Trends in computers come in waves. Developers are like surfers on the shore spying out the horizon looking out for the next big one. Today I write about a wave that is just now starting to take shape, looks almost innocuous, but that has the potential to be a great ride as well – Nokia’s Maemo operating system.
Read more »Heard at the Ubuntu Developer Summit: Goodbye GIMP, hello ... nothing
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The OMG!Ubuntu blog reports on the decision, however preliminary, at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Dallas to remove the GIMP image editor from the 10.04 Lucid LTS release of the wildly popular Linux distribution.
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Microsoft's embrace of MySQL could kill it
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For those who have fret about Microsoft fighting against open source, I have news for you: Microsoft's impact on open source may be worse as a friend than as an enemy.
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Shotwell – Open source photo organizer
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Shotwell is an open source photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop environment.
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SUSE Takes Your Rights Away With ‘Trusted’ Computing (TC)
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TPM brought into SUSE, handing over control of one's PCs to vendors and corporations
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CodePlex is Not Great: How Microsoft Poisons Everything
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How Microsoft partners and former employees have reached the point of infesting and deforming "open source" as we once knew it
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O’Reilly and Microsoft Abandon Web Standards, ‘Open’ Web Foundation (OWF) Wants Them Redefined
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As HTML5 is approaching, vendors continue in their attempts to gain ownership and exclusivity over content using formats and protocols
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Hypothesis: Mono Proponents Will Replace GIMP with Paint.NET
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A reader believes that an application which promotes .NET/Mono might be marketed to GNU/Linux-using public some time in the future now that the GIMP is removed from Ubuntu, due to another Mono application
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Response to Sam Tuke's Response to "Is free software major league or minor?"
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Thanks to Sam Tuke for a well-written and constructive response to my article Is free software major league or minor?. Tuke refers to my post as a "dismissal" of free software, however, which is ironic at best. There is no such dismissal in my article.
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Trust Linux!
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A team of researchers has implemented support for ‘trusted computing’ in a commercially available version of the open source operating system Linux, breaking new ground in the global drive toward more secure computing environments.
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Canonical’s Landscape: The Ubuntu Management Strategy
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In this WorksWithU podcast, editorial director Joe Panettieri speaks with Ken Drachnik, Landscape manager at Canonical. Landscape is Canonical's remote management and monitoring tool for Ubuntu systems.
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EU extends review of Oracle plan to buy Sun
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European regulators extended their review of Oracle Corp's (ORCL.O) proposed $7-billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc (JAVA.O), giving the software maker more time to address anti-competitive concerns.
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Planned Changes to Next Ubuntu Version 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)
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Currently the following list of changes everyone is expecting Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)
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Freeing disk space with ">"
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I wrote this up after a forum discussion in which several posters didn't really understand why ">" can free disk space when "rm" cannot.
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Is Ubuntu Too Big for Its Own Good?
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The universe and multiverse repositories contain too much software for Ubuntu to QA properly. The number of bug reports during alpha and beta is so large that many of them aren't triaged until long after release.
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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.
