Commercial sponsor of Ubuntu ® looks to support cross-industry collaboration and promotion to fuel Linux growth. The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that Canonical has become a member of the Foundation.
Read more »Canonical Joins The Linux Foundation
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No Further Appeals on OOXML? What About 11.4?
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I've been puzzling over something in the ISO press release announcing that the four appeals against OOXML as an ISO standard, from Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela, would go no further. In the press release, it said this:According to the ISO/IEC rules, DIS 29500 can now proceed to publication as an ISO/IEC International Standard.
Read more »BBC Opens Up - Or Does it?
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The BBC's iPlayer site has been a target of open source community ire since it started. Originally delivering content via Microsoft DRM-protected technologies, it was condemned by the FSF (among others) for dictating unfree technology choices on viewers.
Read more »Schedule periodic tasks with cron
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Periodic schedulers come in many shapes and sizes but one constant is cron, the scheduling daemon that will run programs and scripts at arbitrary times or intervals. A number of different cron implementations exist: although vixie-cron may be the most popular, there are other similar programs such as dcron, fcron, anacron, and others.
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Debian on the FreeRunner
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"I’ve been at DebConf for almost two week, but haven’t blogged a lot about it. It’s mostly because we’ve been working on getting Debian to run on the OpenMoko FreeRunner. Today we finally sent out the official annoucement for this ..."
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ISO Won’t Throw OOXML Out. Time to Throw ISO Out?
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We previously mentioned several calls for ISO to be replaced or its role be surrogated. As we finally know for a fact that ISO is insensitive to abuse [1, 2] and that it tells huge developing countries which complain to just sod off, it’s becoming an urgent matter. Jomar Silva seems not only disappointed but also somewhat furious. And rightly so!
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5 Anti-Linux Sites You Must Follow!
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Wait…what? Ever since I read Jeremy Allison’s blog post about why we need to hear criticisms from people who dislikes Linux, I have been thinking a lot about what he said and how it hits very close to my own philosophy about life: In order to improve, you need to be open to criticisms; even from your enemies.
Read more »Howto Disable CTRL-ALT-DEL in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) Server
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Any user that has physical access to the keyboard can simply use the Ctrl+Alt+Delete key combination to reboot the server without having to log on. Sure, someone could simply unplug the power source, but you should still prevent the use of this key combination on a production server.
Read more »Distro Update: Musix GNU+Linux
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Musix GNU+Linux is, according to its website, "a 100% free multimedia operating system intended for music production, graphic design, audio and video edition, and all kind of tasks." This means that there are more audio and video applications included, at least on the DVD version, that you have probably ever heard of.
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A Black Duck Loses Its Head
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A former Microsoft employee who took a poisition of authority over GPLv3 jumps his own ship
Read more »Spend your vacation getting started with OpenStreetMap
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We have written about the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project many times, but we have yet to explain how to get started with it as a contributor. Since it is the vacation high season in the Northern Hemisphere and many more people will be hitting the maps, this is the perfect time. You can contribute a lot to the project even if you don't own a Global Positioning System (GPS) device -- or even a compass.
Read more »Quotable: Why Microsoft is Just a Standard Open Source Scam
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A quick walk through people's opinions on Microsoft and 'openness'
Read more »How do Drigg and Pligg compare?
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"I am Drigg's founder and developer. Drigg and Pligg are pieces of software that will allow you to create Digg-like sites. People sometimes ask me if they should pick Drigg or Pligg. When it happens, I am not sure what I should answer. This article will hopefully solve the dilemma for most of them. " And some fun comments already :)
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SCO Also Used to Contibute to Linux, Just Like Novell
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Are some of Novell's contributions merely poison or is it a prelude to other possibilities like a joint legal plan?
Read more »Free Software movement fights to keep internet freedom in Brazil
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"A proposed new law that restricts the freedom internet use in Brazil has already passed the Senate and is dangerously close to going on the books [...] The Free Software movement from Brazil is striking up against this project and they have a petition online against it.
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Popular contentIBM Turns To Linux In Desktop Campaign Against Microsoft
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The company plans to ship Ubuntu and Red Hat versions of its "Open Collaboration Client," a combination of Lotus Notes 8 and Symphony. Read more »Teachers becoming Free Software advocates as GNU/Linux finds its perfect home in Kerala's schools
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I am inviting you to see the schools in my district.There you can see how reachers handling linux .Of course there is some problems in Printer Driver but it can be solved in the new versions .You must realise the Propreitory Rights .It is a new OS it will take some time to establish .You are listing the problems are your problems only Read more »Global Server Load Balancing with Open Source tools
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Global Server Load Balancing is the automatic routing of users to the nearest / fastest server to them based on their source IP. Typically a GSLB solution requires expensive application switches at each site, and additional software licenses that run into the thousands of dollars. Read more » |
Popular content continuedA Giant Bid That Shows How Tired the Giant Is
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Oh, how the mighty have fallen... this is Microsoft we’re talking about, and if its proposed acquisition of Yahoo signals anything, it serves as a confirmation that Microsoft’s glory days are in the past. Read more »The Non-Revocable GPL
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I know by now you've seen the notice by the guy claiming to "revoke" the GPL license on his code, because I'm getting email about it. Read more »Free voice recognition software that works
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If you are considering adding voice recognition to your AI or robotics project then you are probably looking for a free implementation that works well. Read more » |
