Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I am pleased to announce that on the 12th Feb we are going to have a LoCo Docs Day!
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Gnome's Text Editor, Gedit: A TextMate-like Editor for Linux
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...the humble Gnome editor is often compared to Windows notepad app. A simple editor with minimal features that is pathetic for anything else.
Not true!
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Introducing LinuxCon - Our New Annual Technical Conference for All Matters Linux
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The Linux Foundation is very excited to announce the launch of LinuxCon, a brand new annual North American technical conference. The 1st Annual LinuxCon is taking place September 21 – 25, 2009 in Portland, OR. Registration and Call for Papers are now open - details are below.
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Now Brazil Goes Big on the GNU/Linux Desktop
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At the end of last year I wrote about a big Brazilian project to provide 150,000 GNU/Linux notebooks for schools. Now the Brazilian Ministry of Education has topped that by ordering 324,000 "green" workstations running on GNU/Linux (although I can't quite tell whether this is as well as or instead of - anyone know?).
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I Give Up: Civilization Is A Bust. Quick, Back To The Caves!
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What is easy to learn? Windows, he says! Yes, scientists have examined the DNA molecule and discovered that the manual for Microsoft products are woven right into the Deoxyribonucleic friggin' acid, so that babies are born knowing how to do everything on Windows. So learning was not an issue to Windows adoption, it is assumed.
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rpmorphan - Find & delete orphaned packages in openSUSE
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rpmorphan is a free opensource utility to find orphaned packages on your openSUSE installation. rpmorphan determines which packages on the system has no other package(s) depending on their installation, and lists these packages.
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Spreading the FOSS message the Gandhian way
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There are some among the FOSS community who pay lip service to Mahatma Gandhi when talking about this genre of software. There are others who actually put Gandhi's methods into practice to spread the message.
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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #128
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #128 for the week February 1st - February 7th, 2009.
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Emacs mode for machine-readable copyright files !
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"Quite a fair amount of time has flown since my decision to implement an emacs mode for the proposed machine-readable format for debian/copyright files. A have to admit that I had left that sleeping for quite a long while. But I took my courage, and rewrote nearly everything I had done so far. I'm quite happy with the results, to be truthful. The debian-mr-copyright-mode features: ..."
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Can Everyblock find a business model in open source?
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Everyblock, which sorts police reports, public records, and news by address, is going open source and looking for a business model.
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VMware ships open source Linux VDI client
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VMware is offering a free (LGPL-licensed) client for use with its VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) thin client technology. The VMware View Open Client lets users access personalized, data center-hosted desktops from "almost any" device, VMWare claims.
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Save Synaptic Markings to Speed Up Ubuntu Reinstallation
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If you're about to start over with an Ubuntu installation, you don't have to spend time selecting and reinstalling all your chosen apps and packages. Synaptic offers a convenient solution for auto-installing your favorites.
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Torvalds: Multiple Distributions "Absolutely Required"
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With Linux traditionally coming in many, many flavours, a common call among some Linux fans - but mostly among people who actually do not use Linux - is to standardise all the various distributions, and work from a single "one-distribution-to-rule-them-all". In a recent interview, Linus Tovalds discarded the idea, stating that he thinks "it's something absolutely required!"
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If Microsoft Loved Open Source, Who Would It Buy?
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Could Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) take its cash reserves and buy an open source company? Why not?
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Canonical Survey Shows Ubuntu Server as Mission-Critical Enterprise Platform
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Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu Linux, and analyst firm RedMonk have released findings of a survey of thousands of Ubuntu users that show usage patterns for the Ubuntu server product.
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