When it comes to April Fool's day, even, or perhaps especially, the Ubuntu developers have a sense of humor. As a little thank you present to all their users, they've pushed out a little April Fools prank of their own. I don't want to spoil it for you, but you might not think of yourself as such a good casual gamer after this.
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Australia introduces licences for internet users
Internet users in Australia will have to take out licences from the next financial year else they will not be allowed to use the web, official sources told iTWire today.
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Linux, It Does a Body Good: Approachable Promotion Efforts
Remember the IBM "Peace, Love, Linux" campaign? I remember seeing Tux's smiling face on taxi cab billboards (and spray painted on sidewalks) all over Boston. I can't discount that the ad's approach and playfulness wasn't some sort of subliminal influence.
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IBM in Negotiations to Acquire Novell
IBM still looking for the breakthrough deal with Big Red mond
"JAVA was just too powerful for us to have," confessed Bob Satire, "so we decided to pursue a once-in-a-lifetime contract opportunity with Microsoft by buying a poor-but-functional copy of its key technology - called Perro - along with its parent company.
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Why silence is better than 10 reasons
This is a deconstruction of 10 reasons why GNOME is better than KDE, which is pretty obviously a piece of flame-bait. I’m in the mood for dissecting arguments.
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Linux April 1st Fools 2009
A collection of the April fools created by the Linux community
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Sharing, Contributing... and Caching
This story is part bug hunt, part open-source love-story. The bug was a particularly gnarly, beautiful little bug and I'm going to try to convey some of that to you.
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It all started with a request for help from Jesper Krogh in one of the first responses to Torvalds's announcement March 24 of Kernel 2.6.29 on the gmane.linux.kernel mailing list.
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Linux Foundation Welcomes credativ
The Linux Foundation welcomed its newest member today, the European-based free and open source standards consulting firm, credativ.
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Why Desktop Linux Matters
Red Hat's CEO, Jim Whitehurst, spoke out strongly recently against the possibility of Linux ever taking over the desktop computers of the world. His comments may reflect Red Hat's increasing distance from reality, but I don't think they're grounded in facts. Here's why.
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Does the Linux Desktop Need to Be Revolutionized Android-style?
So, a few days ago, I got a spankin’ new T-Mobile G1. This has resulted in a lot of hands-on experience with the user interface of Google’s Android platform. I can’t help but compare the Android OS to Openmoko Linux.
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Why do I like Debian
I get asked that question a lot. Up until now, it has been a bit difficult to put it into words for me. I finally figured it out today.
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ODF Award Insults the Community, Rewards Proponent of Non-Free Software
An ODF award is granted to a man who seems to have harmed Free software and contributed little or nothing to ODF
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Linus Torvalds – One of the Greatest Men Alive?
Being 39 years of age, Linus Torvalds was born on the 28th of December 1969 in Helsinki, Finland. Though the fact that he graduated the Helsinki University with a Master's degree in computer science may not seem very interesting, you should know that the University's decision to hold a UNIX course during his years there was one of the things that led to the creation of Linux.
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Beware of so-called Linux proponents
Every now and then you stumble across a blog that is run by a so-called Linux enthusiast. But when you start to look a little closer, you will see that they spread the SOFUD.
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