"I'm a genuine old fart," says Tim Bray as he looks back at his three decades in computing. Widely known for his standards work on XML and the Atom syndication format, at an age when many former developers have moved entirely into management, he seems to have found a niche that takes advantage of his experience.
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Announcing Intro to Lisp Workshop
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"The first big project by the Chicago Lisp User Group is a half-day workshop to introduce Lisp and its goodness to other programmers. The primary audience is the Chicago Linux User Group but it open to everyone. This is the initial announcement and tentative schedule. The most updated info will be on my Chicago Lisp page..."
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Three ideas
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Maybe you’ve already seen three Brainstorm buttons in the sidebar at the left, but maybe not, when you’re reading my blog using another tool. They’re from my three latest ideas I placed at Brainstorm and I thought that they deserved a little bit more attention. Here they come:
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Interview With LPI's Jim Lacey
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Linux Journal Products Editor, James Gray, spoke with Jim Lacey, Linux Professional Institute's President and CEO, about Linux certification today and its outlook for the future.
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Linux cutting software costs in Kenya
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Entrepreneurs in Kenya are putting Linux to work to cut costs and maximise profits as they look for new ways to bring computing to users.One of these entrepreneurs is Patrick Mathenge, CEO of Mullard Electronic Limited, a firm trading in hardware and software from its Mombasa Road offices. The company is distributing Linux software that can turn a single computer into up to 10 workstations.
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Linux Shootout: 7 Desktop Distros Compared
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We tested openSUSE, Ubuntu 8.04, PCLinuxOS, Mandriva Linux One, Fedora, SimplyMEPIS, and CentOS 5.1. All performed well, and each had at least one truly outstanding feature.
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OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows up
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What would Ubuntu be like if it were an OS for grown-ups? This week at its CommunityOne event in San Francisco, Sun will release its May 2008 build of OpenSolaris.
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Low-cost laptop group lands in Australia
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The One Laptop Per Child initiative has set up shop in Australia with a local board planning to lobby State and Federal governments to fund a roll-out into local communities.
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Impossible thing #6: Freedom for all with the One Laptop Per Child project
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Terry Hancock explains why the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is both important to the children that will use it and to the future of free and open software.
Did you know that the OLPC has Linux firmware in the Bios (written in Forth) and xource code written in Python - for ease of use and editing? If you didn't, then you need to read this article!
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Choosing a License
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Licensing is something that F/OSS programmers talk about a lot. There’s two major categories of licenses: The GPL, aka Copyleft Permissive licenses,...
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Filipina named head of global open source project
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A soft-spoken Filipina in her early twenties was recently named project leader of one of many open source community projects run by the Apache Software Foundation.
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Links 04/05/2008: New GNU/Linux for the Philipphines, Why Developing Nations Must Use Free Software
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This is a collection of links compiled by Roy Schestowitz, a bit of a round up. Some of these articles have been submitted to fsdaily separately, but I thought Roy's compilation should be seen anyway.
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Mozilla Messaging patches Thunderbird bugs
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Mozilla Messaging, a subsidiary of the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation, yesterday patched five bugs in its Thunderbird e-mail client to fix flaws that were disclosed more than a month ago.
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I like my bazaar!
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In his article "Why the Linux world should embrace the BSD's", Steve Lake proposed a closer cooperation between Linux and BSD. Although I have the utmost respect for BSD and what its developers have accomplished, I don't see what good it would do. I think his reasoning is flawed and the arguments he uses are - at least partially - invalid.
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Opinion - The role of open source in grid computing: past, present and future
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It is not long now until the first Open Source Grid and Cluster Conference, to be held in Oakland, California from 13-15 May 2008. This upcoming event got me thinking about the role of open source in grid and cluster computing, in the past, present, and future.
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