Seems to me that any company becoming successful and having some sort of influence is a massive target for mindless ravings and rantings about how the said company is destroying the world. Of course I am referring to the latest series of rants and raves about Ubuntu, giving it a right good kicking. At the end of the day, does it matter?
Read more »Linus Torvalds on Open Source: 'A Much Better Way to Do Things'
"Linux really wouldn't have gone anywhere interesting at all if it hadn't been released as an open source product. I also think that the change to the GPLv2 from my original 'no money' license was important, because the commercial interests were actually very important from the beginning.
Read more »A tale of two plug-and-play Linux boxes
As many of us who watch the Linux market know, the past week has seen the announcement of two markedly different plug-and-play Linux computers. I was excited by one and not the other. To my surprise, the one that didn't interest me has taken off like a rocket to the moon while it is still too early say how the other will do.
Read more »Where's my Gphone?
"Despite all of the very interesting speculation over the last few months, we're not announcing a Gphone. However, we think what we are announcing -- the Open Handset Alliance and Android -- is more significant and ambitious than a single phone..."
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Why I Dumped Beryl for Metacity
For a number of reasons, I have opted to leave my cube spinning days behind me, as it just did nothing for me. Certain applications ran poorly in Beryl, and while no fault should be placed on its development, I was finding myself booting into Metacity more and more for my GNOME desktop.
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The truth about the linux desktop market share
To understand the markets you have to know something about magicians, and how they work.
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Some numbers about Debian’s history
"There’s an interesting article on LWN.net about Gentoo: Who made Gentoo Linux, and when? A commit analysis. I was wondering how Debian compared, so I made some stats using the debian-devel-changes archives..."
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The year of the Linux desktop has finally arrived
While Windows advocates may smirk and say here we go again, as 2007 draws to a close I get the strong feeling that we may look back upon this year and recognize it with hindsight as the year that the Linux desktop finally arrived. There are a number of events that point to 2007 as being the turning point for Linux and it all started in January with the release of Windows Vista.
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Seven Wonders of the Linux World
Today I want to write about some of the biggest wonders on the Linux world, this are my thoughts, and they may differ from yours, and they could even change in my mind after reading what you think the 7 Linux world Wonders should be, so please read this post, and the comment about it.
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Ubuntu: Just how popular is it?
we found some interesting statistics online that show Ubuntu’s popularity is growing. From these statistics, it looks like Ubuntu has become far more popular than any other Linux distribution.
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PCLinuxOS Magazine November 2007 Released
PCLinuxOS Magazine, November 2007 (Issue 15) is available to download. the HTML version is simultaneously being published for low bandwidth users.
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Interview With Pamela Jones, Editor of Groklaw
When Pamela Jones, better known as PJ, started Groklaw, a Web site devoted to covering and explaining legal cases of interest to the Free Software and Open Source communities, she preferred to remain anonymous and showed no desire to become well-known.
Read more »Everex launches $198 Ubuntu Linux gPC at Wal-Mart
Everex, a longtime personal computer vendor, has unveiled its latest PC featuring Ubuntu Linux-based open-source productivity software and Google-based Web 2.0 applications, for a mere $198.
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Breaking Open Facebook with Open Source Software
While privacy and open society advocates have been concerned about the dominance of Google’s search engine for the past several years, most of us are just beginning to comprehend Facebook’s growing impact on who, when, what and how we connect with friends and colleagues online.
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ODF format group retreats from ODF
HE GROUP set up to push the Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF) is abandoning its support of that file format.
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