I’m happy to announce that the Ubuntu UK LoCo has put together their third episode of their podcast. This one includes a discussion on Command line versus GUI, Mythbuntu and due to demand, how the podcast is put together. This is followed by a news section.
Read more »Ubuntu UK Podcast - Episode 3 Out
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More Theme Changes in Ubuntu 8.04
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If you’ve been running the Ubuntu 8.04 Beta, you’ll have noticed that the default theme has been changed from the new Human-Murrine back to the same Human theme from previous releases.
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How BarCamp works
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The people who attend BarCamp and similar events don't limit their involvement to just those events. Many are programmers, but there are other constituencies as well: Authors of open-source code, bloggers, Twitterers, students, and corporate employees with "real" jobs. All can sense a grassroots technology groundswell and they want to be a part of it.
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Succession Matters for Linux (and everyone else)
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At Linux in the long run I expressed the opinion that Linux in general could suffer when Linus Torvalds steps aside or dies. That opinion is generally unpopular with the Linux community, but I think it's defensible.
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Open Source Decade: 10 years after the Free Software Summit
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One of the most significant moments in the history of the modern software industry took place in 1998 when Netscape announced plans to release the source code of its browser under a license that would freely permit modification and redistribution.
Read more »Everex should have gone with straight Ubuntu
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I’ve been slowly tweaking the way my family uses their computer to make it easier to migrate everyone to Linux. First, I completely removed Internet Explorer and got everyone used to Firefox. Then, I moved my wife off of her thick email client and onto Gmail. Next, I replaced Office with OpenOffice. Each of those moves was relatively painless. Spreading them out over time helped.
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Vendor Escalation, Process Politicalization, and What Needs to Happen Next
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Not so very long ago, most standards were set in a largely collegial atmosphere by career professionals who met in face to face meetings over a period of years. Along the way, they came to know each other as individuals, and established relationships that helped the process move forward and allowed for productive give and take.
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Linux in the long run
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Regular readers here know I'm a big Mac fan, and I often wax so enthusiastically on that subject that you could easily miss that I'm also a big Linux fan. On alternate Tuesdays, I expect that someday Linux will dominate computing.. but then again I think maybe not..
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The great Dell Linux scam
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"In theory, a Dell machine with Linux is $50 cheaper… but the free RAM/HDD upgrade (a $275 value) is only for Windows customers. But wait, there’s more!"
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Ubuntu a generic distro
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Ok so I was checking my daily digg news and i came across one of the more popular things dug that day which was Is Ubuntu becoming the generic Linux distro?
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Weekly Wire meets Mark Shuttleworth at OSBC [Video]
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Last week Weekly Wire sent Roblimo to San Francisco for the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC). While there, he had a chance to talk briefly with Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth even though Mark was getting full "rock star" treatment from an adoring crowd and was totally mobbed by press and fans whenever he showed his face.
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A meet to promote free software
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"FOR the first time in the city, a group of Free Software users are coming together to organise an exhibition to promote the importance of Free Software. The ‘GNU/Linux Install Fest’, claimed to be the first-of-its-kind in the state, will be held as part of Dishaa 08, organised by the students of the Computer Science Department of Sree Chithira Thirunal College of Engineering here..."
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Open Media Now! Foundation Launches
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OMNow is a foundation dedicated to the development, support and empowerment of an open media infrastructure. Upon this infrastructure stand companies and individuals who need free media solutions. Free media solutions save companies money and give them control over product technology.
Read more »thinking about tex
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"...TeX famously began its life as a distraction. In 1977, Donald Knuth, a computer scientist, wanted a better way to typeset his mammoth book about computer science, The Art of Computer Science, a book which he is still in the process of writing.
Read more »A Brave New World for Linux Newbies
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes over at ZDNet seems to have insighted a small firestorm of debate on a recent post “Is Ubuntu becoming the generic Linux distro?” in which he observes
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