It's time certain pro-MONOpolists faced the fact that Mono only exists to serve Microsoft. Take away Novell employees' contractual obligation to follow the company's agenda, and suddenly Mono becomes redundant.
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Review: Deluge 1.1.6 - Powerful BitTorrent Client for GNOME
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Written in GTK, Deluge is a powerful BitTorrent client which, in my opinion, is the GNOME counterpart to KTorrent, the most popular client in KDE. The version I will review in this article is the latest at the time of writing, 1.1.6, released on April 6, 2009.
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No FOSS for Spotify
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The whole Libspotify API (initially with support just for Linux on IA-32) comes with conditions attached which make it anything but open and hardly likely to propel it out of the iTunes shadow.
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How to make technology conferences suck less
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There’s a dirty little secret to technology conferences: Most of them suck to some degree. It’s about time someone started thinking about how to make conference time more valuable and less stale, especially now that companies are cutting back on travel to shows.
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Organizadores del Flisol: do your homework, please!
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El Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre, FLISOL, no puede seguir siendo celebrada por personas que ignoran el significado de Software Libre y que continúan promocionando mero software a lo más Open Source (aunque No-Libre) y convenios con empresas que integran a la comunidad en el desarrollo de sus aplicaciones pero se quedan con el dinero.
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The Beginner's Guide to Linux Part 4: Introduction to the Terminal
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Traditionally, most new users have always been reluctant to experiment with the command line interface. Once you understand the terminal, Linux will finally open up to you. The terminal is easily the most powerful part of a Linux system.
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How to Lie with Maps: When Open Source and National Security Collide Redux
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I wanted to briefly follow up the discussion about blurring on-line maps. I am currently reading a very enlightening book entitled Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World.
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Is Linux dead in the netbook water?
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The Windows share of the US netbook market is a staggering 96 percent. That's up from less than 10 percent of US unit sales during the first half of 2008 when the words netbook and Linux pretty much ran together. Now it seems that the netbook revolution is leaving Linux behind. Is Linux a Dead Man Walking?
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Did Tomboy Learn from TomTom? Project Forked, Moves Away from Microsoft ‘Standards’
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Tomboy's role in GNOME has made it a troublesome component that grabs an entire Mono stack into many GNU/Linux distributions. For reasons that were brought up before, the TomTom lawsuit teaches everyone why Mono does not belong in GNU/Linux.
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Libre.fm - Building An Open Last.fm
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If you’re anything like me and you’re dangerously obsessed with music (I really am); then chances are you’ve already tried the music-based social networking service Last.fm at some time. Like a lot of web services it doesn’t give much away about how it works internally.
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Running Complex Commands with sudo
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If you use sudo to run commands as root, you've probably run into “permission denied” problems when only part of a pipeline or part of a command is running with root permissions.
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Novell Downgraded Again
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Second downgrade in less than a week. IT HAS ONLY BEEN half a week since the last Novell downgrade and here comes another.
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All the Best Linux Cheat Sheets
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All the best Linux cheat sheets rounded up in one post broken down into Linux command line, Linux security, Linux administration, Gnome/KDE, sed/awk/vim, and distribution specific cheat sheets..
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Novell Joins Microsoft Seminar While Microsoft Hits Red Hat with “IP” Slurs
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Microsoft's and Novell's sharedlove is their jealousy/hatred of Red Hat. The same old story seen and told in people's inboxes and the news.
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Mercurial vs Git
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There are many blog posts and articles all over the Internet providing comparissons between Git and Mercurial. Most of them only briefly describe the main differences and then try to decide which one is better. However, I didn’t find many articles explaining the differences in detail.
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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.
