This is an overview of five essential add-ons which every Firefox user should take a look at.
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Bad News: Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Declares Wikia Search Dead
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« While I personally believe in the opportunity for free software to make serious inroads into the search space, our project, Wikia Search, has not been enjoying the kind of success that we had hoped »
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'Open cloud' plan sparks dissent
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A plan by IBM to launch an industry-wide 'open' cloud computing strategy has seemingly backfired amid accusations of closed deals.
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GCC branches for the 4.4.0 release
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At long last, I have created the GCC 4.4 release branch. We are now in Stage 1 on the mainline. Please go ahead and begin checking in approved patches. Please try to coordinate so that we do not have multiple overlapping radical changes. Please announce your intent to commit a major in advance of doing so, and avoid committing two major changes within a day of each other.
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Ubuntu Linux Gnome Desktop Gripes
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I've been using Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex as my desktop platform of choice for a few months now. As part of that changeover, I also switched to Gnome. I have to say, after my initial "ohh, look, this just works" with Gnome, the shine has certainly come off.
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Hilarious Root Cause Analyses
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Hopefully I'm not the only person in the IT world who finds this RCA spot-on ;)
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Free addons for IceCat
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"The http://addons.mozilla.org website, hosted on Mozilla servers, offers many addons to extend FireFox with additional features. The majority of these addons are not developed directly by Mozilla but by third party developers.
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"EFF-Austin invites you to a talk by the Free Software Foundation Activist - Richard Stallman on 23rd April 2009 [...] The GNU General Public License (GPL) was the outcome of the need for a principal right to free software. What does the freedom mean, what are the foundations of the GNU GPL philosophy and how has it evolved since Richard Stallman wrote the first GNU GPL in 1989?
Read more »The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates a Decade of Open Source Leadership
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The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) - developers, stewards, and incubators of leading community-driven Open Source projects - announced its tenth anniversary at ApacheCon, its official user conference, trainings, and expo.
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Novell Responds to SCO's Objections to Its Bill of Costs (and Some Bankruptcy Bills)
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Novell has responded [PDF] to SCO's Objections to Novell's Bill of Costs, submitted as the prevailing party in SCO v. Novell.
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Nexuiz 2.5 Raises The Bar For Open-Source Gaming
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Nearly a year ago Nexuiz 2.4 was released and it offered impressive graphics along with a new menu design, improved networking performance, reduced memory usage, and many other enhancements to this open-source game. The developers behind this first person shooter have now outdone themselves again with the release of Nexuiz 2.5.
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Microsoft and Novell (Almost Merged) versus IBM and Sun (to be Merged)
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As IBM's acquisition of Sun Microsystems inches closer, Novell's role in harming Java and OpenOffice.org is revisited
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Good-bye Solaris? The fate of Sun's top 5 technologies
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By this time next week, IBM will have bought Sun at a cut-rate price. I'd long thought Sun was going to down for the count, so the news that IBM was moving in didn't surprise me. What happens next though?
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Handy Tweaks To Make GIMP Replace Photoshop
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GIMP is the favorite graphics editing program of many designers and graphic artists. It has a wide array of features, as well as plug-ins, filters and brushes. Documentation is primarily available in online communities, as well as through extensive add-ons.
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Novell Downgraded
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WITH abysmal results and no major deal since the last quarterly report, Novell is clearly headed nowhere, whereas Red Hat - by contrast - carries on growing, so it's a Novell issue, not a GNU/Linux issue.
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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.
