I went to a Win7 party, the host agreed to install copies of Win7, Fedora, openSUSE, and OSX. And yes, they were more impressed by how fast and how many programs that were ready to run, but because it didn't run Photoshop - they were willing to pay the $320 for Windows.
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GNOME Keyring
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For the past week or so, people have been talking about a “security issue” in Seahorse. This sums up my opinion on the matter: This isn't a security issue, and there is no good way to fix it.
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Atmospheric Scattering Created Using the Blender Game Engine
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Netherlands government launches ODF service at Italian Plugfest
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The Dutch government program "Netherlands in Open Connection" and OpenDoc Society have announced the public availability of a beta version of Officeshots.org. Officeshots is an online webservice that makes it possible to compare the output quality of various office suites as well as web-based productivity applications.
Read more »Apache Software Foundation: 10 years and still open to innovation
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It's been 10 years since the Apache Software Foundation hung out its feather, creating what has become a series of communities filled with focused project entrepreneurs working on a laundry list of innovative efforts, one of which landed in the White House just a few weeks ago.
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Is The Crunchpad Dead?
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The CrunchPad, TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington's entry into the gadget business, is still missing in action. Are higher-than-expected costs to blame?
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Sixthsense to Go Open Source
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Pranav Mistry, the genius behind SixthSense, the Minority-Report-style device from MIT's Media Lab, said that the software related to his project will be provided open-source starting next months.
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Next-generation Linux file systems: NiLFS(2) and exofs
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Linux continues to innovate in the area of file systems. It supports the largest variety of file systems of any operating system. It also provides cutting-edge file system technology. Two new file systems that are making their way into Linux include the NiLFS(2) log-structured file system and the exofs object-based storage system.
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Lenovo: Win7 beats Linux in netbooks
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Improvements in Windows 7 will make it less likely notebook makers will adopt Linux-based operating systems, said a technology executive at Lenovo.
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Open and Accessible
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One of the many things I love about working in the world of open source is that this field is much more about passion than profit. Think of how many extra hours you or your friends and colleagues put in on nights and weekends (and occasional holidays). You don't do that for just a "Job".
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Finding Geotagged Photos in digiKam
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Need to find all the photos you took in France? You can use the Map Searches sidebar to do just that, provided your photos have been geotagged.
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The Psychology Of A Distrohopper
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There's a unique breed of Linux user out there these days and they're called "distrohoppers." What the heck is a distrohopper?"
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Ubun-student – Easy way to install commonly used professional softwares in Ubuntu
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As we all known, a lot of professional softwares do not provide Debian packages in their official sites. These softwares include TexLive 2008, NetBeans 6.7, Intel Compiler, BRL-CAD, Alice programming language and so on. Sometimes the installation is complicated.
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Hey Ubuntu, Stop Making Linux Look Bad
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Ubuntu’s new Karmic Koala 9.10 release has been highly anticipated as the greatest release ever. In truth, it falls flat on its face in a time when Linux really needed to shine.
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Linux: still better for coding
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Something like one year ago I switched from Linux to Mac OS X. It was not an easy switch if you think that my desktop on Linux used to be with a minimal configuration, super fast virtual desktop, border-less windows. What I'm missing are a number of important tools that made the Linux experience so much comfortable. So here is my list of what's wrong with Mac.
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