This is an attempt to explain my position as to why I use GNU/Linux and Debian GNU/Linux, in particular, and why you as a reader, surfer, or couch academic, should want to run GNU/Linux and Debian.
Read more »The Perennial Year of the Linux Desktop
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It's become a tradition (and a bit of a running joke) for bloggers and tech pundits to declare that this year (whatever year you're in) will be The Year of the Linux Desktop. So in following with that tradition, I'm here to declare that 2010 will be The Year of the Linux Desktop, but not in the sense that many other bloggers have stated.
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Linux Kernel 2.6.33 Released
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This version features Nouveau (a reverse-engineered driver for Nvidia graphic cards), Nintendo Wii and Gamecube support, DRDB (Distributed Replicated Block Device), a security extension for TCP called "cookie transactions", a syscall for batching recvmsg() calls, several new perf subcommands (perf probe, perf bench, perf kmem, perf diff)...
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Attacking GNU/Linux Using “Donations”
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Microsoft - like Bill Gates - is giving presents with no physical value in order to suppress and reduce competition in different areas
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Shuttleworth: “If Windows API Becomes the Default on Linux Then What is the Point of Linux?”
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Mr. Shuttleworth is a very clever guy. So why does he keep the Windows API (Mono) inside Ubuntu GNU/Linux?
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Fully Free GNU/Linux Presentation
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As planned, I did my talk about the thriving fully free GNU/Linux distribution movement at yesterday’s FSFE Berlin Fellowship meeting. I started with the basics of the Free Software ideal, moved on to the problematic issues concerning mainstream GNU/Linux distributions such as Ubuntu and Debian and then discussed the solutions to these problems.
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What Microsoft’s Attack on GNU/Linux at HP Teaches Us
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Further analysis of the revelation that Microsoft does not permit any competition to even exist
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Bill Gates Hides Behind GNU/Linux in New Web Sites
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Not just Microsoft Web sites but the PR sites and the investment site of Bill Gates also rely on Akamai, which runs GNU/Linux
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Fully Free GNU/Linux Presentation Next Week
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"I will be giving a talk about the fully free GNU/Linux distribution movement in the Free Software Foundation Europe’s Berlin meeting on Thursday, February 11th, next week. The talk will start at 19:30 in the Newthinking Store, Tucholskystraße 48. Hopefully, we will have a chance to continue discussing the topic over a few beers right after the meeting, too..."
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iFreeTablet, interview with Carlos de Castro
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"...The good thing about free software is that everyone can contribute and change what he wants. We will benefit from applications that are developed and meet the criteria …"
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Registration now open for DebConf10
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"Registration is now open for DebConf10. The dates of the conference are August 1-7, 2010, with arrivals at our group lodging permitted as of 3 PM on July 31 and departures required by 11 AM on August 8. The conference is preceded by DebCamp from July 25-31 including the arrival day..."
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There's nothing wrong with being thankful (or why I say GNU/Linux)
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There's nothing wrong with saying "thank you" when someone has fulfilled one's need/wish for something... even more if the person who fulfilled it was not in any way forced to do it for us.
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How to configure maximum performance storage space for Debian GNU / Linux on IBM DS8300
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The IBM DS 8300 Data Storage Systems are multi millions dollars flexible high availability and performance SAN machines.
But you may left much of such performance and availability behind if you do not configure then correctly for Debian GNU / Linux.
See how to ask for performance data storage space on them. Or what you need to configure on them.
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Microsoft Continues to Sabotage GNU/Linux Installations Using ‘Updates’
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Microsoft kindly reminds the public that there is no "new Microsoft" as it keeps removing people's choices and denying them access to their GNU/Linux partition/s
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Command Line Basics: Count Files
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There may be an occasion where you want to count the number of files in a directory in GNU/Linux. Here are a few simple commands to get the job done.
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