Yesterday while I was browsing Ubuntu Forums I came across a thread posted by someone named EssexJames. He recounts a recent experience with showing his 10 year old son Ubuntu:
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Force a clean reboot when the system freezes
If you manage to freeze your system in such a way that even Ctrl+Alt+Del doesn’t work anymore, the mouse is stuck on the screen any none of the key combinations will work, don’t think of the reset button just yet.
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Linux has moved away from geekdom.
Linux has made some very big improvements over the past few years and I have always said that it is ready for everyone to use, if they can only get out of the proprietary mindset.
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Germ Form Theory (2): what stage for peer production?
"Yesterday, we explained the five step theory of social change, based on an extended essay by Stefan Merten and Stefan Meretz, the founders of the originally german and now international Oekonux movement.
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I've Got A Penguin in My Briefs
Steven A. Reisler explains his experience with GNU/Linux, and how he has completely freed his computing environment from proprietary software.
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Midori - a Lightweight WebKit Browser for Linux
There are a couple of others (Konqueror, Epiphany), but the primary open source browser that you’re likely to be using on Linux is Firefox. Now don’t get me wrong, Firefox is great for a lot of things. It is endlessly customisable and has ubiquitous support from website developers. It does have disadvantages too, however, including not exactly being the quickest beast out there.
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OpenSSH Speed Tips and Tricks
Although using public key authentication instead of passwords is a great method for increasing the security of SSH transfers, transferring SSH identity keys can be a royal pain. First, you create your key pairs; then, you copy the public key into the correct locations on all the machines you want to log into.
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AGPLMail 0.0.3 Released
Version 0.0.3 has now been released, another snapshot of semi-stable code. The biggest change this time, is the migration to YUI (Yahoo User Interface) AJAX widgets.
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One billion Mozilla add-ons
The Mozilla add-ons team this past week announced that it had seen its billionth add-on downloaded since it started tracking in 2005.
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Visvesvaraya Technological University Sells Out, ‘Sells’ Children to Microsoft
A technical Indian university lets the foreign monopolist control the curriculum.
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FUSBi (the Free USB Installer) 0.3.1 released!
FUSBi, the Free USB Installer, is a nifty, little application that creates bootable images of free GNU/Linux distributions on USB drives (or hdd if you want).
FUSBi supports all of the GNU/Linux distros recognized as free by the Free Software Foundation. These include gNewSense, UTUTO, Dynebolic, Musix GNU+Linux, BLAG and GNUstep.
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Interview with Dries Buytaert – Co-Founder – Acquia – Founder – Drupal
In this interview we talk with Dries. In specific, we talk about: Building specialized commercial support for open source technology, Making cloud computing more viable for widespread use, The relationship between Drupal and Linux distros, and Lowering the barriers to the deployment of Drupal, Integrating multiple functionalities and components into one solution.
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The Bizarre Cathedral - 32
Latest from the Bizarre Cathedral from Free Software Magazine.
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Red Hat Fedora Claims It's the Leader in Linux
On the eve of its next major release, the distro produces new figures showing that it's ahead of rivals in total users.
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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #118
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #118 for the week November 16th - November 22nd, 2008.
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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.







