Despite this claim ease of use is something Slackware is just not known for. Even with improvements in Slackware 13.0 I still don't think there is anything easy about this distro for anyone other than advanced, experienced users who are extremely comfortable on the command line and with editing configuration files by hand.
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Building Your Career in Open Source
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You may be hesitant to apply for a new job based on your "volunteer" open source skills. Don't be. As techie hiring managers explain, listing open source experience on your resume makes you more appealing, not less so.
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Plymouth Gets An X11 Renderer Plug-In
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Last week Plymouth had picked up a DRM renderer plug-in, but now this week it has picked up an X11 renderer plug-in. This plug-in makes it possible to run Plymouth and its graphical plug-ins from within an X Server...
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Puppy Linux 4.3 (step by step installation with screenshots)
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I was looking for a small distribution to install on my old laptop for a while now. It’s a 7 year old pc, at 1.2GHz with 256mb RAM.
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7 Things To Look Out For In Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala
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A lot has been said regarding the upcoming release of Ubuntu, that is Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, – its new looks, new features etc. However, understandably, its KDE counterpart, Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, has been largely ignored.
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dmesg: Command for Reviewing Boot Messages
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dmesg ("diagnostic message") is a command on Unix-like operating systems that prints the message buffer of the kernel. This buffer contains a lot of important messages from those output during boot, this can be used for diagnostic purpose.
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Amicus Avalanche Opposing Software Patents in the United States (Novell Still Missing)
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Red Hat, the FSF, and the SFLC submit amicus briefs for the Bilski case
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Globulation 2 from Libregamewiki, The Free Gaming Encyclopedia
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Globulation 2 is a RTS game with an unusual gameplay design. The source and media are licensed under the GPL.[1][2] The latest release of the game is 0.9.4.1 released on March 25th, 2009. It is programmed in C++. It uses the SDL[3] and Boost[4] libraries.
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Microsoft Windows Zombies Take Down Free Software Services Hosted on Amazon
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Bitbucket goes offline due to a distributed denial of service attack (botnets)
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Wireless Battle Mesh v2 (Brussels, 17-18 Oct)
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"HackerSpaceBrussels (HSB) announces the second Wireless Battle Mesh, which aims to test 3 popular WiFi routing protocols (OLSR, Batman and Babel), in Brussels on Saturday and Sunday 17-18 October 2009..."
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Laptop Renovation Part II - The Community Feeds Back
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Upon reading responses to my previous post, I decided to put some of the community’s suggestions to the test and examine some of the other options out there. Of the suggestions given, I primarily focused my attention on Debian (Lenny), Damn Small Linux and the wattOS beta.
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Bazaar 2.0.0 released
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"The Bazaar version control system development team is happy to announce availability of bzr 2.0.0 [...] Bazaar is free software (GNU GPL 2+), a part of the GNU project, and supported by Canonical Ltd."
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Microsoft Spreads Intellectual Monopoly Law in Europe and Arab States; EFF Takes on Acacia
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The Community patent keeps marching, Jean-Philippe Courtois lobbies for the Lisbon Treaty, and Microsoft brings intellectual monopolies to The League of Arab States
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Digital rights: call to all citizens to fight back (Free Culture Forum)
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"The first International Free Culture Forum will take place in Barcelona from October 29 to November 1 2009. This event will bring together the main organisations and most active voices in the world of Free Culture and Free Knowledge to set common agendas and strategies..."
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Can the x86 Just Keep Going?
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Few technologies last 30 years, let alone become more dominant with each passing one, but the x86 architecture has done just that.
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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.
