Is Linux for everyone? Is Linux destined to be the Great Replacement? Will Linux ever reach billions on billions of installs in the world?
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One Small Patent Step: “There Needs to Be a Device”
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Potentially giant leap towards squashing of software patents..
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Microsoft Attacks Another Legitimate Critic, Tries to Get Him Fired?
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Another example of Microsoft employees (not confirmed) attacking bloggers.
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Using KGet Download Manager with Firefox
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A couple of days ago, I took a look at KGet, which is KDE’s resident download manager. As you’d expect, KGet features heavy integration within Konqueror, the KDE web browser. However, many KDE users prefer to browse with Firefox for greater compatibility, meaning full integration between their browser and KGet isn’t possible by default.
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Network Security Toolkit distribution aids network security administrators
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Network Security Toolkit is one of many live CD Linux distributions focusing on network monitoring, analysis, and security. NST was designed to give network security administrators easy access to a comprehensive set of open source network applications, many of which are among the top 100 security tools recommended by insecure.org.
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Command Line Boy Finishes 30 Day Challenge!
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Sean Tilley, known for taking the "Goodbye, GUI: Thirty Days of Command Line" challenge, has finally finished up his 30th day.
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Updating CheckGmail to Fix Login Errors
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A few months ago I wrote about a feature-rich open source application for monitoring your Gmail inbox - CheckGmail.
I know a few of you, like me, have been continuing to use it since. Unfortunately, a few days ago CheckGmail stopped working with a Error: Incorrect username or password dialog.
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Hyperic's CloudStatus demo and interview (video)
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Jon Travis, principal engineer for Hyperic, explains the company's new CloudStatus utility in this video interview. CloudStatus is free, it's open source, and you can access it through your Web browser.
Read more »Veteran developer ditches Microsoft for open source
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If you've ever used Microsoft Access or Excel, you have likely used a product that Mike Gunderloy had a hand in developing. The irony is that Gunderloy himself doesn't use those products anymore. He's given up Microsoft for open source -- and he's not going back.
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Debugging PHP in KDE Quanta Plus .
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Learn how to setup PHP debugging environment in KDE Quanta Plus.
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Network Monitoring with Zenoss: A Reluctant Administrator's Guide
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My wife and I have been using (and collecting) computers for years, and we've shared this interest very effectively with our children. Now I am the victim of my own success: my household now has four physical computers, one of them dual boot. All are on a single internal Local Area Network (LAN) with five real users plus sundry administrative ones on each.
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DBD Action Alert: Give Apple the iFlop Challenge
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"Last week, we announced 5 reasons to avoid the iPhone. This has been met with a lot of excitement and some great feedback. Some important questions were raised in this feedback. So, here is an opportunity to help get some answers, straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak [...] Take these three easy steps to give Apple our iPhone Challenge: ... " --
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Mixing A Podcast In Ardour - Part 1
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The first of a 13-part series created by Tony Whitmore detailing how to mix a podcast in Ardour on Ubuntu. It was created initially so that members of the Ubuntu UK LoCo team could take part in the Ubuntu UK Podcast. However it was decided to release them because they may be useful to other podcasters, or those wishing to learn more about mixing in Ardour.
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Ubuntu Puts Big Emphasis on Small PCs at OSCON
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Ubuntu Netbook Remix and Mobile Internet Device editions of Linux are gearing up to compete with Windows on mini-PC devices this year.
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Bill Gates vs. Linus Torvalds: Who has a bigger ego?
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If you are Bill Gates or Linus Torvalds, it is totally understandable to have an ego the size of the biggest planet. The two has been known to make comments that will forever keep the geek pride alive. If you want proof, just read the following quotes from Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds, and be the judge of who has a bigger ego between them.
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