Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth has declared more publicity would be generated for open source software if the three large desktop projects of KDE, GNOME, and OpenOffice.org agreed on a common and regular release cycle.
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Parallels releases modified Wine source - LinuxWorld
Open-source developer Parallels finally released the source code for the Wine software used by Parallels Desktop 3.0 on Monday -- but only after weeks of prodding by Wine developers and negative publicity on the IT forum Slashdot.
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Elive - Are You Ready for a New Linux Experience?
When we hear Debian, we think of something humongous, a still heavyweight champion among Linux distributions worldwide. Many distributions were, are and will be based on Debian Linux.
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Writing screen and stage plays with Celtx
Finally, there is a free software package that makes writing screenplays easy.
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Using VirtualBox to run Ubuntu and any other operating system
A virtual machine creates a virtual hard drive as well as a virtual computer, so you can install and run it from within another operating system. If you want to get rid of the virtualized (also known as the guest) operating system, just delete the virtual hard disk from the real (host) computer’s hard drive.
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GConf — GNOME under the hood
To put things short, Gconf is a system built in GNOME 2 which stores applications’ preferable configuration data as well as graphical environment variables in its own files (think: GNOME registry). I’d like you to get familiar with the Gconf tool’s functions, engineering, and usage with this article.
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Through the looking-glass, how others see us. Still no picture of Mobily though, so there may be some truth in the rumour that he looks just like Richard Stallman, without the beard. That should make him easy to recognise, shouldn't it?
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Are top Linux developers losing the will to code?
Core Linux developers are finding themselves managing and checking, rather than coding, as the number of kernel contributors grows and the contributor network becomes more complex.
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Motorola Releases Open Source Middleware
"Motorola (Quote) announced Thursday that it has released version 1 of an open source project aimed at providing a standard for high-availability middleware for telecommunications hardware manufacturers and ISVs."
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Linus Torvalds on Core 2 Duo Errata: "Totally insignificant"
“These processors are buggy as hell, and some of these bugs don’t just cause development/debugging problems, but will *ASSUREDLY* be exploitable from userland code," Raadt said.
Read more »Thin clients and OLPC at OLS day three
The third day of the Ottawa Linux Symposium (OLS) featured Jon 'maddog' Hall talking about his dreams for the spread of the Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) throughout the third world as an inexpensive, environmentally friendly way of helping get another billion people on the Internet, along with an update on the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, and several other talks.
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Troubleshooting Linux Audio, Part 1
I present here a primer in three parts for troubleshooting common and uncommon problems with the Linux sound system. Parts 1 & 2 will present programs used to analyze and configure your audio setup. Part 3 will list the most frequently encountered problems along with their suggested solutions.
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Set-up a Ubuntu webcam security system
"Have you ever wanted to spy see on what is going on in your home while you are away? Motion is a piece of open source software that acts as a motion detector."
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The Global Software Industry in Transformation: After GPLv3
Eben Moglen discusses the transformation of the software industry that will follow GPLv3.
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Scribe (Back To The Future according to Douglas Crockford?)
JSON is a data interchange format specified by Douglas Crockford, an alternative to XML. So, it seems to me that it's useful to know his point of view about SGML syntax compared to Scrib. Remain to know if the Web would have been different from that which we know if TBL had chosen Scrib instead of SGML for HTML syntax.
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