"Today is Document Freedom Day: Roughly 200 teams from more than 60 countries worldwide are organising local activities to raise awareness for Document Freedom and Open Standards.
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Spicebird: More Open Source Competition For Outlook
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There's been a lot of discussion about which open source application works best as a replacement for Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Outlook: Evolution, Ximian, Thunderbird, and so on. Let's add another contender to that list, shall we? Meet Spicebird, currently in beta 0.4 form.
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Get the Most out of Social Media On Your Ubuntu
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Sometimes I get the feeling that Web 2.0 is just too fancy for Linux, loads of tools, websites, and apps are being developed without taking Linux users into consideration. Despite the fact that the number of people using Linux is comparable to the people using Mac OSX if not more.
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Get more out of Ubuntu's virtual desktops
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Perhaps the greatest single productivity-boosting feature in Linux is the ability to open several virtual desktops at one time. This allows you to create separate work environments for various simultaneous tasks, such as one with a word processor, image editor, and spreadsheet open for creating a report, and another with e-mail and browser windows active for keeping in touch with co-workers.
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Why do you really use Linux?
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An Amazing Mind, which subtitles itself as a psychology, self-improvement and Linux blog, has a very interesting post which talks about Linux, and people’s motivations to use it.
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Roundtable: The state of open source
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11 leaders from the open source and vendor communities discuss the current open source climate and outline the challenges and opportunities ahead
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The Orientation: Linux
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Keeping with our Linux theme for the week, I present this week’s Orientation on, well, Linux.
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Is Linux really for me?
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In my last post, March 23, 2008, I asked the question “Linux - Is it really for me?”. That post was actually written a few weeks ago and was lost when my Blog went down. Now I have the answer to that question. It is a very firm “YES”.
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Do you need an anti-virus even with Linux?
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Once Linux gets enough market share for it to make sense for hackers to start hitting Linux hard, then viruses attempts will start coming. We must remember that where there’s a will there’s a way and that way will probably be found. Viruses, spy-ware, rootkits, etc are big money and people will do anything for that money.
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NSA releases new version of Linux software
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The U.S. National Security Agency has released its own version of the open-source computer operating system Linux, which offers enhanced security for users.
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Alternative Software Development Tools for Linux
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Just about every Linux distro comes with a variety of programming tools. Some automatically get installed when you install Linux, and others are available in the distro's package repositories. But, what if the development tools that come with your distro don't do the job for you?
Read more »Hybrid nano-PC phone runs Linux
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A Korean company has announced a unique mobile device melding an x86-based nano-PC with an ARM-based mobile phone. Miu's HDPC can run Linux, Windows CE, or Windows XP on its 500MHz Via C7-M processor, while a 200MHz ARM9-based system-on-chip runs an unspecified mobile phone OS.
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SeaMonkey 1.1.9 Security Release
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"Today, the SeaMonkey project released a new version of its all-in-one internet suite. SeaMonkey 1.1.9 closes several security vulnerabilities and fixes several smaller problems found in previous versions. With that, SeaMonkey stays at the same level of security as its sibling Firefox, which is issuing updates for the same problems this week as well..."
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Red Hat CEO: America's unpopularity "a huge benefit to open source"
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"I never thought I would say this but actually, being very unpopular in the world, as frankly the U.S. is these days, is a huge benefit to open source," because people are resentful of sending billions of dollars back to the U.S. in IP taxes, [Red Hat CEO Jim] Whitehurst said. This article also includes an interesting aside about GPL violations.
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Linux Docks - 5 Mac OS X Docks for Ubuntu and Other Linux Distros
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Why is the Dock becoming more and more popular? It’s probably got something to do with clever window management, doesn’t it? Well, in my opinion it’s just the eye candy, though I’m sure that people appreciate the psychological trick; every tried to open 2 instances of a program with a Dock? ;) Now here’s a list of 5 different Docks you can use on Linux.
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