The rise of Web 2.0, Software as a Service and cloud platforms has been a boon for open source software products and projects. Ongoing innovations are expanding the role of OSS in enterprises as well as individual users.
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Ubuntu: The Little Distro That Could (and Did)
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Ubuntu is the little distro that could. Now it is phenomenally successful so it is hard to see it as a little distro, but this wasn’t always the case. It started as an idea that grew into a philosophy that has shaped the distribution and the rest is history as they say.
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What vendors really mean by 'open source'
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When you say 'open source', you may be clear about what you mean. However, others are twisting the term for their own ends, says open-source expert Mark Taylor.
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Review: SymphonyOne 2008
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SymphonyOne is a distribution designed in a way that's uniquely different from other distributions. Its key focus is ease of use and simplicity. This is perfect for kiosks, new users, or technological neophytes who don't use a computer much, or simply don't like complicated interfaces.
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Installing Linux applications on OS X with Fink
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Even though OS X is a Unix based operating system, you can not just take a Unix/Linux application and run it on OS X, you have to port it on OS X in order for you to use it. Since most of these applications are open source – this can be achieved fairly easily.
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in this post, i rant about licensing
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I tend to giggle a little bit to myself whenever I hear about a "100% Free GNU/Linux distribution". I'm sure it is possible, theoretically to make one, but it quickly delves into semantics.
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The "I'm Linux" Video Contest
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If you've been alive and aware of mass media over the last twelve months, you've probably seen television commercials from Apple and Microsoft touting their operating system. From Apple's ubiquitous "I'm a Mac" to Jerry Seinfeld to Microsoft's "I'm a PC" retort, operating system commercials have been flooding the airways. Except one OS has been notably absent – Linux.
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Open-source success due to large IT vendors, report says
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The success of open-source software is now being driven by its rapid commercialization and not simply its appeal to evangelistic developers, a new report has suggested.
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Why Ubuntu is important to me
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Lets start with the reason why I chose for Ubuntu: ShipIt. It’s not that I would stop using Ubuntu if that service would seize to exist, but I just wouldn’t have found Ubuntu if it hadn’t exististed back in 2005. I started with using Linux after my brother tried Knoppix and installed it on his computer. We both had very old computers and Windows XP was just too slow to run smoothly on them.
Read more »Ultra-light ebook reader runs Linux
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PDF software company Foxit is readying an electronic book reader that weighs 6.4 ounces, measures 0.4 inches thick, and runs Linux. The Foxit eSlick offers E Ink's low-power electronic-paper display, ships with an MP3 player, and sells for $100 less than an Amazon Kindle.
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1000 reasons to hate Ubuntu Linux
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If you want to be successful in life, you have to use criticism to your advantage. Instead of looking at this list as a 1000 ways to hate desktop Linux, you can look at it as a 1000 ways to improve desktop Linux.
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200X: Year Of The Linux Argument
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In no less than two days I've read a flurry of articles pooh-poohing the Linux desktop as a veritable delusion and a fairy story -- something to tell young GTK+ coders before you tuck them in at night. It isn't the year of the Linux desktop; it's the year of the Linux catfight.
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New Compiz Animation: Bonanza
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School’s not been out but one day and I’m already doing something [mildly] useful with my life. I wrote this effect yesterday that looks like the window is burning from the inside out. Why did I call it “Bonanza”? If you remember, there used to be a western TV show by the same name that had an old-western-style map that also burned from the inside out.
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Open source makes serious headway in the U.S. Department of Defense
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As I listened to David Mihelcic, CTO with the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency talk about the benefits of open source on Federal News Radio's presentation of "Open Source Solutions - 2 Years In Review," I couldn't help but be impressed with just how far open source has come in the past decade.
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Open Source and Anarchism?
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Open Source development is pretty close to Anarchism. Still, we rely on the courts and government to protect Open Source. What if we were to lose that support, what would the Open Source ecosystem look like then?
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