Stuart Turton spends the fourth day of his one week odyssey with Linux, hailing the ease of GIMP, before a graphics card meltdown causes his computer to 'kill' his desktop.
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Ubuntu Linux keeps being buggy... will I go back to XP?
Well, I did it once, after years of Linux (registered with the Linux Counter on August 26, 1996). Then I went back to… Ubuntu Jaunty, then I switched to CentOS 5.3 and have built my own extra repository Odiecolon.repo, only to end in Xubuntu Karmic, now being on Ubuntu Karmic.
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My recent experiences with some Linux distros
Fall season is one of the busiest times for Linux distributions, and this year is also a very busy time for me. Ever since two years now I gradually migrated family and friends to Linux. This year these new Linux users gave me quite some work, especially on week-ends, and my own upgrade gave me quite some work.
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Opensourc3 Magazine issue #5 available for free download
Opensourc3 is a magazine dedicated to Unified and Cloud Computing using open source technologies. It is published on a monthly basis and is available free to readers worldwide.
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The game of Fixing the Large Hadron Collider
and avoiding the blame. Illiad is at it again, with another great cartoon, that's also a board game.
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You always can install things yourself…
With Linux distributions offering you everything on a plate, there is a temptation to stick with what they offer rather than taking things into your own hands.
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Human Rights Advocacy Paper on Richard Stallman receives an A+
Richard Mathew Stallman or “RMS”, his famous initials of the hacker community at Harvard where he graduated magna cum laude in Physics in 1974, is the most prominent American Free Software Advocate alive today.
Read more »Giving Thanks For FOSS
The fourth Thursday of November of every year is Thanksgiving. It is a day to think back, remember, and give thanks for all the wonderful things we have in America. But have you really thought about what you're thankful for in the FOSS world?
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LCA 2010: The art of the matter
Heather Buchanan isn't organising anything very technical for the next Australian national Linux conference. But her contributions will remain with the delegates much longer than those of the other volunteers.
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The proprietary sins of an average GNU/Linux user
New distros seem to pop-up every day in the GNU/Linux world. The majority of them try to be as FREE as possible, however when attempting to install a distribution on a new PC of a common next door user, you will probably find (I sure did) that you can’t avoid falling into these two proprietary sins:
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Ubuntu: Time for Another Reality Check
Occasional criticism of Ubuntu as a less-than-perfect Linux distribution, and of Canonical as a selfish member of the free-software ecosystem, is nothing new. But no matter how many flaws one can find with Ubuntu and its developers, they have succeeded in respects where every similar endeavor to date has failed
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Finally: rebranding KDE
I'm relieved. After close to 2 years of thinking and discussing, the rebranding of KDE is official. From now on, the K Desktop Environment is dead. "KDE 4.4" will never see the light of day. Today, "KDE" has officially moved on.
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Can Ubuntu reach over 16,000 anime lovers in April?
Can Ubuntu reach over 16,000 anime lovers in April? Of course it can, with the support of the rapidly expanding super mega-awesome community (that's you all)!
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What is ChromeOS. Really.
All this fuss about Google ChromeOS. Is it a threat to Microsoft ? Is it a threat to the Ubuntu? (funny nobody wonders if that’s a threat to Apple, especially considering everything is a threat to Apple, even being able to take DRM free songs *out* of the freaking iPod)
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VTV visited my Linux lab today (Vietnam)
VTV, one of the major news channels in Vietnam, visited my Linux lab today at the American International School. I am glad that Vietnam is taking a stronger interest in Linux and Open Source.
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