Forget the browser wars, the operating system wars and the mobile phone wars. The one to watch now is the battle over video formats.
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Hacking through the Software Patent Thickets
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Most people in the hacking community are well aware that patents represent one of the most serious threats to free software. But the situation is actually even worse than it seems, thanks to the proliferation of what are called patent thickets. To understand why these are so bad, and why they represent a particular problem for software, it is necessary to go back to the beginning of patent law.
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License Equals Software Quality?
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Michael Hall, former editor of Linux Today, pointed out a blog entry with an interesting take on the recent beating Apple has been taking in the press lately. It was a posting that made me sit back and re-evaluate some of my own views.
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Linux trading system to save London Stock Exchange £10m a year
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The London Stock Exchange has said its new open source-based trading system will save it at least £10 million annually, as well as driving new business.
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A capitalist fan of commie software
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It's a good question, I suppose. A tree-hugging leftwinger from a proud union family with an inexplicable taste for expensive Scotch single malts asked to know why, if I'm such a capitalist, I am so vocal about liking free and open source software.
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gThumb 2.11.x Development Build Adds Photobucket Exporting Capabilities
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I'm a bit sad gThumb 2.11.x (photo manager) was removed from the Ubuntu 10.04 official repositories because the 2.11.x development branch is amazing! gThumb 2.11.x can now export your photos to PicasaWeb, Facebook, Flickr and a few days ago it also added Photobucket to the list.
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How To Install VMware Server 1.0.x On A Kubuntu 10.04 Desktop
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This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server 1.0.x (1.0.10 at the time of this writing) on a Kubuntu 10.04 desktop system. This is for those who prefer VMware Server 1.0.x over VMware Server 2.
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The Bizarre Cathedral - 73
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Latest from the Bizarre Cathedral comic strip by merc & crimperman.
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PV on HVM at Xen 4.0 on top of Fedora 13
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Posting bellow follows recent submission of Stefano Stabelinni to xen-devel mailing list. Add to /root/rpmbuild/SOURCES new patch callback_4.0.patch to implement event channel for HVM DomUs at Xen 4.0. Rebuild xen rpms, updating xen.spec correspondently and reinstall rpms performing hot upgrade of Xen 4.0 Hypervisor. Then reboot.
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KDE 3 Forked?
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This project aims to keep the KDE3.5 computing style alive, as well as polish off any rough edges that were present as of KDE 3.5.10. Along the way, new useful features will be added to keep the environment up-to-date.
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My thoughts on Ubuntu 10.04
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So, why did I go back to Ubuntu? Why did I not stay on PCLinuxOS? Well, because KDE and GTK apps fought over control of Audio, and it forced me to use mostly GTK apps in a KDE environment. So, I wanted to go back to a GNOME distribution that offered great PulseAudio support, and something I haven’t tried yet.
Read more »Wanted: Virtual Personal Email Servers, obviously made with Free SW
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One of the biggest obstacles to personal email management is lack of user demand for Virtual Personal Email Server (VPES) software.
Read more »How to Manage Removable Devices in KDE
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As with most tasks in Linux, there are multiple ways to handle removable devices, but for removable media in particular, KDE’s primary tool is the Plasma Device Notifier Widget. It is activated by default on the KDE panel in all 4.x versions of the desktop environment.
Read more »Retro mail client Cone has some modern features
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Cone harks back to the era when users read e-mail in a non-graphical application, without using menus, mouse, or buttons. Longtime Pine users will feel right at home with Cone; many keyboard commands are the same. However, Cone is not a Pine clone.
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Recent changes in dpkg
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The versions 1.15.6 and 1.15.7 of dpkg introduced several important changes. Let's skim over them:
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