A close look at Microsoft's maneuvers that may compromise Free software later on
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Linux Foundation “We’re Linux” Competition Results
Presumably to respond to Apple's Get A Mac ad campaign and Microsoft's various responses, the Linux Foundation launched a competition a while ago for "We're Linux" ads. After receiving over 100 entires, they say, the results have been announced.
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Novell and the Linux Foundation Legitimise a Microsoft Shill (IDC|IDG)
IDC attacks Microsoft's opponents at its behest and Linux establishments respond in the wrong way - adding negative to a negative
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Gnu Screen Cheat Sheet
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Equilibrium in free software testing
When a bug is filed in a free software project’s bug tracker, a social exchange takes place. Based on the belief that this exchange is of mutual benefit, the people involved form certain expectations of each other.
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Vimperator Cheat Sheet
a handy cheatsheet to keep on your desk or wall helping out with the vimperator plugin for Firefox. A week with this up and you won't be touching that mouse for quite some time.
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I’m guilty of getting XP netbooks, but I run Linux
Back when I looked for and found, despite difficulty, the perfect Linux netbook for my wife, we were thrilled to open a box that was the first pre-installed Linux machine we ever purchased.
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Combining Debian and FreeBSD; Pushing the Envelope of FOSS
The Debian project made a splash on Sunday with the announcement that two new “architectures” had been added to the Debian FTP archive. So what exactly does that mean?
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Portable Linux future using LLVM
Imagine a single Linux distribution that adapts to whatever hardware you run it on. When run on an Atom netbook, all the software shapes and optimizes to the feature set and processor. Want to run it as a VM on a new Nehalem-based server? No problem.
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An Easter Story: More ASCII Art For Linux And Unix
Almost have all the major holidays covered in ASCII ;)
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Making The Most Of Open Source Forensics Tools
Network forensic solutions products come in many different shapes, sizes, and price ranges, but it the end, they all have the same goal -- recording activity on the network.
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Facebook blocks Pirate Bay
The world's most popular social community website, Facebook, recently decided to block all links to content on The Pirate Bay, the most popular BitTorrent tracker.
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Cloud Computing: What Can It Do for Ubuntu?
When Mark Shuttleworth announced the future Ubuntu 9.10 release, Karmic Koala, the goals he outlined for the server version were all to do with cloud computing but you might be asking "What is cloud computing ?" I answer this question and investigate what it can do for Ubuntu?
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Canonical vs. Microsoft: Netbook Cat Fight
The VAR Guy loves cat fights as much as the next guy. Jennifer Aniston vs. Angelina Jolie? Classic but a bit dated. Canonical vs. Microsoft? Not quite as sexy, but certainly timely and just as much fun. The latest spat involves Canonical dismissing Microsoft's claims in the netbook market.
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Novell’s Roadmap Claimed Similar to Sun’s
A RECENT comprehensive survey showed that, based on votes, Novell is the most likely technology company not to survive this year (in its current form), but Sun Microsystems was a close candidate too.
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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.



