Who's afraid of patents? Not Mark Shuttleworth founder of Ubuntu Linux and CEO of Canonical. He figures he's 'REALLY' got it covered.
Read more »Shuttleworth's view on patents (Microsoft and all)
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How Dell is making Ubuntu more attractive
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Dell was the first of the major computer manufacturers to support pre-installed Linux, but it's not just pre-installing Linux. The Austin, Tex. company is also adding functionality to Ubuntu Linux on its desktops and laptops.
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Give KDE and Gnome a unified look
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Out of the box, both KDE3 and Gnome look like crap. There, I said it. Default KDE still uses Everaldo’s Crystal SVG icon theme, which dates from 2001. That’s about the time I started using KDE, and I loved it at the time, but these days, icon sets tend to be a little less bright.
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Ultamatix: The New Automatix
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I guess all Linux users, especially Ubuntu ones, have used or at least heard about Automatix, an application that can install and uninstall the most used and popular programs. From multimedia codecs and archiving tools, e-mail clients and web browsers, to audio/video ripping and burning software, Automatix could do them all.
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Top Ten mailing list posts in the history of free/open source software
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A few months ago, we looked at Linus Torvalds in his own words, which was surprisingly popular (for a filler ;). So following the same approach (i.e. too busy to write something original today ;), what are the top-ten best mailing list posts in the history of free/open source software?
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The Malaysian Free Software Movement in action
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"...My talk tomorrow is on the Free Software Movement in Malaysia. I would be interested in meeting people who can commit to helping push forward the Malaysian Free Software movement, so do contact me if you are interested." -- BarCamp Malaysia-Bar And Camping, Day 1
* http://www.wirespot.net/2008/07/27/barcamp-malaysia-bar-and-camping-day-1/
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Tux3, a Versioning Filesystem
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Since everybody seems to be having fun building new filesystems these
days, I thought I should join the party. Tux3 is the spiritual and
moral successor of Tux2, the most famous filesystem that was never
released.
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The FSF wants you to go stick it to Apple
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"The FSF, in it’s timeless crusade to make the world a more free place by spreading the use of free software, has issued a challenge to Apple. It does not agree with the Apple store selling restricted iPhone apps. Apple’s OSX operating system is chalk full of GNU’s free software, so they have their hand very much stuck in the fly paper.
Read more »Emacs: Keyboard shortcuts for navigating code
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"One of the lines on my list of things I can do in order to make progress on my book is to move my Drupal development environment from Eclipse to Emacs, as immersion would no doubt give me plenty of things to tweak and describe. When you use something every day, you notice the rough edges. With Emacs, you can sand those edges down.
Read more »OSCON, Pt. 4.2: openSUSE's Eleventh Hour (And Twelfth, And Thirteenth...)
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Aside from having one of the niftier names in the industry, Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier has a pretty nifty job, too: He's the openSUSE Community Manager atNovell (NSDQ: NOVL), where he oversees the folks that help make what will ultimately turn into the next version of SUSE Linux Enterprise.
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Mozilla Summit 2008 - Vancouver, from July 28th to August 1st, 2008
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"The 2008 Firefox Summit is an invitation-only gathering of some of the most active contributors in the Mozilla community. The purpose is to discuss the future of Firefox..." -- The future of Firefox should be linked to that of Emacs ;)
Read more »Mr. Shuttleworth Misunderstands Microsoft’s Software Patents Tactics
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In a Microsoft-sponsored conference, Ubuntu's founder underestimates Microsoft's active threat to FOSS
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SCO’s Debt to Novell and Sun’s Debt to Novell?
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A summary of remaining news and SJVN's view on possible surprises to come.
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Gmrun - Substitute for gnome run dialog in Ubuntu
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‘Gmrun’ is a run-program utility that provides bash-like TAB completion and history, the ability to run commands in a terminal using CTRL-Enter. CTRL-R/CTRL-S may be used for history searches, similar to ‘bash’.
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Microsoft Hates Apache, Wanted to Sue It, Now Wants to Ruin It
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Another possible case of embracing to extend a FOSS project (e.g. OOo=->OOXML, GNOME->Mono).
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