I support Linux and the free software movement. I appreciate all the hard work that the community has put into free software. However, we need a solid base of what Linux is. Every distribution their own package management, file system structure, and set of tools that is different.
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Dell at Red Hat Summit and FUDCon
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This week, Dell will be out "in force" at the Red Hat Summit in Boston. If you're attending the show, be sure to stop by the Dell booth in the expo area, where we'll have one of our new PowerEdge M1000e modular blade enclosures on hand, as well as a Precision M6300 mobile workstation (coincidentally sold with Red Hat Enterprise Linux installed).
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Wine 1.0 is now available
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The Wine team is proud to announce that Wine 1.0 is now available. This is the first stable release of Wine after 15 years of development and beta testing. Many thanks to everybody who helped us along that long road!
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Zmanda CEO To Discuss Open Source Backup and Recovery at Red Hat Summit 08'
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Zmanda CEO, Chander Kant, to discuss why an open source backup and recovery software solution is a key element of a comprehensive data protection strategy.
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Linux Users Recognize GoDaddy.com for Open Source Offerings
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The magazine of one of the most prominent open source development tools is hailing a Scottsdale, Arizona-based Internet site as its “Favorite Linux-Friendly Web Hosting Company.” According to the “Linux Journal,” GoDaddy.com won an annual Readers’ Choice award for working hard on its Linux hosting offerings.
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Why Linux is not coming to a desktop near you
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For many years now, Linux has been a remarkable success story at the server level. However, at the desktop level, the tale is patchy - there are some success stories but for the most part one factor or another holds back the operating system from repeating its feats.
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Interview with Clint Savage, Fedora Ambassador
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Please welcome our guest today, Clint Savage, Founder of the Utah Open Source Foundation, and Fedora Ambassador. He is also a Linux Instructor by way of profession. Having met him in person and finding him a neat and interesting person, it seemed appropriate to find out more about him. I contacted him via email and asked a few questions, to which he was kind enough to respond.
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Like the future, open source is already here, it's just unevenly distributed. In particular, Latin America is emerging as a real hotbed of not only free software coding, but free software uptake by governments - to an extent that puts the UK's pathetic bumblings in this area quite to shame.
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Nicely handled, Thawte!
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I was delighted to see Thawte’s elegant handling of the recent OpenSSL random number generator flaw in Debian, Ubuntu and other Debian derivatives. They offered a free replacement for anyone who was affected.
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Compiere launches open source forum
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Open source business applications provider Compiere has launched the Compiere Community Wiki to enable collaboration and information sharing across its open source community.
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Where Is Mainstream Video Content On Desktop Linux?
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One has to admit, regardless of their feelings of just how idiotic the idea behind Digital Rights Management (DRM) may be, it is frustrating to watch the other two platforms have content we cannot enjoy ourselves.
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Microsoft now sponsor of Open Source Census
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Microsoft has become a sponsor of The Open Source Census, a project started earlier this year that aims to track and catalog the use of open-source software in enterprises worldwide, the group announced Monday.
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The People Behind Mesa 3D
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Following our article looking at the state of X.Org (along with announcing the release of X Server 1.4.1), we proceeded to share the contributors behind the X Server -- both the individual developers and companies involved with fostering the growth of this important free software package since 1999.
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Some history for ubuntu and worst releases
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Canonical releases a new ubuntu every 6 months and time to time it does a LTS (long term support) release which is suppose to be most stable. And are they really that stable
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Firefox 3 inflames the browser wars, but why should we care?
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The rekindled web browser battle will crank up a notch this week with the release of Firefox 3.0, but I just can’t muster any excitement I’m afraid.
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