"RailsConf is going down next week in Vegas. I’m sure it’s going to be a great show and can’t wait to get out there. A few of the presenters have been blogging about the presentations that they’re doing..." -- see also Rinari: Ruby on Rails Minor Mode for Emacs ;)
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Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring is now available
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The Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring range is now available in the office format which corresponds to your choice, KDE, GNOME or LXDE and all this in more than 70 languages. You will find following version: Free edition (100% open source software) in 2 DVDs for 32 and 64 architecture, One edition (installable live CD, available in KDE and GNOME versions). All Mandriva Linux isos are hybrid one.
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Are there too many desktop Linuxes?
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I like choice. I like being able to pick just the right operating system for the right job. But, when I look in the mirror, I don't see an ordinary user. Most people want to use 1 (one) operating system and that's more than enough for them.
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Debian and LXDE
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I’ve been trying to use Linux since 94. It replaced XP as my desktop OS in 2004, and I’ve been using it exclusively since then. So it’s rather puzzling to me I’ve never installed Debian. For whatever reason, yesterday was the first time I ever completed a Debian installation.
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The Great Mixer Debate (or, Where Did All My Sliders Go?)
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Those of you - you poor, poor people - who read the Fedora development mailing list - were treated this week to a flamefest regarding the change to the official GNOME audio volume control applications which will appear in Fedora 11.
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Open Letter to Larry Ellison about OpenOffice.org
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I'm sure there are many reasons for Oracle buying Sun. You might not be having meetings this week about OpenOffice.org. You might be having meetings next week about spinning it off into a foundation. But if you keep interest or control over OpenOffice.org, please consider the following.
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FLISoL Bogotá 2009 - The good, the bad and the ugly
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The Good
There were roughly 30 installers overall. 121 machines got worked on. Roughly 100 of them got a GNU/Linux installed/updated on them. 55 of them were Ubuntus (and such), 21 of them got Debians (no love for RPMs here in Bogotá, guys.... sorry), 12 of them got Mandriva, 4 of them got OpenSuSE, 2 got Fedoras plus a few others.
PCLinuxOS comes to my rescue
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OK it was my fault! There I've said it and its true. I broke one of the rules for Ubuntu Linux which basically said "Thou shalt not use the upgrade feature in Synaptic."
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How to decide whether desktop Linux makes sense
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Eight questions to help you determine if now is the time to find a place for desktop Linux in your organization
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This is Why Lenovo Sucks at Linux
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I had to read this story Lenovo analyst: Linux on netbooks is doomed" several times because I couldn't quite believe what I was reading. Was this really Lenovo's Worldwide Competitive Analyst saying things like "You have to know how to decompile codes and upload data"? Really?
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Aussies, Kiwis enter Google Summer of Code
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Eight Australians and five Kiwis have made the cut for the 2009 Google Summer of Code, announced today.
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Aaron Seigo Talks About KDE's Past and Future
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Aaron Seigo is one of the most public faces of the KDE desktop. Not only is he a long-time developer, but, for the past three years, he has been president of KDE e.V., the German non-profit that handles the project's financial and legal affairs.
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Linux will only ever be niche, says Lenovo analyst
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"LINUX IN NETBOOKS and notebooks I don't think is ever going to happen," Lenovo's world-wide competitive analyst, Matt Kohut, has said in an interview, remarking that the open source software would never attain anything more than niche status as an OS.
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It’s all about communication
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"About one week ago the new Fellowship web page was launched. It’s a great improvement over the old one. Finally we have a first-class blogging platform, a first class wiki and a planet to aggregate all weblogs of FSFE’s Fellows. I think this components already show that communication (blogs, planet) and collaboration (wiki) is an essential part of the Fellowship.
Read more »What would the open source community do with $US9.1 billion?
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I couldn't help think that question this morning when the news came through from the US that Microsoft will increase its R&D spend by $US1 billion bringing its total to $US9.1 billion every year.
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