Earlier today, ZaReason sent me a group email offering back-to-school specials on Ubuntu-based computers. I receive similar special offers from System 76 from time to time. Going forward, I hope Canonical finds a way to turn up the volume on these third-party Ubuntu system promotions. Here's why. And here's how.
Read more »is Your Company Afraid Of Linux ? (2 of 3)
Fear #2 (Cost!): Let’s look at skill-sets first. When you hire an employee who labels themselves a Windows Server Administrator, you are generally getting someone whose expertise on servers stops with Windows. Yeah, sounds extremely obvious, but I am addressing an important point.
Read more »Novell is Denouncing OOXML-Like Bogus ‘Standards’ After Helping OOMXL
After Microsoft "bought" OOXML support from Novell, the company's PR reps suggest that it is bad practice
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Zenwalk Live 6.4 released
The Zenwalk project developers have released the latest LiveCD edition of their "Zen computing" Linux distribution, one of the first live distros to use the new Slackware-Live-Script
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Novell ‘Rebranding’ Suggests Novell Keeps All the Power
A new initiative from Novell helps explain Novell's tyrannical nature when it comes to software, which it would rather use to dominate customers and suppliers, as opposed to share and decentralise
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Red Hat offers its cloud APIs as industry standard
As the industry call for cloud interoperability grows more fervent, open-source enterprise software company Red Hat has submitted its cloud platform, Deltacloud, to the DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force) as a potential standard for cloud interoperability, the company said Wednesday. "We do not want Deltacloud to be under the control of any one particular vendor, including Red Hat.
Read more »Ruboto: Android App development with Ruby
Ruboto developer Daniel Jackoway has released an experimental version of his Ruby implementation which can be used to generate applications for mobile operating system Android
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How to install firefox 3.6.9 in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid)
Firefox 3.6.9 is a regular security and stability update to Firefox 3.6.x. The main focus will be to fix any OOPP issues found in the field and fix security issues after BlackHat.
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Hands-on: Firefox 4 beta 4 brings Tab Candy and Sync
Mozilla has announced the availability of the fourth Firefox 4 beta release. The new beta brings some extremely significant new features that have been gestating in Mozilla's labs, including built-in synchronization functionality and a sophisticated new tab management system.
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Stupid tar Tricks
One of the most common programs on Linux systems for packaging files is the venerable tar. tar is short for tape archive, and originally, it would archive your files to a tape device. Now, you're more likely to use a file to make your archive.
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58 Open Source Replacements for Small Business Software
Many small business owners have never heard of open source software. That's unfortunate because in many ways small businesses are ideal environments for open source applications.
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Demystifying Akonadi
The exotic-sounding ‘Akonadi’ refers to both a mythological figure and the KDE platform’s central information framework. This article will dispel some of the mystery about how Akonadi will improve performance and integration, and how it is being rolled out into KDE applications.
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Brazil is open to open source
I’ve been traveling quite a bit recently to meet with Lucid’s customers and partners around the globe. Earlier this week I had the pleasure of speaking at an event organized for business executives by our partner in Brazil, Primeware.
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Give me some of that old-time, open source religion
We’ve accepted the obvious benefits of open source principles in business and education, law and healthcare. In the Life channel, we get to examine some of the less-obvious avenues where open source is found--and here is one that even surprises us a little: open source religion.
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ArtistX 0.9 Screenshots
ArtistX is an Ubuntu GNU/Linux-based live DVD that includes a pretty big lineup of free multimedia applications. The most recent version, ArtistX 0.9 is based on Ubuntu 9.10 and features the 2.6.31 Linux kernel, GNOME 2.28, KDE 4.3.5, Compiz Fusion, Ubiquity Installer, and more.
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