After a successful DFD08, the community is gathering for a second time to celebrate a global day for document liberation. Teams across the planet will join their efforts on 25th of March and send a strong message of Document Freedom and Open Standards.
Read more »Announcing Document Freedom Day 09 / DFD Blog now online
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CrossOver Mac Professional 7 review
Virtualisation software such as Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion let Mac users run the Windows operating system and Windows-only programs on a Mac, but the install process is complex and time-consuming, and the programs can slow down even a speedy Mac.
Read more »A couple of things on PHP
- Comparison of PHP variables vs Constants (performance wise)
- How to keep all scripts that are not "starting scripts" outside of the publicly accessible scripts in apache by using a handy constant.
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Gnome-Do Docky: A New Dock On The Block
For those long time fans/users of Gnome-Do, you are now in for a good treat. The latest release of Gnome-Do now includes an interactive dock that you can place on your desktop and access the frequently used applications quickly and easily like any other docks.
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Ubuntu Users: Focused On the Wrong Market?
Sometimes I don’t see eye to eye with the Ubuntu user community. For instance, I think Ubuntu Server Edition should be Canonical’s top priority for 2009. But only 8 percent of WorksWithU’s readers agree with me, according to a recent online poll we ran. Here’s why I’m right and 92 percent of WorksWithU’s readers are wrong.
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What does it take to support Opensource and Linux
Let's walk on the support side of the software world for a moment.
There is a lot of talk, postulating and plain old FUD about what support is and should be in the FOSS world.
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SLAX Linux - Your pocket operating system - Review
SLAX is a small, live Linux distro, based on Slackware. It aims to be light, friendly and useful. It's meant to fit onto antique USB thumb drives and run well on old hardware.
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Linux layout for Windows users
For the Windows users I will attempt to describe a comparison of where files are stored on a Linux system. This wont be exact equivelents because the operating systems are very different, but they are an approximation.
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Ubuntu spawns new generation
In just the few years since it was released, Ubuntu Linux has inspired tens of new Linux distributions. Here we look at five of the best.
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GIMP Plugin Removed by Software Patents, Resurrected
A missing plugin (killed by software patents) is found on the Web Archive
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More fun with Zenity: shell script/GUI interactivity
In the first part of this piece I introduced zenity : the handy tool for providing GUI interaction with your shell scripts. In this second part I'm going to delve a little deeper into the type of things you can do with this versatile tool.
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Where Do Gartner’s and Fortify’s Attacks on Free Software Come From?
The Gartner Group and Fortify say bad things about Free software, but they say nothing about their relationship with Microsoft
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The Bizarre Cathedral - 40
Latest from the Bizarre Cathedral comic strip by merc and crimperman
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Novell the Biggest Loser in New Red Hat-Microsoft Virtual Agreement
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Red Hat-Microsoft Agreement Not Malicious, But Was It Smart?
Detailed analysis of the Red Hat-Microsoft situation as of today
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