HOW many Linux users do you know who, once they have installed a new distribution, are so happy with its default appearance that they leave it alone?
Read more »Why Linux Developers Are Wasting Their Time
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Move Your Tux: Show your appreciation to Linux (Oops…I mean Linus Torvalds)
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When you received a favor from someone, you show your appreciation. When you love someone, you also show your appreciation. Now, Linus Torvalds did all of us a favor by releasing that Linux source code in year 1991 and we all love Linux, so how are we going to show our appreciation?
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Time's a' Wastin'
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When I woke up this morning and started checking the news feeds for stuff to link to, I noticed a high degree of "Bill Gates' last day" stories out on the wires. Curiously, a number of them speculated on the eventual health of Microsoft; the implication being that without Gates, Microsoft will implode. Sure.
Read more »Time for open source to build a Code Recycling Center
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orporations hold a ton of open source code behind their firewalls, and Jim Whitehurst wants to extract it. The Red Hat CEO knows whereof he speaks. Before joining the company he was at Delta Air Lines. In introducing the subject Matt Asay called this code waste. Which gave me a clever idea. Don’t think of these as corporate code contributions. Think of it as code recycling.
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My First Linux Desktop
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Over the last two decades, I have used every flavour of Windows and Mac OS, but 'til now had never used a Linux desktop.
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Full Circle Magazine Issue 14 is Out
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This month, we’re proud to introduce a new column, Command and Conquer. We’ll be taking a look at the command line and hopefully how to make it a little less scary for you.
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Attention Linux Shoppers: The $275 Laptop
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The VAR Guy is always looking for a bargain. And he just spotted one. The ASUS Eee PC — that little Linux laptop — is going on sale. Here’s the scoop.
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Using Tux Typing with my Vietnamese students
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This summer, my Vietnamese Immersion Students at the American International School will spend about three weeks learning how to touch type in my computer class with Tux Typing, an open source typing tutorial program.
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Pushing the Glacier
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Free and Open Source Software is a wonderful thing. I use it everyday. Whether it is OpenOffice.org for writing this article, using Firefox to do research for this article, or using VideoLAN to listen to some streaming Internet radio courtesy of Ormgas, I know that I am saving money, time, and hard disk space by not using the commercial alternatives.
Read more »Improvements in KDE’s Folderview
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One of the most interesting new features in KDE 4.1 is the new Folderview plasmoid. With the release of KDE 4.1 Beta 2 several small improvements.
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And finally… that is a big NO-NO
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We need users. Users don’t need us. So better do it good. I hope I misunderstood previous posts that I have read on the planet. We don’t need certain users that are completely useless for the project, but sure we need the 99,99% that are normal people, with wishes reported and contributing in a very different ways.
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"Aaron, we owe you" or "Why I am happy that Nepomuk is not as popular as Plasma"
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Aaron and the Plasma devs are trying something really innovative here, trying to bring a new level of usability and beauty to our desktop. This is not an easy task but nonetheless they do it and IMHO they succeed. And what do they get for it: bashing and complaint over complaint.
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Does KDE even need (certain) users?
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So, this is a rant. Please don't quote me on this article, as my opinion might have changed a day after posting. In the meantime, there's a rant I've been meaning to write for a long time that I've put off since I'm officially wearing the KDE Marketing hat. Tonight, I take it off.
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Interview with Jean-Philippe Guillemin, Zenwalk’s creator
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Zenwalk is one of the most promising Linux distribution. Based on Slackware, the distro is lightweight, simple and stable. We decided to make some questions to Jean-Philippe Guillemin, Zenwalk’s creator, regarding future plans and developments about this “GNU-Linux Operating System”.
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A Cow Says Moo!
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Once upon a time, ASCII art was practiced in e-mail messages sent around the world. Unfortunately, fancy fonts and HTML-ized e-mails have struck a powerful blow to this ancient and noble art form.
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