As you may have noticed, there's a bit of a virtual shindig going on in celebration of GNU's 25th birthday (including Stephen Fry's wonderfully British salute, which really, er, takes the cake....).
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Ubuntu's Shuttleworth ramps up to take on Apple
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For years there have been those that have accused Ubuntu of not contributing enough to the upstream development of Linux.
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Why isn't Ubuntu the number 1 operating system?
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There's a great office suite and Ubuntu Studio, a version created especially for audio, video and graphic enthusiasts. The interface is easy to use, media capabilities and even gaming are now mainstream on Ubuntu. So why aren't users switching 'en masse' to Ubuntu?
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Ubuntu to work more with larger Linux community
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Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, announced in his blog that Canonical will be "hiring a team who will work on X, OpenGL, Gtk, Qt, GNOME and KDE, with a view to doing some of the heavy lifting required to turn those desktop experience ideas into reality." "Those desktop experiences ideas" are Ubuntu's design ideas.
Read more »Some Reasons NOT to use Linux. Ever. At all.
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It's interesting to see all the blogs and articles telling how many reasons there are to use Linux or Windows. I thought I would share some of the ideas that popped into mind for not using Linux, ever, after glancing over a few.
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Software Freedom Day is Coming
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Mark your calendars: this year's Software Freedom Day is September 20 (the third Saturday in September). If you're looking for an occasion to help out with the spread of free and open source software, that's a great one.
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Second Life Recognizes its Open Source Contributors
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Each year, Linden Labs, the folks behind online virtual world Second Life hold the Linden Lab Innovation Awards, dubbed the Hippos. This year Linden recognized the achievements and contributions of seven members of its open source community.
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Interview with Alexandre Julliard - Head of the Wine Project / CTO of CodeWeavers
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In this interview we talk with Alexandre. In specific, we talk about:
* Developing an open source project in cadence with Windows
* Philosophies about how Linux should reach out to Windows users
* The leadership model used in the Wine project and deciding what goes in
* Deciding what applications to support and what to leave out
Black Duck Joins The Linux Foundation
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BlackDuck joins Linux consortium to collaborate with industry’s leading open source legal experts
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Ubuntu manpages repository
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This site contains nearly 300,000 HTML viewable manpages included in Ubuntu releases (Dapper, Feisty, Gutsy, Hardy, Intrepid) and across all of (main, universe, restricted, multiverse) and across all languages where manpages are available. It is automatically updated daily.
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Software Freedom Day 2008
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This September 20, we will once again commemorate the Software Freedom Day (SFD).
Read more »Red Flag Linux Olympic Edition fails to medal
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Red Flag is China's biggest Linux supplier. The Red Flag Linux distribution is based on Red Hat Linux. Red Flag recently announced the release of a beta edition of Red Flag Linux 7, called "Olympic Edition." While it contains the expected bugs of a beta system, it also gives us an opportunity to preview the next release of Red Flag. What I saw didn't blow me away.
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Second Life recognizes open source community with 2008 awards
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Linden Lab, creator of the online virtual space Second Life, recognized the accomplishments of outstanding individuals in its open source community this week at its Linden Lab Innovation Awards. Seven winners were announced at a "mixed reality" ceremony held both at a convention center in Florida and simultaneously within the Second Life system.
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Design, user experience and development at Canonical
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When you present yourself on the web, you have 15 seconds to make an impression, so aspiring champions of the web 2.0 industry have converged on a good recipe for success:
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Fedora, Red Hat, and distributor security
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On August 22, the Fedora Project released an "infrastructure report" confirming what most observers had, by then, suspected: the project had suffered a major security breach. The attacker got as far as a system used to sign packages distributed by Fedora.
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