Yesterday, Network World rolled out a new podcast series, Open Mic with Zonker, hosted by openSUSE community manager, Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier.
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It's Time for Obama to Come Out for FOSS
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Some of the best software available is open source, but non-proprietary software has enemies as well as friends. Not surprisingly, then there's been plenty of fog on Capitol Hill about free and open source software (FOSS) for a decade now.
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SpringSource Delivers Spring 3.0, Focused on Web Apps
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SpringSource (which, it's easy to forget, is now a division of VMware), introduced Spring 3.0 today, a major new version of the company’s Java development framework. SpringSource is targeting developers focused on web and service-based applications with the new release.
Read more »Useless Linux Terminal Commands
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Not long ago, I have listed here some useful Linux terminal commands and those that I described as deadly. This time, I decided to gather some commands that I think have no practical use. I know it sounds interesting but you may disagree with me on some of the commands that I'll list here as you may find a few of them useful.
Read more »NVIDIA Developer Talks Openly About Linux Support
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In late August we started asking our readers for any questions they had for NVIDIA about Linux and this graphics company's support of open-source operating systems. Many thanks go out to Andy Ritger for taking the time to answer these questions as well as to NVIDIA's Technical Marketing Manager, Sean Kilbride, for supporting this Q&A.
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Who's a candidate for Desktop Linux? Your Kids.
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“Hannah Montana Linux” may not be ready to give to your kids yet, but it’s an idea that has legs.
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The Road to Compiz++ Part One: Plugin-Plugins
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Compiz 0.9 is a complete re-thinking of Compiz 0.8. It’s like KDE4 was to KDE3. Totally new frameworks. Totally new buildsystem. Totally new API. It’s supposed to clear the ground from major architectural flaws that were in older versions of compiz to make development far easier and faster even for future version of compiz.
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Why Open Source Companies Need to Give Up Control
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Asudden efflorescence of posts about open source companies – what that means, how they work, and their future – is something that I've observed with a certain satisfaction. But sitting and watching isn't really my kind of thing, so I feel it's time for me to wade in with a few thoughts of my own.
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First Google Android netbook ships with Firefox, not Chrome
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A few days before the launch of Windows 7, Acer has released the first netbook to ship with the Google Android operating system. And a juicy tidbit has come out of an early review: Android comes with Mozilla Firefox for Web browsing, not Google’s own Chrome browser or the Android browser that comes on mobile phones.
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Win7 Transformation Pack for Ubuntu
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Install Ubuntu on your families machine and this theme will leave them thinking they've got Windows 7. Just make sure they don't go out and buy software for it!
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IBM and Ubuntu roll Linux for U.S desktops vs Windows 7
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At the time, I questioned why the offer wasn't being made available in the U.S. That changes today as IBM and Canonical are now announcing the launch of Linux and cloud-based desktop software in the U.S.
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Acer to release Android smartphone
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Following a number of Windows Mobile 6.5 based phones, smartphone market newcomer Acer has now announced its first Android model. It's based on a Snapdragon processor, likely clocked at 1 GHz, with 256 MB RAM. The Android 1.6 operating system (code named "Donut") is housed on its internal 512 MB Flash drive and there is a microSDHC slot for adding extra storage.
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Marvell expands range of ARM SoCs
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Marvell has announced four processor families -- Armada 100, Armada 500, Armada 600, and Armada 1000 -- based on ARM cores. Touted as "a top to bottom solution for mobile computing and intelligent devices," the SoCs offer single or dual cores with clock speeds from 400MHz to 1.2GHz, the company says.
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winetricks 20091022 released
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Winetricks 20091022 has been released, Another fortnight, another winetricks.
Eleven new verbs and spices, and a few bugfixes.
new verbs: glsl-disable, glsl-enable, physx, mingw, mingw-gdb, cmake, dotnet11sdk, dotnet20sdk, vc2003toolkit, vc2005sp1, vc2008sp1
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Mirage banshee plugin automatically generates playlist of acoustically similar songs
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Mirage is a Banshee plugin which can automatically add acoustically similar songs to the ones you have already added. This is a very useful plugin if you are an avid banshee user.
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