I began searching online for solutions to my various minor difficulties. And I was amazed at what I found. In every case, others had had similar problems, and in every case people had offered helpful suggestions as to how to fix them. It was a wonderful vindication of the entire open source way, of people helping each other by passing on their personal discoveries.
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Top 5 ways not to be a Linux evangelist
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As I ate dinner at a recent LUG meeting, I found myself pleasantly surrounded by a group of people with the same intense passion. We all shared a thorough love for the beneficial and effective Linux operating system.
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Free BlackBerry downloads: 5 open-source mobile apps
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Contrary to popular belief, when it comes to software, open source does not always mean "free." Not always...but in this case, it does.
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Word War vi 0.12
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Word War vi is your basic side-scrolling shoot ‘em up ’80s style arcade game.
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Now Hiring - Astroturfer, apply at Microsoft
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Glyn Moody over at ComputerWorld UK made a nice catch today. He points us to a job posting over at Microsoft's "Port 25" site.
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Introducing Fedora Nightlife
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Fedora Nightlife is a new project for creating a Fedora community grid. People will be able to donate idle capacity from their own computers to an open, general-purpose Fedora-run grid for processing socially beneficial work and scientific research that requires access to large amounts of computing power.
Read more »UK developers prefer open source
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The majority of UK developers who do not already use open source licences for their products would do so if they had the choice, according to a new survey from Kingpin Intelligence.
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KDE 4.1: Have it Our Way
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Over the years, I’ve grown quite fond of KDE for my Linux desktops. To me, it offered the right combination of ease of use and access to Linux’s power-user resources. Now, though, one of the forthcoming changes in KDE 5.1 is already annoying me and it’s barely in beta.
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Set a Firefox World Record!
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The New York Times ad…Firefox Flicks…the Firefox crop circle…Operation Firefox…you name it! The Firefox community is always up to some cool, collaborative way to declare their passion for Firefox. What better way to do this than band together to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours?!
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Mozilla guns for Guinness world record with Firefox 3.0
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Mozilla aims to make Firefox 3 a record breaker. It wants the release of the next version of its flagship open source browser to be accompanied by a record for the most software downloads in a single 24-hour period 1.
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Gaming With The Open-Source R500 Driver
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From the release of Mesa 7.1 Release Candidate 1 to Multi-Pointer X being merged to master to the R500 3D milestone, it's been an exciting past 24 hours for the X.Org community.
Read more »Getting the right kind of contributions
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Most free software projects encourage contributors—it is the rare project that has an overabundance—but contributions vary greatly in quality. Encouraging good submissions, or those likely to lead to useful contributions down the road, is an important part of any project. But it is a delicate balance.
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Linux On The Desktop: Who Cares!
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Every so often, you read on Slashdot, Digg, or some other techie news site that Linux is finally ready for the desktop. It's finally to the point that any end user could sit down at a computer and happily compute away. The applications are sufficiently sanitized and Windows-like that even Grandma can use them.
Read more »Get acquainted with open source analyst Raven Zachary (video)
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The 451 Group is a small but growing analyst firm that says its thrust is "analyzing the business of enterprise IT innovation." Raven Zachary, the company's research director for open source, is quoted frequently by assorted IT-interested media outlets.
Read more »A Look at KDE 4.1 Beta...
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The K Desktop Environment (or KDE for short) is one of the many Desktop Environments you get to choose from on Linux and other Unix/Unix-like systems. Recently, they released a beta for KDE 4.1. Let's take a look.
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