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A Tour of the Ubuntu Software Store
About a month ago, Canonical announced plans for an Ubuntu app store, codenamed AppCenter. As expected, the first version has shown up in the Karmic Koala daily builds, now under the name Ubuntu Software Store.
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The easiest operating system to update is...
Over the weekend, I decided to see which of the major operating systems would be the easiest to update. The answer may surprise you.
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It is crucial to save Net Neutrality!
« "Net neutrality". This obscure yet simple concept is the root of the development of the Internet as we know it. In the digital environment, it is the guarantee of competition, innovation, and fundamental freedoms. Until now, net neutrality has been the rule, both for technical and economical reasons.
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In-built Linux Multi-touch (New Video)
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Lets work together.
The Linux community is very fragmented. This does not have to be a bad thing at all. Diversity is important for innovation and choice for users. However, because there are so many different projects, people sometimes get at other Linux users within the community.
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Command Line Cheatsheet
I was showing a friend how to be more productive while working in a terminal and she asked me about the keys I was pressing during the demonstration.
Read more »How To Install GRUB 2 On Ubuntu 9.04
This tutorial shows how you can upgrade your GRUB bootloader to GRUB 2 on Ubuntu 9.04. GRUB 2 has been rewritten from scratch to clean up everything for modularity and portability.
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Richard Stallman on “Open Source” (as Ogg)
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Nokia’s Free Software bullshit and insults in Maemo
Nokia N900 ... [is] being branded as so “open” that software freedom lovers would love it. This seemed like really good news, no? Well, like the saying goes… when it’s too good to be true… it most probably ain’t.
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Linux Apache Dual Stacked IPv4 and IPv6 Configuration
A growing number of platforms implement IPv6, allowing Apache to allocate IPv6 sockets and handle requests which were sent over IPv6. This article explains how to setup dual stacked, IPv4 and IPv6 enabled Apache networking under any Linux or UNIX like operating systems. You need to update httpd.conf file with the Listen directive.
Read more »One last chance for UK UFO hacker
McKinnon, who said he probed the computers looking for evidence that the US government has knowledge of UFOs, maintains that his hacking never caused any harm.
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Gwibber 2.0 Now Available To Download
The first public version of Gwibber 2.0 has been released on the Gwibber daily-builds PPA. Gwibber 2.0 sports a completely redesigned interface, simple 'account' configuration wizards and more.
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FSF internship - working with GNU MyServer
Hi, my name is Marek, I study informatics (I’ve just ended my second year), I’m GNU Volunteer Webmaster and this summer I was an intern at FSF working on GNU MyServer. You can be curious why I’m not listed here along other interns - being first FSF intern I was accepted before FSF’s new internship program was started and I’m not part of it.
Read more »How to monitor your Red Hat Cluster using Python and SNMP
Now that I am done with the implementation of RHE Cluster with GFS2, I now need to setup monitoring. As you all know, monitoring is a vital part of any environment. Even though we have a cluster of nodes setup, we still need to be aware of what is happening. I created two new commands. The first command is to emulate clustat, but through python and SNMP.
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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.



