The port of gNewSense to MIPS for the Lemote Yeeloong laptop, 100% supported by free software, is almost complete. Buy the Yeeloong and help test it so the Yeeloong + gNewSense can be recommended as the ultimate free software laptop.
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The People of MySQL
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To be honest, commenting on personnel moves is not something that I enjoy doing. While I’m happy to weigh in on strategic directions, product launches and the like from vendors that I cover, the movement of people is generally something I try to leave to others, uncomfortably close to gossip as it is for me.
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Linux keeps growing market share.
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Not only is TuxRadar reporting that Linux Format magazine sales are up 13.3% over the last year, but I also find that my local book stores shelves appear to have much more Linux reference books on the shelves as well.
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When Will Linux Really Go Mainstream?
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Despite the Linux and Ubuntu netbook craze, I think there is a simple reason why Linux is not a mainstream solution for most users — yet. Let me explain.
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Samba - The Interoperability Dance
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Samba 4, currently the alpha development of Active Directory for Linux and Unix, has been in parallel development with Samba 3. Allison says "The ultimate goal for Samba 4 will be to merge with the Samba 3 file server code, something that is called "Frankie" internally, after Frankenstein, the merging of the body parts...
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Stop me if you've heard this one.
How many Windows programmers does it take to screw in a light bulb? None. They've declared darkness a standard.
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Boot camp
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Liveinfitnesscamp offer fit camps for men, women, and teens with fitness boot camp to come up with nutrition exercise, weightloss and behavior modification. Boot camp fitness is an excellent and complete fitness camp offered with 8 week body makeover, fitness retreat, nutrition tips, personal training, weight loss tips, and more.
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The Bizarre Cathedral - 40
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Latest from the Bizarre Cathedral comic strip by merc and crimperman
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What does it take to support Opensource and Linux
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Let's walk on the support side of the software world for a moment.
There is a lot of talk, postulating and plain old FUD about what support is and should be in the FOSS world.
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Ubuntu Users: Focused On the Wrong Market?
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Sometimes I don’t see eye to eye with the Ubuntu user community. For instance, I think Ubuntu Server Edition should be Canonical’s top priority for 2009. But only 8 percent of WorksWithU’s readers agree with me, according to a recent online poll we ran. Here’s why I’m right and 92 percent of WorksWithU’s readers are wrong.
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Announcing Document Freedom Day 09 / DFD Blog now online
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After a successful DFD08, the community is gathering for a second time to celebrate a global day for document liberation. Teams across the planet will join their efforts on 25th of March and send a strong message of Document Freedom and Open Standards.
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Brilliant Brainstorms #47 - Universal Applications
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Brilliant Brainstorms is a (usually) weekly summary of some of the best/most interesting brainstorms from the Ubuntu Brainstorm site. This week: making Evince open (for viewing only) almost any text document, spreadsheet, or photo; import your files from Windows during installation; allowing multiple application associated with file types;syncing usb pens.
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Why 100% Free Software Destroys Linux
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FTA:"...if we take a stand that our Linux-based desktops must only consist of 100% free and open source software… Linux is doomed to failure." [This is not my opinion. Can we get some decent responses to this from the FSDaily community?]
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Plasma Team Looks at the Future
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Over the last weekend, the Plasma team held their second meeting in Porto, Portugal... The purpose of Tokamak II was to design features and concepts to be worked on over the next year in Plasma and the KDE desktop.
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Bruce Perens: How Many Open Source Licenses Do You Need?
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"The Open Source initiative has, to date, approved 73 licenses. How many do you really need? If you're a company or individual producing Open Source software, no more than 4. And you can get along with just 2 of them."
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