Here i have got some awesome desktop views of various linux editions. So i thought it would be a better idea to publish all these under the title “Best GNU/linux desktops of 2008″. Please analyse each of them and feel free to comment on each..
Read more »Where do community managers fit?
Our good friend Joe Brockmeier, community manager for openSUSE, has just started blogging for ZDnet. In one of his inaugural posts, he ruminates over where a community manager belongs in corporate structure: engineering or marketing? His post was in response to Stormy Peters, who thinks the support team is a good place.
Read more »HP: We Don't Need No Stinkin' Vista
If your plan is to strong-arm customers into offering your products exclusively, you had better give them something people want to buy. With Microsoft and Windows Vista, such is not the case, and Hewlett-Packard isn't taking it lying down.
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On standards and standards bodies
What does it mean to be open. My copy of Oxford defines open as: unconcealed circumstances or condition. Way back in the day when the GNU operating system was getting going, they coined the mantra: Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of free as in free speech, not as in free beer.
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Dude, I'm Wantin' a Dell
The New Dell Inspirion Mini 9 may well become my best friend. I noticed today that Dell is previewing their new line of Mini Notebook computers and they are impressive. The Dell Inspirion Mini 9 is Dell's entry into the mini notebook market at a very low price point: $349.
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100 Must-have Web Tools for Telecommuters- Best of the Best
In this collection, you'll see 100 tools for taking care of business from anywhere in the world, whether you're in your home office or on a Tahitian beach.
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Announcing the Ubuntu Manpage Repository: manpages.ubuntu.com
I love the Ubuntu Wiki, and I think the Official Ubuntu Documentation is great! These are two important reasons why Ubuntu has been such a successful Linux distribution.
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Ubuntu documentation in shreds
An ambitious plan to smarten up the online documentation for Linux distro Ubuntu has ended in failure.
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Who’s going to pay for open source software?
This week theme has been "who's going to pay for open source?" It's shown up in a number of blogs, like Matt Asay's.
Read more »Ubuntu is really boring me on my desktop
Isn’t is strange that I could get a server to run on Gentoo, Arch, or FreeBSD, but not on Ubuntu. Seriously, this is not right. Ubuntu is supposed to make things easier.
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Mark Shuttleworth Having Cold Feet?
While surfing the net I read this article from The Register which states that Mark Shuttleworth is “nervous of encouraging people to substitute Windows for Linux”. My first impression was What? Why? Must be a typo or he must have been misquoted. I hope so, because if the main financial contributor behind Ubuntu does not believe in it, how should we the end users feel?
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Why I Use Linux
Why Linux? I think every Linux user gets asked that question sooner or later, and just about every Linux blog has a post titled something like “10 Reasons to Use Linux,” or “Five Reasons Why Linux is Better Then Windows.”
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Cracking the GNU/Linux Security Cliché
One of the jibes about GNU/Linux from the closed-source crowd is that the only reason there are so few security exploits against it is that its market share is too small for crackers to care. Against that background, the following development must represent some kind of milestone:
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Linux Foundation to host End User Collaboration Summit
The Linux Foundation plans to hold an End User Collaboration Summit in New York City in October. The press release we received introducing the event said, "It's by invitation, but registration is free, in keeping with the idea of opening it to 'real' end users.
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Why Buy Dell Over System 76 Or ZaReason
Those of us in the market today for a Linux laptop, particularly if our distribution of choice is Ubuntu, are really quite lucky to have so many good choices.
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