In no less than two days I've read a flurry of articles pooh-poohing the Linux desktop as a veritable delusion and a fairy story -- something to tell young GTK+ coders before you tuck them in at night. It isn't the year of the Linux desktop; it's the year of the Linux catfight.
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Why Ubuntu is important to me
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Lets start with the reason why I chose for Ubuntu: ShipIt. It’s not that I would stop using Ubuntu if that service would seize to exist, but I just wouldn’t have found Ubuntu if it hadn’t exististed back in 2005. I started with using Linux after my brother tried Knoppix and installed it on his computer. We both had very old computers and Windows XP was just too slow to run smoothly on them.
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The "I'm Linux" Video Contest
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If you've been alive and aware of mass media over the last twelve months, you've probably seen television commercials from Apple and Microsoft touting their operating system. From Apple's ubiquitous "I'm a Mac" to Jerry Seinfeld to Microsoft's "I'm a PC" retort, operating system commercials have been flooding the airways. Except one OS has been notably absent – Linux.
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The Linux desktop isn't your father's PC
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Much of the time when I write about the evolution of Linux or the evolution of the client, I get lots of comments revolving around the lack of popular games for Linux or whether the GIMP can replace Photoshop. And, of course, the partisans for whom it's important whether Linux "wins" or "loses" to Windows or Mac OS X jump in with their various ideological objectives.
Read more »FLOSS Manuals sprints to build quality free documentation
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Documentation is one area in which free/libre/open source software (FLOSS) is weakest. A project called FLOSS Manuals is trying to remedy this situation. The idea behind project is to create quality, free documentation for free software.
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Why I believe in Ubuntu
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In response to Jono’s excellent blogpost about the Ubuntu Ethos here’s why I believe in Ubuntu.
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The real value of Linux
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There will never be a "Year of the Linux desktop", but I don't think that is actually all that important. Here's why.
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Yet again, desktop Linux won't claim a year
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"[Insert year here] is the year of the Linux desktop!" That has been the Linux community's refrain since at least 2001. Yet it never comes true.
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The Ubuntu Ethos
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I love working with the Ubuntu community. I love the opportunities, challenges and people that occupy it. Each day is filled with a diverse tapestry of challenges, be it growing new teams, refining governance, developing strategy, or simply chewing the fat with Ubuntu and upstream contributors from around the world. No day is ever the same.
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Rails and Merb Merge
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"Today is a fairly momentous day in the history of Ruby web frameworks. You will probably find the news I’m about to share with you fairly shocking, but I will attempt to explain the situation..."
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Linux's '09 Outlook: Everywhere, Even On Windows Machines
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It sounded like a wild hook for a story, to put it mildly: In 2009, it is said, Linux will ship on more PCs than Windows. So I sat down with Jim Zemlin of the Linux Foundation to explain his reasoning behind such a statement. He did, and I learned about great many other forward-looking insights for Linux in '09, too.
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Ubuntu tries marketing slogan, fails
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Hey, we like Linux, which is why we're a tad concerned by Ubuntu's efforts to come up with a hip training slogan.
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The annoyances of proprietary Firefox extensions
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As a regular browser of the Firefox Add-ons site, I'm troubled by the apparent proliferation of proprietary extensions in the last year. Maybe I've simply exhausted the free-licensed extensions that interest me, but recently every interesting-looking extension seems to be a proprietary one -- especially in the recommended list.
Read more »Interview with Warren Woodford - Founder of Mepis
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In this interview we talk with Warren. In specific, we talk about:
* The origins of SimplyMEPIS
* Ubuntu’s role in the larger community
* Differences among distros from a developer perspective
* Corporate use of free versus for-fee Linux
* The Linux desktop and the future of client-side Linux
* Future directions of note: IPv6 and DNSSEC
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Interview with Samba's Jeremy Allison
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Jeremy Allison's contributions to the free software world are legion, and yet the project he's best known for continues to be Samba, the open implementation of some of Microsoft's most important networking protocols.
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