New distros seem to pop-up every day in the GNU/Linux world. The majority of them try to be as FREE as possible, however when attempting to install a distribution on a new PC of a common next door user, you will probably find (I sure did) that you can’t avoid falling into these two proprietary sins:
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Better Copy/Paste with Firefox
QuoteURLText and Copy Plain Text are not the most advanced Firefox extensions out there, but they sure can save you a lot of time if you do a lot of copying and pasting from Web pages to other documents. As any Firefox user knows, the copy operation grabs not only the selected text fragment but also all the formatting.
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Download xSplash themes for Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)/9.04 (Jaunty)
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New from Qualcomm: ARM Netbooks, Open Source Initiatives and New Technology
Qualcomm invited everyone to their Innovation Event 2009 in London on November 22, where they presented the newest out of their research labs and gave a glimpse of where their journey was taking them. Of interest to us were the ARM netbooks and Qualcomm's newest open source team.
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Canonical Landscape And Ubuntu: Government Boost?
Opportunity is knocking in the government market for Canonical's Landscape, a systems management and monitoring tool for Ubuntu systems. Specifically, Autonomic Resources - an integrator that serves the U.S. federal government - is now approved to offer Landscape to government customers running Ubuntu, WorksWithU has learned. Here are some quick details.
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FSFE: EC caves in to proprietary lobbyists on interoperability
Free Software industry criticises remarks by Commission's Vice President Siim Kallas: The European Commission (EC) has given in to the demands of lobbyists for Microsoft and SAP when it revised a key document on interoperability between electronic government services.
Read more »Novell Promotes Silverlight
More evidence arrives showing that Novell is simply advancing Microsoft at the expense of GNU/Linux
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With Windows 7, Only Half of Samba Stops Working
Bringing Windows 7 clients into your Linux network is exactly what the fine Samba server is made for. But every Windows release comes with new interop roadblocks, and Windows 7 is no exception. Charlie Schluting shows how to get past the latest ones.
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Latest OpenShot Release Gains Enhancements
Not a day goes by without my love of OpenShot growing just that little bit deeper – and today is no exception as the latest version, deep breath, 0.9.54 was released today giving OpenShot yet more clout to the title of “most accomplished user-friendly video editor available on Linux”.
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Install Lamp with 1 command in ubuntu 9.10
There are many methods to install lamp, but the most simple one is described in this post, Install LAMP with one command in ubuntu9.10 karmic koala
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How To Install WordPress on Ubuntu - Part 2
Part 2 in a series showing how to set up the WordPress blogging system on Ubuntu.
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Apple Likely to Lose Developers, Microsoft Wants Free Software Developers (for Windows)
Developers slowly realise that they are being bamboozled and exploited by Apple; Microsoft treats developers similarly, but it incentivises for defection away from GNU/Linux
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Microsoft Sued for Deliberately Making Competitor’s Product “Become Incompatible”
Microsoft kicks another company out of its own property, so it is taken to court
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Parting with my partitions part two.
Back to the pizza analogy. Here, in front of you there is a stack of pizzas which have been sliced and cut into rings. If it were just you and you were going for the Guiness book of record in pizza eating then that whole stack of pizza is for you to consume in a legacy of gluttony. Unfortunately you are not alone. How can you divide up the pizza?
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Ubuntu: Time for Another Reality Check
Occasional criticism of Ubuntu as a less-than-perfect Linux distribution, and of Canonical as a selfish member of the free-software ecosystem, is nothing new. But no matter how many flaws one can find with Ubuntu and its developers, they have succeeded in respects where every similar endeavor to date has failed
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanFrom the very start, directories have served a very useful purpose on the Internet. (One I find useful for example is Free Web Directory). News sites can also be considered directories: they index and categorize news stories! What about categorizing software? In the open source world you get Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat; there are still, believe it or not, shareware and freeware directories like FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and Freeware Downloads (although you need to be careful, as they are not like their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselAbout Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software?, it's clear that the topic of software directories is very hot. Most of what you find on Google, however, are not pointing to free and open soruce software -- or worse, they mix the two. Examples of such sites are Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download, which simply don't focus on "free as in freedom", and still can be used as good free software directories.



