Recently I've been quoted by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for questioning the need for the LSB Package API. The kind of conversation going on over the LSB Package API has been a recurring theme ever since I started using Linux, and it contains quite a few fallacies I would like to put down.
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Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It
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– The book is available to download under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 license: Download PDF.
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Portrait: Michelle Bisson balances consulting with Joomla! volunteerism
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"I've always done the things that nobody else wanted to do," Michelle Bisson says, explaining how she became the only woman on the core team for the Joomla! content management system. "I say, 'Oh, that needs to be done?
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Thank You Mr. Mint
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I just learned today that my review of Mint 5 “Elyssa” got noticed by the creator and main developer of the hottest distro in town himself, Clem Lefebvre. I thank him for taking the time to write about my Elyssa review on The Linux Mint Blog.
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20 Reasons Linux Users Like Linux (and you might, too)
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One of the major inhibitors to the spreading of Linux, as I see it, is that people don’t know why they should try it. Other reasons may include lack of support for their favorite game, or that Photoshop doesn’t run on Linux. For those of us who weren’t stopped by those reasons, why did we switch? What is it about Linux that makes it a viable alternative?
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Linux Laptops: The Ultimate Birthday Present?
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My brother-in-law wants to buy his daughter a cost-effective laptop for her 13th birthday. As I made my recommendations, I realized the terrible bind consumers currently face. He’s frustrated with Windows, too price sensitive to buy a MacBook and vaguely familiar with Linux. Here’s where the conversation went, and how you can help his decision process.
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What does it mean to be an Open Source author? A story from the inside
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I hear daily about open source projects, the open source business model, what it means in terms of freedom, choice, risks, investment, etc... What I rarely hear about is what is life like for those who actually contribute and dedicate a part of their life to open source?
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I'm looking at the latest batch of updates for Ubuntu 8.04, 17 in all. One set of updates is for the kernel. That's right, yet another kernel update. And why are we updating the kernel this time? So that we can shave 3 seconds off the boot-up sequence, from 36 seconds to 33 seconds. Here's the bug (240938).
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Will the internet really improve the way we think?
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In a recent interview with the British Sunday Observer, Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, claimed that “it’s the next billion [internet users] who will change the way we think”. Such a big claim deserves some critical house room. Will the internet really change the way we think? Or are we just getting carried away?
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How-To keep busy : Ten things to do this summer
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Summer holiday boredom won't set in if you keep this list handy. :)
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Clashes over goals force top LinuxChix to quit
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Mary Gardiner, the Australia-based coordinator of international group LinuxChix has resigned due to a major mismatch in goals.
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Linux developers petition for open Linux kernel drivers
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Insisting that they have "repeatedly found them to be detrimental to Linux users, businesses, and the greater Linux ecosystem," today the Linux kernel community has started petitioning for open-source modules and open-source drivers for the Linux kernel.
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Stop the Blob?
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It's all over the Internet now: the Linux kernel developers have issued a statement urging vendors to release open source device drivers/modules. The point is that the timing is actually wrong.
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Building open-source acceptance
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Children are taught as early as preschool that sharing is an essential part of learning to get along with others. Yet some people still can't grasp the concept of sharing code or they reject open source because of the monetary value of ideas, said Jim Whitehurst, president and CEO of Red Hat, at the recent Red Hat Summit in Boston.
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