I do this because they work well and they're as safe as a desktop operating system can get. So why aren't more people using them?
Read more »Five ways the Linux desktop shoots itself in the foot
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Its stock red hot, Red Hat’s insiders are ca$hing out shares
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Red Hat’s stock is red hot, and company insiders are cashing out.
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Foresight, rPath, LiveCD, and Unity Linux
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There was no announcement…no news posting…no clue dart thrown toward Foresight for this discontinuation. There was only a comment on a single bug in the rPath issue tracker just this past May…Formally discontinued…
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Want That Early Chrome OS Build? You Got It.
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The hits keep on coming from Jonathan Frederickson, the TechCrunch reader who turned our initial revelation of a “chromeos” folder on the Chromium build site into a full-on walk through. Today, he’s doing what Google won’t: Making the early Chrome OS build available for download.
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Banshee 1.5.1 Released
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Banshee 1.5.1 is finally here! And it has brought with it some new features. Here is a brief rundown of some of the new features in Banshee 1..5.1.
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James Hall: Open source software in the real world
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This is a follow-up guest post by software and system engineer, and former maintainer of freeDOS, about Free and OpenSource software. Here, James talks about the pragmatics of running an OpenSource software project, based on his experience with freeDOS.
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Android phone taps Snapdragon SoC
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Acer announced its first Android smartphone, which will also be the first Android phone based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon processor. The Acer Liquid offers a WVGA touchscreen, HSPA 3G support, plus Android 1.6, and reportedly also provides WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, and a five megapixel camera.
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Asterisk Founder Mark Spencer Discusses App Store
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At the Astricon conference in Arizona, Digium announced the AsteriskExchange application store, an overhauled Asterisk.org community site and AsteriskForge for software developers. The three moves potentially solidify Asterisk and Digium as a disruptive force in the IP PBX market. Digium Founder and CTO Mark Spencer explains the strategy in this quick video.
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How to create, bundle, upload and access a custom Debian AMI using ubuntu
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This guide will provide all necessary steps on how to create, bundle, upload, run and connect Debian ETCH AMI on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). For this guide we have used a Ubuntu 9.04. However, any other Linux distribution can also be used as long as it contains java and ruby packages.
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Use More Than 3GB Of RAM In Ubuntu Karmic Koala 32bit
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Some time ago we talked about using more than 3 GB of RAM in Ubuntu 32bit which involved installing the server kernel. Well, this is no longer possible in Ubuntu Karmic Koala (9.10). But because many OEMs and users requested a 32 bit PAE enabled kernel, Karmic Koala now comes with linux-generic-pae meta package which enables PAE in Ubuntu 32 bit, thus allowing you to use more than 3GB of RAM.
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Game Editor becomes open source
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Game Editor is the open source game design software that gives you the power to create the games of your dreams, and, unlike other game creation tools, gives you the chance to get and change the source code of the game creator and design and develop 2D games for personal computers as well as mobile devices.
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OpenClinica 3.0 Streamlines Clinical Trials
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Recently, we've covered several examples of open source software tools aimed at humanitarian and global healthcare efforts. Even in niche categories, such as earthquake research, open source software is surprisingly widely used.
Read more »Dell's Android phone confirmed
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Dell has confirmed that its Android phone will launch in the U.S. next year, says eWEEK. In other Android news, Samsung is prepping a "Galaxy Lite i5700" for Europe, a music-oriented phone is coming from INQ, Spotify, and Telia, and Verizon is spinning a MiFi-enabled phone, say various reports.
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20 Features in Mandriva 2010
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I am an Ubuntu user from a long time but the next version Ubuntu 9.10 seems to focus on wellpapers and themes !! In this article I will talk a little about the new features that will be in Mandriva 2010.
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Freedom to Choose - What Alternatives Do I Have
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Linux is indeed a proven alternative operating system for any Windows OS flavor or version out today. It is true in terms of stability, easy of Use, flexibility, a wide range of OpenSource application available for download per distribution or distro - may just provide what you need.
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