Sugar Labs, the organisation behind the One Laptop Per Child's XO laptop software, has released Sugar on a Stick version 2.0 - a.k.a. Blueberry.
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Booting and networking problems in Kubuntu Karmic 9.10
I thought of trying out Kubuntu (KDE based) this time as I had heard that its doing a lot of interesting things (Akonadi/Nepomuk etc) and that with 4.3.1 it is stable as well. The installation went fine, all over within less than half an hour and then the problems started.
Read more »Larrabee: Intel's Bad News is Good News For Nvidia and AMD
Intel's decision to indefinitely delay its Larrabee graphics processor is a setback for the Linux community, delaying improved performance for users of open source operating systems.
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Mozilla lights fire under Thunderbird
Mozilla will step up the pace of on its Thunderbird mail and communications platform next year, to re-invigorate a "stagnant" email client scene.
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Google Goggles Gives Android Users Bragging Rights
Google Goggles is not only intriguing technology that moves visual search a huge leap forward, it's only available for Android Phone users, giving them one up on their iPhone-wielding buddies.
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7 Fabulous Gifts For Your Favorite Linux/FOSS Geek
The best part about being a grownup is you can be your own favorite Linux/FOSS geek and buy yourself nice things. Here are some cool gift ideas for this holiday season. Or any time of year, because excellent adult toys know no seasons.
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Tech Tip: Using Twitter and Facebook from Pidgin
In the vast world of communication, instant messaging is along-standing medium.Facebook has entered the scene relatively recently, as has Twitter.If you use these newer mediums of communication and you're aPidgin user then youmay want to look at the Pidgin plugins for accessing them.
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10 Windows features I would like to see in Linux
Jack Wallen recently looked at how certain Linux features might improve Windows. Now he lists some things about Windows that could improve Linux.
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Google Buys Creative Competitors
The Californian Software company Appjet has been added to Google’s Wave team. Appjet’s collaborative Web editor Etherpad was initially supposed to be scrapped, but is now planned for Open Source release.
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10 Ridiculous Reasons Not To Use Linux
I often ask people why they don't like to use Linux on their desktop, some people actually gave me these reasons. Here are top 10 reasons, which are often used by people to avoid use of Linux on their desktops.
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Linux Against Poverty 2010 is a go...
Lynn Bender of geekaustin.com has announced that he is beginning preparations for Linux Against Poverty 2010. I was pleasantly surprised to find that 25 people volunteered for the event within an hour of the announcement.
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Dell Brings Adamo Design to Budget Laptop
The V13 laptop, which is priced starting at US$449, measures 0.65 inches (16.5 mm) at its thinnest point, weighs about 3.5 pounds, has a 13.3-inch screen, and comes with the Ubuntu Linux OS.
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Avoiding Mono
Mono is a trap. It is a divisive topic if ever there was one in the Linux community. There are anti-Mono and anti-Novell sites and there is no shortage of strong opinion. This distracts us from what we have traditionally done which is to lead and set our own course.
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FreeNAS: BSD Line and Linux Fork
The FreeNAS project had discussed whether the free storage systems should use BSD or Linux in the future. The result is that both variants will now be available.
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Monitoring Notebook Battery with IBAM
While KDE, Gnome, and Xfce come with dedicated graphical utilities for monitoring notebook battery, you might still want to use IBAM to keep an eye on the battery parameters directly from the command line.
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