Is the GNU/Linux desktop headed in the right direction? Recently, I have started to wonder.
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DebConf9 in Cáceres, Spain: Time of changes
«...Every year several hundreds of Debian contributors from around the world get together at DebConf in a different city to share a week (or more!) of work, friendship and fun...»
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Negative campaign, positive campaign: Windows 7 Sins vs get GNU/Linux
[Windows7Sins] has received too a lot of negative criticism, thought, centered in an idea somewhat similar to the one I exposed in the beginning: “We must center on the good things free software can offer, instead of the enemy’s bad points”.
Read more »Gnutiken - International GNU Cooperative Sweden
Since I ended my internship with the FSFE in May, my main priority has been the establishing of a Free Software cooperative in Göteborg. The result is about to unfold itself, and it’s name is Gnutiken, or “the Gnutique” if you want to be English about it.
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Microsoft Drives Customers and Employees to GNU/Linux
In another money-grabbing move, Microsoft attacks the very same people who helped it
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Trusting Mono While Microsoft Attacks GNU/Linux Left and Right
Yet another analysis of Microsoft's relationship with Mono and GNU/Linux
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Microsoft Still Sabotages Linux MBRs in Vista 7
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Writing the History in Free Software
For the last couple of days, there has been a heated discussion going on over how a free kernel should behave in certain situations. It’s a tricky subject, if you’re not familiar with it.
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Dell: Linux v Windows netbook returns a 'non-issue'
Dell has delivered a dose of reality for both Microsoft and the Linux community on the subject of netbooks.
Speaking at OpenSource World, a Dell executive deflated Microsoft's enthusiasm for making a case out of the number of Linux netbooks returned by unhappy customers.
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As Microsoft's earnings fall by a third (again), the reasons are being further analysed and Microsoft investors warned
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Hands-on: KDE 4.3 delivers a Social Desktop
KDE 4.3 was released this week with a number of intriguing improvements. Ars test the new version, which introduces KDE's Social Desktop initiative, an effort to bring social networking integration to the popular desktop environment.
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KDE 4.3.0 "Caizen" Released
KDE 4.3.0 is out, and it is a great release. It is unlikely that any one specific thing will strike the user as the most noticeable improvement; rather, the overall user experience of KDE has improved greatly in KDE 4.3.0. The release's codename, Caizen, is a Japanese philosophy that focuses on continuous improvement throughout all aspects of life. That has been the goal of the KDE team for 4.3.0: polish, polish, polish.
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The Ukraine’s GNU/Linux Ambitions and Microsoft’s MOU Response
A look at how Microsoft responds to the Ukraine's desire for autonomy with Free software
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How Microsoft Sabotages GNU/Linux Adoption in Russian Schools
Microsoft uses government funds to spread Microsoft dependency and also sabotages GNU/Linux migrations by advocating unlicensed Windows (which later they will whine about)
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Confirmed: Novell Puts Mono (and Moonlight) at Centre of the GNU/Linux Desktop
YESTERDAY we wrote about Moonlight and Mono-based applications getting more tightly integrated. We now see it confirmed by Novell employees Miguel de Icaza and Jonathan Pobst [1 2], so our suspicions were correct from the very start.
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