The hiring of Linux-savvy and revenue-minded exec-slash-blogger Matt Asay as the new chief operating officer of Canonical looks like a very good — and telling — move for the Isle of Man- (really London-but-don't-tell-anyone) based company that oversees the growing-by-leaps-bounds-and-all-other-ways Ubuntu Linux distribution and surrounding universe.
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Black Duck patents OSS software license conflict analysis
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Bradley Kuhn, the technology director of the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) expressed dismay this week after learning that Black Duck Software was granted a patent that covers software methods for detecting and resolving open source software licensing conflicts.
Read more »Apple is Bad for Sharing, Forbids Mentioning Linux
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Apple's proximity to the copyright cartel and its fear of freedom as illustrated by this week's news
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LinuxMint8 Kde step by step installation for Newbies with Screenshots
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Last week was announced the release of LinuxMint 8 Helena kde version, the news release comes with many important improvement. Anyone will install LinuxMint8 kde will got imressioned with the beauty of a desktop, it is a combination between the magic of the kde desktop and the beauty and performance of LinuxMint.
Read more »Novell Executives Still Cannot Write Blog Posts?
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8 of the Best Free Linux Geometry Software
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In the field of mathematical software packages, applications such as Wolfram Research's Mathematica, and Maplesoft's Maple system instantly spring to mind. These are both highly popular, proprietary, commercial, integrated mathematical software environments. Other types of mathematical software packages generally receive much less publicity.
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If Obama guts NASA, the Open Luna Foundation looks bright
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With the Obama Administration gutting NASA's return to the Moon program, we need to look to private industry to lead the way in returning humans to space. Open source could be the ticket to get us there better, faster and cheaper
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Android versus Linux?
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Is Android at odds with Linux after the removal of Android device drivers from the Linux source code tree or is this business as usual for the Linux community and nothing new? The H looks at the issues.
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Why You'll Use a Tablet. Yes YOU!
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But I'm going to make an even bolder prediction. I'm going to predict that you, personally, will be using a tablet within 18 months.
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Linux fdupes: Get Rid (Delete) Of Double Duplicate Files In Directory
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How do I find duplicate files in a given set of directories and delete them using a shell script or a command line options? How do I get rid of double duplicates files stored in ~/foo and /u2/foo directory?
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Beautiful Wallpaper Clocks Installation in Ubuntu Simplified
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So for those who are wondering what these wallpaper clocks are all about, wallpaper clocks are wallpapers that show live date and time. And there are a number of good source for wallpaper clocks. But we will get to that later. First the basics. Read on.
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Don't Be Shy
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In this article I shall attempt to relive my experience finding, beginning to use; and finally full conversion into a GNU/Linux desktop user.
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Eben Moglen: It's time to build a free social networking distribution
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"A free software distribution is within our reach," SFLC Chairman Eben Moglen said in a talk about "Freedom in the Cloud" on February 2. "What we need is a really good web server that you can put in your pocket and plug in any place.
Read more »Ubuntu Development: Quickly, Lernid, and Ground Control
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I've been kind of harping on the development situation in Ubuntu for some time now. The Lucid (10.04) development cycle has some really interesting ... er ... developments with regard to ... uh ... the development landscape.
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Layoffs Won't Stop Project Wonderland
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Hats off to the Project Wonderland developers. Despite Oracle laying them off, the team will continue work on Project Wonderland. According to the project blog the core group behind the 3D virtual world toolkit believes in the open source project enough to keep working on it without backing from Oracle.
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