I’ve been looking at the vast range of Linux desktop flavours around and I thought it might be interesting to give my opinion on what I believe to be right up there as the best from my experience of trying them.
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Dealing with bugs in Linux
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One of the things I’ve always liked about using Linux is the feeling that my input is actually important. Either by way of giving input to the developers directly or (more importantly) reporting bugs that inevitably appear on a system. It’s the latter of the two that help Linux. But to the new user, these bugs are nothing more than a nuisance, getting in the way of things “just working”.
Read more »KDE.org Relaunched for Software Compilation 4.4
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The KDE web team is pleased to announce a major redesign of the KDE.org frontpage and buzz.kde.org, just in time for the pending release of our updated Workspace, Application and Development Platform compilation.
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Why Linux Mint over Ubuntu
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've been an Ubuntu fan for some time now. No matter which distro I tried, I always found it lacked some feature or another and I eventually made my way back to Ubuntu. Then I found Mint.
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Oracle Cuts Affect GNOME Accessibility Work
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Sun used to boast that it was one of the largest contributors to open source. That's being demonstrated now that Oracle has acquired the company. Oracle's acquisition of Sun, and subsequent layoffs, are having ripple effects on the open source community. The cuts are also hitting the GNOME accessibility (a11y) team and leading the project to think about the future of a11y efforts in GNOME.
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KTorrent: KDE’s BitTorrent client
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Many people use BitTorrent clients to download popular movies, music, and television shows for free...In order to download the files associated with torrents, you need a BitTorrent client. KTorrent, a KDE project, is a feature-rich client that is completely self-contained from the moment you start searching for torrents until the last chunk finishes downloading.
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A profile of champion copyfighter Cory Doctorow.
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"Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad."
This was the headline used by Cory Doctorow to break the news about ACTA to an unsuspecting Internet on November 3rd, 2009...
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ABC allowing Linux to view streaming television shows
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Linux users for a long time have been kept out of ABC Television's streaming media. Today I checked, and this artificial limitation is no more!
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Linux Professional Institute Partners With Novell for Linux Certs
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As the economy is headed (hopefully) for recovery, I'd expect that the market for Linux jobs will also pick up momentum. While experience is always the key, some employers (you know who you are) like certifications.
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Top 10 areas where open source leads the way
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With job losses rising and belts being tightened across the country, now is the perfect time to look once again at the benefits of using open source software aside from the reported $60 billion a year savings on offer.
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FOSDEM 2010: Andrew Tanenbaum Sets Reliability Before Performance
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Computer science veteran Andrew Tanenbaum presented the third version of his Minix operating system at the FOSDEM 2010 conference on February 6-7 in Brussels, Belgium.
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OOXML not suitable for Norwegian government, says study
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Microsoft's XML-based office document format, OOXML, does not meet the requirements for governmental use, according to a new report published by the Norwegian Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (DIFI). The agency wants to start a debate over the report as part of its work on standards in the Norwegian government.
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Open Source Software - Rational or Risky Business?
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I received quite a few comments this past week following the publishing of California IT Policy Letter 10-01 which formally establishes "the use of Open Source Software (OSS) in California state government as an acceptable practice." While many of my security colleagues offered words of caution following the announcement (and even a couple of "are you crazy" comments), most were pretty enthusiasti
Read more »More Mono and Patent Poison from Novell
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“Pinta” comes from Novell staff and software patents tax (on SLE*) comes from Microsoft in the form of vouchers
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Is Canonical Becoming The New Microsoft?
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Whoah! Hold on everyone. Let me don my asbestos suit first will you. Thanks. Right then. I have been thinking about this post for some time and I think the time is probably right for pressing the old “publish” button.
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