Recently I was asked the following question: What is the point of differentiating Open Source as an entity versus something that has just always been there?
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An ultralight Mandriva: Theme screenshots
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Extreme Coder is still hard at work putting together a version of Mandriva for older machines. He enlisted the help of Albi to create an IceWM theme that mimicks the default Mandriva setup, and the results are fabulous.
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APT-build — optimize your Debian!
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Certainly most of the Linux users would like to have their systems fully optimized for their rigs but do not have the stamina or enough knowledge to play with the Gentoo installation paradigm. But here comes the rescue — an apt-build goody available under every distro armed with the big gun - APT package manager.
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One Laptop per Child (OLPC), Children: Children actively engage in knowledge construction
http://laptop.org –
“With the laptop we can say that our school is really elevated because the children are really learning more... They see themselves discovering things that they have never been doing before.” — Mrs. M., Galadima School, Abuja, Nigeria ...
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I hate ‘Hello, World’
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HTML V5 and XHTML V2
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"While the intention of both HTML V5 and XHTML V2 is to improve on the existing versions, the approaches the developers chose to make those improvements is very different. And with differing philosophies come distinct results. For the first time in many years, the direction of upcoming browser versions is uncertain. Uncover the bigger picture behind the details of these two standards."
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Embedded Linux goes Open Source
http://www.bit-tech.net –
DeviceVM, the maker of Splashtop software which features embedded Linux "Fast Boot" products like featured in the Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi-AP @n has just released the source code to its software under GPL.
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A Little Laptop With Big Ambitions
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How a Computer for the Poor Got Stomped by Tech Giants. In 2005, Nicholas Negroponte unveiled an idea for bridging the technology divide between rich nations and the developing world. It was captivating in its utter simplicity: design a $100 laptop and, within four years, get it into the hands of up to 150 million of the world's poorest schoolchildren.
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Examining the MPAA University Toolkit
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I learned about the MPAA University Toolkit at Brian Krebs' always-excellent SecurityFix blog. If you want to know more about the user experience, please check out that post. Here I take a look at the monitoring software, focusing on Snort, operating on this application.
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KDE4 - not liking it
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I installed KDE4rc1 on KUbuntu 7.10 64bit, as explained in the corresponding page (I installed from packages). This is my first time running a full KDE4 session, and while I am very exited by some applications (dolphin, konsole, kate marble, and more or less all kde4games), I must admit that as a full session, it’s not worth it.
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GCstar - Screenshots
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Some GCstar screenshots with a small associated description. Click on any thumbnail to see full size picture. On the forum, there is a topic for screenshots from users.
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Installing FreeNX 0.7.1 on Ubuntu
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The contents of this post are mostly based on Manual Installation How-To. Thanks to Brent Davidson and Fabian Franz for writing such a nice HowTo and the beautiful open and free implementation of FreeNX, respectively.
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Return to Gentoo
http://www.halcy0n.com –
So, I’m no longer using Ubuntu on any of my computers at home (okay, its still on one box, but I don’t really use that one and will reformat it when I get the chance). It was fun while it lasted, but some things started to annoy me and I could not deal with it anymore. So, what bothered me? Here’s a short list:
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KBibTeX: An easy to use and versatile Bibliography Manager for KDE
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So you work in a scientific environment and wonder how to organize bibliographic data, downloaded articles/preprints and links to online papers in such a way that…
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GNU Affero General Public License
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"The GNU Affero General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works, specifically designed to ensure cooperation with the community in the case of network server software..."
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