While surfing the net I read this article from The Register which states that Mark Shuttleworth is “nervous of encouraging people to substitute Windows for Linux”. My first impression was What? Why? Must be a typo or he must have been misquoted. I hope so, because if the main financial contributor behind Ubuntu does not believe in it, how should we the end users feel?
Read more »Mark Shuttleworth Having Cold Feet?
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Kick Linux To The Curb?
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Recently I found myself presented with the possibility of switching to Apple's OS X. Keeping in mind that I already have a Mac in our home in the form of my wife's computer, the idea of me using it did get me thinking. What would it take for me to completely abandon Linux and return to the world of closed source operating systems?
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Ubuntu is really boring me on my desktop
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Isn’t is strange that I could get a server to run on Gentoo, Arch, or FreeBSD, but not on Ubuntu. Seriously, this is not right. Ubuntu is supposed to make things easier.
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playing with chrome on linux
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Soon after they announced, I'd been hoping to take Google Chrome for a test drive. The comic book laid out a lot of interesting things, my favorite being the discussion of separate processes leading to detachable (and "retachable") browser tabs, something I have been touting for years as a long term Galeon user. My big problem though?
Read more »Open source release takes Linux rootkits mainstream
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The art of burying invisible malware deep inside a Linux machine is about to go mainstream, thanks to a new open-source rootkit released Thursday by Immunity Inc., a firm that supplies tools for penetration testers.
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How free software makes money!
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While Microsoft keeps churning out newer and newer versions of Windows at more and more unreasonable prices, the ‘Free Software Movement’ marches on. Ever wondered why a perfectly respectable system like Ubuntu Linux ships completely free of cost all the way from Africa?
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Hacker-friendly karaoke PMP runs Linux
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A Taiwanese electronic system design company has developed an open-source MP3, video, and Karaoke player that runs Linux 2.6.x. Cool-Idea Technology's Cool-Karaoke uses a 400MHz ARM920t processor, includes 4GB of flash and a 320x240 display, and supports customization with a freely downloadable toolchain and source code.
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What Do The ISO And The NBA Have In Common?
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My favorite quote of the day so far comes from a comment that was filed on Bob Sutor's post about how the International Organization of Standardization is risking irrelevancy based on the way it ignored objections to the rushing of the Office Open XML (OOXML) specification through the ISO's ratification process.
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Debian components breach terms of GPLv2
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A top Debian contributor has been left "pretty disappointed" by elements of the Debian community for failing to comply with the conditions of the GNU GPLv2 license.
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Who’s going to pay for open source software?
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This week theme has been "who's going to pay for open source?" It's shown up in a number of blogs, like Matt Asay's.
Read more »Ubuntu documentation in shreds
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An ambitious plan to smarten up the online documentation for Linux distro Ubuntu has ended in failure.
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Announcing the Ubuntu Manpage Repository: manpages.ubuntu.com
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I love the Ubuntu Wiki, and I think the Official Ubuntu Documentation is great! These are two important reasons why Ubuntu has been such a successful Linux distribution.
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OpenDJMix - opensource Virtual DJ Mixer in openSUSE
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OpenDJMix as the name implies is a free opensource virtual DJ system which allows you to mix MP3 files and audio CD tracks. It consists of a C++ API that manages a virtual sound bus with its I/O and a Qt GUI that enables a user to mix 4 MP3 or audio CD tracks. The API has been designed to be used in all multitrack sound tools. OpenDJMix is still in Beta and looks very promising.
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Finding Overlapping Matches Using Perl's Lookahead Assertion Matching On Linux and Unix
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How to use Perl's regular expression lookahead assertion to find overlapping matches.
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Downloading an Entire Web Site with wget
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If you ever need to download an entire Web site, perhaps for off-line viewing, wget can do the job—for example:
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