Nominations are open for the third annual Sourceforge.net Community Choice Awards, with winners to be announced at OSCON 2008 in July. Nominations are accepted for all open source projects, not just SourceForge.net-based projects, and the categories include the intriguing "Most likely to get users sued."
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Discussing free software syncronicity
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There’s been a flurry of discussion around the idea of syncronicity in free software projects. I’d like to write up a more comprehensive view, but I’m in Prague prepping for FOSSCamp and the Ubuntu Developer Summit (can’t wait to see everyone again!) so I’ll just contribute a few thoughts and responses to some of the commentary I’ve seen so far.
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How did Ubuntu end up so popular?
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"No one has hard numbers, of course, but based on how much it’s talked about on the web, Ubuntu appears to be the most popular Linux distribution for home use (as opposed to for servers)."
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You Can Hack An OS But You Can't Hack People - part 7: Left Standing at the Altar
Welcoming Boston's new Apple Store
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"Last night the DRM Elimination Crew attended the grand opening of Apple's new store in Boston -- now its largest US store. The clear glass front of the store stands in stark contrast to Apple's unethical business practices, including using opaque Digital Restrictions Management software to take rights away from its customers..."
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Quote of the Day from RMS
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RMS: «Gentoo is a version of the GNU/Linux system, so please
call it "Gentoo GNU/Linux". They don't treat us right,
but you should...»
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OpenOffice.org vs. Microsoft Office vs. Moore's Law
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Earlier we challenged Moore's Law with OpenOffice.org. Today we have a three-way match. In the first corner, we have heavyweight Microsoft Office; in the second, undefeated champion Moore's Law; in the third corner, underdog OpenOffice.org. Let's get ready to rumble!
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Firefox 3 Themes
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If you are reading this post odds are you are one of the 1.2 million people currently enjoying a beta or nightly build of Firefox 3. However are you a big enough Firefox fan that you like to run it simultaneously on 4 different platforms?
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Ubuntu Stealing Linux Thunder?
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There is a growing identity crisis in the Linux community. In simplest terms, is Ubuntu taking the spotlight away from other deserving Linux distributions?
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STFUbuntu - The HOT New Linux Distro
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Have you ever wished your computer had the balls to tell you to STFU? Have you every wished it T4LK3D L1K3 7H1S? Have you ever dreamt of saying STFU every time you tell people about your HOT new distro?
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Open source better at release management? Maybe not
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It's unfortunate that Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth doesn't blog more often, because when he does, it's invariably insightful. As a case in point, Mark's post about the superiority of open source at hitting release dates is wonderful.
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Intense (and really thoughtful) ranting from the OLPC front
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Ivan Krstić has made his way into this blog before. As OLPC’s former director of security architecture and one closely involved with their Peru rollout, his posts offered great insights into just how the XO worked (or was supposed to work) on the backend.
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Embedded Linux Conference videos available
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Free Electrons has published an amazing multimedia re-cap of CELF's Embedded Linux Conference, which took place Apr. 14-18 in Mountain View, Calif. Featuring video transcripts, slides, and detailed notes from 22 talks, the article offers something for every Linux device developer or user.
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Flipping the Linux switch: My OS is okay, your OS is okay
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Today we're committing blasphemy. Okay, technically we're not. We're not saying that any one system or way of doing things is the only right way. Face it, the only place there was only one right answer to a question was eighth grade math class.
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Grape: a New Desktop
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Rethinking the desktop metaphor, or even improving it in any significant way, is a daunting task, and few dare to take the risk. The end result is that the desktop metaphor that we use today barely changed over the years - which is quite unique for the computing industry, as normally, things change very rapidly.
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