For the past year, at least, I’ve been chiseling away at Crux systems, compiling sometimes for days straight in order to get clean, sharp, fast systems. And then along comes Slitaz.
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Between Fedora 12 and 13
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In many minds, the Fedora 12 release is likely to remain forever associated with the project's ill-advised decision to allow any local user to install packages without the root password. That mistake is now in the past and, in any case, there is far more to Fedora 12 than this particular problem.
Read more »Docky Feature Mock-Ups
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We’re massive fans of Dock application ‘Docky’ here at OMG! Ubuntu! and one of the principle designers working on it is a young man with a wonderfully conceptual imagination by the name of ‘Dan Rabbit’.
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Firefox founder suggests Bing over Google for better privacy
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In a post to his personal blog Thursday morning, ten-year Mozilla vet Asa Dotzler quoted Schmidt in full before indicating that he's not too happy with the Googler's haughty take on data retention. "That was Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, telling you exactly what he thinks about your privacy," Dotzler says, after quoting the Google boss.
Read more »Desktop Virtualization: Here Comes Red Hat
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When it comes to the mainstream desktop Linux market, Red Hat has mostly sat on the sidelines — letting folks like Canonical (Ubuntu) and Google (Chrome OS) pursue the spotlight. But now, Red Hat is making some serious desktop moves. But not in a traditional way. Here’s the strategy.
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Netbooks and where the future takes them
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Netbooks seem to be a growing trend in today's market. They're a low budget computer that allow you to do basic stuff like surfing the web, writing documents and a little more. However, are they really useful for those whose computer needs are more than surfing the web?
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A More Detailed Survey on Planet GNOME, GNU, etc.
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The author used SurveyMonkey to create a somewhat more in-depth questionnaire around the issues raised by Richard Stallman's calls for some sort of content control on Planet GNOME and the subsequent question of whether it's time for the GNOME project to examine its relationship with the GNU project.
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Red Hat open sources SPICE for desktop virtualization
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A year after acquiring the SPICE (Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environment) hosted virtual desktop protocol from Qumranet, Red Hat is now open sourcing it.
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GNOME Interests Seemingly Bought by Corporations
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Particular people in the GNOME Foundation disagree with FSF values and want separation from GNU
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Winning Without Winning the ‘Open Source’ Battle
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When goalposts are being moved to redefine "open source", how will a triumph really come about? We look at news from Hungary
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Poulsbo mess casts a shadow on Intel's Moblin project
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Intel's puzzling refusal to address the problems with the Linux drivers for its GMA500 integrated graphics component is raising serious questions about the company's commitment to Linux compatibility.
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GNOME dev proposes vote on split from GNU Project
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A senior member of the GNOME Desktop Project has proposed that the project hold a vote on whether it should remain a part of the GNU Project.
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Fedora, open source trademarks and FUD
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Among the most interesting sessions that I sat in on at the FUDcon Fedora user/developer conference which wrapped up earlier this week was a discussion on trademarks.
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winetricks 20091213 released
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Austin and Andrew have been hard at work keeping winetricks working smoothly. In particular, the ie6 and gecko verbs should work again.
Thanks guys!
Changes since 20091125:
Austin English:
Workaround wine bug for IE6
Update shockwave sha1sum
Add python-comtypes verb
Explain windows licensing a bit better
Gdiplus no longer comes from powerpoint viewer, update description accordingly
Old School Browsing with w3m
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Not to sound like a Luddite, but sometimes the old ways are best. When it comes to Web browsers, that's not very often, but knowing your way around a text-mode browser like w3m does come in handy from time to time.
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