeting of open source experts in Portland, Oregon and Linux Pro Magazine was there with its video camera. Linus Torvalds and developer colleagues at the kernel roundtable, the hotly debated keynote by Mark Shuttleworth and all other presentations are available in our video archives.
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Writing about FOSS sexism
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So what have I learned exactly? To start with, while members of the FOSS community like to think of themselves as rational beings, when subjects like gender issues are raised, emotion swamps logic to an alarming degree.
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F.B.I. Forensic Field Kit
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This is the ultimate bootable Disk for power user, or wannabe agent. Basically, the FBI Forensic Field Kit is a AIO Toolkit with compiled applications and ebooks designed to investigate and coordinate the user to look for buried files, and information logged inside your computers hard drive.
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Gnome 3.0 Reviews – Coming on Ubuntu 10.04, Fedora 13
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Gnome 3, which will be available to install in Ubuntu 10.04, Fedora 13 will mark the first radical change to the Gnome Desktop since it’s inception, thanks to it’s “new” interface ‘Gnome-Shell’.
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EU Commission Invites Comments on the Microsoft Deal - Here's Where to Send Them
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The official notice of the new draft deal between Microsoft and the EU Commission has now been posted to the EC website and published [PDF] in the Official Journal of the European Union, and it invites comments, giving all the addresses, email, fax and regular mail, where interested parties can submit their observations within a month of the date of the announcement.
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