Firefox 3 is coming! It’s been years in the coming and computers users worldwide are waiting with baited breath. Here’s what’s new, how YOU can help get Firefox into the Guinness book of records plus news about an exciting development – Firefox for mobile phones!
Read more »Firefox 3, the Guinness Book of Records, and mobile phones
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The mini-laptops of summer
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You're not the only one losing weight for beach season. The latest and least expensive breed of slimmed-down mobile PC--the mini-laptop--is ready for summer travel.
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Linux Threatens Microsoft Monopoly Overseas
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Totally ignoring the fact that this type of news is becoming the new norm everywhere but in the US, it does present a very serious question - how does Microsoft compete with free?
Read more »Linux haters be damned
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Lately it seems there’s a lot of hatred directed at Linux. I hear it on certain podcasts, read it on certain blogs and read it in certain articles. Some of these haters are feeling the heat of more and more people switching to Linux. Most of them make their livelihoods sucking on the Windows tit. They feel threatened and scared. It’s the human reaction of your world crumbling around you.
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Koreans to showcase open source experience in Cebu summit
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The local community will get a first-hand account of South Korea's open source experience from government and private executives visiting a national meet in Cebu later this month.
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The Bank of Common Knowledge
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"...The contents generated are Copyleft, and can be copied, redistributed or modified freely. Based on the organization of meetings among citizens, the Bank of Common Knowledge experiments with new forms of production, learning and citizen participation..."
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Is Java the new COBOL? Yes. What does that mean, exactly? (Part 1)
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"...Java is the new COBOL, whaaaat?[...]I believe that the 'Java is the new COBOL' is a politically correct way for saying "Java sucks"[...] I have been reading a lot about Richard Stallman, the free software advocate. He has one central theme that he uses to defend his free software movement; free software is not about the developers, it is about the users.
Read more »Maybe We Should Charge For Linux
http://www.linuxtoday.com –
As history shows, while being free (gratis) is an advantage, it has not brought people over in waves. When people come to Linux, they cite other advantages first, and sometimes mention the gratis part only as an after-thought.
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Are There Any Evil Distros?
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If you take a gander at the number of Linux distributions listed at Distrowatch, you'll find there are tons of "forks" and "offshoots" from one distribution to another. With Linux, we have the freedom to do that, but I'm curious if there are any Linux flavors that are truly offensive to people.
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Grassroots OLPC Jam scheduled for this weekend
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This weekend, the One Laptop per Child movement in New York City is holding an OLPC "Grassroots Jam" at the Manhattan Neighborhood Network. The Jam is a gathering of volunteer educators, content creators, artists, writers, programmers, engineers, and others who want to help create a central server for NYC schools that already make use of OLPC laptops.
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Linux’s Chance to Leap Ahead of Apple And Microsoft
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Apple and Microsoft are both in a situation where they are essentially forced, due to past mistakes or a lack of foresight, to spend a significant amount of time making behind-the-scenes changes. In this time, Linux could potentially get a real leg up on other OSs.
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The Inevitability of Open Source Windows
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The FOSS (Free/Open Source Software) Community knows, thanks to leaked Microsoft internal documents, that since about 1998 Microsoft has been in a sort of war against them. Because of this, it is not surprising that the FOSS community has looked at Microsoft with suspicion and has vilified it to no end. But, is Microsoft really evil?
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Finally, it's time for Wine
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Fifteen years in the making, everyone's favorite software to run Windows programs on Linux and Unix, Wine, is almost ready for its 1.0 release.
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Changes to Gobuntu
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"Hi all, The Gobuntu development team would like to announce that after 8.04 release of Gobuntu, the project will aim to merge many of the Gobuntu changes into mainline Ubuntu, such as our "Free Software Only" installer option which only installs software considered free by the Free Software Foundation's definition of software freedom.
Read more »Mark Shuttleworth Interview by Linux-Magazine Italia
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Vincenzo Ciaglia from Linux-Magazine Italia sent me a few questions related to the release of 8.04 LTS. Since he was going to translate the conversation into Italian this week, he was happy for me to blog the English version here.
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