Maybe you remember the two posts I made about the Ubuntu Wanted site. The idea now has got 83 votes and I’ve already created a blueprint. Now it is also being discussed at the ubuntu-website mailist.
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Hi BIOS! My Name Is “Linux”, Or Is It?
http://tech.shantanugoel.com –
A couple of days ago, I read this on Matthew Garrette’s blog, where he tells us about a vendor’s BIOS trying to figure out the OS type/version and setting things around on deciding the OS it is running.
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Richard Stallman - to talk at Waikato University
http://nordickiwi.no-ip.com –
"...Back in February of this year I saw Richard Stallman talk at KTH here in Stockholm and was thoroughly impressed. I plucked up the courage to go up to him after the meeting and talk to him. The resulting conversation ended with him offering to talk in my hometown of Hamilton in New Zealand..."
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4.1 is out and i, too, am going to akademy.
http://aseigo.blogspot.com –
KDE 4.1 was released last week and there has been a lot of positive coverage in the press and the blogosphere about it... The hiatus is over: I'm back.
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GNOME Layout
http://jaysonrowe.wordpress.com –
I’m a relatively new GNOME user, but as a long-time KDE and Windows user, and a single panel at the bottom, with some sort of menu on the left hand corner just “makes sense” to me. I’ve often wondered why more of the popular Linux distro’s don’t adopt what most new user’s to Linux would feel as “normal” as a default layout.
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Open the Windows; the Stench is Unbearable
http://advice.cio.com –
Heard the joke about the three engineers riding in a car that starts sputtering along the highway? The electrical engineer suggests they check the ignition. The mechanical engineer suggests they check the transmission. The computer engineer suggests they pull over, turn the car off and start it up again.
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Practical Common Lisp Japanese translation
http://www.gigamonkeys.com –
"I was recently notified – somewhat to my suprise – that the Japanese publisher Ohmsha is publishing a Japanese translation of Practical Common Lisp which should now be avaliable in bookstores and on amazon.co.jp..." --
* Practical Common Lisp: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
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Linux User Here
http://practical-tech.com –
Color me surprised. Dana Blankenhorn, a well-known writer about Linux and open source recently asked for someone—anyone–to send him a loaner Linux laptop to replace his now dead Windows laptop. What, he didn’t already have one?
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Exploring Freedom: the book
http://aboutfoo.com –
"Coming this October, Exploring Freedom: the book. [...] Our first product will be our book, Exploring Freedom. Based on the articles from our blogs, plus new material from Matt Lee, Rob Myers and others..." --
* [FSF] Interview with Rob Myers by Matt Lee: http://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2007/fall/rob-myers/
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GNU Hurd wiki: git repo now available though Savannah
http://lists.gnu.org –
"...There is read-only access for everyone and read-write access for people that are registered with the Hurd Savannah group..." --
* git repo: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=hurd/wiki.git
* web-commits: http://www.bddebian.com/~wiki/
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emacs-rails forked & Emacs tips # 2: complete
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Dmitry Galinsky, the original author of emacs-rails mode has decided to fork the project... You can clone it from: git clone http://dima-exe.ru/git/rails-reloaded.git --
* yasnippet: yet another snippet extension for Emacs: http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/
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Bruce Perens: Microsoft and Apache - What's the Angle?
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com –
Has Redmond given up the fight? Or is this just their latest strategy?
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Linux Contest That You Can Win
http://www.daniweb.com –
Plat'Home, Linux pioneers in Japan and creators of the diminutive OpenMicroServer, are running a contest called "Will Linux Work?" They are basically asking people to submit crazy/extreme environments or ideas using their Linux servers and see if they work.
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http://scienceblogs.com –
...there will be people who look at the computer that costs a third of a Mac and half of a Windows-infected box and pick the one they can afford that does what they need it to do.
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on the many roads to perdition
http://wingolog.org –
"Reflecting earlier today on some crappiness in a software project I'm involved in, my brain started to enumerate the ways that free software projects can fail.
The maintainer can go AWOL. The major culprits for this are babies, university thesis advisors, and Google.
This is pernicious in two ways: ..."
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