Linux doesn't offer too much choice, "but it may not organize its choices well enough," says Slashdot blogger David Masover. The ideal situation "is to provide sane defaults so that people aren't forced to make choices --
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Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Which Is The Best Open Source DB Of Them All?
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Ever since Oracle got its anti-open source hands on MySQL via the Sun acquisition, many in the open source community have been hoping for a new champion to fill the perceived void that Oracle "selling" MySQL presents.
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Najarian Says Red Hat May Be Acquired
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Fast Money's Jon Najarian said there is speculation that Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) may be acquired, and as a result, its options and common stock are active today.
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How to fix ugly plymouth logo on ubuntu 10.10 marverick meerkat for nvidia and ATI drivers
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After installing ubuntu 10.10 and installing the graphic drivers I noticed that the ubuntu plymouth logo was looking real ugly. Well here's a good,simple guide to fix it.
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Get Hotot , A New Stylish Twitter Client for Ubuntu [From PPA]
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Hotot is a new Twitter client that comes with all the basic features a Twitter client has, that is support for status updates, retweets, directs, search etc., plus some really interesting features.
Hotot is extensible through a number of extensions, three as of now. For image uploading, inline image previews and geolocation.
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Android 2.2 not optimized for tablets, says Google
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A Google executive has stated that Android 2.2 is not optimized for tablet computers, and that in particular, Android Market will not run properly on tablets. Meanwhile, the Android 2.2 based Samsung Galaxy Tab tablet will be offered by Verizon Wireless, AT&T, and Sprint, say reports.
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Linux has matured in the board room
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Linux has been enterprise-ready for years. Finally, the enterprises are ready for it. And we have Google to thank for it.
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Install Nginx On CentOS 5.5 With SSL, PCRE, GeoIP, Zlib, Gzip And DAV Support
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Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can compile and install Nginx on a CentOS 5.5 server with SSL, PCRE, GeoIP, Zlib, Gzip and DAV support.
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Installing finch in Ubuntu : a terminal based chat program
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Finch is a text/console-based, modular instant messaging client capable of using AIM/ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, IRC, Jabber, Napster, Zephyr, Gadu-Gadu, Bonjour, Groupwise, Sametime, SILC, and SIMPLE all at once. Terminal acts as the GUI for the finch... And you might fell in love with it only if you are comfortable with the bash terminal also...
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Give A Speed Boost To Your Ubuntu NetBook
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Many times we face a situation when our Ubuntu Netbook becomes pretty slow. And when we check out our RAM, we find that only half of our RAM is used and the SWAP memory usage is gone upto 25% or 50% or even more. Confused??
Read more »Announcing Tahoe, the Least-Authority File System, v1.8.0
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The Tahoe-LAFS team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 1.8.0 of Tahoe-LAFS, an extremely reliable distributed storage system. Tahoe-LAFS is the first distributed storage system to offer "provider-independent security" -- meaning that not even the operators of your storage servers can read or alter your data without your consent.
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Intel's HDMInsult
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Once again, we're seeing boneheaded reactions to the failure of a DRM scheme. DRM is largely ineffective against large-scale unauthorized copying going on in Eastern Europe and Asia, and yet the large media companies are happy to parade the opposite as the truth.
Read more »Microsoft HPC claim: Windows is cheaper than Linux
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Microsoft has made some pretty bold claims about Linux throughout its longstanding love/hate (mostly hate) relationship with the open source operating system.
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Time for some Enlightenment.
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In the interests of efficiency I eventually settled on XFCE as my desktop environment to give me a balance of eye candy and resource efficiency. It did everything quite well and I had no trouble watching videos. Until...
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Thailand activist arrested after #IAL2010 needs your support!
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Chiranuch Premchaiporn, Prachatai director was arrested at Bangkok International Suvarnabhumi Airport.
A Journalist and anti-censorship believer (@Jiew on twitter) was returning from the Conference “Internet at Liberty 2010: The Promise and Peril of Free Expression” held in Budapest.
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