I have often heard people speaking of the fragmentation of Linux, what with all the different distributions, and this makes it harder for there to be a single "standard" for support engineers to reach. Opinions such as these often end with comments about how Microsoft beats everyone else hands down with their certification scheme.
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Canonical copyright assignment policy 'same as others'
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Canonical chief executive Mark Shuttleworth has called for an uniform copyright assignment policy for contributors to free and open source software projects.
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Turbolinux is History After Microsoft Patent Deal
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China's XP-themed Linux now available in English
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Chinese company Ylmf (an abbreviation for Yulinmufeng, or Rainforest Wind) has released a Linux distribution that's skinned to look exactly like Windows XP. The company has even gone so far as to purchase the XP.com domain, for a reported US$100,000, which currently redirects to their website.
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Novell Promotes Apple, .NET
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Novell is fitting a flavour of Microsoft onto crippleware from Apple
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Further control of Linux files with ACL
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If you read my article "Get to know Linux: File permissions" you know that it's possible, out of the box, to control who can access a file and what they can do with it. This helps to make Linux a fairly secure system. But did you know you can take even further control of that system with the help of Access Control Lists?
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Linux in the school office
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A big MIS-take… MIS stands for Management Information System. A MIS is at the heart of every school office nowadays. In the UK the leading MIS is from Capita-SIMS.net and it has a huge market share. In fact for many it is the de-facto school MIS.
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MSI ready to launch iPad alternative
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So we get it, a lot of you are underwhelmed by the iPad. But there's much more to the tablet world than Apple's latest creation. According to Digitimes (via Engadget), MSI's 10" tablet is coming during the second half of 2010. But will you Doubting Thomases be any happier with this offering?
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GNOME-Vlc brings GTK interface, Simplicity to VLC
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Gnome-Vlc is a new project designed to provide a simple GTK frontend to the popular Vlc player.
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When is it worth saying it's Linux?
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Recently, I was showing a Motorola Milestone phone to a non-technical friend. When I mentioned that the phone was running Android, he said to me "Oh, thats the Google Linux for phones isn't it... does it run OpenOffice?".
Read more »How to Play swf file(Macromedia Flash) on Ubuntu / Debian Linux
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swfdec-gnome is a very good Tool to play SWF files (Macromedia Flash) on GNOME. This package contains programs to integrate Flash functionality into the GNOME desktop. It's main application is swfdec-player, a stand-alone viewer for Flash files. It also contains swfdec-thumbnailer, a program that provides screenshots for files to display in the Nautilus file manager.
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Installing mod_geoip for Apache2 On Ubuntu 9.10
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This guide explains how to set up mod_geoip with Apache2 on an Ubuntu 9.10 system. mod_geoip looks up the IP address of the client end user. This allows you to redirect or block users based on their country. You can also use this technology for your OpenX (formerly known as OpenAds or phpAdsNew) ad server to allow geo targeting.
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Debian adventures
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On my laptop (Macbook 4,1) I run Debian testing/experimental which was running quite smoothly since I installed it apart from the couple few weeks.
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Novell's Got Some Big Shoes to Fill
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Today marks the end of the Era of Zonker at Novell, as Joe Brockmeier ends his tenure as Community Manager of openSUSE.
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Is the iPad good for Linux?
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Regardless of how severe limitations Apple imposes on the iPad, we can expect it to be reasonably successful. I don’t think it will duplicate the success of the iPhone but due to Apple’s strong marketing and its own technical merits, it will sell in significant numbers. How will this affect Linux and the upcoming tablets based on it?
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