Years ago, there was a great deal of worry about the possibility of burning out Linus. Life seems to have gotten easier for him since then; now instead, I've heard concerns about burning out Andrew. It seems that you do a lot; how do you keep the pace and how long can we expect you to stay at it?
Read more »Kernel space: Interview with Andrew Morton
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Firefox 3.0 Released
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Just a quick note to say that the second most popular web browser out there and one of the most used bits of open source on the desktop, Firefox has had version 3.0 go gold.
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Will Linux Users Miss Out on Firefox 3?
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Windows users have been getting Firefox updates before their Linux counterparts. Will the trend continue with the browser's hotly anticipated new version?
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Mandriva Linux 2009 plans announced
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Mandriva has unveiled the release schedule and technical specifications for its next release, Mandriva Linux 2009. The first alpha is due on June 25th, and the final release in early October. Take a look and see what new features you can expect to find on your desktop when the final release is available.
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Bringing the trashcan to the command line
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The trash project allows you to interact with your desktop trashcan from the command line. It lets users "undo" deletions made with the trash command in a similar manner to restoring files from the trashcan in a desktop environment. For experienced Linux users, the trash command comes in handy when you want to put a file into the trashcan from the command line.
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The Open Source ‘Census’ Lost Its Credibility
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Reactions from prominent open source figures suggest that Microsoft's new participation is unwelcome
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Instant file sharing with woof
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Imagine a situation. You are at a conference and need to send another user a file from your Eee PC. Suddenly you realize that you forgot your USB stick at the hotel, and your laptop has neither an infrared port nor Bluetooth. What do you do? You use woof.
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IBM may open source DB2
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IBM is positive about the possibility of bringing out its DB2 database-management software under an open-source licence.
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FolderView Gets Nepomuk Search Integration
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"In the future, you could possibly have an adaptive FolderView instance, which uses Nepomuk to show files relevant to what you are doing with your computer at that time."
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Screencast: How the FolderView Plasmoid behaves as a normal desktop
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Aaron Seigo's screencast regarding how the FolderView Plasmoid behaves as a normal desktop and how to do it.
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Glyn Moody & the Latin American Free Software Revolution
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"Latin America is emerging as a real hotbed of not only free software coding, but free software uptake by governments - to an extent that puts the UK's pathetic bumblings in this area quite to shame." Glyn Moody interviews Ryan Bagueros of northxsouth.com about the Latin American free software revolution and North-by-South, a company that is giving US businesses access to this incredible phenomeno
Read more »Free software heroes: a list of inspiring individuals who made everything possible
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Every field has its own key individuals who donated much of their time to the ideas they believed in. Each one of them is a reminder that it’s up to individuals to make a difference — and to make history. Their work affects large chunks of the world’s population, and bring amazing changes to the way we see and experience the world.
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The Groklaw effect hits Becta. And yes, I am coining a new term
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Quite a long time ago (maybe in 2000), people started talking about the Slashdot effect. Being Slashdotted meant (and still means) that a truckload of computers online suddenly decide to access your site, because one of your pages was linked from Slashdot’s home page. The results on your servers used to be disastrous.
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Firefox 3: an empirical performance study
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Firefox 3 javascript performance and memory usage study on linux
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How to prevent a package from being updated in Debian
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If you want to update all the packages other than one in your debian server follow this procedure...
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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.
