With the 10.10 developer summit behind us, several teams have published engineering plans for the 10.10 release cycle, including...
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What holds Linux Back?
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This question is asked a lot on Linux forums. Some commentators feel as though Linux needs to “compete” with Apple and Microsoft for “market share,” and justify that by arguing that if Linux has a larger market share, manufacturers will be more inclined to write drivers for Linux.
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Nearly every supercomputer runs Linux
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Announced earlier today, the 35th list of the top 500 supercomputers contains few surprises, just that Linux has almost total domination of the list.
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New president at Linux Australia
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Linux Australia's treasurer John Ferlito has become president of the organisation, following former president James Turnbull's resignation from the post this month.
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Linux: It's the Freedom You Big Dummy
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Memorial Day weekends remind us all of those who sacrificed their lives for freedom and to protect a way of life that is based on freedom. While considering the brave men and women who stood up for what is right over the past 250 years, it made me realize a similar thing about Linux.
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GCC Can Now Be Worked On In C++
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The Free Software Foundation and GCC Steering Committee have now decided that it's okay and permitted to write code for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) within C++. Up to this point, C has been the preferred language for working on GCC.
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SeamlessRDP in Ubuntu 10.04
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SeamlessRDP promises to integrate your remote Windows desktop seamlessly into you Linux environment. This article show you how to set it up, and also shows you some of its limitations.
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An Auto Company Zips Along the Fast Lane with FOSS
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Started in March 2009, Carnation Auto offers car owners a wide array of services. Carnation has grown to 15 hubs across 10 cities, with more than 700 employees —all in a matter of nine months. This accelerated growth wouldn’t have been possible without open source technology.
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Creating a NAS Box with an Existing System
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Standalone Network Attached Storage (NAS) servers provide file level storage to heterogeneous clients, enabling shared storage. This article presents the basics of NAS units (NFS servers) and how you can create one from an existing system.
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Semantics is Restricting Linux Desktop Adaptation
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Shortly after the Desktop was established, the obligatory popup appeared, stating that "Restricted Drivers" were available for installation. Margie asked me then: "What does that mean?"
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Perfect Cloud-based Photo Setup with digiKam and Piwigo
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Using digiKam's Kipi plugins, you can upload your photos to a variety of popular photo services, including Flickr, Picasaweb, and SmugMug. But what if you want to host your own photo album and still be able to populate it with photos directly from within digiKam?
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Will Opensolaris 2010.06 be the next release?
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Opensolaris 2010.05 would be the next release after being postponed to release on March this year. Again, Opensolaris lovers around the world might be disappointed because after waiting for it until the end of May there is no official release of Opensolaris. A bad news.
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MeeGo 1.0 For Netbooks
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I love Maemo. I’m not even going to try to deny it. It is, by far, my favorite mobile device OS. It is fast, flexible and highly customizable. It makes the Nokia Internet Tablets (N900, N810, etc.) a dream to use for nerds everywhere. (In fact, I have such a high opinion of Maemo, I included the ability to build applications for it in my visual development tool Illumination.)
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Icons and the FOSS desktop
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Icons have always intimidated me. Except for the mouseover help, two-thirds of the time I would have no idea what function they represent. Shrink them so that they fit on a toolbar, and the obscurity is compounded by illegibility.
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Building DVD discs with Bombono
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DVD authoring can be a deceptively tricky business. Though it can take some time to convert source video to the proper MPEG format, the technical requirements for the various regions are standardized, so it is at least possible to configure the conversion tools and do it right, once and for all.
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