We use the phrase Tower of Babel a lot in the technology world, often badly. But evidence is mounting that Google's Android project is becoming just that, a failed attempt to unify.
Read more »Is Android becoming a Tower of Babel?
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Closed source software hurts GUI development
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As operating systems increasingly become visual feasts, those who want to create useful interaction enhancements are having to bend over backwards thanks to closed source software in order to bring innovation to the user's environment.
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Quick Tip:Plymouth themes in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)
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Quick tip for those having trouble with their splash screens in lucid.
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What Were Novell's Original Goals With RadeonHD?
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Whenever bringing up the RadeonHD driver at Phoronix it generally leads to a heated discussion in our forums between community members, developers, and other representatives over the history of the RadeonHD driver and what really was its purpose, among other dissenting views.
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Who Cares About Linux on the PS3?
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Have you been following this mess? I don’t know about you but I’ve been amused at the amount of coverage in the media about Sony pulling the plug on alternative operating systems on the PS3.
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Top 5 Changes You Should Make On A Fresh Lucid Install
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The other day we told you about some applications that you might want to install on a fresh Lucid Lynx install. Today let’s have a look at some of the tweaks and changes you can apply to Lucid.
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Taking Choqok to the Next Level
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Anyone who has taken a class in economics is familiar with the difference between the direct cost of something and its 'opportunity cost'. Developing free software is a great example of this difference. A KDE developer does not have to spend hundreds of dollars on an SDK, he only needs to give up some of his time to develop.
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The People Who Support Linux
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The Linux Foundation's individual members help to support the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and other important activities that advance Linux, while getting a variety of other fun and valuable benefits. The series begins with Matthew Fernandez, a senior application developer based in Sydney, Australia.
Read more »Ubuntu Lucid almost shines
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The latest release of Ubuntu shows a great deal of promise but still needs time to really shine. Ubuntu 10.04, otherwise known as Lucid Lynx, was released last week and is the third long term support (LTS) release from Canonical. With much hype around the new Ubuntu theme, as well as the new social networking tools, Lucid had much to live up to. We took it for a spin to see how it fared.
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How to install ubuntu-tweak in Ubuntu 10.04(Lucid Lynx)
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Ubuntu Tweak is an application designed to config Ubuntu easier for everyone. It provides many useful desktop and system options that the default desktop environment doesn't provide. At present, it's only designed for the Ubuntu GNOME Desktop, and always follows the newest Ubuntu distribution.
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Google Chrome Automatically Installs Google Repository in Ubuntu
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This is something I have never heard of. I was trying to install Google Chrome in Ubuntu and in the download page a small note came into my notice. It goes something like this "Installing Google Chrome will add the Google repository so your system will automatically keep Google Chrome up to date".
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OpenSolaris Lives! Nexenta Leverages OpenSolaris and ZFS for Enterprise Storage
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While Sun Microsystems may have struggled with making money from its OpenSolaris operating system prior to Sun's acquisition by Oracle, that doesn't mean that others haven't had better success.
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New Chrome beta takes the speed crown
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Google released a Chrome 5 beta build this week that brings a significant boost to the browser's JavaScript performance, improved support for emerging Web standards, and a number of noteworthy enhancements to the browser's cloud synchronization framework.
Read more »The Phoronix Ubuntu benchmarks- what is that really?
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"As much as we would have liked to see Ubuntu's Lucid Lynx handily beat Windows 7, this was not the case, but to some extent the opposite." That about summarized the conclusion on the *11th* page of an article titled Is Windows 7 actually faster than Ubuntu 10.04? written by the folks over at Phoronix.
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Open source is NASA's next frontier
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The challenges to government's adoption and participation in open-source communities is often thought to be a simpe culture clash, but in reality it goes deeper than that, accordning to NASA's newly-appointed chief technology officer.
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