Once again, the Linux Foundation Desktop Linux (DTL) workgroup is polling users to find out what desktop Linux really needs. While the foundation folks conduct the poll (and I'd encourage Linux Magazine readers to participate), let me share my top three priorities for the Linux desktop in 2008: Applications, multimedia, and polish.
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FSF opposes making TLS-authz an experimental standard
"The Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project oppose publication of draft-housley-tls-authz-extns as an experimental standard..."
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Drupal: From a Drop in the Ocean to a Big Fish in the CMS World
Drupal’s founder, Dries Buytaert tells all about the Drupal project: its history, where it is today and where it is going.
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Switching from OS X to Ubuntu: 10 things I miss
This guy details 10 things he misses from Mac OS X when using Ubuntu. The funny thing is the Ubuntu community stroll tight in and set him straight in the comments. Everything he's missing is available.
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FSF - Send comments opposing TLS-authz
"Much of the communication on the Internet happens between computers according to standards that define common languages.
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All of these [articles I've been reading lately] ignore one thing which is almost never stated: for a large majority of everyday computer users, people for whom a computer is just another tool or piece of technology, like a refrigerator or a widescreen TV, Windows is just fine.
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A gutsy new Linux system - in FT - Major UK FInancial Newspaper
This positive article is from the site of the foremost UK financial newspaper, read by most of the 'city' workers every morning.
Extract of its concluding comments:
Although it is still early days, the latest version of Ubuntu looks like being a viable alternative to proprietary operating systems including Windows and OS X for a broader group of PC users.
Ex-Linspire chief defects to Ubuntu
Former Linspire CEO Kevin Carmony has shown all the loyalty of a free agent athlete. Just a few months after resigning from Linspire, Carmony has traded in his old company's Linux operating system for Ubuntu.
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Linux Foundation to begin third annual desktop Linux survey
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, will announce its third annual desktop Linux survey on Oct. 17.
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Promoting your free software project
Bruce Byfield gives the community some advice on promoting their free software projects... don't forget fsdaily Bruce!
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Ubuntu Plans Eye Candy for Desktop Computers and Beyond
What would it take to get the hundreds of millions of desktop computer users to switch from Windows to Linux?
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Alert! Ubuntu is taking over the Earth. Resistance is futile - join now or be destroyed!
It use to be that when a Linux program came out it was geared to run on Fedora, PCLinuxOS, SUSE, and Gentoo Linux. This was good because anyone could use it on any distribution.
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GNU/Linux on its way to dominate by 2014?
You know, I've been hungering for some good old hard numbers to provide a major motivational kick in the butt and scream: "Yes, you ARE making a dent!!!" And I think I found my butt kicking leg: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6427/4/
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GIMP UI brainstorm
The GIMP UI team had a meeting and discussed the first 25 posts of the brainstorm, from our hello world up to filters as chains…
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Wikipedia Vs Software
So I, along with everyone else today, got forwarded this link which shows that Wikipedia has begun its journey from an edit-focused hive of activity, to read-only archive, as people stop editing the site. As one of the larger “open” projects, it can point to possibilities in the future for other projects. It also mirrors smaller projects, and the history we discovered years ago.
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